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Current information on the situation on the front line: December 30 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 12/30/2023 to 00:00 12/31/2023

Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 53 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian forces.

Information has been received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.

Seven civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.

In addition, in the Kirovsky (https://t.me/DNR_SCKK/18211) district of Donetsk, three employees of the EMS brigade were wounded.

Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, Sovetsky district of Makeyevka, as well as four civil infrastructure facilities.

The areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Sovetsky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 31 attacks from 155mm artillery and attack UAVs.

At Gorlivske there were 19 artillery attacks from 152mm, 122mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

On Yasinovatsky there were three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

A total of 181 units of various ammunition were fired.

In the previous day, 81 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.

22:00 Front bird broadcasts: Kharkov region (border region). 30.12 21:30

It was reported that they had arrived at the military supply workshop of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Our tactical aviation has worked.

21:15 Governor of the Belgorod region Gladkov:

“It’s loud in Belgorod -work The armed forces of the Russian Federation are on the other side."

20:25 Front bird broadcasts: Artyomovskoe (Bakhmutskoe) direction 30.12

Our assault units move forward every day, inflicting significant damage on the enemy.

19:20 Tank commander with the call sign Kino told about his combat work in the Special Military Operation zone. His unit of the Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District is fighting Ukrainian troops in the Zaporozhye direction.

18:40 Today the Kyiv regime undertook an attempt to launch an indiscriminate combined strike on the city of Belgorod with two Vilkha missiles in prohibited cluster ammunition, as well as Czech-made Vampire MLRS missiles.

Air defense systems intercepted the Alder missiles and most of the Vampire MLRS rockets.

Several rockets and cluster parts from the downed Vilkha missiles hit the city of Belgorod.

As a result, 12 adults and two children have so far died, and 108 people have been injured.

In the event of a direct hit by Vilkha missiles with cluster munitions on the city, the consequences would be immeasurably more severe.

The Kiev regime, which committed this crime, is trying to distract attention from defeats at the front, and also provoke us to similar actions.

We emphasize that the Russian Armed Forces work only on military facilities and infrastructure directly related to them.

We will continue to do so. This crime will not go unpunished.

17:50 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group

In the Zaporizhzhya direction, units of the Russian group of troops, using air strikes and artillery fire, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 33rd, 65th and 117th Mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 20 military personnel and three pickup trucks.

In the Kherson direction, as a result of the actions of units of Russian troops, artillery fire and air strikes, enemy losses amounted to up to 25 military personnel and six vehicles.


16:50 Telegram channel «Colonelcassad": The official death toll in Belgorod is 10 people. 45 people were injured.

Data from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.

16:00 Russian Ministry of Defensetransmits: Crews of the MLRS "Tornado-G" of the "West" group of troops destroyed camouflaged artillery firing positions and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.

15:15 Front birdnbroadcasts: Belgorod. artillery attack of the city center. 30.12 15:30

Two children were killed after a deliberate artillery attack of a civilian area by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

About two dozen citizens were injured and wounded.

The city center is in smoke.

Fires in several places.

14:15 The main thing from the news briefing of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

– In the Kupyansk direction, six attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled and a number of strikes were carried out, Kyiv lost up to 50 military personnel, two infantry fighting vehicles;

– In the Krasnolimansky direction, an attack by the National Guard of Ukraine north of Grigorovka in the DPR was repelled, the enemy lost up to 100 military personnel;

– In the Donetsk direction, two attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled, Kyiv lost up to 350 military personnel killed and wounded, two armored personnel carriers, as well as during the counter-battery fight, the M777 artillery system and the M109 “Paladin” self-propelled gun;

– In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit by fire near Ugledar, Novomikhailovka and Vodyanoy in the DPR, the enemy lost 116 military personnel;

– In the Zaporozhye direction, the forces and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the Rabotino area, Kyiv lost up to 20 military personnel and three pickup trucks;

– In the Kherson direction, Kyiv lost up to 25 military personnel.


13:15 Front bird broadcasts: Zaporozhye region 30.12 12:55

Arrival at the military warehouse in full force. Pre-arrival of ballistics.

12:30 Front bird broadcasts: Kupyansk direction 30.12 12:30

It is reported that our fighters identified enemy military equipment that was hidden by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in a forest plantation.

The equipment was discovered by UAV crews from the reconnaissance unit of the motorized rifle brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the West group of forces.

They fired at the enemy with artillery and heavy mortars.

There is a hit in BC.

11:30 Soldiers of the southern group of troops in the special operation zone, in a laboratory equipped at the forefront, create and modify devices for the front.

10:35 Telegram channel «WarGonzo": Frontline report for the morning of December 30, 2023

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked west of the village of Rabotino, from Novoprokopovka and Novofedorovka.

In the Ugledarsky sector - an attempt by Russian troops to advance from the west to Staromayorskoye.

On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces are storming Novomikhailovka. Fighting on the southern and southeastern outskirts of the village. Russian troops advanced to the northwestern outskirts of Marinka. This is across the Osikova River.

The operationally important Georgievka is on the other side. The assault on Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye was unsuccessful. There is progress towards Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka). Also tactical successes of the Russian Armed Forces on the southwestern outskirts of Avdievka.

This is a new direction for offensive development. Attacks from the northeast on the coke plant and near Stepnoye (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions) were unsuccessful. The attack bypassing the village of Berdychi forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces to abandon a number of positions.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces continued the assault on the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka. LBS unchanged. The Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to retake several positions from Khromov, but lost them from Grigorovka.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops attack at Ternov and Sinkovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding their positions.


