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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: July 18th, 2022
2022-07-19
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 Demining units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to carry out tasks to clear the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics of explosive objects.

Total verified: 4,099.08 hectares of territory; 41 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects); four bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 66,936 explosive objects were found and neutralized.

22:07 In Kalinovka, Bakhmut district of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of the granary, neo-Nazis placed artillery and MLRS, from which they systematically fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces, provoking them to return fire.

21:20 Additional information about the injured civilian, a man born in 1974, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of a VFU mine explosion in N. p. Lugansk (Artemovsky district).

Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka, microdistrict "Komarova":
- st. Shashurina - boiler room No. 121 was damaged.

πŸ’£Today, as of 21:00, the enemy fired 334 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

20:32 Ukrainian troops at 19.10 fired a rocket from the Hurricane at the village of Bayrak in the DPR,reportedrepresentation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).

"Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction: 19.10 (coincides with Moscow time - ed.) - the settlement of Nelepovka - the settlement of Bayrak: one rocket was fired from the BM-27 Uragan MLRS," the representative office reports in its Telegram channel.

19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: for the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 260 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Fifteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, two defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and four were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

19:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
β€” n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novoselovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.

19:11 The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation intends to initiate the creation of a football league with the participation of the clubs of the Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic - Deputy Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Odes Baysultanov.

19:00 Today APU destroyed another school in Donetsk. Petrovsky district, the area of ​​the so-called Zhilploshchadka, is shelled regularly. School No. 103 gets it for the second time.

18:30 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

- n.p. Ocheretino - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

18:27 Consequences of the Ukrainian strikes school in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.

18:23 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Verkhnetoretskoe, on the street. Kalinin, a man died.

18:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka (Yasinovatsky district) - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: seven each 152mm shells were fired;
β€” n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: fired six shells of 152mm caliber;
β€” n.p. Avdieivka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

17:19 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired 8 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
β€” n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye:six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

17:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

17:15 Endwater blockade of Donbass. Russian military builders launched a water pipeline connecting the Khanzhenkovskoye reservoir with the Severny Donets-Donbass canal. The water pipeline can pump up to 72,000 cubic meters per day.

17:15 Seversk came under the operational control of the allied forces, liberation battles for the city are being waged in its vicinity, said Vitaly Kiselev, Assistant Minister of the Interior of the LPR.

17:02 Representatives of the "People's Front" with the support of the NM LPR delivered humanitarian aid in the city of Kirovsk for temporary accommodation for refugees.

16:31 In the south of the DPR, a "certain springboard" is being prepared for the liberation of the entire territory of the republic, declared Eduard Basurin, press secretary of the NM DNR.

"The same thing is happening in Avdievka and in the Gorlovka region," he added /TK Zvezda/.
Avdievka has been a shit show for the separatists since 2014.
16:28 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 12 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
β€” n.p. Semigorye - n.p. Dolomite: fired five minutes with a caliber of 120mm;
β€” n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

15:33 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): eight mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
β€” n.p. Kalinovo - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:30 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a woman was injured and the building of hospital No. 19 on the street was damaged. Tumanyan.

15:18 Effects of today's shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which a fire broke out in school No. 103.

15:18 Consequences of shelling in Gornyak village in Donetsk today.

15:03 On a photo- a house destroyed as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell at the address: st. Oktyabrskaya, 18, which is in the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka.

14:53 LPR sappers with explosions clearing blockages at the site of bridges blown up by Ukrainian soldiers during the retreat from Lisichansk.

14:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

​​— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

14:20 AFU fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, firing six shells of 152mm caliber.

13:53 Attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 22 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

13:46 Minus another "three axes" (M-777) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:06 The liberation of the Donbass territories will be completed this year, Basurin, a representative of the NM DPR, said

12:45 The formation of administrations in all cities and regions of the LPR is completed - the head of the republic

12:43 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

- The RF Armed Forces hit the place of unloading of echelons with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the Udachnoye station in the DPR, more than 10 Grad MLRS installations were destroyed;
- The RF Armed Forces destroyed two batteries of the Uragan MLRS, three platoons of the Grad MLRS and 14 artillery platoons of the Giacint-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
- Russian air defense systems shot down six Ukrainian UAVs in a day, intercepted two shells of the Uragan MLRS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR;
- High-precision missiles of the Russian Federation hit the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the "Foreign Legion" in the DPR, up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed;
- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two Mi-8 helicopters with an artillery attack on the field airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
β€” Up to 60 nationalists were killed by a strike of high-precision weapons at the location of the battalion of the 118th brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region;
- Russian aviation destroyed the Buk-M1 installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region, three warehouses with weapons and a fuel depot in the Zaporozhye region.

