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Actual information about the situation on the front line: September 4 (updated)
2023-09-05
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/04/2023 to 00:00 09/05/2023

Over the past day Representation reported about 37 facts of firing by the VFU.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in Mironovskoye.

A total of 11 civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. three children born in 2012, 2006, 2012 in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, the Central City district of Makeevka, Mironovsky.

A total of 18 houses were damaged in Voroshilovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Mironovsky.

Nine civil infrastructure facilities were damaged in Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Mironovsky.

Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Mironovsky, Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 29 artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.

On Gorlovsky four artillery attacks from 122mm artillery.

On Yasinovatsky three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

On Svetlodar one artillery attack from MLRS. By releasing 110 units of various ammunition.

A previous 75 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU side in 24 hours.

22:00 Zaporozhye Front:

Today, around 21:00 in the Stepnogorsk area destroyed MLRS APU.

21:20 Enemy comes, head-on battles are underway: the Russian army counterattacks near Rabotino and Verbovoy on the Zaporozhye front

Direction of the main attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Orekhovsky section of the Zaporozhye Front, defense zone of the 58th Army of the Southern Military District.

Before attacks, the enemy conducts artillery preparation using cluster munitions.

In the early morning, afternoon and evening, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again and again throw infantry into the attack in small groups in attacks on our positions at the Rabotino-Verbove line.

“Heavy fighting continues in the Rabotino-Verbovoye and Rabotino-Novoprokopovka sectors. The situation is dynamic. Positions during the day move from one side to another. Counterattacks of the RF Armed Forces continue southeast of the village of Rabotino, northeast of the village of Novoprokopovka and southwest of the village of Verbovoye,” the enemy military analysts said in the evening report.

The enemy still fails to take control of the outskirts of Rabotino, a village under heavy fire from our troops.

Battles near Verbovoye: attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine seek to break through to the outskirts, where short-lived battles break out.

Between Rabotino and Verbov, several attacks were again repelled by our paratroopers.


20:20 "The enemy is attacking strongly and seriously, but we are fighting back"

Calculations of 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems of artillery units of the 155th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade of the Pacific Fleet continue deal effectively tasks of fire support for assault units of the naval infantry.

Artillerymen effectively destroy manpower and firepower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“The enemy is attacking strongly and seriously, but we are fighting back. Don't let us get crushed... Mostly now there is infantry, well, artillery is working with the enemy. Recently, cluster munitions have been working very hard,” says the commander of the MLRS crew with the call sign “Hedgehog”.

19:50 MO RF: On September 4, at about 17.00 Moscow time, another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.

Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle intercepted over the territory of the Bryansk region.

19:25 MO RF: On September 4, at about 4:30 pm Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects in the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.

Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle intercepted over the territory of the Bryansk region.

18:50 Trophies scouts of the 36th Brigade in the Nikolsky area in the Ugledar direction.

18:21 Service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - one way ticket -video

A captive Ukrainian soldier says that he was called to the mobilization service. The military commissars threatened with criminal liability and prison in case of refusal.

There was practically no preparation. According to the prisoner, they “at best fired one or two horns at the training ground,” and only a few recruits from his platoon were allowed to throw a grenade.

Arriving at the front, the Ukrainian soldiers realized that they did not want to fight, and they did not know how. However, “experienced” commanders, through beatings and threats of execution, forced the servicemen to get into boats and go across the Dnieper to the territory controlled by the RF Armed Forces. The servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were well aware of the complexity of their situation.

“I had only two options - either die or surrender. I chose to surrender,” said the captive soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

18:17 The FSB of Russia in the Kherson region detained a resident of the city of Genichesk, born in 1973. involved in the activities of an illegal armed formation -video

In 2014 the detainee voluntarily joined and took an active part in the activities of the Crimean Tatar Battalion named after I. Noman Chelebidzhikhan”, whose goals, in addition to the implementation of the food, energy and water blockade of Crimea from the Ukrainian border, are to violate the integrity of the Russian Federation, as well as to fight, including armed, for the return of the peninsula to Ukraine.

In addition, while heading a cell of the extremist organization "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people", the detainee recruited its members to participate in the illegal activities of the battalion, and also provided obscenities free of charge. and fin. funds for equipping his base on the territory of the CW used for the “blockade” of the peninsula.

