[NewsFrontInfo] 22:38 Thanks to the actions of the DPR army and the RF Armed Forces, 43,000 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol today. As soon as the Nazis lost the opportunity to shoot civilians leaving the city, the hostages poured out of the city in tens of thousands a day. In total, since the beginning of the assault, our military released more than 80,000 hostages, whom the Nazis held in Mariupol as human shields.
21:34 Above the administration city of Rubizhne erected the flag of the LPR. However, fighting is still going on in the city (in some areas), there is still no connection, as well as electricity and water.
20:32 Stories about the "fights near New York" (Donetsk region) - game from couch strategists, now there is absolute silence.
Couch strategist would be I.
20:30 Verkhnetoretskoe, which was occupied yesterday, remains under the control of the DPR, all counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been repulsed, the enemy has suffered such losses that they are no longer trying to counterattack.
20:27 The Russian coalition occupied two villages to the south-west of Vuhledar, squeezing units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine there. Vuhledar is located 28 km southwest of Donetsk. Founded as a mining village in 1966. The population before the start of the fighting was about 15,000 people. It is an important strategic point for supplying enemy forces in the region, and the Ukrainian headquarters of the Vostok operational-tactical group was also located there.
19:33 The People's Militia of the DPR reported that six units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation have lost 1,099 people dead and 1,276 wounded.
19:21 During the liberation of Maryinka died three foreign mercenaries are the People's Militia of the DPR. The authorities of the republic call the names: Michael ***, Logan **** and Cruz ****. Also, the people's militia seized weapons: NLAW and SMAW grenade launchers, an AN / TPQ-48 radar station.
Names redacted until confirmed dead
19:15 As a result of shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a civilian was wounded in Vasilievka.
18:28 Shelling Golubovskoye village in the Lugansk Republic. Ukrofascists purposefully shoot at civilians. Direct hit to a residential building.
18:06 “We were like in a cage. Our houses were methodically shelled with hailstones by the Ukrainian army.” A resident of Mariupol told a @SputnikLive correspondent that the Azov militants purposefully hit residential buildings, and long before the start of hostilities in the city. “Grads flew from Azovstal. Everyone knows this. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Mariupol from the very beginning. From the 26th,” he said. "Walked, laughed, creatures (Azov), and fired at houses with incendiary shells."
17:44 Ukrainian armed formations left Rubizhne and retreated to positions in Severodonetsk, local residents report.
17:40 The DPR army seized a shipment of NATO weapons near Donetsk: in Marinka, DPR fighters seized a large number of Swedish AT-4 grenade launchers and other military property at the location of the 1st mechanized battalion of the 54th OMB.
16.48 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 shelling of the territory of the LPR was recorded: n.p. Novotoshkovskoe - Donetsk: mortar 120mm (8 min). n.p. Zolote-4 - Pervomaisk: mortar 120mm (15 min);
16:28 The Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR: the power engineers of the Oktyabrsky Distribution Zone powered 5 TPs, 850 household subscribers in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, and the employees of the Kiev Distribution Zone - 6 TPs, 300 household subscribers, who were also left without power as a result of the shelling of the VFU.
Power engineers of the Yasinovatsky Distribution Zone TE "Makeevskie Electric Networks" SUE DPR "REK" restored power supply to 7 transformer substations, 242 household subscribers of the village of Krasny Partizan, which were de-energized as a result of shelling on the evening of March 16.
15:43 The death of more than 70 people in the DPR in 2018 from multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis may be associated with the activities of a biological laboratory in Ukraine - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
15:34 On the operational line, the DPR Ministry of Health received information about the wounding as a result of shelling by the AFU of two men from the territories previously liberated by the NM of the DPR. All the victims were taken to the Novoazovskaya Central District Hospital, where they receive the necessary medical care.
15:30 Ukronazis fired at the column of refugees. Departure from Mariupol towards the DPR.
15:02 Civilians leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor organized by the forces of the DPR and the Russian Federation. If yesterday it was possible to evacuate hundreds a day, today it is already thousands every day, @SputnikLive correspondent reports from the scene. Also, at the humanitarian checkpoint, men are checked for tattoos with Nazi symbols.
14:23 Headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR: Ukrainian troops transported 17 hostage children to Lviv.
13:30 Social networks: AFU deployed three artillery pieces towards the Zhuravlevsky Hydropark across Solidarity Street in Kharkiv. Half an hour later, the guns were destroyed by pinpoint artillery fire of the RF Armed Forces.
