Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:20 Russian army comes throughout the East.
22:18 Fixed artillery attack from the APU.
22:04 Video- 03/17/2023 Bakhmustsky district, Donetsk People's Republic, Russian territory temporarily occupied by Ukraine.
"View from the Other Side" Downed air defense PMC "Wagner" - Su-24M Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:44 Video- Stormtroopers of PMC "Wagner," risking their lives, save pets. Now the two Labradors are safe.
21:42 Video- Report on the work of the T-90M in the Kremennaya area
21:38 Video– Artillery of the NM DPR strikes Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles with Krasnopolye
21:37 Video— Exactly one year ago, a crime against the civilian population was committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Kazachya Lopan.
On March 17, 2022, during the artillery attack by the Ukrainian security forces, seven people were killed, six were injured, including a child.
A total of 40 rounds from 152mm self-propelled howitzers were fired at Cossack Lopan. rounds were fired at the village in the afternoon, when residents took to the streets for humanitarian aid from Russia. The Ukrainian side also hit the area of the village council and the local school. There were also people who came for humanitarian aid.
Among the wounded was a teenage girl, who, together with her grandmother, was returning home with food products. The grandmother was killed on the spot, the girl's leg was torn off.
The strike, local residents assure, followed the station from the side of Zolochev, which was controlled by the Ukrainian security forces. Also, the residents of Cossack Lopan lay the blame for this crime on the Head of the Dergachev community, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, who publicly threatened in his interviews with reprisals against the residents of the village for “accepting” the new government.
In his interviews, this scum at first according to the training manual said that the artillery attack was against his own Russian soldiers, but in a recent interview he blabbed and blurted out the truth that it was the Armed Forces of Ukraine who did it. After all, based on his words, “... there was a connection in the city for three weeks, all this time we were collecting information on where the manpower is located. Then it began to fly right on target, and three weeks later, Russian troops blocked the exit to the Ukrainian side and communications in the city ... ".
Three weeks...that's how long it took from the beginning of the NMD to the terrible artillery attack of the civilian population. All residents of Cossack Lopan know that Russian troops blocked communications and ways to leave just after the tragedy of 17.03. That is, with these words, he confirmed that it was the Ukrainian authorities that fired, where innocent people were killed and injured.
21:33 Burials of some of the dead soldiers from the 14th Brigade resemble spontaneous structures
In the Kyiv region, the memory of the military from the 14th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who died in March last year, was honored.
As can be seen from the photographs, a year later, the authorities could not find a place for a centralized burial, leaving the relatives to choose the place of burial at their discretion. Relatives of the victims report that the number of victims of the battles of those days is still unknown, since the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine officially continues to consider many missing.
21:18 Wagner in Bakhmut and on the Bakhmut direction.
20:45 Report on the combat work of the Akhmat regiment in the Kremennaya area -video.
20:17 Another footage of the "hello" of the Russian artillery in the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
20:08 PPO Pratsue or beautiful shots of Russian cruise missile strikes -video.
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19:25 The Turkish armored car "Kirpi" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which did not pull the bad weather, is pulled by four tractors -video.
19:22 Cutting from tankers -video.
18:30 Situation for the last day:
Yesterday, Ukrainian militants continued artillery attack the left bank of the Kherson region, firing a total of 91 rounds, including on the settlement:
Staraya Zburyevka - eight rounds Zabarino - 12 Peschanovka - eight Aleshka - 5 Krynka - 21 Naked Pier - 13 Podlesnoye - 7 Kokhany - five New Zburyevka - seven Kardashinka - five.
— At night, the Kiev regime continued to strike at civilian infrastructure. The following cities were shelled: New Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Aleshki, Tavriysk, Rybalche, Vasilievka. In total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 47 rounds.
In response, this night, as part of a counterbattery fight in the area of the settlement of Ingulets, Russian artillery destroyed a 152mm self-propelled howitzer 2S3 "Akatsiya" with a crew of five people and ammunition.
