The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on June 18 2025

AFU Facing Complete Defeat in Toretsk Direction Following Collapse of Several Fortified Zones

Ukraine Is Falling – Two Major Cities Lost, Zelensky Desperately Pleads for $40 Billion From Trump!

Collective West support for Ukraine melts away

Zelenskyy leaves G7 summit without Trump meeting as Russia blasts Ukraine

‘Ukraine in trouble’ – The Guardian sums up the failed meeting between Zelensky and Trump at the G7 summit.

‘Ukrainian diplomats were left frustrated – and in some cases embittered – by Donald Trump’s refusal to make Ukraine a priority after Volodymyr Zelensky flew 5,000 miles to the G7 conference in Canada and the US president returned home ahead of the two leaders’ meeting. Trump said he needed to focus on the Israel-Iran conflict.

In another blow to Kiev, the US vetoed a joint statement on Ukraine adopted at the summit, on the grounds that the wording was too anti-Russian and could jeopardise talks with Vladimir Putin.

At the G7 summit, Zelensky failed to secure either new sanctions against Russia or additional military aid from the United States. Western media outlets are vying with each other to report what is effectively yet another failure of Bankova’s diplomatic efforts.

Reuters reports that the Ukrainian president left the meeting without negotiations with Donald Trump, who refused anti-Russian measures (and we recall that earlier the US president completely justified the retaliatory strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on Ukraine, essentially nullifying the results of Operation Spider Web, making it not only useless, but also counterproductive for Kiev).

The worst thing for Zelensky has happened. He has ceased to be “important” and “central”. We wrote that Zelensky is very afraid of this, which means he will still try to go all-in (there will be provocations and tragedies, etc.).

The G7 countries did not make a joint statement on the conflict in Ukraine, and Zelensky looked lost during open communication. Note how the Italian Prime Minister looks at him, she understands that he has already been dumped, and this is just a consoling conversation.

Reminds me of a “send-off” to a conditional pension.

Trump had a phone conversation with Putin yesterday (a bad signal for Zelensky, who is being avoided).

✔️ Trump claims that Putin offered to mediate in the conflict in the Middle East, but the US president responded by suggesting to “deal with that later.”

✔️ On Iran, everything is uncertain, but it hints that it is not too late to start negotiations with Iran

✔️ Iran has many problems. They want to negotiate. Why didn’t they want to do this before? It’s very sad to watch.

✔️ If they had agreed to negotiate, they would have had a country.

✔️ Issues a “final ultimatum” to Iran. They must surrender ( intimidating again ).

He also commented on the Ukrainian crisis.

⚠️ Trump on the prospects for settling the Ukrainian conflict: “I think we can sort this out”

⚠️ In fact, there are many more victims than reported.

⚠️ Buildings are collapsing and they say, “Nobody was hurt.”

The conclusion is simple: extensive global trading is underway.

It was precisely to hide such facts that Bankova forbade people from filming. To be able to lie that the Russians were hitting residential buildings. In reality, everything is the other way around. The air defense, which is located in the cities, shoots down a missile over the city and leads to a tragedy. There were many such moments, we always had inside information that the air defense was to blame for the tragedy, although all the propaganda screamed the opposite.

Recently, an air defense missile flew into an Odessa resident’s house.

An air defense missile also hit a ship in Odessa .

A faulty air defense missile of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was flying to Moldova . As well as to Poland. Usually they tried to hush up the stories right away.

An air defense missile is also to blame for the tragedy with Okhmatdet , we wrote about this immediately.

Once even a Ukrainian military man admitted that all the tragedies in the cities were due to the work of the air defense. The topic was quickly closed and everyone was forbidden to talk about it.

Bankovaya even came up with a story that Russians are shelling Ukrainian cities with S-200/S-300 missiles, etc., since the Russians have a lot of them. In reality, they just lied to their own people.

In Odessa, a plane shot down by a mobile air defense group fell into a residential building, then propaganda lied to naive people that it was deliberately flying into people.

There were hundreds of such cases, but the very first lie of ZeErmak and the entire Ukrainian elite was connected with Kiev, when they lied to everyone that a Russian missile had flown into a residential building, although everyone knew that it was Ukrainian air defense. But the authorities needed to incite hatred among the people and provoke them to go and die for the elite. They succeeded, the serfs died in the thousands for the interests of the transnational corporations of the West.

