[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/16/2024 to 00:00 03/17/2024.
A total of 21 cases of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
One civilian was reported injured
DAMAGED:
1 bus.
4 residential buildings.
1 civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 12 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
Nine artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 58 units of various ammunition were fired.
22:58 Borderland.
Information is coming from the area that the run on Kozinka has been repelled. The enemy lost several tanks and armored fighting vehicles and a large number of manpower.
Border is locked tight. The guys continue to deliver massive attacks on enemy concentrations, preventing them from regrouping.
22:10 Front bird broadcasts: Attempt to break through on the border. Summary. 16.03 22:00
It is reported that our border guards of the FSB Directorate are currently repelling a massive attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement Kozinka. Enemy personnel – up to two companies
(~250 effectives).
According to incoming information, an Armed Forces tank and 1 infantry fighting vehicle have already been hit. In addition to the breakthrough itself, the enemy is firing at Gayvoron with MLRS and artillery.
Fierce fighting continues.
Our guys bravely retreat from the attack. UAVs, tanks, artillery, mortars are used on the battlefield, and our aviation has joined in.
Conclusion - after the destruction of enemy forces, the urgent question arises of creating a buffer (gray zone) outside the state border of the Russian Federation.
21:40 It is reported that at these minutes the enemy trying to go to the village Kozinka in the Grayvoronsky district. The enemy uses a large number of manpower and armored vehicles.
At the moment, attempts are being repulsed. Our heavy artillery, lancets, VKS, MLRS are actively working. The enemy is simultaneously conducting massive artillery attack of the Grayvoronsky district.
20:34 Avdeevskoe direction –map.
Today our army continued its offensive and achieved significant success. Enemy propagandists report that the situation is extremely difficult on the Tonenkoye-Orlovka-Semyonovka-Berdychi section.
19:45 The 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces (formerly the 100th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the DPR NM) published personnel capture of the village of Nevel'skoye near Donetsk.
19:05 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Budennovsky district of Donetsk -photo.
19:49 Russian troops entrenched themselves in the center of the village of Rabotino on the Zaporozhye front line,reportedhead of the public movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov.
18:35 One of the Czech RM-70 Vampire MLRS systems, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces use to shell the Belgorod region, was destroyed during a counterbattery fight in the Khar'kov region -video.
17:47 Explosions are heard in the Kyiv-controlled city of Kherson, Ukrainian media report
17:25 The enemy confirms the “arrival” in the Liptsov area. Enemy MLRS installations were covered. There were two parishes of OTRK Iskander. According to the SVO Reports and Analytics, ours still preliminarily hit enemy installations. The Armed Forces of Ukraine “Fire Show” have the “Vampire” MLRS at the launching positions.
16:50 Situation at the front as of March 16, 2024
Artillery worked out two concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlement. Gulyaypole and Komsomol'skoe. As a result, the dugout was destroyed and the enemy's field ammunition depot was destroyed.
In areas of settlement Ugledar, Nikol'skoye and Pavlovka by the Vostok group suppressed three strong points. As a result of the work of artillery in this direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to lose weapons and military equipment, and cases of soldiers of the Kyiv regime surrendering into captivity have been recorded.
15:47 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, a 50-year-old woman was killed and four more people were injured as a result of drone fire by Ukrainian terrorists. The victims were provided with medical assistance, and emergency services were working at the “arrival” sites. This was announced by the regional governor Vladimir Saldo.
“Terrorists sent the Ukrainian drone that killed the woman to the monument to the victims of fascism. The Kiev regime is unsuccessfully trying to destabilize the situation in the city during the voting - Kakhovka residents continue to vote. Residents of the Kherson region cannot be intimidated - they made their choice,” wrote Saldo in the Teltgram channel.
15:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are transferring equipment and personnel to Volchansk. They are settled in the private sector in the city and nearby settlements.
14:54 The Ukrainian Armed Forces dropped a projectile from a drone on a polling station in the village of Blagoveshchenka, Zaporozhye region, there were no casualties, the polling station reported.
13:55 On March 16, the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office to the JCCC received information about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
– st. Kurchatova, 62, 64 – private residential buildings;
– the bus of city route No. 6 “a” was damaged.
Petrovsky district:
– st. Polukhina, 15 – private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
– “Grant” store on Lenin Ave.
