ISW: Ukrainian forces may be temporarily pausing counteroffensive operations to reevaluate tactics. The Institute for the Study of War quoted the head of the Estonian Defense Forces Intelligence Center, Colonel Margo Grosberg, who said on June 16 that "we won't see an offensive"

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"Russia will lose the occupied territories. There is no and will be no alternative to our steps for de-occupation," he said. "Our troops are advancing, position by position, step by step, we are moving forward."

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Zelensky: 'There will be no alternative to our steps for de-occupation.’ President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized in his evening address on June 18 that Russia's primary focus should be on preparing its society for the consequences of destroying its own future.

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Ukrainian forces struck the enemy base in Rykovo, with preliminary reports indicating the base was destroyed, up to 52 enemy personnel were killed, and many more were injured.

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The enemy lost four companies on the Tavriia front in the past 24 hrs, along with 77 units of enemy military vehicles and 12 ammo depots according to Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Commander of the Tavriia Operational and Strategic Group of Forces.

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A military hospital under construction in enemy-held Bryansk is on fire; thick black smoke rose above it and it appears to be destroyed. Someone was likely careless with a cigarette. Too bad for the enemy veterans waiting for a new hospital bed.

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Preliminary results are that the missiles were launched from the Black Sea and Odesa air defense was working to neutralize them.

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