- Also, the RF Armed Forces in the Sadovoye area destroyed a 120mm mortar with a crew and ammunition for it. Three VFU militants were eliminated, five were seriously injured.
17:52 Video- Populists from the OBTF "Cascade" talk about the fact that they received experimental drone strikers "Tuning fork".
17:22 Video- The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell Aleshki: the houses of civilians are destroyed.
"Ukraine continues to destroy peaceful infrastructure, artillery attack houses. six rounds flew here, interrupted the wires. Electricians work around the clock, they restored almost everything, ”said our military commander.
According to the correspondent, many residents spend the night in basements because they are afraid of becoming a victim of another artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
17:15 Starobilsk direction settingas of 17 March 2023 at 17:00
- In the Limansky sector, over the past week, servicemen of the 144th Motor Rifle Division have been conducting a positional offensive at the Kremennaya-Makeyevka line. During active battles, the RF Armed Forces entrenched themselves west of Krasnopopovka already on the territory of the DPR.
- To the south, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces knocked out the forces of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the DShV and the 19th rifle battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from several strongholds on the Balka Zhuravka - Torskoye - Dibrova line, expanding the control zone around the ledge near the Zherebets River.
- In the area of the village of Zhitlovka, a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is operating with copters in service. The DRG provides target designation for artillery and mortar crews.
- The Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group is conducting reconnaissance in force at the turn of Makeevka - Nevsky. The enemy forces are equipping new defense lines on the opposite bank of the Zherebets River.
In the Kupyansky sector, Russian units established control over several strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Gryanikovka, the enemy was forced to retreat to the right bank of the Oskol River.
- To maintain combat readiness, the Armed Forces of Ukraine rotated the personnel of the 107th and 108th detachments of the TerO at the borders of Khatnoye - Olkhovatka and Petropavloka - Sinkovka, and also transferred the forces of 51st OSB from Andreevka to the line of contact.
17:00 Video— Do you remember the Ukrainian Armed Forces dotting Donetsk with "petals"? This is when from a distance the city, including civilians, was bombarded with the same mines that everyone remembers from the "Ninth Company".
The deputy director of the Republican Trauma Center of the DPR, Onopriyenko, said that they still receive civilians, including children, who in one way or another suffered from these mines.
“The meanest mine. Ours, Soviet. They just scatter them, too, along the mean. Even children and civilians."
16:35 Video- Footage of the combat work of the 152mm gun "Hyacinth-B" with a further interview with one of the gunners (mobilized), tells that in one episode two infantry platoons were saved, supported by fire.
15:53 Destroyed Ukrainian tank T-64BV in the area of the settlement. Belogorivka Luhansk People's Republic -video.
15:48 Video of the use of Typhoon-VDV and its 30mm cannon at close range on enemy targets -video.
15:35 Video- T-90M crews are trained to turn NATO Abrams, Challengers and Leopards into scrap metal. You need to be prepared to participate in the competition!
15:12 In the Kherson region, the Ukrainian DRG was liquidated, trying to force the Kakhovka reservoir -video.
15:00 Video- Interview of military commissar Andrei Kots with a Russian volunteer with the call sign "Socrates" - a graduate student of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, who went to the front after his younger brother, who is now defending his thesis and will soon return to the front. Both are under thirty. Youth is what it is, and this is Moscow.
14:34 Ka-52 flies on a mission in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya —video.
14:33 Damn, they even lie in uniform swastikas! PS In the photo - a live vushnik.
14:05 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (03/17/2023)
- In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnoye, Berestovoye, Kharkov Region, and Artemovka, Lugansk People's Republic.
The losses of the enemy amounted to over 40 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, two vehicles, as well as an ammunition depot of the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, during the active operations of the units of the "Center" group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire, enemy manpower and equipment were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Terny and Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, more than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored fighting vehicle, three pickup trucks, a car and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in this direction.
