[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/17/2023 to 00:00 08/18/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 70 facts of firing by the VFU.
Information was received about the wounding of four civilians in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Yelenovka.
Ten residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Zaitsevo and Yelenovka, as well as two civilian infrastructure facilities.
Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the Republic: Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka (Central City, Nikitovsky districts), Gol'movsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Yelenovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired 50 rounds from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 14 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Svetlodarskoye four artillery attacks from 155mm artillery. Having fired 217 units of various ammunition.
A previous 61 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
21:03 Combat Job calculation of 82mm automatic mortar "Vasilek".
19:19 Reliable cover: combat work of the crew of the Osa-AKM air defense system of the Central Military District -video
Krasnoliman direction
In the course of performing a combat mission to cover the positions of Russian troops, anti-aircraft gunners destroy reconnaissance UAVs of the armed forces of Ukraine.
The specifics of the weapons and radar equipment of the complex makes it possible to detect and destroy small-sized reconnaissance UAVs, such as Fury and Leleka. Over the past few weeks, the calculation has destroyed about 30 of these drones.
Anti-aircraft gunners save the lives of our guys on the front lines, depriving the "eyes" of enemy artillerymen and preventing them from aiming their artillery at our positions.
19:14 Zaporozhye Front -video
Battle of armored vehicles. Ours with the "Germans". The crossroads in the forest plantation has become a point of contact
18:44 The Supreme Court of the DPR issued a verdict in a criminal case against the operator of the interference station of a separate company of electronic warfare of the 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 24-year-old Yegor Kuranov. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 356 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (ill-treatment of the civilian population in the occupied territory) -video
The court established that the convict, in the period from November 30, 2018 to June 20, 2022, following the criminal orders of the command of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, operating an unmanned aerial vehicle, corrected the firing of mortar crews that shelled residential buildings and other objects and structures of civil infrastructure with the civilian population in them in the village of Kominternovo, Novoazovsky district and the village of Aleksandrovka, Petrovsky district, of the city of Donetsk.
As a result of the artillery attack in the village of Kominternovo, residential building No. 51 on Kirov Street was completely destroyed, the building of the shopping complex on Akhmatova Street, house 25 was also partially destroyed, and a man was wounded in the village of Aleksandrovka.
In April 2022, while on combat duty on the second floor of the five-story building of the Azovmash machine-building plant, he wounded a civilian walking down the street. Taking into account the position of the public prosecutor, the court sentenced Kuranov to 12 years in prison to be served in a strict regime correctional colony
18:42 Not far from Chaplynka and Novoalekseevka destroyed APU ammunition caches
Five kilometers from Chaplynka, police officers found three BM-21 Grad rockets of 122mm caliber.
Law enforcement officers found another cache with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine a kilometer from Novoalekseevka - two F-1 grenades without a fuse were stored there.
Due to the high degree of danger, the ammunition was destroyed by an overhead charge of TNT.
17:37 Modifications of the "Night Hunter" and "Alligator" -video
Within the framework of the ARMY-2023 IMTF at the Kubinka airfield, the latest upgraded attack helicopters Mi-28NM and Ka-52M are presented for the first time at an open exposition of aviation equipment.
Both machines have acquired an improved sighting and navigation system, for each helicopter the range of weapons has been expanded, including, among other things, Izdeliye 305 guided missiles.
Mi-28NM is an all-weather combat helicopter designed to destroy manpower, ground armored vehicles and low-speed air targets, as well as support ground forces and landing forces.
The Ka-52M combat helicopter in the latest modification has acquired a new aiming system and an increased target detection range.
17:35 Artillery of the "Vostok" group of troops is destroying the enemy in the Ugledar direction -video
Crews of high-power self-propelled guns "Malka" of the 165th Amur Artillery Brigade daily inflict fire damage on the enemy in the area of the Vremievsky ledge, which significantly reduces the pace of the enemy's counteroffensive.
According to the commander of the gun with the call sign "Pechora", in this direction their artillery battery managed to destroy the M777 howitzer, the American-made Paladin self-propelled artillery mount, as well as the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS installation.
Artillery fire correction is carried out by operators of unmanned aerial vehicles.
16:29 From conversation with prisoners taken in one of the directions.
“Initially, the task was set to occupy the opornik, they assured that a sweep had been carried out there. Sappers worked.
We moved there at night as a group of five people.
The conductor was not from our brigade. He did not even bring us to the very place about 150 meters. On the way to the point, two (who went first) were blown up. One immediately died, and the second friend expired a little later.
