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Actual information about the situation on the front line: July 8 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/08/2023 to 00:00 07/09/2023

Over the past day, the Representation reported 58 facts of firing by the AFU.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired 38 rounds from 155mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky 13 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.

On Yasinovatsky seven artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.

Having fired 328 units of various ammunition.

Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Svetlodarsk, Golmovsky, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Staromikhaylovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in Yasinovataya.

Wounds of varying severity were received by five civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Panteleymonovka.

A total of 13 residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as two civilian infrastructure facilities.

In the previous day, 25 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.

23:16 In Donetsk, a residential building caught fire as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

City of Donetsk (Kyevsky district): Pyatnitsky street, 57 - a direct hit in a private residential building with subsequent ignition.

21:57 Video- Tankers of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya.

21:55 Zaporozhye direction:

The situation near the settlement Pyatikhatki and controlled, the enemy near the forest belt cannot be evacuated due to the dense work of our mortars, they suffer losses, it was clear from the interception that they had a lot of wounded.

The guys from the field report: “We are hunting for the shortfalls and attempts to rotate with evacuation, they were squeezed”

21:44 No crests of our Su-25s today didn't shoot down.

The pilot is at home, safe and relatively unharmed.
Everything is as usual, nothing new, we fight on.

21:34 Video- Features of the work of UAV operators on the front line. Personnel of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

21:05 Video- A report on the battles in the ruins of Maryinka, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces hide in the frontal rubbish and hold on to the remains of the territory they control.

20:37 Video- The enemy threw armored groups on the offensive near Gorlovka

The fighters of the Southern Group of Forces thwarted two attacks of the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the city of Mayorsk.

Special Forces soldiers of the RF Armed Forces actively used FPV kamikaze drones, as a result of which several enemy armored vehicles were destroyed, during the battle the enemy was driven back.

20:10 Zaporozhye direction:

n.p. Pyatikhatki are empty, the corpses of the enemy lie in the landings, the remnants leaving with things are finished off by our artillery.

Orekhovskoe direction:

The enemy tried to wedge into the position of 70 SMEs, with the forces of three tanks up to 50 people. They inflicted a fire defeat on them, including ground attack aircraft. The enemy retreated to the north. Further information is being specified.

19:34 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group:

- In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group, with the support of artillery, inflicted a fire defeat on the concentrations of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vogledar.

Howitzer artillery fire destroyed vehicles with nationalists and a mortar crew in the Zolotoy Niva area, two infantry fighting vehicles in the Neskuchny area.

Army aviation helicopters thwarted attempts to rotate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at positions in the area east of Makarovka and northwest of Novodonetsk. An armored personnel carrier, an armored combat vehicle and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

- In the Zaporozhye direction, motorized rifle units thwarted the enemy infantry offensive in the direction of Rabotino and Lobkove. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.

An electronic warfare station in the Novodarovka area was destroyed by artillery fire. During the counterbattery fight, the 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer and the 152mm Msta-B towed howitzer were destroyed in the Novoivanovka area, self-propelled guns in the Pavlovka area, a mortar crew in the Stepnogorsk area and a pickup truck with nationalists in the Marfopol area.

Assault aircraft inflicted fire damage on concentrations of militants in the Zherebyanka area.

Anti-aircraft missile system "Thor" shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle "Valkyrie."

The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions.

The tank commander, senior sergeant Vasily Plotnikov, acting as part of an armored group on one of the most difficult sectors of the front, competently and confidently directed the actions of his crew.

During the large-scale offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Vremievsky ledge, the crew under the command of senior sergeant Plotnikov destroyed several units of foreign-made military armored vehicles in a short time, sowing panic in the ranks of the Ukrainian troops.

In addition, the tank crew of Vasily Plotnikov repeatedly carried out the evacuation of the equipment of our troops damaged during the battle to the rear area, and also carried out the removal of wounded military personnel from the battlefield.


19:10 Panteleimonovka settlement is under fire again. Enemy rounds explode near Vasilievka.

18:47 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for July 8, as of 18:30, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Yasinovataya: - on the street. Zavodskoy, 90, a man born in 1989 died.

Additional information has been received about the damage caused by the artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

n.p. Yasinovataya: - st. Factory, 90 - apartment building.

18:19 Ukrainian troops fired at several residential buildings in Yasinovataya, one of the rounds hit the apartment on the fifth floor, by a lucky chance no one was hurt -video.