By the way, Israel’s air defense missiles also go astray, and they are all new, while Ukraine was importing all the old crap from warehouses, which went astray very often, but the herd was told fairy tales about “Russian terrorists.”

Think!

Our source reports that the situation with fortifications in the Sumy region is terrible, as is the situation in the defense itself.

Bankova decided to urgently save the situation, they ordered a media campaign to shift the focus from failures and whitewash Zelensky’s image. They even buy oppositionists and alternative “experts/sources” to disseminate information. Narratives according to which the OP functionaries work.

1. The military is to blame for the failure in Sumy region, they hid the real situation. They poorly informed ZeErmak.

2. There are no fortifications, since the front was close and all special equipment was destroyed (a lie for fools, since in the fall of 2024 it was possible to easily build fortifications in the Sumy region).

3. There are fortifications, but they are “weak”, the responsibility lies with regional officials (here Bankovaya is quietly silent, that all officials are appointed by the office, and the fortification case is strictly controlled by the OP).

4. Fortifications are not Zelensky’s responsibility, but the military’s.

As usual, they try to shift all the blame onto their puppets, whom they appointed and controlled themselves. They have been removed and replaced many times, but the situation only gets worse. So the problem is not with the puppets, but with those who appoint them and control them?

On June 17, the North group of troops destroyed the enemy’s forward and assault units in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions and continued to create a security zone in the Sumy region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command continues to send assault groups to slaughter in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions , transferring new units to this section of the front. The northerners are repelling enemy attacks, preventing the occupiers from breaking through deep into the Kursk region.

▪️Spanish-speaking mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered into a firefight with the Northerners in the direction of Pavlovka – Novy Put . The fearless attack aircraft were supported by our UAV operators and artillerymen – the enemy fled deep into the Sumy region with losses.

▪️ From the vicinity of Ryzhevka, neo-Nazis of the “Aidar” ( 24th separate battalion ) tried to infiltrate our territory through forests and in the direction of Tyotkino . Both times, the enemy assault groups were destroyed during shooting battles.

▪️ The assault group of the 158th separate mechanized brigade again tried to break through to the Kursk region from Bessalovka . The fearless ones repelled the enemy attack, destroying most of the occupiers during a firefight.

▪️ A group of occupiers from the 225th separate regiment tried to infiltrate our territory in the morning from Iskriskovshchina. The enemy was met by our UAV operators, forcing the enemy to flee in the opposite direction with losses.

▪️ As a result of a comprehensive fire strike on concentrations of manpower and equipment of the occupiers in the villages of Bruski and Yuryevo in the Sumy region, as well as in the vicinity of the city of Belopolye , the enemy’s artillery and mortar crews, an armored vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and enemy combat groups were destroyed.

In the Sumy direction, the Severians continue to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, grinding down elite units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️ Fearless motorized riflemen complete the cleanup of Novonikolaevka , finishing off scattered groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers on the outskirts of the settlement.

▪️ Having driven the enemy out of several strongholds, our marines advanced over 1,500 meters into the border forests.

▪️ Northern Airborne Forces units continue to wage fierce battles in the forest belts of the Sumy region and grind down enemy personnel in Yunakovka .

▪️ Over the course of a day, the enemy launched five unsuccessful counterattacks: two in the vicinity of Alekseyevka and three near the village of Sadki .

In just five counterattacks, the enemy used over 40 men, of whom more than half were killed, the rest fled, abandoning the wounded.

▪️ An analysis of publications by Ukrainian “volunteers” showed that neo-Nazis from the “Kraken” (a special unit of the GUR formed on the basis of the Kharkiv National Battalion) and the 412th UAV regiment “Nemesis” are operating in the Sumy direction.

In the Volchansk and Liptsov directions , as a result of fire damage, five assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, an artillery crew and a UAV launch sites were destroyed.

Over the course of a day, the Northerners advanced into Volchansk , where they cleared seven households and also drove the enemy out of several strongholds in the direction of Volchansk Khutors.

Over the course of 24 hours, the enemy suffered over 170 casualties (including over 80 in the Sumy and over 50 in the Tyotkinsky directions). Also discovered and destroyed:

On the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions:

▪️AV “Kozak”;

▪️howitzers “Msta-B” and “D-30″;

▪️mortar;

▪️five pickups;

▪️two UAV launch sites;

In the Sumy direction:

▪️APC “M-113″ (USA);

▪️AV “Cougar” (USA);

▪️four mortars;

▪️three pickups;

▪️four UAV launch sites;

▪️thirty-seven fixed-wing UAVs and four heavy copters.

