Several thousand: undermining the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station allowed the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to cross troops - British intelligence
Several thousand servicemen of the 49th Army may participate in this, given the 34th Separate Rifle Brigade, as well as units of the Airborne Troops (VAT) and Marines. According to the British soldiers, the movement of the blow is probably indicating that Russia considers less likely to have a great offensive of Ukrainian forces after the Dnieper after blasting the Kakhovsky Hydroelectric Power Drop and the flood that emerged.
On June 18, it became known that in the Zaporizhzhya direction the deputy commander of the battalion "Storm. Osetia" Ivanhoe Tahokh was killed. He, together with his subordinates, who were about 300 people, got to the surroundings in the settlement of the five -haired. In addition, Russian militaryrs reported that the settlement of Pyatikhatka in the Zaporozhye region was released by Ukrainian troops and the invaders were rejected again.
Also on June 18, British intelligence reported that the Russian army has undergone the greatest losses on the battlefield since the peak of Bakhmut fighting. On June 17, Ukrainian defenders showed how the village of Novodarivka of Zaporizhzhya region was released. The invaders were replacing approaches to the previously occupied village, but the Ukrainian military was able to break through and knock out the enemy.