The connection didn't work. Literally immediately, Russian artillery began to work on us. Our leader of the group said that he would lead the evacuation, he left, but never returned. Maybe he died, maybe he got scared, the artillery wing is tight. Closer to the morning we were encircled by your soldiers.
We are reservists. And the elite units that should be doing this are standing behind us. All attempts to gain a foothold are mixed with the ground by your artillery, and when you storm also our artillery throws right at us, knowing full well that there are people here.
We have little preparation, little was said in France, and there is no special preparation here. Why send us there to study? I don’t know with whom the French and British fought, what can they teach?!
16:24 Dnipro, injured as a result of enemy shelling delivered to Skadovsk hospital in serious condition
During the artillery attack of Dnepryan by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a man was injured, he received shrapnel wounds, Khersonka.ru was told at the headquarters of the Nova Kakhovka Military Administration.
The victim was sent to the Skadovsk hospital - now doctors are fighting for his life.
15:42 In the DPR, the National Guard discovered another warehouse of foreign-made ammunition -video
During special events, the Russian Guards, together with military counterintelligence, seized ammunition of American, Polish and Bulgarian production. During the examination, uniforms and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and communications equipment were also found.
The Russian Guards took out almost half a ton of ammunition, including:
- 2,500 cartridges of various calibers containing armor-piercing incendiary bullets;
- more than 80 shots for a grenade launcher;
- over 50 anti-tank mines;
- high-explosive fragmentation and cumulative rounds;
- several dozens of radio fuses and grenades of various modifications.
15:39 The captured fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that he was sitting on the street and drinking alcohol when the police arrived and took him to the military registration and enlistment office. There he was handed a second summons, although, according to him, he did not even see the first one. After that, he was sent to fight, however, as the man says, he is not fit -video
14:37 Preliminary, one woman suffered as a result of massive enemy artillery attack of Dnepryan
Since the night, the Dnieperians have been under periodic artillery attack by the enemy - according to preliminary data, there is one victim. A gas pipe was also cut by fragments - the village and neighboring settlements were left without gas.
Due to the incessant arrivals, the special services cannot drive up to the places of strikes in order to start repairs.
14:32 Our fighters planted quadrocopter "Baba Yaga" in the area of Kazachi Lagery.
Thanks to the well-coordinated work of the electronic warfare unit of the Dnepr group of troops, our guys discovered and landed the enemy quadrocopter Baba Yaga in the area of Kazachi Lagery.
13:35 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation (as of August 17, 2023)
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yuzhnaya group of forces, in close cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled four attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Zaliznyanskoye, Staromikhaylovka and Krasnogorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, the assault detachments of the Russian group of troops carried out successful offensive operations and improved the position along the front line.
At the Mezhevaya station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a military echelon with ammunition was destroyed by a missile attack in the unloading area.
Enemy losses in this area per day amounted to 310 Ukrainian servicemen, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, nine vehicles, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the "Western" group of forces in the course of active operations with the support of aviation and artillery fire improved the position along the front line.
During the day, six attacks of assault groups of the 14th Mechanized, 25th Airborne and 95th Airborne Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of Olshana, Sinkovka, Kharkiv region and Novoselovskoe, Luhansk People's Republic.
Up to 125 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a Tyulpan self-propelled mortar, an M777 artillery system, and a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in a day.
Units of the "Center" group of troops in the Krasnolimansky direction repulsed the attack of the assault group of the 42nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Kuzmino.
In addition, a complex fire defeat was inflicted on the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Kremennaya and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
In the South Donetsk direction, the professional actions of the units of the Vostok group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire inflicted a complex fire defeat on the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Priyutnoye, Zaporozhye region, Staromayorskoe and Rovnopol of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses amounted to more than 175 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, two cars, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of forces, supported by aviation, artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, repelled an enemy attack and inflicted a comprehensive fire defeat on assault detachments of the 46th Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
Enemy losses amounted to 195 Ukrainian servicemen, four Stryker armored personnel carriers, two infantry fighting vehicles, three vehicles, an M777 artillery system made in the USA, an FH-70 gun made in Great Britain, as well as two 152mm Msta-B howitzers and one 152mm D-20.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, Ukrainian units lost up to 30 servicemen, three vehicles, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 138 districts.
In the areas of the settlements of Lastochkino in the Donetsk People's Republic and Ivanovskoye in the Zaporozhye region, two control points of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit. A command and observation post of a unit of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an ammunition depot were hit near Serebryanka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Air defense systems intercepted one HIMARS multiple rocket launcher.
