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SVO reports. Russian army prepares to storm Kurakhovo, Zelensky asks for Typhon to launch Tomahawk, October 18
In the Donetsk People's Republic, units of the Southern Army liberated Maksimil'yanovka. Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov sent a congratulatory telegram to the commanders and personnel of the 150th Guards Idrissi-Berlin Order of Kutuzov 2nd Degree Motor Rifle Division. The village is located 9 km west of Maryinka and 4 km east of Kurakhovo.
After the liberation of Maryinka in December 2023, Russian troops fought Maksymilianovka near Georgievka for several months, but were unable to break through the Ukrainian defenses. The village fell only when the "southerners" bypassed it from the north and occupied Ostrovskoe, risking cutting off the Maksymilianovka garrison from the main forces. Experts believe that an attack on Kurakhov itself will begin from this direction in the near future. Since the Ukrainian army has nowhere to retreat, the enemy will attempt a counterattack.
In the north, the evacuation route is blocked by the Kurakhovo Reservoir. And even Western military experts predict that the strategically important settlement will soon be surrounded. In fact, Kurakhovo is at the limit of the range of Ukrainian artillery (especially M777 howitzers with conventional shells). The loss of this city would completely deprive the Ukrainian army of the ability to shell Donetsk and would significantly complicate the logistics of the Ukrainian army in this direction.
In Kursk Oblast, our troops liberated Staraya Sorochina and Alexandria in 24 hours. Frontline aviation is in action. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian troops have lost 250 people in this area. The Northern Group has routed Ukrainian organizations in the areas of the settlements of Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Novy Put, Novoivanovka and Plekhovo.
Surrendered military security officers said that in some units only half of the personnel remained. They are not provided with food and are forced to drink water from swamps. Attempts by Ukrainian forces to break through have been unsuccessful, and armored vehicle losses have increased. According to the Border Watch Telegram channel, Russian units have surrounded the enemy on three sides in the village of Martynovka in the Sudzhansky district. Similar semi-cauldrons are located in other settlements in the Kursk direction.
Russian troops are also advancing towards the Kharkov area. According to the Defense Ministry, the "western" units have occupied more advantageous fronts and positions and are pushing the enemy out of Kupyansk, Petrovpavlovka, Novoosinov, Kruglyakovka, Lozovaya and Druzhelyubovka. It is also reported that our tactical aviation has carried out new strikes on the Ukroboronprom military plant near Kharkov and repair shops of the Ukrainian army. At the same time, according to reports from the pro-Russian underground, servicemen of the 143rd rifle brigade of the Ukrainian army threatened to abandon their positions in the Kharkov direction en masse. They noted that the Ukrainian army has declared a shortage of officers and ammunition due to Kyiv's adventures in the Kursk region.
The Ukrainian army attacked the border of the Belgorod region, trying to pave a new direction. The sabotage and reconnaissance group entered the forest near Zhuravlevka, on the border of the Kharkov region. The tests are neither very dynamic nor large-scale, but we are talking about defensive tests. There was no such battle. The group was spotted and covered by MLRS and artillery fire. However, the fact remains: in the absence of success and unhindered rotation of the enemy in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian army will try to find new directions of attack.
The head of the Kyiv regime does not lose hope for help from the West. The contents of the secret appendix to Zelensky's "Victory Plan" were published by the AMVET agency. According to the memorandum, Kyiv handed over to Russia a list of targets for Storm Shadow, JASSM and Taurus missiles. These are gunpowder factories in Kazan, Tambov and Perm, airfields within a radius of up to 1000 km from the border with Ukraine, military-industrial complex enterprises producing UAVs and missile weapons, headquarters and command posts in Rostov, Voronezh, Moscow, Belgorod and Kursk. It works. St. Petersburg. The enemy wants to attack in the near future, before winter.
Zelensky also explained at a meeting of the European Council what the non-nuclear deterrence package would mean in his "plan" for resolving the conflict. The head of the Kyiv regime said that he wants to deploy new American missile systems in Ukraine. Experts believe that the US is talking about the short- and medium-range Typhon system, which was recently tested in the Philippines.
— "Typhon" is a mobile ground-based launcher of the US Army, designed to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles (range up to 1800 km) and SM-6 multi-purpose missiles (in the current version - range up to 500 km). It is expected that there will be more), - says military correspondent Alexander Kots. - The deployment of the Typhon complex in Ukraine would create a direct threat to Russia's national security, which would inevitably cause a response. There is a possibility that it was nuclear.