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Current information on the situation on the front line: May 8 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 05/08/2024 to 00:00 05/09/2024.

A total of 26 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

Information was received about the death of a civilian, and four civilians were also injured, incl. teenage girl born in 2007.

DAMAGED:
A total of 12 residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.

Three artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction
A total of 22 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction
One artillery attack in the Volnovakha direction
A total of 88 units of various ammunition were fired.

21:04 One civilian was killed, four more were wounded as a result of Ukrainian artillery attack of the DPR, Denis Pushilin reported

19:50 The artillery of the “North” group calculated and destroyed electronic warfare station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A characteristic antenna located in a forest belt near one of the border villages was discovered by scouts using a UAV, after which the artillery crew of the “fearless” covered the position with accurate shots. At least two direct hits were recorded.

19:20 Daily calculations of 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" struck command posts and fortifications, areas of concentration of forces and enemy artillery batteries. Unmanned aerial vehicles are used to reconnaissance targets and adjust fire.

18:40Offensive on Chasov Yar, May 8:

After a series of heavy defeats and lost support units, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to counterattack south of the Novy microdistrict. They rolled out several tanks and threw a company of infantry into battle. After several sighting shots from the artillery of the Russian Armed Forces, the infantry fled to the outposts and dugouts, and the tanks were destroyed by the Burevestnik UAV detachment.

There are also some changes in tactics: “meat assaults” are periodically carried out to try to recapture lost positions, but, as in other sectors of the front, territorial defenses are used for such events, rather than well-trained troops. The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces prefers to save them in case of a breakthrough of Russian troops through the Seversky Donets canal.

18:25 Destroyed as a result of the arrival of the Russian FAB-250 aerial bomb with a universal planning and correction module (UMPC), Ukrainian staff vehicles MSh-PSh on the MAZ-63172 chassis.

18:10 The AN/TPQ-36 mobile radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was in the wrong place at the wrong time. As a result, it was destroyed by an accurate hit from the Lancet -video.

17:40 The liberation of Kislovka in the Kharkov region made it possible to level the front line for further advance to the city of Kupyansk, as well as cut off a number of logistics hubs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by military expert Andrei Marochko.

17:14 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported explosions in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a cloud of smoke at the site of the explosion.

16:58 News from the Kupyansky direction from NGP RaZVedka:

“Our troops in the Khar'kov region broke through the enemy’s defenses in the area of ?the village of Berestovoe and, having defeated a number of oporniks, came close to the village, fierce battles broke out. The “temperature” on this front is rapidly rising, which is expected. The enemy will be defeated and put to shame."

15:57 The situation in the Vremyevsky direction is reported by the “Z Committee”:

The Russian Armed Forces have advanced near Staromayorsky, and battles are already taking place on the territory of the populated area
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15:09 Assault units of the “Southern” group of troops continue to improve their skills in close combat when storming enemy positions -video.

14:46 The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a powerful strike with aerial bombs on targets in the Kharkov region

14:25 Vrem'evskoe direction: battles in Urozhainy and Staromayorsky. Situation as of 14.00 May 8, 2024:

After successfully occupying the territory of an agricultural enterprise in the south of Urozhaynoye, Russian troops continue to conduct an offensive in the Urozhaynoye - Staromayorskoye sector.

In Urozhainy, the enemy makes unsuccessful attempts to counterattack in small groups with armored vehicles, but under counter fire from Russian troops retreats to the northern outskirts of the village.

In just a few days, Far Eastern Marines from the 40th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade expanded the controlled zone in the southwest of Urozhayny by more than half a kilometer in depth. TOS-1A heavy flamethrower systems also strike enemy positions.

Ukrainian formations tried to transfer reinforcements to Staromayorskoye from the side located in the north of Makarovka, but the Russian Armed Forces destroyed four pickup trucks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with manpower.

At the same time, to the west of Staromayorsky, fighters of the 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade advanced into a forest plantation, capturing two enemy strongholds. According to some reports, they also managed to cut the road from Rovnopol, but there is no objective evidence of this yet.

A certain activation in some sectors of the front, which have rarely appeared in reports in recent months, may force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use at least part of their reserves there. Which, in turn, will in the future make it easier for the Russian Armed Forces to attack near Avdievka or in other directions.

14:02 According to the Ukrainian resource DeepState, most of the village. Staromayorske has moved into the “gray zone”; there are no Ukrainian troops there.

13:49 Summary of the progress of hostilities over the past 24 hours from the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Russian Armed Forces struck enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, due to this, Kyiv’s capabilities for producing military products and transferring Western weapons and military equipment to the line of combat contact were significantly reduced;

During the course of 24 hours, operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the RF Armed Forces destroyed: a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition depots and missile and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also damaged manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 113 regions;

Air defense systems shot down an ATACMS operational-tactical missile, three Hammer guided bombs, as well as 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles;

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone exceeded 1,000 militants killed and wounded.