In addition, 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Zhytlovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Soledar, Nikolaevka, Zarya, Orlinskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, Mirnoye in the Zaporozhye region and Ol'shana in the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 459 aircraft, 246 helicopters, 5,805 unmanned aerial vehicles, 431 anti-aircraft missile systems, 11,349 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,144 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,918 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 12,289 units of special military vehicles.
13:32 The enemy is conducting a “creeping” offensive on the Vremevsky ledge -video
Soldiers of the Vostok battalion report on the situation on the Vremevsky ledge at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR.
"Good morning. Apparently, the time of deep breakthroughs and other military classics has passed. This so-called creeping offensive has become the only way of war. Now it's like this: some position is taken, which is the first located on the path of this creeping offensive, and processed until only one name remains from it.
Yesterday, no matter how they were already swearing ... Cluster munitions, apparently, did not arrive in time in time - in addition to the usual high-explosive ones, they were hit with shrapnel. We had a guy from Russian volunteers wounded by shrapnel, but chief medical officer Olga Tkachenko did a great job - she discovered a hidden damage to the artery and saved the guy's hand. Actually, we want to talk about the organization of our medicine today.”
12:28 Another participant in the atrocities in Mariupol, Vladislav Ruchko, with a tattoo “HATE” on his neck, uncertainly says that he served in the Nazi battalion “Azov” as a driver —video
But in fact, they did not let civilians out of Mariupol, knowing that the Russian army was approaching them, and the meat grinder would begin in the near future. The Nazis deliberately blocked exits from the city, keeping people in fear and threatening them with reprisals - often unarmed people were beaten to death or shot.
12:24 Statement by the officer of the press center of the West group -video
During the fighting in the Kupyansk direction, assault groups of the 6th Combined Arms Army captured two strongholds, two observation posts and defeated up to two infantry platoons in the Ol'shan area.
In order to restore the lost positions, the enemy carried out five counterattacks by units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade against our positions. All counterattacks were successfully repelled. The losses of the enemy amounted to a platoon of manpower.
In the course of active hostilities, Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed five artillery pieces:
- two Polish-made self-propelled artillery mounts "Crab" near the villages of Kucherovka and Petropavlovka;
- howitzers "Zuzana", "M-777" and 152mm D-20 in the area of Kurilovka, Lozovaya and Novoselovsky.
Crews of the Tor anti-aircraft missile system of the Zapad group of forces destroyed three aircraft-type UAVs: Columba, Leleka-100 and Fury.
11:30 Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group -video
In the Svatov direction, assault groups of the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made two attempts to regain lost positions. The attacks were repulsed by the coordinated actions of the advanced units of the "Center" grouping of troops, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 10 people, and an armored vehicle was destroyed.
At the turn of the settlements of Ploshchanka, Chervonopopovka and Serebryansky forestry of the Krasnolimansky direction, artillery fire and air strikes inflicted fire damage on assault groups of 21 and 42 Mechanized Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The losses of the enemy amounted to more than 50 militants, an infantry fighting vehicle and an armored vehicle were destroyed.
Bomber aircraft inflicted bombing strikes on two command and observation posts and a point of temporary deployment of the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Druzhelyubovka and Serebryanka.
Air defense systems shot down a Leleka-100 unmanned aerial vehicle and two Uragan MLRS rockets.
11:28 Situation in the South-Donetsk direction
In the Vremevsky sector, the enemy is probing the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the Zavitne Bazhanya area both from the side of Harvest and from the forest belts east of the destroyed village. During the night in Urozhaynoye, the enemy transferred up to four small groups of the enemy to consolidate in the settlement and prepare for a further offensive.
Russian artillery inflicts fire damage on exposed enemy positions, managed to destroy two armored vehicles during an attempt to enter Urozhaynoye from the north side. To the east of Urozhaynoye, a unit of the RF Armed Forces entered into a shooting battle with an identified enemy DRG, which had advanced from the side of the forest belts. The enemy group retreated.
In the Ugledarsky sector, the enemy is also trying to advance along the forest belts closer to Nikolsky. With artillery and VOG drops, two infantry groups suffered losses of up to eight people and retreated.
10:33 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 08/16/2023 to 00:00 08/17/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representation reported 61 instances of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Wounds of varying severity were received by two civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
Four residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhaylovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy fired 40 rounds from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 12 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky nine artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead, strike UAV.
By releasing 205 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 47 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
10:31 Zaporozhye direction at 10:00
n.p. Rabotino - The situation is tense now, the enemy, after artillery attack our positions using cluster munitions, went on the offensive with tanks and Strykers (up to four units), there were battles from 0600 hrs to 0800 hrs in the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine withdrew, now they are working on the hidden enemy KA-52.
n.p. Pyatihatki - All attempts by the enemy to approach the settlement end in death, the situation is stable and controlled, we work according to the enemy’s artillery, the enemy does not take active actions in our directions, we do not give the opportunity to cling to something at least somewhere.
