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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/08/2023 to 00:00 03/09/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 17 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made seven attacks from MLRS 122mm, artillery 155mm.
On Gorlovsky 10 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery. By releasing 93 units of various ammunition.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleimonovka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Proletarsky districts).
Over the past day, information was received about the injury of seven civilians, incl. children born in 2009 and 2011, in the Proletarsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk.
Eight housing constructions were damaged in the Proletarsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
Previously, 15 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU during the day.
22:00 "According to the interception, the enemy had five killed in action, seven wounded in action. But the wounded most likely turned into “two hundredths”, because they could not carry out the evacuation," a Wagner PMC fighter tells how they recaptured the quarter from the Armed Forces of Ukraine the day before our arrival. Reportage from the southern region of Artyomovsk.
The enemy fiercely resists, but loses ground daily. Right during the shooting, they witnessed how the Wagner operators captured another intersection - like a radio show in a walkie-talkie.
The entire south of Artyomovsk is littered with the bodies of Ukrainian militants. If you set a goal to shoot and show you all of them, there will simply be no room for the rest of the report. APU is abandoned, including the wounded.
21:56 Ukrainians today hurt six civilian residents of Donetsk. A woman and two men were injured in the Kievsky district, and a man and two children were injured in the Proletarsky district. Boys aged 12 and 13 are neighbors and were at home when the shell arrived. Now Donetsk doctors are doing everything to save their lives.
Literally a few hundred meters away is a children's social center, where about 30 teenagers live. A shell also flew into their yard. Fortunately, no one was hurt, except for the center building itself, which was riddled with shrapnel.
Now the artillery attack of the outskirts of Donetsk continues. Many residents of the Petrovsky district are in shelters that have already become familiar.
21:52 Fisherman with military chronicle reasoned on the topic of a possible counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Bakhmut
If the operational situation there does not change and the flanks of the Wagners are not covered, for example, by regular units of the RF Armed Forces, then a counteroffensive will not only be possible, but very possible.
Moreover, the other day Yevgeny Prigozhin, mentioned by the authors of the channels, has already reported that the forces for this counteroffensive are gathering and available. And in my opinion, "from the ground" its most likely direction is the north.
Another thing is that such a step would be categorically stupid for Kyiv. Because it would be much more literate to simply retreat to the second line of defense and keep it there, since these lines have long been prepared and equipped. But the leadership of Ukraine obviously rested on Bakhmut with a horn. And whether it is specifically pulling time, or just played with symbols. No pity for their people.
If the counteroffensive takes place, Bakhmut will finally become the central point of confrontation between the two forces. And I would like our forces to be, so to speak, numerically equal.
21:34 PMC "Wagner" entered the settlement. Dubovo-Vasilyevka north of Bakhmut.
There are tough fights.
21:06 A Russian tank is working on Ukrainian positions in a forest belt near Kremennaya -video.
20:43 Positional battles in the Kherson region: Mavics find Ukrainian shelters and firing points, throw ammunition at them, aim artillery -video.
20:41 @brussinf report from the eastern quarters of Bakhmut -video.
19:43 Smoking out from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with an ordinary smoke bomb, everything is easy and simple -video.
19:42 Night work on enemy vehicles with the help of our favorite ATGM -video.
19:41 We returned from Artemovsk. We made sure that the city is in an operational environment. The enemy is slowly withdrawing forces to a new line of defense, but there is no talk of surrendering Bakhmut -video.
At midnight, the crest led columns of five to seven cars in the direction of Konstantinovka with an interval of 20-30 minutes, which, naturally, were jammed by the artillery of Wagner operators.
At the moment, we are talking about controlling 40 percent of Artemovsk. In the center, the enemy continues to resist fiercely, using urban development and full-length stormwater. The commanders of the PMC "Wagner" estimate the number of Artemovsky garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at 10-12,000.
It is obvious that in the event of a collapse of the boiler, when all retreat routes are physically cut off, there will already be fewer Ukrainian soldiers in the city.
19:39 Whoever does not hide is ashes -video.
18:25 Fighting on the front near Kremennaya: 2nd Army Corps continues to destroy enemy positions. Artillery supports the offensive of infantry and armored vehicles —video.
17:55 Syrsky now travels not to Bakhmut, but “near Bakhmut”. Remarkably. However, Ukrainian journalists suffered this to the population as if they were in the city -video.
17:54 The Ukrainian military stutters and grunts, talking on the run about two unsuccessful attempts to attack the Russian opornik, during which they were given a tough rebuff. Apparently, this is the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya, where just the Ukrainian oporniks are taken one by one -video.
17:26 The last road left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Bakhmut, and it is being shot through -video.
17:24 A kind of "run, Forrest, run" from the Ukrainian military -video.
16:14 Let's go, let's go, let's go! Fuck it! Come on!" —video.