13:38 The Russian army liberated the settlements of Novokalinovo in the DPR and Kislovka in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported

12:57 In Krasnogorovka (DPR), Military Chronicle reports:

After the capture of part of the industrial zone with a refractory plant, the assault began. Russian army units began to put pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the side of the street. Tchaikovsky in the east of the city.

In this part, Ukrainian troops hold the territory of the central district hospital and the agricultural technical school, however, due to the lack of the opportunity to obtain large reserves, this is becoming increasingly difficult. In parallel, Russian artillery is actively pressing on the reserves and supplies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces behind the Zhukovsky reservoir to the west of Krasnogorovka and is working along Selidovo, from where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to strengthen the (for now) fortified area occupied by the Ukrainian army by rail.

12:05 Information is received about the advance of our forces in Krasnogorovka in the northeast of the city from the Lozovaya River. Our troops have advanced significantly along Nakhimov and 1 May streets in the direction of the street junction. Western-Nakhimova-May 1. There are approximately 700 meters left to the junction itself.

11:57 UAV operators of the 14th Separate Guards Special Forces Brigade struck Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle in the Northern Military District zone. First, the operators hit the pickup truck with an FPV drone, and then finished it off with a drop.

11:22 New explosions in Khar'kov.

10:55 Units of the “Center” group of troops as a result of successful actions improved tactical position and defeated the manpower and equipment of 24, 115 Mechanized, 143 Infantry and 68 Yaeger brigades in the Leninskoye, Novokalinovo, Semenovka and Solovyevo areas.

A counterattack by the assault group of the 100th Mechanized Brigade in the Ocheretino area was repelled. The enemy lost up to 395 troops, an Abrams tank, two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, four 122mm D-30 howitzers.

10:10 The Russian Armed Forces advanced deep into Krasnogorovka and near the village of Staromayorskoye in the DPR - DeepState

09:37 The Russian army gained a foothold in Staromayorsky this night, reports Whisper of the Front. The enemy also confirms the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in this area.

“In the Velikonovoselkovsky direction, Russian troops continue to put pressure in the area of Urozhainy and Staromayorsky. Under the latter, the enemy advanced in an area up to 3.3 km wide to a depth of 1.15 km,” one of the Ukrainian channels reported.

08:25 Mined cache with foreign weapons discovered in the suburbs of Avdievka, the FSB Directorate for the DPR told reporters.

The cache contained an American FGM-148 Javelin ATGM, two Swedish Sakrat RPGs, 28 VOG-25 ammunition, two RPO-A rocket-propelled infantry flamethrowers and 800 rounds of 7.62x54 ammunition.

08:11 122mm BM-21 Grad crews destroyed camouflaged self-propelled artillery installations and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone

Artillery crews of the West group of forces continue to deliver precision strikes around the clock on military targets, positions, fortifications, military equipment, column movements and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

08:10 Morning summary May 8, 2024:

At night, a combined strike was launched on the territory of Ukraine using missile weapons and the Geranium UAV. Missile launches were carried out from Tu-95ms, from the Black Sea, the enemy reported hypersonic “Daggers”. Explosions were heard in Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Stryi and the Dobrotvor railway station on the border of the Lviv region, Lubny and Kremenchug (Poltava region), Ladyzhyn in the Vinnitsa region, as well as in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

At 6:30 (Moscow time), after the alarm had all cleared, enemy monitoring channels reported launches of hypersonic “Daggers”, after which explosions were heard in the Ternopil region.

There are no changes in the dynamics of the situation in the Kherson direction; the enemy continues to strike with drones and artillery, has plans to create new points of tension on our shore, and uses unmanned vehicles to deliver goods to our shore. The enemy's plan to create a new focus of hostilities in the island zone near the Cossack Camps is visible.

The assault on Rabotino continues on the Zaporozhye Front. Enemy attacks were repelled north-west of Verbovoy.

In the Vrem'evsky direction there are battles in Urozhainy, reports of intensification of our actions near Staromayorsky.

In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are storming Krasnogorovka and fighting in Georgievka.

In the Pokrovsky direction (west of Avdeevka), the Russian Army is building on its success in the Ocheretinsky salient. Our units are moving from Ocheretino to the west towards the village. The enemy is trying to slow down progress north to Novoaleksandrovka by mining the area and striking FPV drones. Fighting is already taking place near the outskirts of Novopokrovsky (west of Berdychi). In Netailovo, Russian armed forces storm the central part of the village.

Active battles are taking place near the outskirts of Chasov Yar, artillery and aviation are targeting enemy positions in the city, there are no significant changes in the passage of the LBS.

08:07 Russian Su-30SM fighter destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces drone in the special operation zone, the Ministry of Defense reported.

08:00 The Ministry of Defense spoke about breakdown of regrouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Dnieper.


Posted by: badanov 2024-05-09
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