13:17 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a UAV assembly shop in the Sumy region, as well as temporary deployment points for militants in the Odessa region;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 260 servicemen per day in the Donetsk direction;
The RF Armed Forces have improved the situation in the areas of responsibility in the Avdeevsky direction;
Over the course of a day, the Russian troops improved the tactical position along the front line in the South Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 130 military personnel;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 30 military personnel and the Vampire MLRS during a failed attempt to penetrate the Russian Federation;
During the day, Russian air defense shot down 108 Ukrainian drones, 15 Vampire MLRS rounds, one HIMARS and one 122mm BM-21 Grad.
12:52 Consequences of dropping an explosive object from a Ukrainian UAV in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk -photo.
11:55 Statement of senior officer of the press center of the "South" group:
Units of the “Southern” group of forces, supported by air strikes and artillery fire, improved the situation along the front line and defeated the formations of the 46th Airmobile, 79th Airborne Assault, 92nd Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Novomikhailovka, Konstantinovka, Praskovievka and Kurakhovo.
An attack by the assault group of the 81st Airmobile Brigade in the Belogorovka area was repelled.
The enemy lost more than 330 troops, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, a Kozak armored car and 12 pickup trucks.
11:17 Analysis of the results of the destruction of enemy military-industrial complex facilities in the Sumy region
This night, the Russian military struck the territory of the Aviakon plant in the Sumy region. According to available data, during the Northern Military District the enemy reoriented the enterprise’s capacity to produce loitering ammunition, attack drones, as well as spare parts and components for flying military equipment, writes Donbass Partisan.
As a result of the missile strike, warehouses, workshops and specialized equipment were destroyed/damaged, which resulted in a complete loss of production capacity.
Considering the fact that the Aviakon plant was one of the key facilities and played an important role in the production of modules and components for aircraft (which explains its operation near the Russian borders), this creates serious problems for the enemy’s defense industry.
Recently, industrial facilities associated with the military-industrial complex have increasingly become targets of strikes.
11:07 It is reported that after yesterday’s consolidation of our troops in the southern part of Berdychi, our troops also advanced between Berdychi and Orlovka in the direction of Semenovka
The reserves brought into battle by the enemy were able to slow down the advance of our troops, but not stop it.
10:50 Avdeevskoye direction: fighting on the Berdychi - Tonenkoye line situation by 10.00 March 16, 2024:
For the last few days, heavy fighting has been going on in the Avdievka direction in Berdychi and Tonenkoye, where the Russian Armed Forces were able to “jump in on the shoulders” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units retreating from Avdievka.
However, the enemy recovered quickly enough and was able to quickly transfer reinforcements to the sector, creating a numerical superiority in the entire direction and gathering over 15 brigades by March 6.
Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to stop the rapid advance of the Russian Armed Forces, even if at the beginning they had to cut off their own personnel with artillery from the evacuation routes.
Despite the enemy's numerical superiority, the battles become positional. The Russian Armed Forces maintain a presence in Tonenkoye and Orlovka, as well as on the eastern outskirts of Berdychi. The enemy counterattacks based on Semenovka using armored vehicles, but cannot dislodge Russian forces.
The northern flank in Berdychi, which is most difficult for the RF Armed Forces and important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, rests on Petrovskoye, and is supported by the AKHZ and ash dump. Although reconnaissance UAVs have reduced the role of commanding heights, they still cannot completely neutralize it. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces actively use armored vehicles, while assault groups apparently lack anti-tank weapons.
The fact that an evacuation point was organized in the village of Progress, west of Ocheretino, also raises concerns. The enemy may well try to organize attacks on the flank of the advancing Russian units, relying on Novobakhmutovka and Solovyevo, where there is enough dense planting for a relatively covert advance.
South of Berdychi, in Orlovka and Tonenkoye, the situation for Russian forces is somewhat better, since only two roads lead to Orlovka from Semenovka, and to the west of Tonenkoye there are 4-6 kilometers of fields and plantings to Umanskoye and Yasnobrodovka, which adds to the difficulties for the enemy in organizing counterattacks.
At the same time, engineering work is also underway in the same area along the route S-051801 Orlovka - Umanskoye - Netailovo, and the heights west of Umanskoye and Yasnobrodovka on the eastern bank of the Karlovskoye reservoir represent an extremely convenient natural line of defense.
However, even taking into account the current situation, the Russian Armed Forces are making attempts to attack. To the west of Tonenkoye, an armored group with infantry occupied the ruins of a dairy farm. In the Berdychi area, a breakthrough was made to the outskirts of Semenovka, but without further consolidation. The enemy stopped the equipment with a landing party of its own infantry fighting vehicle.
In addition, the “pockets” that emerged in the first days of the offensive to the north and south of Orlovka were at least partially cleared. The remnants of the enemy infantry were subjected to massive strikes by “Sunlighters” with a natural outcome: the enemy was simply burned out.