12:42 The DPR JCCC reports shelling of the territory of the DPR:

β€” n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
β€” n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Dolomite: fired three shells with a caliber of 155mm.
β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells fired - caliber 152mm.
β€” n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
- n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
β€” n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

12:23 In the Rostov region, a resident of the LPR recruited by the SBU was identified, who arrived to collect information about the movement of Russian military equipment, the FSB reported.

12:15 From Donetsk, it is reported that the allied forces began to suppress the firing points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka, southwest of the capital of the DPR. It was from Maryinka that the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was regularly shelled. Now we know about the defeat of four positions of Ukrainian formations.

12:08 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Maryinka (western) - n.p. Aleksandrovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber;
β€” n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired six shells with a caliber of 122mm.

12:00 The head of the administration of the city of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports: Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts are under fire. Eyewitnesses report arrivals in the microdistrict Azotny. Also, the fall of the Ukrainian projectile provoked a fire in school No. 103, located on the street. Dunayevsky.

11:58 DPR troops completely blocked the road from Avdievka to Konstantinovka in two places. Thus, Avdievka is taken into a semicircle - the official representative of the NM DNR Eduard Basurin.

11:13 Pushilin appointed Petrikin Alexander Mikhailovich as Head of Administration of Krasny Liman

11:07 Kramatorsk, series arrivals in shop 16 of NKMZ

11:04 The joy of local residents from the meeting with the Russian army. A few warm words from the residents of the liberated Lisichansk about the fighters of the Brave group

11:03 Another destroyed location of the APU. This time in Dzerzhinsk. Officially declared 6,200x. Unofficially they say from 30-40.

11:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 07/18/2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:

-57 personnel;
-one tank;
-two armored personnel carriers;
- four vehicles.

The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.

Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Stakhanov using American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing two missiles.

Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic. So, yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than 8 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Sirotino and Metelkino.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic.

10:57 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

10:56 Last night, the air defense crew of the allied forces destroyed targets in the sky over Alchevsk (LPR). The nature of the target is not clear. The burning ball fell to the ground for more than a minute.

10:36 Air raid alert in Luhansk

10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: over the past 24 hours, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 660 shells from Grad multiple rocket launchers, barreled artillery of 155mm and 122mm caliber, 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the areas of twelve settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were injured. Nineteen residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Over the current day, the joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two off-road vehicles. Four enemy firing points were suppressed in the area of ​​the settlement. Marinka.

10:25 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

β€” n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

10:19 The headquarters of the Tero DPR reports: Ukrainian militants fired at Verkhnetoretskoe using 122mm artillery from positions in Nelepovka.

09:39 The authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic, during the investigation of the explosion in the drama theater of Mariupol, received reliable information that it was the fault of the military of Ukraine. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source close to the investigation.

"The DPR authorities have reliable data, established during the investigation, which indicate that the explosion in the Mariupol Drama Theater was the fault of the Ukrainian military," the agency’s source said.

09:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

β€” n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoye: 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

09:06 Denis Pushilin presented the Order of the Republic, medals "For Courage", insignia "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree with swords, "For Merit to the Donetsk People's Republic" III degree, "St. George's Cross" I, II, III , IV degrees to 82 fighters of the operational-combat tactical formation of the Donetsk People's Republic "Cascade".

08:25 From 6 am to 8 am, Ukrainian militants fired about 40 shells at the settlements of the DPR: Panteleymonovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Mikhailovka.

07:00 Summary of the Luhansk People's Republic Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, July 17. From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded on the settlement. Stakhanov using MLRS HIMARS (two missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

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