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Current information on the situation on the front line: September 14 (updated)
2023-09-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/14/2023 to 00:00 09/15/2023

Over the past 24 hours Representative office reported about 70 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.

Information was received about the injury of two civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Vesely.

Six residential buildings were damaged in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and Valeryanovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.

The areas of eight settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Kalininsky, Nikitovsky districts), Gol'movsky, Zaitsevo, Mikhailovka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district ), Valeryanovka.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 47 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Gorlivske there were 17 artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Yasinovatsky there were five artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Volnovakha one artillery attack from 155mm artillery. 224 units of various ammunition were produced

IN the previous 24 hours, 57 attacks were recorded from the VFU.

21:00 Crews of T-90M “Breakthrough” tanks from one of the tank units of the Central Military District inflicted fire defeat of enemy strongholds and manpower in the Krasnolimansk direction.

19:25 Fights on the South Donetsk Front: the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their deadlock offensive:

The Ukrainian command continues to please with its strategic decisions: despite the serious problems in the main sector of its offensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to disperse their forces and from time to time launch attacks in the Priyutnoye-Staromayorskoye-Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye area (at the same time, for some reason, storming the ruins near Artemovsk and above Donetsk).

In the Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye area, the enemy reduced its ardor, and the fighting took on a positional character. However, sometimes it makes unsuccessful attacks. At the Priyutnoye-Staromayorskoye line, the enemy’s activity is higher, but the assault actions are not effective. So, today another attack by the terrorist defense was repulsed, the enemy suffered losses in equipment and manpower.

In general, the offensive in this area does not make sense: initially it was intended as a diversionary strike in order to hide from us that the main attack would be on Tokmak. After the offensive stalled in June, in the Staromayorsky area the enemy continued to advance for propaganda purposes, in order to show at least some result (in general, the tendency to media overreach and fear of media criticism is letting the Ukrainian Armed Forces down).

Since the direction is not the main one, the enemy advances with smaller forces than Rabotino (although he lacks them there too). What he can achieve here with such forces, given that the sea is approximately 70 kilometers away in a straight line, remains a mystery.

19:21 In the village of Liptsy, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are setting up models of military equipment. Dummies with false targets are installed on roads, including near the private sector.

According to incoming information, territorial defense fighters (114 and 125 TrO brigades) from the Kyiv and Lvov regions are concentrated in the village.

19:05 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are intensively sending soldiers to the Bakhmut direction, and also continue to try to cut off the land route to Crimea. Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to strengthen their positions before the onset of cold weather. This was announced by the unit commander, deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps Apty Alaudinov in the Telegram channel.

19:00 In Andreevka for the evening from military expert Boris Rozhin:

During the day the enemy declared that he was able to occupy Andreevka. It is noteworthy that this caused slight hysteria on both sides, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces began to refute the MOU, and in our country they began to declare that they did not lose Andreevka.

As a result, in the evening the Ministry of Defense shyly refuted its story about the capture of Andreevka and admitted that heavy fighting was continuing there. Our side also officially confirmed that the fighting in Andreevka continues.

Our main positions are there near the railway; a significant part of the village is heavily destroyed and in the gray zone. Now no one controls Andreevka completely. Further fighting is expected in this area. The enemy continues to transfer reinforcements to the area of Konstantinovka and Chasov Yar in the hope of increasing pressure on the Kleshcheevka-Andreevka-Kurdyumovka line. Our reserves are also being raised.

18:51 One person is in serious condition as a result of shelling in Donetsk from the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Ukrainian militants have been artillery attack the civilian population of Donetsk throughout the day. Thus, in the Kiev region, one of the rounds hit a residential building, as a result of which it was immediately engulfed in fire. There were no casualties: at the moment of the impact there was a person inside the house - doctors assess his condition as serious, he is under medical supervision.

18:24 There was no need to refute the capture of Andreevka by the Ukrainian army: It revealed that there was no capture.

