❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: November 18, 2022

⚡️English Translation⚡️

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on November 18, 2022

▪️Ukrainian units continue to shell the border areas of Belgorod Region.

An elderly man was killed in the village of Ustinka as a result of mortar shelling.

▪️ In Svatove Sector, Russian Armed Forces repelled another Ukrainian attack on Novoselivka and Kuzemivka.

The advancing AFU units suffered heavy losses in personnel and armored vehicles.

▪️After a brief pause, fighting resumed near Chervonopopivka with the enemy continuing its attempts to reach the Svatovе-Kreminna road.

Despite the reserves deployed, another AFU attack was halted by the units of Russian Armed Forces’ 20th Army.

▪️Southwards on the other bank of the Siverskyi Donets, heavy fighting for Bilohorivka continues.

Russian artillery strikes Ukrainian firing positions in Serebryanka.

▪️West of Horlivka, DPR People's Militia units are attacking Maiorsk.

Over the past few days Russian troops managed to take over several enemy strongholds in this area.

▪️Russian Command claimed to have established full control over Opytne, which had been mopped up for several days.

Fighters of the DPR Sparta Reconnaissance Battalion played a key role in fighting for the settlement.

▪️In Kherson, mass "cleansing" continues among the civilians suspected of collaborating with the Russian authorities.

Tsunami Nationalist Battalion is deployed to the city to carry out punitive actions.