With regard to the detainee of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for X, a criminal investigation was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 208 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

17:29 Law enforcement officers in Kherson region discovered cache with artillery rounds

In the Kherson region, the police received operational information about the possible presence of ammunition in the vicinity of the village. Maxim Gor'ky, Kalanchaksky district. Police officers, in cooperation with colleagues from the National Guard, using aerial reconnaissance equipment, at a distance of about 1.5 kms from the specified settlement in the field, discovered a cache with 29 artillery rounds of 122mm caliber.

According to the results of the inspection of ammunition, it was found that they are unsuitable for further use. In this regard, it was decided to destroy them. The rounds were moved to a safe location and detonated with an overhead charge of TNT.

Currently, the police continue to work to identify and suppress the illegal distribution of weapons, explosives and ammunition in the Kherson region.

17:27 A young Donetsk woman spoke about the artillery attack -video

A young Donetsk mother must be able to swaddle her child, change diapers, teach him to eat from a spoon, and also must know where the nearest bomb shelter is and how to determine by sound what kind of shell flew into your house.

The video shows the results of the artillery attack of residential areas of Donetsk. There are more than ten arrivals along Rosa Luxembourg Street. There is still no information about civilian casualties. We hope it works out this time.

But it is easy to appreciate what it is like to leave the house after the shelling.

16:25 Accurate blows Russian artillery in the Lisichansk direction:

Artillerymen of the Lugansk 2nd Army Corps with precise strikes suppress the firing points and strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in forest plantations and wooded areas. Artillery fire is corrected by UAV calculations.

16:00 Enemy shelled center of Donetsk: direct hits on residential high-rise buildings.

15:25 Eloquent results "counteroffensive" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the summer campaign of 2023 in the Zaporozhye direction.

For three months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were able, at the cost of hundreds of armored vehicles and thousands of lives of their soldiers, to advance in two sectors for 7-10 kms into the depths of the forefield of the first line of defense of the RF Armed Forces in the area of the villages of Rabotino and Urozhaynoye, without reaching the main fortifications of our troops.

The total territorial acquisitions of the “counter-offensive guard” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to about 200 km2 or 0.4% of the almost 50,000 km2 controlled by the RF Armed Forces in the south in Kherson, Zaporozhye and the DPR.

APU counterattack in obvious zugzwang. Driven forward by Western sponsors, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pushed a large number of troops into the “Rabotinsky meat grinder”, which are melting under the blows of the RF Armed Forces, being constrained by the relief in the lowland in the area of ????the village. Rabotino.

The classic said: "History repeats itself twice - once as a tragedy, the second time as a farce."

Borodino 1812

Borodino 1941

Rabotino 2023

And if Bonaparte and von Bock were attracted by warm winter apartments in Moscow, then Zelensky’s wards (the same Bonaparte, but there is a nuance) are waiting for a plowed forest belt in a field or a destroyed cellar in Rabotino.

14:55 FPV drones of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps destroy militant hideouts:

The first blow fell on a group of militants hiding in the house, the second - on the position in the forest belt.

14:35 Rybar:

Sortie DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bryansk region

This morning, the Ukrainian DRG tried to penetrate the territory of the Bryansk region near the village of Podyvot'e. This was preceded by mortar training in the vicinity of the settlement.

The attack of the Ukrainian sabotage group was planned a few days ago. In the border areas, small-sized UAVs were actively working, monitoring the situation in this zone. And field artillery guns were pulled into the Middle-Buda.

The concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions has been maintained for quite a long time. DRGs with copters roam along the border, kamikaze drones are periodically launched across Russian territories.

The enemy contingent essentially remains the same, and the mobilized are even being trained near Novgorod-Seversky. So the attacks of the DRG are unlikely to stop, especially considering how the Armed Forces of Ukraine use such newsbreaks to divert attention from failures in the offensive.

13:55 The Armed Forces of Ukraine open fire on their own, after they leave their positions -video.

A captured Ukrainian militant told how his own people opened fire on them after they left their positions on one of the islands near Kherson

12:50 FPV drone of the “Brave” special forces destroyed the enemy stronghold:

The anti-drone gun did not save the militants from our kamikaze drones -video.

12:20 Didn't let a single step: combat work of airborne assault and reconnaissance units of the Airborne Forces on the western outskirts of Artemovsk

The calculations of unmanned aircraft of the Airborne Forces revealed the advancement of several groups of Ukrainian infantry to the positions of our units. Having allowed the enemy to reach a certain point and allowed him to leave the forest plantation to open areas, the paratroopers destroyed the advancing enemy infantry with massive fire from heavy machine guns.