The flanks of Artyomovsk, on which the Ukrainian offensive began in parallel with the fighting in Zaporozhye and in the South Donetsk direction, are the most difficult area for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The terrain in this direction is such that any attack requires a steep climb uphill, and then an equally sharp descent. At the same time, Russian artillery reacts to the slightest movement of the enemy - and if there is a threat of a breakthrough into battle, reserves and combat aircraft are brought in on a regular basis.

Artyomovsk is part of the group of so-called centers of gravity (COG). The city and its surroundings are important from a media point of view, but, in addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine need to show any, even minimal, results here before the onset of cold weather and muddy roads. Very soon the hills and roads, to which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are almost completely tied due to the use of civilian and wheeled vehicles, will turn into impassable mud.

Because of this, any advance of 100-200 meters is presented as an unconditional victory. In reality, any advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area is stopped after a few hours (and most often immediately), after which the Ukrainian troops roll back to their original positions.

The situation is similar in Kleshcheevka. Attacks on villages do not stop, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as in Zaporozhye, do not change tactics in the hope of breaking through the defense, as a result of which they leave a significant part of the personnel on the battlefield, and company commanders and soldiers of special units are increasingly left on the battlefield after being wounded and are captured.

18:06 Kherson direction situation as of 18.00 September 14, 2023:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to consolidate in positions on the left bank of the Dnieper for further attacks in the rear of the Russian group. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has made several attempts to rotate personnel at observation posts in different areas.

On Aleshkinsky Island, last night they tried to drop in a DRG on a boat from the Armed Forces of Ukraine to replace group 126 arr TRO, but it was destroyed by Russian artillery. Two more groups went south along the Ingulets River, but were forced to turn around and go back.

Two more boats with groups of six people from Ponyatovka and Sadovoy intended to land west of the Kazachi Lagery, but one boat was successfully hit at Daryevka, and the second went upstream of the Ingulets.

To the east, the DRG once again landed on Kozatsky Island on one boat under the cover of mortar fire. At the same time, Russian troops shot down one watercraft near Ol'govka, and also destroyed a mortar.

The situation in the island zone remains the same: the Ukrainian Armed Forces are landing on the left bank, but so far without attempts to advance inland. This is facilitated by regular strikes by Russian troops either on boats or on enemy strongholds, which prevents Ukrainian formations from establishing supplies on the opposite side.

17:20 Situation in the Soledar direction:

Unprecedented enemy drone activity is being recorded in Soledar. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are carrying out strikes on the city both with the help of fpv drones and with the help of Mavikov, reports military correspondent Alexander Yaremchuk.

“Now about 20 of them flew in the sky in a line. They're hitting the city. Some kind of terrible drone invasion,” a man from the spot shared with me.

At the same time, the enemy is trying to counterattack the positions of the 200th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. The situation is not the simplest, but it is under the control of Russian troops.

Presumably, in the very near future, the Ukrainian army will make another attempt to attack the positions on the flanks of Bakhmut with two converging attacks, but our guys are ready for this.

17:10 Ugledarsky section situation as of 17.00 September 14, 2023:

Against the background of activity in the south of Ukraine, the situation with Ugledar is knocked out of the information agenda. The last really serious clashes took place there several months ago.

First, Russian troops carried out an unsuccessful assault, attacking a large fortified area with completely mined approaches in a frontal attack, and then the Ukrainian Armed Forces did essentially the same thing.

And now in the Ugledarsky sector there are only positional battles, where Russian artillerymen are trying to hit the rear areas, creating problems in supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces group.

Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army destroyed the deployment point for personnel of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ugledar, and two ammunition warehouses were hit at the Yuzhno-Donbasskaya mine. A similar firefight is taking place at the Mar'inka-Novomikhailovka line.

This will not somehow influence the situation at the front, but it will at least reduce the enemy’s operational capabilities to conduct attacks on Russian positions on the Pavlovka-Nikol'skoye line.

17:08 The statement about the capture of Andreevka is erroneous and premature, - the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade refuted the Malyar post.

16:25 Vremevsky section situation as of 16.00 September 14, 2023

After several unsuccessful and lengthy attempts to capture the villages of Novomayorskoye and Novodonetsk, enemy naval infantry units went on the defensive due to heavy losses. Currently, assault groups are being rotated and re-equipped along the site.

