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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:55 The Ukrainian Donetsk Regional Military Administration decided to evacuate 126 children from 21 settlements from the part of the DPR occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:34 All administrative buildings and important industrial facilities in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) came under the control of Wagner PMC.
Currently, the Ukrainian army holds only a residential area in the west of the city, but continues to fiercely resist Russian attack aircraft.
21:14 "Notes of a Veteran": loud in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the Belgorod region. Presumably air defense.
20:59 APU encountered problems when using FPV drones:parsing RT.
20:52 The Air Force called on the media not to manipulate the "victorious" headlines and news in connection with the transfer of military equipment
"The transfer of Polish and Slovak MiG-29s will strengthen the capabilities of the Air Force’s fighter aviation, but in no case will it solve the issue of "counteroffensive," "victory," etc," said Ignat, the spokesman of the Air Force.
20:50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually withdrawing troops to the western districts of the city, where they expect to defend themselves for some time, in the interests of which they are still trying to transfer reinforcements to Artemovsk, even despite problems with supplies.
20:23 ISW confirms the capture of the central part of Bakhmut by Russian troops, - a summary of the Institute for the Study of War
In particular, analysts note a shift in the epicenter of hostilities closer to the western borders of the city.
Wagner is likely to continue trying to secure control of central Bakhmut and attempt to move west through dense urban areas towards Khromovo.
19:59 Crews of the 10th tank battalion support advance of infantry in the Avdeevsky direction.
Tanks are a formidable infantry support weapon capable of both direct fire and concealed positions. Every day, the crews of the 10th separate tank battalion of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly a separate tank battalion of the NM DPR) will destroy enemy positions, facilitating the advancement of assault groups.
18:45 All administrative buildings and important industrial facilities in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) came under the control of Wagner PMC.
Currently, the Ukrainian army holds only a residential area in the west of the city, but continues to fiercely resist Russian attack aircraft.
17:50 Summary of artillery attack of the Donetsk People's Republic for April 03, 2023.
The enemy fired at Donetsk from the following directions:
-n.p. Dzerzhinsk;
-n.p. Ilyinka.
Consequences of the attacks:
Donetsk: -Petrovsky district (three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired at 08:30):
-st. Sotsgorodok, 12 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- in the forest belt, along Polupanov Street, as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal", a woman born in 1976 was injured.
n.p. Gorlovka: -Nikitovsky district (at 15:50 five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.):
- on st. Yerevanskaya, 2, a woman born in 1955 died.
- on st. Fomina, 12 wounded woman born in 1953
17:20 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for April 4, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Nikolskoye (included in the zone of responsibility of the administration of the Volnovakhsky district): - on the street. 40 years of Victory, 15, wounded woman born in 1948
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district: - Damage was recorded to the building of the MBOU "Boarding School No. 3 in Donetsk" on the street. Krasnogorovskoy.
Kuibyshevsky district: - st. Shock, 21 "a" - a private residential building.
17:09 Artillery units of the RF Armed Forces in the Seversk direction destroyed positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:57 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 15 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.
16:48 Shoigu: the fighting in the areas of Artemovsk and Avdiivka is developing according to plan.
Combat operations in the areas of Artemovsk and Avdiivka are developing according to plan. The Russian army continues to liberate Donbass, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a conference call on April 4.
16:20 PMC "Wagner" occupied the gray zone in front of the settlement. Bogdanovka and approached already close to this settlement.
15:53 Ukrainian troops fired at Yasinovataya, firing 10 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.
15:30 Another success in Artemovsk:
AZOM industrial zone: in the course of many days of fighting, Wagner PMC units completely liberated the territory of the industrial zone and moved deep into private buildings in a westerly direction. Also, the Bakhmut-1 railway station passed under the control of Wagner PMC".
Center: the area is completely taken under the control of Wagner PMC units. Assault operations continue in a westerly direction. The musicians entrenched themselves along Sibirtsev Street, approached the Metallurg stadium and occupied school No. 11. To the south, the Wagner PMC fighters went to Rozhdestvenskaya Street and continued to move towards the Avangard stadium.
Vodokanal: the offensive continues from south to north, during which the assault groups of Wagner operators occupied a number of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:45 In the Svatovsky direction, the RF Armed Forces continue to conduct active defense throughout the front. In the area of the Zhuravka gully, several strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were taken. In the Kremensky forests, units of the Airborne Forces advanced from the north to the power line, dividing the reserve into two parts.
14:41 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 12 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.
14:40 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) from Ukrainian militants -video.
14:28 Russian aviation is pointwise crushing enemy strongholds in Vugledar -video.
13:50 Wagner PMC took control of the Bakhmut 1 station near the AZOM enterprise, and continue to move towards the center from the north of Artemovsk.
13:31 Ukrainian servicemen throw dead colleagues near Artemovsk.
The Wagner evacuation group is collecting and removing bodies from occupied positions in order to transfer them to the Ukrainian side in the future.
As the fighters themselves say, they are trying to do everything possible for further identification by relatives so that the soldier does not go missing.
13:21 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for April 4, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): - on the street. Tukhachevsky, 22, a guy born in 2000 was wounded.
12:49 APU fired at Dnipro, Kherson region. As a result of the shelling, power transmission towers were damaged, half of the village was left without electricity.
12:46 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing three 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.