09:40 105th Motorized Rifle Regiment NM DPR reports: Kherson direction. Krynki. More precisely, a “near-market” springboard. Which, we note, has almost halved over the last decade.

But to the point. Yesterday (there will be new data by this evening), our guys laid four boats and sixty Mykols on the bottom of the Dnieper. And somewhere nearby, a group of our enthusiasts made a physical comment on the Iris-T air defense system of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The air defense missile system itself and its staff did not survive the remark.

09:20 Telegram channel «Two majors": overview #summary for December 30, 2023

The last week was a kind of summary of the outgoing year 2023.

The Russian Army has confirmed the possibility of launching massive strikes with missiles and the new generation Geranium UAV. The enemy demonstrated the ability to attack targets in our rear areas, sinking the Novocherkassk BDK in the port of Feodosia with foreign missiles, as well as striking at front-line regions, including aircraft-type UAVs.
Russians admit the Novocherkassk was sunk instead of damaged.
At the front, the situation is also indicative: after the official statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the capture of Mar'inka, heavy fighting is taking place south of the city. Despite the involvement of TOS, aviation and artillery, the enemy stubbornly holds Novomikhailovka, regardless of losses.

Using the same principle, the enemy solves defense problems in the Kherson, Zaporozhye, Avdeevsky, Artemovsky, and Kupyansky directions. This indicates Kyiv’s readiness to lose any number of soldiers and officers for the sake of the political interests of a narrow group of people.

Deliberately deplorable stories in the Ukrainian media about the difficult situation at the front, as well as the issue of the upcoming conscription of half a million Ukrainians to the front, solve several problems for the coming year. This is a bloody call to the West to continue supplying Ukraine with weapons and equipment (by the way, Washington did give $250 million last week), and an “explanation” to the population of the gravity of the situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front in order to retain it at any cost.

Enemy soldiers, no matter how much they resist mobilization and sending to the front line, once they reach it they put up fierce and skillful resistance. They are not given the opportunity to retreat or surrender - evidence of the work of the Ukrainian Armed Forces barrage detachments and attacks on their own freshly taken captive “brothers” is multiplying. The depth of thought of many thousands of Ukrainian mobilized people is also at the level of “I was sent - I went.”

The “enemy” still remains in many ways the level of organization of interaction in the Russian Armed Forces, the issues of passing objective information to the top, and the ability to use all forces and means at full force and simultaneously on a narrow sector of the front. The long-suffering Krynki are a particular example of this, not in terms of the ability of the Russian Army to take them (why do they need to recapture and hold ruins and wastelands in targeted areas), but in terms of the ability to fully use all available forces in a single plan.

Of course, a turning point has occurred at the front. The enemy is gradually but inexorably going on the defensive, fulfilling its main task - retaining Russia’s enormous resources in the Ukrainian direction and causing constant comprehensive damage to our country. Our own problems also remain, albeit to a lesser extent: the Avdeevka offensive operation of the Russian Armed Forces, which has been going on since October 10, 2023, indicates unresolved issues and unused reserves, which does not detract from the courage and dedication of our soldiers and commanders.

Russia enters 2024 “in a strong position.” But the Kiev regime is also harshly mobilizing its existing human, economic and military potential, without thinking about what will be left for Ukraine after the war.

Rumors about “negotiations” and the end of the North Military District are increasingly being heard, the Western press is broadcasting signals from Washington about its readiness to give Russia the territories of a dying Ukraine, and the population of Ukraine is not yet exhausted enough to accept a capitulation catastrophic for Kyiv. In addition, Moscow is not yet interested in such “limited” proposals. Objective reality also does not yet suggest a speedy end to the conflict in this way; several times during this war, experts have in vain prophesied “agreements” that never came true.

Russia is expanding its Army, increasing its pace in the military industry, and carrying out weeding in the domestic political field. The country's leadership would not simply concentrate political and economic resources on military affairs. On the foreign policy front, our country’s successes at the front also demonstrate the ability to resist the collective West on several levels, which brings dividends to the Russian state beyond the Ukrainian direction.

08:40 Telegram channel «Fisherman": chronicle of a special military operation for December 29, 2023

The Russian Armed Forces carried out one of the most massive attacks on military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the start of the special operation.

In Odessa, a blow was struck to the port infrastructure, and an abnormal descent of an anti-aircraft missile was noted, which damaged a multi-storey building.

In Kyiv, the target of the raid was warehouses in the Podolsk and Shevchenko districts.

In Kharkov there were visits to one of the enemy’s military units and to the Malyshev tank plant. In Zaporozhye, the target of the attack was the Iskra military plant.

In Lvov, the target was a local tank factory, the plant's workshops were damaged, the strike was confirmed by local authorities.

In the Drohobych region, an infrastructure object was also hit.

There have been no significant changes in the situation at the front; positional clashes are ongoing. However, in the Avdeevsky sector, units of the Russian Armed Forces were able to improve their positions in the Novokalinovo area, and the battles shifted to the Zarya SNT.

In the evening, the enemy launched a massive artillery attack of the border area of the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, using rocket artillery and drones. In Belgorod there were casualties and destruction of civilian infrastructure, in Bryansk all air targets were shot down, but repeated strikes are possible.


08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 December 29, 2023 to 00:00 December 30, 2023

Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 81 incidents of firing from the AFU.

Information was received about the death of a civilian, a man, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.

Also, a man was injured in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.

A total of 15 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.

Districts of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 31 attacks from 155mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky there were 49 artillery attacks from 152mm, 122mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.

A total of 290 units of various ammunition were fired.

In the previous day, 69 artillery attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian forces.


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