At the same time, Russian artillerymen are conducting an active counterbattery fight - a 122mm D-30 howitzer was destroyed in Bol'shaya Novoselka, and several personnel deployment points and several pieces of equipment were hit along the front line.

The main activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces remained at the Priyutnoye - Staromayorskoye line, where the assault troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to take landings between populated areas.

However, soldiers of the Russian army, with the support of artillery, successfully repelled the attack, forcing the enemy to retreat to their starting points. In turn, Russian troops hit several rear positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which affects the ability to quickly make up for losses and go on the attack.

16:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 14, as of 16:00, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Yasinovatsky district (Veseloye village): - on the street. Sadovaya, 4, a man born in 1961 was wounded.

Additional information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Force in the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Valeryanovka: - st. Stepnaya, 3 – private residential building, outbuildings and a car were also destroyed.

15:50 The Paratrooper’s Diary reports from the Zaporozhye direction:

In the area of the village Verbovoe 1.5-2 kms to the west.

The enemy, as before, is trying in groups of 5-20 people to advance to the positions of the Russian Armed Forces. Using new camouflage suits, the enemy is becoming increasingly difficult to detect, but the combined work of UAV operators and scouts helps to effectively identify such groups.

The work of artillery on this section of the front does not stop for a minute; the Paratroopers destroy enemy personnel in forest belts.

During their work, our assault troops discovered a huge number of enemy corpses, which the enemy abandoned on the battlefield and, as expected, has no plans to evacuate. The evacuation of the enemy's wounded is prevented by the heavy fire of our artillery.

There are also small advances on our part in clearing the areas near Verbovoye.

In the area of the village In Rabotino and Verbovoye, the enemy suffered losses during the morning: 19 confirmed manpower, one pickup truck, two quadcopters, one large homemade UAV dropping mines.

15:03 In Volchansk (Khar'kov region) at night caught the deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the district administration building.

In telephone conversations, the enemy confirms the loss of several pieces of equipment.

Several days ago the building was already struck, but the militants did not change their location.

14:50 There are two people in Donetsk wounded after a targeted “processing” of the yard where children are walking by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the old people do not have time to hide from Ukrainian rounds.

Elderly people do not always have time to hide when the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin another artillery attack of Donetsk - those who are younger have a better chance of running to the nearest basement. Despite the fact that Donetsk residents have been living under constant Ukrainian artillery for many years, they never know when the next terrorist attack will occur again.

Residents of the Petrovsky district told Readovka military correspondent Maxim Dolgov that during the last such artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two civilians were injured. People once again note that militants are increasingly using their favorite “toy” - cluster munitions.

14:20 The Front Bird reports from the Sumy region:

Our attack aircraft have completed their work. Another explosion was heard in the Sumy region. The air raid warning did not sound. The enemy continues to redeploy forces in this operational direction.

14:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:

In the South Donetsk direction, the forward units of the Vostok group of forces, with artillery support, repelled several attacks by enemy infantry groups in the areas of Novomayorsky and Novodonetsky.

The attack UAV hit the infantry fighting vehicle, more than half of the advancing manpower was destroyed, and some of the Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel surrendered.

Two attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces units were repelled in the Priyutnoye area. Having suffered losses in manpower, the enemy retreated.

Artillery fire thwarted attempts to rotate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Staromayorskoye and north of Nikol'skoye. Vehicles and personnel were destroyed. The electronic warfare station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??Sovkhoz Oktyabr was destroyed.

During the counterbattery fight, the Rapier anti-tank gun in the Poltavka area and mortar crews in the Novodarovka, Novomikhailovka and Vodyanoy areas were destroyed.

A towed FH70 howitzer in the Elizavetovka area was destroyed by Lancet loitering ammunition. Bomber attack and army aviation hit places where Ukrainian troops and equipment accumulated in the areas of Staromayorsky, Novodonetsky, Urozhayny and an ammunition depot in Novomikhailovka.