13:11 The Russian Federation cannot take into account the requirement of the International Court of Justice and stop the military operation in Ukraine, Dmitry Peskov said.
13:10 The use of photos of Donetsk in the media and during Zelensky's speech in Congress with the opposite connotation is a lie and a forgery, - Peskov.
13:05 The JCCC recorded shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 3 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
13:00 Basurin said that the liberation of Mariupol is going according to plan.
12:25 As specified information, as a result of the shelling of the village of Golmovsky by Ukrainian armed groups on March 16, 2022, houses were damaged along the streets: Shokalsky, 42, Arensky, 18, Arensky, 24, in Klubny lane, 4. A VAZ 2107 car was also damaged.
Also, according to updated information , as a result of night shelling from the side of the VFU of the Gorlovsky village of Kochegarka, significant damage was recorded in the house on Usadebnaya Street, 4.
12:24 During the shelling of the VFU, the village. Alexandrovka, on the street. Gorky,5 a woman born in 1954 received shrapnel wounds. Damage to private sector houses was also recorded:
- st. Gorky, 5 - a direct hit on the house. A wall was destroyed, windows and a roof were damaged; - st. Gorky, 300, 302 - windows, roofing, walls were cut by fragments, households were damaged. the buildings; - st. Shevchenko, 195, 197 - damaged windows, households. buildings - Alexey Kulemzin.
12:15 Ossetian volunteer units put forward to Donbass.
11:57 Chechen fighters in Mariupol broke through defense of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the Azov people settled. Mariupol will be taken before the end of the week.
11:31 Information about the incident yesterday in the drama theater of Mariupol from the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Serhiy Taruta, with the confirmation of the neo-Nazi Botsman: it follows from it that the information dispersed throughout all Ukrainian media about the death of 1,500 people turned out to be a lie from beginning to end.
11:27 Statements that the Russian military is behind the strike on the drama theater in Mariupol are lies - the Russian Foreign Ministry.
11:12 Possible provocation in Kramatorsk: local residents are outraged by the placement of the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the buildings of educational institutions.
In particular, the warriors and part of the territorial defense were placed in the 6th school (Bolshaya Sadovaya, 71) and in the 91st kindergarten (Shkolnaya, 16). Warriors react extremely aggressively to the comments of the townspeople. Earlier, from documents obtained in the liberated Volnovakha, it became known that the practice of using educational, cultural and health facilities as shelters was introduced at the command level of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Videos from busy schools and kindergartens appear regularly.
This choice is based on the fact that such facilities have high-quality bomb shelters in which the military can hide. Civilians are left to hide in the buildings themselves, which makes it possible for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to repeat the criminal provocation following the example of Mariupol.
11:01 DPR units are conducting offensive operations to capture the settlements of Maryinka, Slavnoe and Sladkoe. Promotion per day amounted to 4 kilometers - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
10:50 As a result of a direct hit by a shell of Ukrainian fighters, on the street. Radishcheva, 11 in the Petrovsky district, the house was completely destroyed, a man born in 1966 received a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wounds. The victim was taken to the surgical department of the INVH them. VC. Gusak - Alexey Kulemzin.
10:12 DPR turned to Russia with a request to strengthen the air defense of the republic, this work is in progress - Pushilin.
10:35 AFU shelled the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: fired 5 mines in 120 mm caliber. and n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yasnoye: fired 5 minutes in 120 mm caliber. — SCCC.
09:45 The DPR representative office in the JCCC on March 17 recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction: n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 9 mines fired with a caliber of 120 mm.
09:42 295 people were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs. According to the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR, 295 people, including 66 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol and the settlements of its suburban area to the Bezymennoye Novoazovsky district. In addition, 2 people from Volnovakha were evacuated.
09:07 DPR forces liberated 95 settlements on the territory of the republic, Basurin said.
08:56 Residents of Donetsk are deprived of water supply: according to the Headquarters of Territorial Defense of the DPR, as a result of a strike by Ukrainian militants, Verkhnekalmiuska pumping station remains without electricity. The high-voltage line 35 kV was damaged. Emergency work is underway.
08:04 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Armed Forces of the DPR fordayadvanced 2 kilometers in the Marinka area. There is also a promotion in Severodonetsk with the Armed Forces of the LPR.
07:20 AFU fired at the settlement Novomikhailovka - n.p. Kremenets: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired. — reported in the JCCC DNR.
02:45 In the JCCC, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
02:30 Shelling from the side of the VFU on the settlement Trinity - n.p. Red Partizan: fired six shells of 122 mm caliber. — SCCC.