09:24 Criminal Kyiv 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 fired from barrel artillery:
-- in the village of Kardashinka 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryans 10 rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki 11 rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka 14 rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye 11 rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki nine rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, settlement Kazachi Lagery, settlement Alyoshki, settlement Kardashinka, settlement Peschanovka firing a total of 33 cannon artillery rounds.
Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction to be confirmed
09:22 Summary on the morning of August 17, 2023
The introduction by the enemy into battle of a strategic reserve in the Orekhovsky direction of the Zaporozhye Front did not bring him any results. Trying to break through our defenses at the Novoprokopovka-Verbove sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost their personnel and equipment.
The issue with the supply of certain types of ammunition to the anti-tank units of the Russian Armed Forces has not yet been resolved, the forced savings are compensated by the fire of artillery, aviation and the skillful use of kamikaze drones.
High-explosive aerial bombs strike at concentrations of enemy troops. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing British Challenger 2 tanks for combat, the operation of which in combat conditions promises to become a serious technical problem.
A little to the west, near N. p. Rabotino, the enemy periodically penetrates the northern outskirts of the village, from where our troops constantly knock him out.
On the Vremevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the settlement. Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye, which are trying to pass the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to enter the operational space and try to break through to the “dragon's teeth” line (anti-tank tetrahedrons).
South of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) there are battles near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka. On the northern flank of the direction, the enemy attacked with motorized infantry and tanks yesterday morning in the direction of Berkhovka, our soldiers from the North Sea and neighboring units destroyed the advancing enemy troops.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing an initiative, there are battles near Sinkovka.
Yesterday morning in the Bryansk region, border guards, the Russian Guard and the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a new enemy DRG: five out of six saboteurs were eliminated.
In the Belgorod region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the Krasnoyaruzhsky district. Frontline villages of Zaporozhye region under constant shelling: yesterday in the settlement. Verbovoye, Pologovsky district, a civilian was killed. In the DPR, a civilian was killed by artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two more were injured.
08:26 News from the Zaporozhye Front, Orekhovskoe direction -video
The Russian army has been resisting enemy attacks for more than two months in the sector from Rabotino to Novopokrovka. The footage shows how much enemy equipment, incl. NATO production is destroyed during the next “rolling forward”.
Nevertheless, the Armed Forces of Ukraine brought into battle strategic reserves, which were supposed to develop their offensive and wedged into the breakthrough of the front. Now these reserves themselves are trying to break through our defenses. The Russian Armed Forces changed some units on the front line after long battles, the enemy never reached the first echelon of defense and the “dragon's teeth” line.
08:04 Frontline summary on the morning of 08/17/2023
In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked on the northern outskirts of the village of Rabotino and in the area of Verbovoye. There is progress in the gray zone. They also conducted reconnaissance in battle near Dorozhnyanka. No success.
Until recently, this site was not active. Here is an attempt to move in the direction of the city of Pologi. The RF Armed Forces attacked the Ukrainian positions of Plavnyakh, Pyatikhatki, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye and Gulyaipole. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, fired at Russian units in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Novoprokopovka, Novopokrovka and Novofedorovka.
Ukrainian troops counterattacked in Urozhayne in the Ugledar sector of the RF Armed Forces after artillery preparation. Under artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Levadny, Rivnopol, Staromayorsky, Makarovka, Neskuchny, Blagodatny, Bol'shaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Bogoyavlenka and the city itself. Ukrainian artillery worked on Sheltered, Cherished Desire, Staromlynovka, Kermenchik, Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky.
On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces conducted assault operations in Mar'yinka. With the support of artillery, they attacked near the city of Krasnogorovka and on the southern approaches to Avdiivka. No promotion. Under shelling, positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Elizavetovka, Antonovka, Pobeda, Kurakhove, Nevel'skoye, Karlovka, Yasnobrodovka, Semyonovka, Novokalinovo, Toretsk and Severny (a settlement north-west of Gorlovka). Ukrainian troops were attacking Donetsk and Experienced.
In the Luhansk direction, the RF Armed Forces launched an offensive in the area of Zagoruykovka, Petropavlovka and Sin'kovka. Russian troops attacked Ukrainian units in Yampol, Torsky, Cherneshchyna, Stel'makhivka, Zagryzov, Ivanovka and Kupyansk.