13:35 Pacific Fleet naval infantry successfully fought off attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ugledar direction.

Naval Infantry of the Pacific Fleet, supported by artillery fire, is stopping any enemy attempts to break through in the areas of the settlements of Novomayorskoe and Novodonetsk DPR.

13:23 The Russian Ka-52 destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the South Donetsk direction with a guided missile strike -video.

12:58 Khar'kov direction (area of Kupyansk settlement) 14.09 12:40

The dynamics in this area remain unchanged. Enemy activity is moderate, mostly the dry landers are holding on to fortified areas. We hit the enemy with mortars and were given several packets of MLRS. We are systematically knocking out manpower and equipment from the held positions. Our Su-25 Grach attack aircraft operated at night.

12:53 Powerful explosions in Kherson.

12:29 Shuttle bus hit under fire in Donetsk, a man and a woman were wounded, said city mayor Alexey Kulemzin

12:24 The Russian Armed Forces carry out strikes on the border areas of the Sumy region.

12:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for September 14, as of 12:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovsky district):

- on the street Chopin, 15, a woman born in 1961 was wounded as a result of a cluster submunition explosion.

Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:

Kyiv district:

– st. 50 years of Ukraine, 98, 100 – private residential buildings;

– st. Krupskaya, 127 – private residential building.

Petrovsky district: – minibus No. 93 was damaged.

Kuibyshevsky district: 8 transformer substations are de-energized. There are 1,300 subscribers without power supply.

11:29 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:

In the Vremevsky sector in the Novomayorsky area, yesterday the day passed without active enemy actions. I tried to compensate for the failures with dense artillery artillery attack of our positions in this area. At night, our guns dispersed several groups of infantry in forest belts who tried to get closer to Novomayorsky.

In the morning, one MRAP finally arrived at the north-western outskirts of the village, landed a group of infantry, while trying to pick up the wounded, got an FPV on board, began to hastily leave the place and was finished off by a second FPV as it retreated. The wounded troops scattered around the landing.

To the north-west of Novodonetsk, an attempt by a foot group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to enter the forest belt was stopped. Otherwise, no active actions.

North of Priyutnoye, the enemy is still throwing defensive defenses into small counterattacks on forest belts, suffering losses, and making no progress.

In the Ugledarsky sector, our guns dismantled several enemy air defense systems in Novomikhailovka and Konstantinovka. Army aviation helped them in this.

11:19 Personnel from the Ugledar direction: a destroyed British Mastiff armored car and an attempt by the Ukrainian military to evacuate.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried for several days to gain a foothold on the outskirts of Novodonetsk (DPR), there were even attempts to record a video that the village was allegedly occupied by them, but our military repelled all attacks.

11:07 Zherebyanki/Pyatikhatki the situation is calm. In this sector of the front, according to our observations, the counteroffensive finally fizzled out. We don't expect any breakthrough attempts. Months of attacks brought no results to the enemy.

10:49 Situation in the Zaporozhye direction:

The artillery has been working since night without a break, destroying troops in the landings. The enemy had three evacuation groups arrive; due to heavy shelling, nothing worked out for them - they left. In small assault groups, units of the Russian Armed Forces are clearing forest regiments. There are advances.

Also, during the assault on plantings and forest belts, many dead mercenaries were found, and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also captured.

10:29 As a result of artillery attack of the city of Kremennaya in the LPR by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on September 13, 2023, a man born in 1951 was killed.

09:49 RIA Novosti correspondents report from the Rabotino-Verbovoye section, which has become the hottest section of the front in recent months -video.

The soldiers say that the Ukrainian Armed Forces practically do not use armored vehicles for attacks, but try to attack in groups on foot. The Russian special forces “Osman” are actively using FPV drones here, the main targets being lightly armored vehicles.

09:25 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. Alyosha nine rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery 12 rounds;

-- n.p. Podstepnoe seven rounds;

-- n.p. Krynki nine rounds;

-- n.p. Korsunka eight rounds;

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Vasil'yevka, Sagi, firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:11 In the DPR over the past 24 hours, eight civilians were injured from artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

During this time, the JCCC_DPR recorded 57 shellings, 2/3 of them in Donetsk. Donetsk, Gorlovka, Makeevka were shelled with cluster munitions.

