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Current information on the situation on the front line: October 21 (updated)
2023-10-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:55 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/21/2023 to 00:00 10/22/2023

Over the past 24 hours Representative office reporte dabout 62 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.

Information was received about the injury of four civilians in the Kalininsky and Budennovsky districts of Donetsk

A total of 29 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky, Kalininsky and Budennovsky districts of Donetsk, Zaitsevo, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.

Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Zaitsevo, Shirokaya Balka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kalininsky, Budennovsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 49 attacks from 220mm BM-27 “Uragan” and M-142 “Himars” MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.

At Gorlivske there were eight artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.

On Yasinovatsky there were five artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

A total of 198 units of various ammunition were fired.

A previous 23 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.

21:41 The situation in the Zaporozhye direction is reported Front bird

Intense artillery duels end with attacks on our positions from the enemy.

Fire damage is inflicted on assault groups and suitable reserves.

19:37 Fixation of consequences of artillery attack of the Kalininsky and Budennovsky districts of Donetsk at 14:15 10/21/2023

Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the facts of artillery attack in the Kalininsky and Budennovsky districts, and also clarified the direction of fire and the types of weapons used.

The enemy fired from their positions located in the area of ??the settlement. Arkhangelskoye, from the Himars MLRS using M-31 (fragmentation) missiles and 220mm BM-27 Uragan using 9M27K missiles (cassette).

18:40 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit Donetsk with cluster munitions –video.

On the road in the area of which one of the strikes occurred, here and there there are traces of explosions of submunitions of a cluster shell.

It’s a miracle that on a usually busy highway, all the damage consisted of several burnt out cars. According to information from eyewitnesses, no one was injured.

Well, as always, rescuers and utility services quickly arrived at the scene and immediately began to eliminate the consequences of the shelling.

18:00 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which warehouses and vehicles caught fire, and power lines of urban transport were damaged.

17:30 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 21, as of 17:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:

Kalininsky district:

- on the street Elevatornaya, 28, a woman born in 1968 was wounded.

– a woman born in 1980 was injured in the area of ??the Motel stop.

Budennovsky district: - on the street. Danilevsky, 40, a man born in 1964 and a woman born in 1965 were wounded.

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

Donetsk:

Kalininsky district:

– a car fire was recorded on Krasnogvardeisky Ave., 3 “b”;

– a fire was recorded on the street. Warehouse;

– a car fire was recorded on the street. Elevator.

Budennovsky district: – st. Danilevskogo, 34 – private residential building.

17:00 A HIMERS missile fired at the city by Ukrainian militants was shot down over the Budennovsky district of Donetsk -photo.

16:40 During the day, the enemy launched a number of attacks in the Orekhovsky direction. I tried to attack near Novoprokopovka and in the area between Kopani and Rabotino, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to straighten the front in order to be able to establish full control over Rabotino.

The enemy had no success. According to preliminary data, he lost up to 30 people killed and one tank. No progress.

16:11 Operational information from the South Donetsk direction from the Divanny General Staff:

“Small advance of our guys north of Priyutnoye. Knocked out the enemy behind a chain of ponds.”

15:37 Consequences of Saturday's artillery attack of Donetsk. In the first case, it was hit in the area of a service station, in the second, an ambulance burned down and a fire truck was badly damaged, in the third, it landed in a commercial warehouse with household chemicals and food. As a result, according to eyewitnesses, there were casualties - RIA Novosti

15:20 RF Armed Forcesare advancing in the Avdeevsky direction.

From early morning, artillery in the Donetsk direction began to very actively bombard the Avdievka enemy grouping. The roar from the working guns does not cease even now. Artillery preparation is very serious.

The enemy is trying to hit back, but the frequency of artillery attack of the city and nearby settlements has noticeably decreased. A few minutes ago, air defense again worked in the sky over Donetsk, and smoke from the arrivals was visible in the northeast.

From the ground they report that there is progress from the northern side of this direction.

15:00 Personnel after the artillery attack of the Budennovsky district of Donetsk - Mayor of Donetsk Kulemzin

14:55 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Budennovsky and Kalininsky districts of Donetsk with MLRS launchers. The DPR JCCC was informed.

