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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:41 Artillery of the Vostok group of troops smashes enemy in the Ugledar direction
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 Vrem'ievsky 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.
21:40 An air raid alert was announced in the evening in all regions of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the data of the official resource for alerting the population.
20:06 The Ukrainian Armed Forces made several unsuccessful attempts to counterattack near the liberated Novoselovsky in the LPR, reported RIA Novosti company commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army with the call sign “Third”.
19:31 In the Zaporozhye direction, on August 15, an officer of the SBU of the Alpha special unit, Sergey Valovoy, was eliminated.
It is reported that the SBU officer is from a family of regular military men, whose father also fights in the Zaporozhye direction as part of the special forces.
18:24 Air raid alert announced for the second time in a day throughout Ukraine
17:51 Ukrainian troops fired two more 155mm cluster shells from "NATO" artillery in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, reported in Telegram channel representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine - ed.) in the direction:
17.20 - the settlement of Maksimil'yanovka - the city of Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two shells with a caliber of 155 millimeters were fired," the representative office said in a statement.
16:57 Ukrainian troops at 15.55 fired ten shells of the "NATO" caliber of 155mm in the regions of Donetsk, Svetlodarsk and Gorlovka, the Telegram channel representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“Fire was recorded from the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine - ed.) in the direction:
15.55 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Svetlodarsk: three shells with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
15.55 - the settlement of Dzerzhinsk - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): four shells with a caliber of 155mm were fired;
15.55 - the settlement of Galitsinovka - the city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts): three shells with a caliber of 155mm were fired. - the representative office said in a statement.
16:57 An air alert has been announced in Kyiv and the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, as well as in the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, testify data online maps of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
16:57 The school building was damaged as a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, reported inTelegram channel representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 17, as of 16:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic: Kuibyshevsky district: – MBOU “School No. 46 of the city of Donetsk” along Arsenov Street,” the representative office said in a statement.
15:22 An employee of the Skochinsky mine in Donetsk was wounded as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops using cluster munitions, the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy reported in Telegram channel.
“This afternoon, the Donetsk mine named after A.A. was again in the line of fire. Skochinsky State Unitary Enterprise of the DPR “Donetsk Coal Energy Company”. The territory of the coal mining enterprise was fired upon by cluster munitions. ...
As a result of the artillery attack, the chief economist of the mine was injured, he was provided with the necessary assistance, ”the agency said in a statement.
14:06 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South-Donetsk direction for the day amounted to more than 175 servicemen.
🔹Russian troops destroyed up to 55 soldiers and an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled gun of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day.
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed two UAV command posts and an ammunition depot in the DPR.
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk direction repelled four attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Zaliznyansky, Staromikhaylovka and Krasnogorovka.
🔹Assault detachments of the RF Armed Forces carried out successful offensive operations in the Donetsk direction, improved the position along the front line.
🔹Russian air defense systems destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones in a day.
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction per day amounted to 310 servicemen.
🔹The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 30 servicemen per day in the Kherson direction.
14:06 The Ministry of Defense published personnel strike on the Ukrainian military echelon in the Dnipropetrovsk region
14:06 Ukrainian troops fired on Donetsk, Svetlodarsk, Gorlovka and the Gorlovka village of Zaitsevo, firing fifteen shells of 155mm and 152mm caliber in half an hour, the Telegram channel Representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
“Fishes were recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions:
12.00 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Dyleevka - the settlement of Svetlodarsk: four shells of 155mm caliber were fired ...
12.30 - the settlement of Nelepovka - the settlement of Zaitsevo: four shells of 152mm caliber were fired", the office said in a statement.
13:01 Ukrainian troops at 12.20 fired four cluster shells 155mm in the Kyiv region of Donetsk and Makeevka -representative office of the DPRin SCKK
13:00 Ukrainian troops continue to shell Donetsk with cluster munitions, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported inTelegram channel.
“The shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine. - Ed.) in the direction:
12:10 - the settlement of Galitsynivka - the city of Donetsk (Kirov district): two shells of 155mm caliber (cassette) were fired," the publication says.
12:04 An air raid alert was announced in the Poltava, Khar'kov and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, as well as in the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, data show online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
12:03 Attack of Ukrainian troops on tanks and armored vehiclesdeductionon the outskirts of the Zaporizhzhya village of Rabotino, the head of the Zaporozhye social movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov told RIA Novosti.
“In the morning, the enemy made an attempt to attack our positions on tanks and American Stryker armored vehicles, but was stopped on the outskirts of Rabotino. The fighting went on for several hours, the Ukrainian militants got hit on the ears and retreated, our aviation is now working on them,” said Rogov.
11:12 Ukrainian troops at 10.50 Moscow time fired 2 cluster shells with a caliber of 155mm in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk - DPR representative office in the JCCC
11:11 At night, Ukrainian troops fired artillery at the cities of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Alyoshki and the villages of Kazachi Lagery, Kardashinka, Peschanovka, located along the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, firing more than 30 shells at them, a representative of the region's emergency services told reporters on Thursday.
“During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Kazachi Lagery, Alyoshki, Kardashinka, Peschanovka, firing a total of 33 shells from cannon artillery. Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified,” said a spokesman for emergency services.
10:43 Over the past day:
As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:
- 122mm D-30 howitzer with ammunition, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, five were injured of varying severity;
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:
- two boats, seven fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- two 120mm mortar crews and ammunition for them, losses: six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, eight were injured of varying severity;
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; seven - received injuries of varying severity.
As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:
- 152mm ACS 2S3 "Acacia" with ammunition and crew of three militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
09:29 Footage of the destruction of the FPV nationalist tank by kamikaze drones -video
09:27 Artillerymen of the Dnipro grouping destroyed a Ukrainian pickup truck with a crew in the area of the settlement. Novodmitrovka -video
08:19 In the Kherson region of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted strikes on a number of Dnieper islands, destroying part of the Ukrainian troops there, and forcing the rest to retreat to the right bank of the Dnieper in boats.
Russian artillery, FPV drones and aircraft continue to strike at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area.
On the Oskol sector, Russian troops captured another 10 positions northeast of Kupyansk. Large and small attacks and intense artillery shelling across a vast area from the border with Russia to the Donets River continue to annihilate Ukrainian troops and draw Ukrainian reserves from various directions into this positional stalemate
There is little activity in the area of Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Avdiivka and Mar'inka, except for bombardments and distracting and exhausting attacks by a small Russian group.
Trying to assemble a strike force here under the blows of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Ukraine is struggling to launch its own counterattack
08:06 Ivanovo paratroopers from ATGM "Kornet" destroyed the opornik and observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine north of Artemovsk -video