- In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of the units of the "Southern" group of troops and artillery fire in the areas of the settlements of Semenovka, Petrovsky and Tonenkoe of the Donetsk People's Republic:
up to 135 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, four pickup trucks, one car, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, as well as an ammunition depot of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed per day.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, air strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The total losses of the enemy in these areas amounted to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, three cars and two 152mm D-20 howitzers.
- In the Kherson direction, up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, ten vehicles, a 122mm Grad MLRS combat vehicle and an Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed during a fire attack.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated 82 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and equipment in 112 districts in a day.
- In the area of the settlement of Mirnoye, Kharkiv region, a position was opened and a Ukrainian radar station for detecting low-flying air targets 36D6 was destroyed.
- In addition, in the area of the settlement of Redkodub in the Donetsk People's Republic, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar was destroyed.
- Air defense systems intercepted five rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and a Tochka-U tactical missile in a day.
– Also, fourteen Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the area of the settlements of Korsunka, Golaya Pristan, Kherson region, Rubizhne, Lugansk People’s Republic, Kotlyarovka, and Olshana, Kharkiv region, during the day.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 402 aircraft, 221 helicopters, 3,448 unmanned aerial vehicles, 414 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8326 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,064 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,377 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 8,985 units of special military vehicles.
12:43 Relatively successful drop on the vushniks. And yes, the Russian operator does not dare to finish off the wounded, proving once again who is good with their fists, and who sold out to Satanism -video.
12:03 Video- Vushnik Dmitry Misyura complains about the new positions "beyond Avdiivka", apparently, after retreating from the pressure of the RF Armed Forces. He says that every day 13 people die from these bastards. In general, "mobiks", as the Ukrainians contemptuously call them, and the naval infantry of the Northern Fleet, together with the 1st Army Corps, make the Ukrainians a second Bakhmut in the Avdievka direction. In many ways, according to the same tactics as the Wagners, by the way.
11:38 Blocks NAR C-5,handicraft attached in the field by rembats to the Motolyga and the captured Ukrainian BRDM-2L.
11:25 Report from the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya, where the artillery of the BARS-16 detachment destroyed an entire fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
10:32 RT found the heroes of the popular video of the meeting of a Russian fighter with his father near Svatov -video.
Sergei Pavlov, a 40-year-old resident of the Chelyabinsk region, went to the North Military District as part of partial mobilization - and has already been awarded for courage. Dad, 63-year-old Dmitry, wanted to volunteer with him, but he was not accepted due to his age.
Dmitry became a volunteer and during his first trip to Donbass he met his son. They crossed paths for ten minutes when Sergei and his colleagues arrived for ammunition. The father told RT that he then found out that his son was wounded:
“When he calls, he always says that everything is fine with him. His face was cut open by a fragment of a mine, so he has now grown a beard - he had not worn it before. Walking under bullets for five months, just imagine!”
10:06 The guardsmen from Aleysk, who were left without cover, were covered with accurate fire -video.
09:55 “The fighting spirit is strong. Ready to continue, advance": combat work of the crews of the 152mm towed guns "Hyacinth-B" of the Western Military District in the special operation zone -video
Artillerymen work daily in the most difficult conditions. Just a few minutes from getting a target to firing a shot. The result of the work: destroyed strongholds, equipment and fortifications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Combat missions are performed by military personnel called up from the reserve as part of partial mobilization. Calculations are coordinated, focused and aimed at Victory!
“... Everyone is proud, waiting with victory, medals. The mood is fighting, more than excellent. The fighting spirit is strong. We are ready to continue, to advance,” said the loader of the guns with the call sign “Bird cherry.”
09:53 Ukrovoyaka shows the result of the actions of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of Belogorovka LPR -video
09:14 BM-21 "Grad" 122mm MLRS crews send fiery gifts to the positions of the Ukrofascists near Kremennaya —video
09:07 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 03/16/2023 to 00:00 03/17/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 34 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 14 attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm, strike UAV.
On Gorlovsky 16 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm, 152 and 122mm.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhsky three artillery attack from artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Having fired 182 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kalinin, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district), Vladimirovka, Blagodatnoye, Nikolskoye.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of three civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the previously liberated Vladimirovka.