18:00 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for July 8, as of 17:30, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk city (Kirovskiy district): - men born in 1973, 1955 were wounded in the Biryuza garage cooperative. and a guy born in 2002

Additional information has been received about the damage caused by the artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - st. Prudovaya, 3 - multi-apartment residential building.

n.p. Yasinovataya: - 103 quarter, 18, 20, 21 - apartment buildings.

17:21 Consequences of the artillery attack of Yasinovataya by Ukrainian militants -photo.

17:10 Ukrainian formations have been artillery attack the front-line settlements of the Donetsk agglomeration throughout the day.

Under enemy fire were civilian objects in the north-western regions of Donetsk, Staromikhaylovka, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka and Panteleimonovka.

In the latter, one man received shrapnel wounds. The victim is provided with all necessary medical assistance.

15:54 The situation in the Donetsk direction is reported by a war correspondent Yuri Kotenok:

Artillery duels near Krasnogorovka, Veselovo, Pervomaisky, Marinka, Steep Beam. A sluggish situation due to the complete absence of a tactical advantage on both sides in the Donetsk direction.

15:23 The situation on the left bank near the Antonovsky bridge in the Kherson region:

At night, with the support of several tanks, our assault groups cleared a limited section along the road leading from the bridge towards Aleshki. At the same time, our artillery began to destroy the remaining surviving dachas. With each time, there are fewer places to hide in the dachas. It's getting harder and harder for enemy small groups to hide there.

15:00 Artemovsk (Bakhmut direction) situation on 08.07:

The front-line bird reports that our aviation used air-to-ground missiles against the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pulled up to the borders of the city. There is a hit on armored vehicles!

The enemy continues to try to push through our defenses at the expense of manpower and regular replenishment with new armored vehicles. Our guys courageously repel the attacks of the enemy.

14:24 Russian troops narrow Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Antonovsky Bridge area:

The work of our troops to destroy the enemy in the area of ??the Antonovsky bridge is bearing fruit. Sources from the field report that our attack aircraft, with the support of artillery and aviation, are pushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces and returning more and more space on the left side of the Dnieper under their control.

14:17 Raid of Russian fighters on enemy positions in the Kremensky forests -video.

14:05 As a result of the artillery attack of the urban-type settlement of Panteleimonovka, a man was wounded by the VFU.

13:20 Makeevka Chervonogvardeisky district consequences of artillery attack video.

13:10 After a series of failures in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy is trying to change the record and increase efforts in the Artemivsky direction in order to achieve quick successes.

Taking advantage of the advance to the northwest and southwest of Artemovsk, the enemy is trying to resume the offensive on Berkhovka, and also try to ram our defenses at Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka. Russian fighters beat off these attacks, but the enemy does not reduce pressure. Forces equivalent to 1.5 brigades were additionally deployed to this sector in order to support the efforts aimed at breaking through to Kurdyumovka and taking the heights in the Kleshcheevka area.

Also, the enemy continues to infiltrate from the dacha area to the outskirts of Artemovsk from Krasnoy. This is an auxiliary activity - at the moment, the enemy has no forces in these areas for a frontal assault on Artemovsk. The main effort seems to be will be attached to the south of the city.

Plans to bypass Artemovsk from the north failed due to the fact that the Seversk grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine could not achieve success in attacks at Vasyukovka, Razdolovka and Sakko and Vanzetti. A frontal attack on Berkhovka near the Berkhovsky reservoir got bogged down in our defense, as well as attacks near Dubovo-Vasilyevka.

Despite the previous failures of the enemy, he did not abandon his plans. Therefore, the situation continues to be difficult, especially to the south-west of the city.

Nevertheless, it can be stated that at the moment the enemy attacks began on May 10 in the Artemovsky direction, by July 8 he still could not recapture even one settlement, limiting himself to occupying forest plantations in the area of Krasny, Berkhovka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka.

12:48 Panteleimonovka urban-type settlement is under fire from Ukrainian terrorists. This was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.

12:19 Russian Armed Forces thwarted the attack of Ukrainian militants in the Zaporozhye direction, destroying the mortar covering the assault groups, the unit commander said -video.

12:10 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":

The aviation of the "Southern" group of troops carried out rocket and bomb strikes on the accumulations of manpower and strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Soledar-Artemovsky and Alexander-Kalinovsky directions. The area where the reserves of the national battalion "Kraken" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) was concentrated in the area of the settlement of Dzerzhinskoye was also hit.