Unique video: a foreign mercenary commands a platoon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the evacuation from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). No transport - an open field and whistling bullets.
15:01 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation -video:
Russian troops destroyed over 65 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 152mm Msta-B howitzer in a day in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
In the Kupyansk direction, the actions of ten sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped;
Russian troops destroyed up to 50 servicemen and a 122mm D-30 howitzer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
In the DPR, a Ukrainian radar station for low-flying air targets 36D was destroyed and the headquarters of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.
13:34 Despite the fact that spring is already in full swing in the Zaporozhye direction and pleases with its weather, the 122mm BM-21 Grad passed through the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
12:53 Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" knocked out the enemy from the eastern part of Bakhmut, -summary.
Under the control of the "Wagnerites" is already the entire eastern part of the city, namely the districts:
-- Summer cottages;
-- Industrial zone;
-- Meat processing plant;
-- Zabakhmutka.
To the west of the Bakhmutka River, the following areas have been liberated:
-- Stupki;
-- Ilyinovka.
Fierce fighting continues in the following areas:
-- Sobachevka;
-- Budenovka.
In turn, Ukrainian military analysts reported at night:
“The Russians continue to occupy Zabakhmutka. The capture of the Ilyinovka area in Bakhmut by the enemy has been specified. The enemy's attempts to improve the tactical position on the northern and southern faces of the Bakhmut ledge continue. There are active battles near Zheleznyansky and in the Razdolevka area.
12:08 With a direct hit, Russian artillerymen destroyed the shelter and the evacuation vehicle of the forelocks -video.
12:06 Destroyed by the Russian unmanned/ oitering ammunition "Lancet" air defense system S-300 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
12:04 Southwest of Kremennaya. District of the village of Dibrova (former Chervono Dibrovo)
The 24th Separate Guards Brandenburg Order of Lenin, Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Special Purpose Brigade destroys the enemy’s military outposts west of the settlement as a result of ambush actions -video.
12:01 Sky over Alchevsk today in the LPR.
11:26 A very brave (or stupid) Ukrainian shows the equipment that was broken in Bakhmut/Artyomovsk -video.
10:48 Chronicle of strikes and mutual artillery attack in the NVO zone on the night of March 7-8, 2023
At night in the Sumy region, Russian troops tried to strike with a Geran-2 kamikaze drone, but Ukrainian air defense shot down the device.
In addition, artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces attacked the enemy in Karpovichi and Senkovka, Chernigov Region, as well as in Starikovo, Volfino, and Grabovsky, Sumy Region.
In the Starobelsky direction, Russian forces hit concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian army in Novoselovsky, Stelmakhivka and Yampol.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, with return fire, struck at Gryanikovka, Dvurechny and Chervonopopovka.
In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) direction, Russian forces launched cannon and rocket artillery strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Razdolovka, Fedorovka, the western part of Bakhmut and New York.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces hit the enemy positions in the vicinity of Avdievka, the western part of Maryinka, Orlovka and Nevelskoye. Donetsk and its environs were once again subjected to chaotic artillery attack by Ukrainian formations.
In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian forces launched strikes against Ugledar and Perechistovka.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian forces’ cannon and rocket artillery hit the concentrations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Olgovsky, Zatishye and Charivny.
In the Kherson region, the Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes on Ukrainian army facilities in the vicinity of Kherson and Kachkarovka.
10:43 Fire, fire-shot!
Tankers of the Western Military District provide fire support to our motorized riflemen, ensuring the offensive of Russian troops in the zone of the special operation -video.
10:41 Prigozhin at the monument to tankers in Artemovsk —video.
09:14 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on March 8, 2023
08:29 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kiev region of Donetsk, firing six rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
08:10 During the observation of the front line of the enemy in the Pavlovka area, the sniper group of the OBTF DPR "Cascade"revealeda group of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of four people. As a result of a sniper salvo, one enemy soldier was hit.
08:03 Personnel fighting in Artyomovsk: BMP breaks through the private sector and soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wander through the ruins.
"The situation can change several times a day. As of now, everything does not look very nice, to put it mildly. The Wagners are pressing from different sides," Ukrainian military analysts write.
07:31 Stormtroopers of Wagner PMC reachedto the monument with a tank in Artemovsk.
07:05 Destroyed APU convoy consisting of: BTR-80, off-road vehicle and minibus in the area of Artemovsk (Bakhmut). The footage contains profanity 18+.
06:25 APU hit the Donetsk school with an American high-precision projectile.
On Tuesday evening, during the artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian armed formations used a 155mm high-precision American Excalibur projectile.
Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC recorded the consequences of the artillery attack of Donetsk, carried out by Ukrainian militants from the village of Karlovka on March 7. The APU was used during the artillery attack of the building of school No. 52, located on the street. 60th Anniversary of the USSR, the American M982 Excalibur projectile, which belongs to the class of high-precision weapons.