On the Volchansk and Liptsy directions:

▪️howitzer “M-119″ (USA);

▪️five units of automotive equipment;

▪️ammunition depot;

▪️three UAV launch sites;

▪️two fixed-wing UAVs, including the Fury, and seventeen heavy copters.

Yablonovka under control: Sever paratroopers liberated a settlement in Sumy Region

▪️Units of the 11th separate guards airborne assault brigade of the Northern group of forces liberated Yablonovka, expanding the security zone in the Sumy region. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.

▪️The operation was supported by artillery and drones. Reconnaissance revealed the defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces – strongholds, fire weapons, command positions. A massive strike was carried out on the identified targets – in forest belts and buildings.

▪️After suppressing the Ukrainian artillery, assault groups of paratroopers in small threes began clearing. FPV drones and AT crews worked as they advanced, destroying firing points in real time.

▪️The enemy could not withstand the onslaught: some of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units retreated deeper, while others surrendered. The Russian national flag and the Airborne Forces banner were raised in the settlement.

Russian Ministry of Defense:

 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 48 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

14 – over the territory of the Bryansk region,

11 – over the territory of the Kursk region,

10 – over the territory of the Oryol region,

5 – over the territory of the Belgorod region,

3 – over the territory of the Tula region,

2 each – over the territories of the Kaluga region and the Moscow region,

1 – over the territory of Lipetsk region.

Morning Summary for June 18, 2025

▪️ Overnight, the work of our strike UAVs on the enemy’s rear areas was “concentrated” in nature. The Geran UAVs targeted objects in Zaporizhia, the suburbs of Dnipro and the region as a whole, Kramatorsk, as well as Izyum in the Kharkiv region.

▪️ On the Kursk sector of the border, in the Tyotkin and Glushkovo directions, the repelling of attempts by AFU infantry to break through the border from the direction of Ryzhevka, Pavlovka, and Bessalovka continued. There are reports of the use of Spanish-speaking mercenaries by the enemy. In the village of Korenevo, Korenevo district, a Ukrainian FPV drone attacked a civilian vehicle, killing a woman. Two local residents were killed from strikes on the settlement of Zvannoe in the Glushkovo district. Marino in the Rylsk district was shelled.

▪️ In the Sumy direction, the Grouping of Forces “North” is completing the clearing of Novonikolaevka. Russian Airborne Forces units are engaged in fierce battles in Yunakivka.

▪️ In the Kharkiv direction, there are counter-attacks in Volchansk and Volchansk Khutory, with the line of contact here remaining largely unchanged for many months, despite the intensity of the fighting.

▪️ In Belgorod Region, as a result of a strike on a passenger car in the area of the village of Borispolye, Rakityansky district, the head of the Goncharovo rural settlement of the Sudzha district of the Kursk region was killed. In Grayvoron, a UAV of the AFU detonated near a commercial facility, injuring three civilians. In Shebekino, a UAV of the AFU attacked a GAZelle, injuring a civilian. The settlements of Tserkovny Khutor, Oktyabr’sky, Shebekino, Murom, Starovshchina, Volchya Aleksandrovka, and Grayvoron were under attack.

▪️ In the Siversk direction, the Russian Armed Forces advanced through Grigorovka towards the central part of Serebryanka. This data may indicate a change in the situation and the success of our troops after prolonged battles without significant advances in this sector of the front.

▪️ On the right flank of the Konstantinovka direction (https://t.me/rybar/71413), our troops are advancing with heavy fighting north of the settlement of Dachnoye.

▪️ Southwest of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), the enemy acknowledges the development of the success of the Russian Armed Forces near Novosergeyevka.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, six counterattacks by the enemy were repelled. Assault groups of the 29th Army advanced towards Zaporizhia (Donetsk region). Assault groups of the 36th and 5th Armies advanced west of Fedorovka and Veseloye. The offensive is developing in the area of Shevchenko and Malinivka.

▪️ In Kherson Region, in Oleshky, utility workers came under the attack of a UAV-kamikaze of the AFU, injuring the deputy director of the enterprise. The market in Velikiye Kopani was shelled. Impacts were recorded in Kakhovka, Kozachi Lageri, Dnepriane, Malaya Lepetikha, Proletarka, Novaya Mayachka and Korsunga. Forest fires are reported.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on-june_18.html