[NewsFrontInfo] 23:45 A total of 1659 explosive items were found and defused during the cleanup of the territory of the LPR.
21:27 Ilovaisk located in the deep rear, nevertheless, the enemy is trying to get there. Over the city today, air defense systems intercepted the Ukrainian Tochka-U missile. Its fragments fell on a residential building, as a result two women were injured.
I went to them today, family members have already sorted out the rubble that formed right in the kitchen: there, breaking through the roof and ceiling, a "blank" flew in, miraculously not killing anyone.
The family will be assisted in the reconstruction of the house. As well as to everyone else whose houses suffered from shelling by Ukrainian armed forces. We will restore everything.
20:49 Railway communication between the Republics of Donbass and the Russian Crimea through the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions will be resumed as soon as possible - speaker of the Crimean parliament Vladimir Konstantinov.
20:17 Regarding the destroyed bridge in Severodonetsk:
This narrows the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to supply the group defending the city and transparently hints that the RF Armed Forces, in fact, do not mind if this group does not retreat to Lisichansk to more convenient positions, but welds separately in Severodonetsk, as it already happened with the Mariupol group.
18:30 Russian Grad multiple launch rocket systems near Severodonetsk. Rocket artillery strikes at the military infrastructure and artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:20 The Donbas Aid Train arrived in the DPR. The first humanitarian train in eight years delivered food, hygiene products, medicines, clothes, stationery, household chemicals, building materials and equipment, generators, fertilizers and more to the DPR.
A total of 60 regions of Russia took part in the action "Train of aid to Donbass" from the Popular Front and Russian Railways. Each sent one or more wagons filled with humanitarian cargo.
17:50 The first batch of new gas equipment has been delivered to Lugansk as part of humanitarian aid from Russia. The cabinet control points transferred to the republic are equipped with a protection system that allows it to work more efficiently when the gas pressure changes, said Dmitry Zvyagintsev, master of the emergency dispatch service of the Lugansk section of Luganskgaz.
17:40 The government of the Luhansk People's Republic by its decree set the exchange rate of the ruble against the hryvnia when determining prices for goods and services - the government of the LPR.
17:25 How Azov surrendered - the road to captivity. ExclusiveR.T. Along the way, phones, laptops were beaten, documents and any information about themselves were destroyed. True, they forgot about flash drives in phones, and we picked them up. Who needs to be useful.
17:22 According to reports, the Cossack regiment of the NM LPR entered the village of Viktorovka. Now in the village, which is located north of Popasna, fighting is underway.
17:10 Flag of the USSR again over Azovstal.
17:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
16:35 In Mariupol, 35 social infrastructure facilities and 25 apartment buildings have already been connected to the power supply. Reported by the Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR.
"Numerous damage to the city’s energy facilities is being eliminated both by local power engineers who are actively involved in the work, and by teams coming to their aid from different parts of the republic," the report says.
16:30 "Representatives of Azov cannot be exchanged. We see what our guys are returning from captivity. We see thousands, if not millions of facts testifying to crimes. Moreover, these are cynical, inhumane crimes."
This opinion was expressed by Elena Shishkina, deputy of the People's Council of the DPR.
The Nazis must be punished, she is sure.
15:56 VFU shelled the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka. As a result of the aggression of Ukrainian nationalists, a fire was recorded in one of the housing constructions. Fortunately, no casualties. Residents of these settlements are kindly requested to limit movement along the streets and stay close to shelters!
15:50 "In the near future, Donbass are waiting for "significant events", the population of the DPR and LPR will express their position on how to live on," said Slutsky, head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma.
15:46 New frames Ministry of Defense - withdrawal of the national battalion "Azov" from "Azovstal". In the video, you can see the tattoos of militants with Nazi symbols, as well as quotes and portraits of Hitler. In total, 2,439 people surrendered.
15:35 According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, more than 50 people died in a boarding house in the village of Kremennaya in the LPR in a fire that broke out in March due to shooting from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:25 British bazooka! NLAW discovered soldiers of the 5th brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR. We found him at the abandoned positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Volnovakha. Now the "exhibit" is being shown near one of the checkpoints.
15:16 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Zolote-4 by settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 120mm mortars (six mines) - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC.
14:49 VFU fired at the street. Zhukov in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. No damage or casualties.
14:36 ​​The State Bank of the Lugansk People's Republic has opened more than 20 new branches in the liberated territories, follows from a statement by the government of the LPR.
14:22 AFU shelled a football field in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
As a result of the shelling on the street. Kalinouski damaged football field.
12:33 An operation to clear the territory has begun at the Azovstal plant.
11:28 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:10 Over the past day, from 08:00 on May 20 to 08:00 on May 21, 566 people, including 46 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district. Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR. In total, for the period from March 5 to 08:00 on May 21, 34,934 people were evacuated to the Bezymennoye PPN.
11:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:20 First construction equipment from the Penza regionsentto the Republic to restore roads and bridges. Construction is about to unfold throughout the Donbass, and this will mean the beginning of a completely new life.
09:13 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdieivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
09:04 Evacuated residents of Kamyshevakhi in the LPR told how Ukrainian troops shelled their village with phosphorus shells and, during the retreat, mined wells with water.
09:00 Artillery of the NM DPR flips Ukrainian fighters. A self-propelled howitzer battery of the People's Militia of the DPR carried out an activity to list the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of the Avdiivka settlement. The effectiveness of these measures was proven in Mariupol, Volnovakha and other settlements liberated from Ukrainian occupation.
08:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight 122mm rounds were fired.
08:28 As it became known to Kommersant, thanks to the testimony of the military who surrendered at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation established that the previously detained mercenary from Britain, Sean Pinner, was a sniper. The marine himself claimed that he was preparing the Ukrainian military, as well as food for himself and his colleagues.
08:10 Up to a thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned out to be in the fire bag in the vicinity of Liman. The RF Armed Forces leveled the front to the north of Svyatogorsk: Studenok and Yaremovka were taken, a crossing is being built from the direction of Sukha Kamenka. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Severodonetsk. The fiercest fighting took place to the north, west and southwest of Popasnaya.
A fire bag (В огневом мешке) is an area of enemy surrounded on three or more sides by friendly troops. It is not necessarily a cauldron or a pocket if the friendly troops plan to deliver concentric, concentrated fire.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.