The units of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District thwarted two attacks by the assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to break through the defenses in the Mayorsk area.

During the counterbattery fight, the group's artillery destroyed two enemy 120mm mortars, a Palladin self-propelled artillery mount, and an ammunition depot in the Lisichansk direction. Artillerymen also hit a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle near Druzhba, a tank in Avdeevka, and an AN/TPQ radar station in Dzerzhinsky.

The crew of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system inflicted a defeat on enemy manpower accumulations in the Bogdanovka area.


12:00 Ukrainian troops left their positions near the village of Pyatikhatki, Zaporozhye region - Rogov.

11:59 APU fighters fired 42 rounds in Donetsk over the past two hours: artillery attack with 155mm caliber rounds. were recorded in the Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts of the city, the DPR JCCC reported.

11:15 Russian army successfully counters counteroffensive attempts in different directions - what is happening on the fronts on the morning of July 8:

In the Krasno-Limansky direction near Seversk, our troops are actively squeezing out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions northwest of Berestovoye. On the Seversky ledge, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered significant losses, in connection with which they stopped attempts to break through in the area of Razdolovka and Vasyukovka.

Active hostilities continue in the Artemovsk direction. Not far from Kurdyumovka, an enemy attack attempt was successfully repulsed, our forces knocked out several enemy armored vehicles, including tanks. In the Bogdanovka area, the enemy suffered significant losses after the operation of the Solntsepek flamethrower system. Fighting continues in the Kleshcheevka area, which is still under the control of the Russian Federation.

On the Zaporozhye direction that night, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to attack in the area of Zherebyanki and Rabotin, our forces repelled the attack, the enemy suffered losses. Russian artillery also fired at enemy positions in the area of Novodanilovka, Yegorovka and Malaya Tokmachka.


10:49 Consequences of the artillery attack of the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district c) from the positions of Ukrainian terrorists -photo.

10:17 Two residents were killed and one was wounded as a result of artillery attack Alyosha APU - emergency services.

Yesterday, the Ukrainian military fired 57 rounds at Aleshki. As a result, two civilians were killed and one received a moderate wound.

09:57 Golmovsky village (Nikitovsky district of Horlivka) under fire from the VFU. Enemy rounds explode near the local stadium. This was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.

09:49 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Korsunka fired eight rounds;

-- n.p. Aleshki fired 57 rounds;

-- Seven rounds were fired at the village of Sagi;

-- Five rounds were fired at the Golaya Pristan settlement.

As a result of the artillery attack of N. p. Alyoshka, two civilians were killed and another received a moderate wound.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, N. p.Solontsy, firing a total of 28 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.

09:19 News from the Zaporozhye Front, Orekhovskoe direction:

“.. At Rabotino, from two in the morning, the enemy threw another wave into the attack, infantry and equipment went. We met them well, the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bogged down. Maybe there will be more. We wait."

09:01 Over the past day, 25 facts of firing by the AFU were recorded.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 20 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky five artillery attacks from 152mm artillery. Having fired 131 units of various ammunition. The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of three civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk. 13 residential buildings were damaged in Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, as well as three civilian infrastructure facilities.

08:10 The situation on the fronts over the past day:

Svatovo-Kremennaya direction:

The assault on Novoselovsky continues, Russian paratroopers are successfully advancing near Kremennaya. Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were attacked by our defenders in the Serebryansky Forest.

Donetsk direction:

There are no changes in the Avdeevka sector - ours are trying to put pressure on the southwestern approaches to Avdeevka. Also, Russian fighters resumed assault operations near Pervomaisky. In Marinka, fighting continues on the western outskirts.

Zaporozhye direction:

Our fighters are repulsing the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Pyatihatki. In the Orekhovsky section, the militants unsuccessfully tried to advance in small groups near Rabotino. On the Vremievsky ledge, ours stopped the advance of the enemy in the direction of Priyutnoye and Staromayorsky.

Air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 near Odarovka, Zaporozhye region.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine again fired at the peaceful quarters of Donetsk. The roofs of a residential building and the Galaktika shopping center were hit. Also, one of the rounds fell near the school. The MLRS worked in the Kuibyshev and Kyiv regions.


07:30 Russian Ministry of Defense publishedframestraining and combat coordination of military personnel of special forces units of the Western Military District in all-weather sets of field uniforms of a new model at one of the training grounds in the rear area of a special military operation.


Posted by: badanov 2023-07-09
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