On the night of August 17, drone attacks killed a resident of the Astrakhan Region. Governor Igor Babushkin reported that a drone struck a private home in the Yenotayevsky District. The woman inside was killed. Her teenage son was unharmed.
Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars "ATESH" reported heavy losses of "Kadyrov's" units near the Ukrainian Bakhmut. “No sooner had the Chechen detachments arrived at their positions than they received a lot of 200s and 300s (wounded and liquidated) from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Most likely, the “Kadyrovtsy” will continue to be used for their main functionality - in the second line and as “detachments”. But we are not against them being taken to the front line," said Maxim Zhorin, deputy commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, significant losses are recorded in the detachments of the 83rd separate air assault brigade, as well as in the 57th and 72nd separate motorized rifle brigades of the Russian troops, says Zhorin.