09:00 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the ST-68UM radar station of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which makes it possible to detect low-altitude targets -video.

08:59 Telegram channel @condottieros reports from the Artemovsk direction:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are rotating their units in the Artemovsk area after the failure of the offensive on this section of the front. Thus, the elite “NATO” 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was transferred from near Kleshcheevka to Malaya Tokmachka in the direction of Rabotino to strengthen the counter-attack on Verbovoye.

You can temporarily forget about the Artemovsk military conglomerate for now. The operational-tactical situation in the southern and western outskirts of the city has been stabilized by the reserves of the 123rd Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces and the 76th Airborne Division. At the same time, the advance of the RF Armed Forces in the area of the Berkhovskoye Reservoir is also reduced in dynamics.

08:45 The Russian Ministry of Defense published personnel combat work of military personnel of one of the motorized rifle units controlling positions on the outskirts of the city of Artemovsk.

08:15 Frontline summary on the morning of September 14, 2023:

In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian troops, after artillery shelling, continued attacks at Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy. The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked their positions in the village of Rabotino. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian units in Kopany, Il'chenkovo and Novopokrovka.

In the Ugledarsky sector, Ukrainian troops, with artillery support, resumed their attack on Priyutnoye and continued on Novodonetskoye and Novomayorskoye. No advance.

The artillery of the Russian Armed Forces worked on the positions of Ukrainian troops in Novodarovka, Urozhainy, Prechistovka and Ugledar. Ukrainian Armed Forces - according to Russian ones in Zavetny Zhelanie, Staromlynovka and Kermenchik.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked and tried to gain a foothold in Kleshcheevka. Partially successful. But their units in the village are under heavy fire from long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces. As in the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasil'evka and Spornoye. Ukrainian artillery hit Russian positions in Kurdyumovka, Andreevka and Bakhmut.

In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked in the Serebryansky forest area from Dibrova, near Novoegorovka and Sin'kovka. The offensive actions were supported by artillery. Also under attack are Ukrainian units in Belogorovka, Makeevka, Myasozharovka, Starkhmalny, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka and Ivanovka.

08:10 Pacific Fleet naval infantry destroyed British armored car Mastiff in Novodonetsk

On the outskirts of Novodonetsk, militants have been desperately trying to gain a foothold in several buildings for several days. The drone operator transmits the coordinates of the target. The shelter becomes a trap for the nationalists.

08:01 Group of troops “Center” ripped off two attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Tor ledge in the Krasnoliman direction hit units of the 67th Mechanized Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade “Azov” near Serebryansky forestry, the Ministry of Defense reported. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost an armored vehicle and about 40 servicemen

07:50 Chronicle of a special military operation: events September 13, 2023:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a series of attacks using cruise missiles and unmanned boats in the Black Sea region. All surface targets were destroyed by the patrol vessel Vasily Bykov. Of the ten cruise missiles, seven were shot down by air defense systems. The rest managed to hit targets in Sevastopol. As a result of the attack, a landing ship and a submarine, which were being repaired in dry docks, were damaged. On the southern flank of the Bakhmut defense, Russian troops launched a series of successful counterattacks. The enemy was driven out of their positions in Kleshcheevka. At the same time, the village is currently undergoing massive artillery strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukrainian formations continue daily artillery attack of populated areas in Donbass. Donetsk, Makeevka and Gorlovka were under attack. Residential buildings were damaged. Six people were injured.

At the Vremyevsky salient, the Ukrainian Armed Forces resumed harassing attacks on Russian positions near Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky. Russian troops are successfully dealing with small enemy groups in this area.

A similar situation is developing near Priyutny, where two offensive attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been repelled over the past 24 hours. At the same time, Russian units regularly fire at enemy locations.

Russian troops again attacked port infrastructure in the Odessa region. In the ports of Izmail and Reni, Russian Geranium drones hit a number of military installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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