12:35 From Artyomovsk they report that the artillery of the Wagner PMC is actively working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bogdanovka.
According to military chronicle, there are positions of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 67th Motorized Brigade, the 21st infantry battalion of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade and the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
If these positions can be destroyed and broken through, then Wagner operators will begin to flank the garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Clockwork Yar. From Bogdanovka to the nearest strongholds of the Ukrainian army in this area - less than five km in a straight line.
12:09 Ukrainian troops fired at the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka, firing three 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.
11:55 Video consequences of the artillery attack of the central district of Gorlovka by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:37 Yesterday in the area of n.p. Burgunka (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which a 122mm gun was destroyed. D-30 howitzer with artillery crew, six – military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went to the “Bandera”; Two were seriously injured.
11:01 Ukrainian troops fired at Yasinovataya, firing three 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.
10:55 At night in the area of N. p. Aleksandrovka, 122mm was destroyed by artillery strike. SAU 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of 5 people and ammunition.
10:37 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for April 4, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - damage was recorded to the building of the Donetsk Mining Technological College on the street. Dunayevsky.
n.p. Gorlovka (Panteleimonovka village): - Damage was recorded to the building of the Kindergarten No. 43 in Gorlovka on the street. Karl Marx.
10:29 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:
- according to n.p. The Dnieper fired 6 rounds;
– n.p. Aleshki fired eight rounds;
- 12 rounds were fired at the village of Peschanovka;
- Six rounds were fired at the settlement of Pokrovskoye;
- according to n.p. Korsunka fired five rounds;
- according to n.p. Krynki fired six rounds;
- according to n.p. The Kardashians fired five rounds;
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. New Kakhovka, settlement Kakhovka, settlement Gornostaevka, n. p. Cairo, n. p. Sofiyivka, firing a total of 44 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
10:20 Ukrainian troops fired on Panteleymonovka, firing four 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.
10:06 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 10 rockets from the MLRS and 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.
09:52 Precision-guided munitions in the Zaporozhye direction were destroyed in the location where the foreign mercenaries were located.
09:18 Mortarmen of the 87th Regiment smashed the enemy’s PVD and mortar positions in the Avdievsky direction -video.
The UAV crew of the 87th Regiment of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly the 119th Regiment of the NM of the DPR) revealed the enemy’s PVD and mortar positions in a residential area in the Avdiivka direction. Supporting the offensive in this direction, regimental crews of 120mm mortars inflicted a fire defeat on the opened positions of Ukrainian nationalists.
09:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are probing the ground for an offensive with frequent attacks on Melitopol, said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia”, in an interview with our correspondent.
Rogov stressed that the counterattack of the Ukrainian military could begin at any time and that the Zaporozhye direction would become a priority for them.
09:10 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 04/04/2023
09:08 The DPR representative office in the JCCC reports 19 facts of firing by the AFU per day.
The enemy fired from MLRS and 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 109 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR. Under the fire of the VFU were: Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian resident of Gorlovka, two civilians received injuries of varying severity.
08:56 In the Belogorovka area, our gunners covered the temporary accommodation for militants of the Kyiv regime, which was located on one of the farms.
On cadres you can see how, after the first arrivals, the Nazis run out of the hangars and, according to their accumulation, work out our 122mm MLRS Grad. The enemy suffered heavy losses.
08:15 Artillerymen of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade continuously strike enemy targets in the Ugledar direction.
08:10 Frontline summary on the morning of 04/04/2023:
In the Ugledar sector, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after a fire defeat, resumed assault operations from Nikolsky in order to bypass the city from the east. Artillery fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Vremevka, Bolshaya Novosyolka and Prechistovka.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops attacked in the western part of Maryinka, in the direction of Pervomaisky and Severny. The Armed Forces held their positions. With the support of artillery and aviation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are trying to advance towards Avdiivka from the southwest and east. They also shelled Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Kurakhov, the cities of Krasnogorovka, Gornyak, Netaylov, Thin, Orlovka, New York and Zhelezny. The Ukrainian army attacked Donetsk.
To the south-west of Artemovsk, with fire support from the Wagner PMC, they launched an attack on Ivanovskoye. The band members failed to reach the settlement. In Artemovsk itself, after massive artillery and air strikes, they pushed through the defenses of the Ukrainian garrison in the southern part and are now conducting assault operations in the city center.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to attack in the direction of Verkhnekamenskoye. Russian artillery bombarded Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, Novomarkovo, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Bogdanovka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka and Spornoye.
In the Luhansk direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with fire support, tried to advance near Belogorovka, Torskoy and Nevsky. No success. Artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krakhmalny, Masyutovka, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Kutkovka and Petro-Ivanovka.
08:05 Ukrainian troops fired on Panteleymonovka, firing two rounds with a caliber of 15 mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
07:59 Heavy fighting continues in the forests along the coast of the Seversky Donets.
Russian special forces units, with the support of units of the Luhansk People's Republic, are conducting an offensive in the Serebryansky forestry area.
07:56 As a result of the artillery attack of the Panteleymonovka village (Central City district of Gorlovka) from the side of the VFU, two enemy rounds exploded on the territory of kindergarten No. 43 "Rosinka". No casualties.
07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic's Representative Office in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, April 03.
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, one artillery attack was recorded at the settlement. Lisichansk with the use of artillery pieces 155mm (2 rounds). As a result of the shelling, a residential building was damaged.