In addition, air defense units of Russian paratroopers destroyed enemy attack unmanned aerial vehicles by launching missiles from the Verba MANPADS.

The bold and decisive actions of the Russian paratroopers did not allow the Ukrainian units to approach the defended city even a meter.

11:45 Telegram-channel Kirill Fedorov of War, History, Weapons:

Fake: At Rabotino, the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the first, most important line of defense of the Russian Armed Forces, on which 60 percent of all the resources of the Russian army were spent. Ukrainian media write about this.

Truth: None of the three Russian lines of defense was broken, despite the fact that the total depth of the defensive structures reaches that three attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled in the areas of Rabotino and Verbovoye in a day. The enemy failed to take these settlements. According to a source close to the situation, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are about two companies per day.

An interesting statement by Ukrainian propagandists is that the main efforts of the Russian army were spent on the first line of defense, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly managed to break through, and, they say, everything will go on easily. This statement is contrary to military science.

Ever since the First World War, lines of defense have been created in this order: the first line of defense is the foreground, the second line is the line of resistance - the main position, the third line is the last position. And by the time the enemy breaks through the first line, the fourth is already being built, with the goal that the third turns into the second.

The first line of defense is not the main one also because its very construction is hampered by proximity to the front line and enemy artillery shelling, while subsequent positions can be built in a much safer mode.

For the success of its summer “counterattack” and access to Melitopol, the Ukrainian army had to break through the first line of Russian defense very quickly, preferably in the first day. The fact that in Kyiv they started talking about breaking through the first line only after three months means a complete failure of the offensive. This information is also confirmed by Russian military correspondents: “Now it is impossible to enter the operational space, as we advance, it will be filled with new lines and fortified areas, new impregnable workers.”


11:25 Ukrainian formations once again fired upon Bryansk region.

The village of Podyvot'e, Sevsk District, was hit: the administrative building and outbuildings were partially damaged. There were problems with the electricity supply in the village. There were no casualties.

10:45 Stole BMP of the enemy, from which the crew escaped! It is for this brave act that our fighter with the call sign "Izyum" was awarded. He serves in the Kherson direction, where he detects and destroys enemy DRGs. Not even a fly will fly on our shore!

10:20 Rybar: another Ukrainian PR outing to the coast of Crimea

On the night of September 4, units of the GUR and SOF of Ukraine again tried to land at Cape Tarkhankut in the Crimea. Only unlike previous attacks, the DRG slightly changed the route: five boats with personnel left the Zatoka region, and not Vilkovo.

Enemy reconnaissance groups by midnight passed the Golitsyn gas production plant and headed for the peninsula. At that moment, south of Tarkhankut, the Tekever UAV from Snigirevka was already operating, providing guidance for Willard-type boats and their escort.

Units of the 31st Division of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Russian army first shot down a Portuguese-made drone from the Pantsir air defense missile system, leaving the DRG GUR of Ukraine without eyes, and then lifted the aircraft of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet into the air.

Ukrainian boats turned around and moved back to Zatoka. The first three boats were discovered by a Su-24M bomber 43 kms northwest of Tarkhankut, where four RBC-500 cluster bombs were dropped on them.

The boats went down with the people on board. Another was at that moment to the west of the gas producing environment. A Russian Su-30SM plane dropped two RBC-500 bombs on it. Another boat managed to reach the coast of Ukraine and return to Zatoka.

As we said earlier, the Ukrainian authorities will continue their PR attacks on the peninsula, despite the suicidal nature of such actions. The successful attack on the S-300 air defense system and the landing near Olenevka for the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine seemed to be beneficial in terms of information, so no one is going to reckon with losses.

Russian sailors and air defense units, without the slightest problem, were able to detect and destroy the threat even before approaching the Crimea. The level of Russian military personnel has increased many times over a year and a half of the NWO.

And yes, such an outing on the day of negotiations on a grain deal quite clearly shows that it is definitely not worth negotiating with the Ukrainian side on some kind of settlement in the Black Sea.


10:00 MO RF: On September 4, 2023, at night in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, naval aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed four high-speed military boats manufactured by the United States Willard Sea Force with landing groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, heading towards Cape Tarkhankut of the Crimean coast.