Four houses were damaged in Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
08:34 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from March 16 to March 17, 2023
Russian troops hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Yelino and Timonovichi, Chernihiv region, as well as in Grabovsky, Kondratovka and Atinsky, Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy targets in Strelechya, Staritsa and Volchansk.
In the Starobelsky direction, the Russian troops worked on the concentrations of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kupyansk, Dvurechnaya and Krakhmalny.
In the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) direction, Russian missile troops and artillery hit the places of concentration of Ukrainian units in Bakhmut, Krasny and Vasyukovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Avdeevka, Pervomaisky and Nevelsky.
In turn, Ukrainian formations from cannon artillery fired at residential buildings and civilian facilities in Yasinovataya at night.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian troops worked on targets in Ugledar, Paraskoveevka and Prechistovka.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces attacked enemy positions in Charivne, Novodanilovka and Novoandreevka.
On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces hit enemy concentrations in Kherson, Berislav and Kachkarovka.
At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the civilian infrastructure of the city of Aleshki.
08:22 Fighting in Bakhmut through the eyes of the enemy: militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine publish footage of clashes in the city and on the outskirts -video
They have nothing to brag about here - they are trying to repel the attacks of Russian fighters.
08:13 Frontline summary on the morning of 17.03.2023
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops are conducting assault operations on the northern outskirts of Maryinka. At Nevelskoy there were oncoming battles.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again tried to advance to Pervomaisky and Severny. No success. With the support of artillery, they attacked the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka from the south.
To the north - similar actions near Kamenka. After the capture of the village of Krasnogorovka, Russian troops develop an offensive on Stepnoye. The goal is to take control of the section of the railway line to Avdeevka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on Pobeda, Georgievka, Thin, Lastochkin and Novokalinovo. The Ukrainian army struck at Aleksandrovka.
On the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut, PMC Wagner reached the highway to Konstantinovka. The Ukrainian garrison is cut off from the main supply line. From the south, "orchestra" conduct assault operations in the city. And from the north they advanced in the industrial zone.
Artillery is working closely along Bakhmut. "Musicians" attack Chrome. There is another road to the city. After shelling, they advance at Bogdanovka. In these areas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold positions.
Also, PMC "Wagner", with fire support, conducts assault operations near Orekhovo-Vasilyevka. Russian troops attempted to break through to the disputed. Artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Aleksandro-Shultin, Predtechin, Chasovoy Yar, Grigorovka, Privolye, Fedorovka and Seversk. The Ukrainian army attacked Ozaryanovka and Kurdyumovka.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after massive shelling, again attacked Belogorovka. And again without result. The attacks of the Russian army in the direction of Yampolevka, Nevsky and Makeevka did not bring success either.
08:07 Summary on the morning of March 17, 2023
Northwest of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) PMC "Wagner" develop success after the capture of Zaliznyansky. Heavy fighting continues throughout the entire sector of the Artyomovsky Front, attack aircraft are moving forward both in the city and south-west of it.
In the north of the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing west of the settlement. Krasnogorovka.
The Zaporozhye direction became more active: after an unsuccessful reconnaissance in force, the Armed Forces of Ukraine sent a DRG to the north of Vasilyevka. The enemy pulls up armored vehicles in the line of contact.
From the Kherson sector of the front, they report an attempt by the enemy to throw a group of special forces into the rear of our units, as a result of a small-arms battle, the enemy suffered losses and retreated. It is the deployment of the DRG to the rear and the simultaneous mass landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that are designed to tie down our forces on the banks of the Dnieper when organizing an offensive in other directions.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue artillery attack enemy positions and places of accumulation.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack the Crimea with an aircraft-type UAV. Drone down.
The enemy fired 182 rounds of ammunition into the DPR. Gorlovka, Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Vladimirovka, Blagodatnoe, Nikolskoe were under fire.