In general, the situation is greatly complicated by the abundance of enemy drones. Not only vehicles and armored vehicles, but even single soldiers are subject to drops and strikes from FPV drones, which indicates that there is no shortage of weapons. And this, in turn, complicates not only promotion, but also the retention of previously occupied positions in principle.
10:17 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kakhovka eight rounds;
-- n.p. Gornostaevka four rounds;
-- n.p. Brilevka two rounds;
-- n.p. Velikaya Lepetikha three rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery four rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan two rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Kardashinka, n.p. Podstepnoye, n.p. Peschanivka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Kakhovka, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
10:05 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/16/2024:
On the Zaporozhye Front, the Russian Armed Forces continue to exchange artillery strikes and conduct positional battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Rabotino. The Ukrainians are unable to drive Russian troops out of the village. Between Rabotino and Verbov there are also mainly counter battles, but the initiative here is in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces.
On the Donetsk front, the counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing their activity, which indicates either a difficult situation and a lack of reserves, or that the time gained by transferring additional forces was enough for the Ukrainians to strengthen the defense line to which they are preparing to retreat.
In the area of Novomikhailovka, Krasnogorovka and Pervomaisky, the Russian Armed Forces carried out assault operations, and there were tactical successes. On the Tonenkoye-Orlovka-Berdychi line, the initiative again passed to the Russian troops. There are advances in all three settlements, and between Orlovka and Berdychi there are signs that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are withdrawing their forces to Semyonovka. Whether this is a planned maneuver or a retreat due to possible encirclement will become clear after the final liberation of these settlements.
In the Bakhmut direction, assault operations by the Russian Armed Forces in the Bogdanovka area. In Ivanovo (Krasny) there are positional battles, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hold positions on the western outskirts of the settlement. Russian artillery and aviation are actively working in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Kharkov and Sumy directions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out strikes with long-range weapons throughout the day on the territory of the Kursk and Belgorod regions. The main activity took place in the Tyotkino and Spodaryushino areas. It is worth noting that after unsuccessful attempts to break through to the border with large forces, the Ukrainian Armed Forces again switched to attacks in small groups, testing our defenses.
At the same time, the aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces are destroying the moving equipment and personnel of the enemy, who is probably bringing up new forces for the next major attack.
09:14 Jet drone aircraft type "Strizh", launched by Ukraine, destroyed in the Bryansk region, the governor said.
08:12 In the Zaporozhye direction, the Buk-M1 crew of the 35th Army anti-aircraft missile brigade hit an enemy air target -video.
08:00 Summary on the morning of March 16, 2024
In the Kursk and Belgorod sections of the State border, the enemy continues to attempt a breakthrough. Uses rocket artillery, mortars, tanks and other armored vehicles. The enemy is destroyed on the approaches to the border. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are launching massive attacks from MLRS on various settlements in the Belgorod region, including Belgorod. Many civilians were wounded and some were killed. The Nazis are destroying obviously civilian vehicles with drones. In addition, the Belgorod, Kursk, Tula, and Kaluga regions are attacked by aircraft-type kamikaze UAVs. Our troops courageously hold the defense, deliver retaliatory and preemptive strikes, objective control footage testifies to their effectiveness: the enemy’s equipment and manpower are destroyed. The fighting continues.
Yesterday, the Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on one of the sanatoriums in Odessa, killing at least 550 people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including two Ukrainian generals. SBU operational officers were urgently sent to the region to carry out counterintelligence activities.
In the Kherson region, against the backdrop of the voting, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasing attacks on civilians. Thus, in Kakhovka, the building where the voting took place was damaged by shelling. Attacks were made on Gornostaevka. In Brilyovka they flew to the village council (there is a polling station there, two civilians were injured). In Skadovsk, an IED planted in an urn exploded near the House of Culture. The enemy presence remains at the Antonovsky Bridge and in Krynki.
From the Zaporozhye Front, paratroopers report that in Rabotino our troops keep the southern part of the village and its center under control. The Russian Armed Forces reached the center in armored vehicles, landed assault groups and are clearing out an extensive network of enemy trenches. Verbovoy is also taking offensive action. The enemy has pulled up reserves and is counterattacking.
To the southwest of Vugledar (north of Shevchenkovo), the enemy reports that our troops are advancing one km into the depth of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defense.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Army is advancing at Orlovka, eliminating enemy personnel in the front ledges with the help of heavy flamethrower systems.
In Donetsk, three children died from Nazi shelling: girls born in 2021, 2007, and a boy born in 2014. In total, the enemy fired more than 100 rounds at the civilian population of the DPR.