09:08 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Aleshki nine rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka 12 rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanovka 10 rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryans 11 rounds;

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, Vasil'yevka, Krynki, Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 30 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified

09:07 Crews of combat helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-35 of the Central Military District destroyed the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video

Krasnoliman direction

The defeat of manpower, as well as the destruction of armored combat vehicles and enemy strongholds, was carried out by guided and unguided missiles.

After destroying the target, the crews of the attack helicopters performed an anti-fire maneuver and returned to their base airfield.

To bypass enemy air defense systems, the pilots approached the zone of combat use at an extremely low altitude with enveloping the terrain.

08:20 Summary on the morning of September 4, 2023

For the second night in a row, the Russian Armed Forces are striking at the port infrastructure in the Odessa region on the border with Romania: Geran UAVs exploded in the cities of Izmail and Reni, just on the eve of today's meeting between Putin and Erdogan. Explosions also sounded at night in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions.

On the Zaporozhye Front, at the Rabotino-Verbove line, several units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed, attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in “waves” on our positions continue constantly. To the east, in the area of the Green Field, artillery duels are taking place. Over Bekarovka, 38 kms from the LBS (enemy rear), a Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down.

The Kherson sector of the front in recent days has been characterized by an increase in the activity of both sides on the islands in the floodplain of the river. Dnieper.

In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction in the Staromayorsky area, mutual artillery artillery attack is underway.

After lengthy positional battles, the activity of the Russian Armed Forces resumed on the flanks of the Maryinsky direction: there are reports of successful attacks by our troops near Krasnogorovka and Novomikhailovka. On the Avdeevsky direction, the work of heavy artillery of the Russian Army is heard.

South of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) the Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking in Kleshcheevka and near Kurdyumovka. Several enemy armored vehicles were destroyed, however, the presence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the western part of Kleshcheevka is reported. To the north of Artyomovsk - positional battles near the Berkhovsky reservoir.

West of Svatovo, the Russian Armed Forces are taking active steps to expand the zone of control near Novoegorovka.

Explosions sounded all night long in Kupyansk and its environs: places of concentration of enemy personnel and equipment were being destroyed.

At night, the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of drones flying to the Crimea and the Kursk region (the city of Kurchatov - 4 downed UAVs). The city of Kurchatov is attacked by the enemy for the third day: the Kursk nuclear power plant is located there. In the evening, an uninhabited building was on fire in the city after an attack by an enemy drone. Also in the region under enemy fire n.p. Tetkino, two drones were shot down in the Rylsokm and Sudzhan regions.

The Belgorod region is under constant shelling: yesterday, the Urazovo village of the Valuysky urban district was under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and an UAV was shot down near Belgorod.

In the morning, the defense department announced the destruction of four enemy landing boats with personnel, which followed in the direction of Cape Tarkhankut (Crimea, western coast).


08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 09/04/2023

In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked east of Novprokopovka in the direction of Ocheretovaty. There is progress in the gray zone. They carried out similar actions in the Dorozhnyanka area. This is a new active site of hostilities. The RF Armed Forces shelled Ukrainian units in the settlements of Plavni, Kamenskoye, Rabotino, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Charovnoye and Ol'govskoye. Artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked on Zherebyanka, Nesternyak, Kopany, Il'chenkov, Novoprokopovka, Pshenichny, Verbovoy and Novopokrovka.

In the Ugledar sector, Ukrainian troops, after artillery preparation, tried to attack near Priyutnoye. No success. The RF Armed Forces carried out strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novodarovka, Rivnopol, Staromayorsky, Urozhaynoye, Zolotoy Niva, Novoukrainka and Vugledar. They themselves found themselves under artillery attack in Volodin, Zavetnie Zhelani, Staromlynovka, Kermenchik, Novodonetsk, Novomayorsk and Pavlovka.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, conducted assault operations in the area of Novomikhailovka, the city of Krasnogorovka and Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka). No promotion. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation worked for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Yekaterinovka, Mar'yinka, Ostrom, Nevelskoye, Berdychi, Keramika, Novoaleksandrovka, N'yu York and Druzhba. Ukrainian - in Donetsk and Gorlovka.

In the Luhansk direction, Russian units attacked near Novogorovka after shelling. There is relative calm in the area of Sin'kovka and Petropavlovka. Ukrainian positions in Belogorivka, Nevsky, Makeevka, Cherneshchina, Myasozharovka and Berestovo are under attack.



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