14:40 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Russian Armed Forces repelled five attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction;

The Russian Armed Forces repelled ten attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansk direction, the enemy lost up to 100 militants and five pieces of equipment;

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction amounted to up to 260 military personnel;

The Russian Armed Forces hit the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Yampolovka area in the DPR and destroyed an ammunition depot near Pervomaisky;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed ammunition and fuel warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the airfield in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction per day amounted to up to 140 military personnel;

The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft near Odessa;

In one day, Russian air defense shot down a Su-24 plane, two MiG-29 planes and a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force;

In one day, Russian air defense intercepted four HARM missiles, two Neptune cruise missiles, and destroyed 23 UAVs.

13:39 The Divan General Staff spoke about the situation on the outskirts of Donetsk:

“Along Avdievka. Feel. South part.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces turned on the response and, starting at 0900 hrs, periodically poured in on the outskirts of Donetsk, Makeevka and Yasinovataya.

We received a series of blows from something heavy, most likely FABs, because... I can't hear outgoing ones.

The cannonade continues. Arrivals too.”

13:17 Donetsk and Makeyevka came under fire over 30 times in half a day. The Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, as well as the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeyevka came under attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

12:45 Kherson direction situation as of 12.00 October 21, 2023

Due to bad weather over the last two days, both the capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces for fire and reconnaissance, and the ability of Ukrainian formations to transfer reinforcements, have been reduced. While Russian troops successfully ousted the enemy near Peschanivka and Poyma, fighting continues in Krynki at this stage.

North of Alyoshki, Ukrainian formations managed to gain a foothold along the northern bank of the Konka River and continue to dig in. The Russian Armed Forces constantly fire at them with artillery and mortars.

There are battles in the west and east of Krynoki. To the south, Ukrainian formations control approximately 1 kilometer of forest belt. So far, the Russian Armed Forces have not been able to completely liberate the settlement.

Ukrainian formations are trying to rotate the units that entered Krynki, but due to bad weather, the moral and psychological state of the units is low: those units that were planned to be involved in the new assault at 0500 hrs refused to go on the attack.

12:37 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:

In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of forces, with artillery support, repelled an enemy attack in the direction of Priyutnoye.

Four attempts to rotate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Levadny, Urozhayny, Uglesborochnaya and north of Vladimirovka were thwarted.

An attempt to transport ammunition to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novomikhailovka area was thwarted. Vehicles and personnel were destroyed.

During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost the 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, a 152mm D-20 artillery gun and four mortar crews.

Strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of units of the 72nd Mechanized, 79th Air Assault, 58th Motorized Infantry Brigades, 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Novomikhailovka settlements , Urozhaynoe, Shevchenko, Ugledar of the Donetsk People's Republic and Malinovka of the Zaporozhye region.

12:28 The Russian Aerospace Forces strike the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of temporarily occupied Berislav.

12:00 They report about the extremely powerful work of artillery on targets in Avdievka. “It’s a nightmare what’s happening in Avdeevka”

11:58 Kherson region, our bank of the Dnieper, reports Call sign Ossetian:

“The enemy was driven out from the south of Krynok, several residential buildings in which the crest met were erased. There remains a very small part of the drg in the village itself.

To the north, the enemy is sitting in the island part and landing, so far not taking any action, evacuating the wounded, and KIAs. The situation remains steadily tense, but is already improving. We need to smoke.”

11:45 1st Tank Army of the Russian Armed Forces continues to contain enemy counterattacks in the Kupyansk direction.

“The situation is stable: we are working on the enemy, he is working on us,” says the commander of the mortar crew.

All forest plantations where our fighters are located are well targeted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Therefore, after the mortar has worked, the response often arrives within two to three minutes. But everyone is in a fighting mood. Working in such difficult conditions became commonplace for the soldiers.

11:20 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:

In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the Center group of troops inflicted fire on about 130 enemy targets.

Units of the 24th, 63rd and 67th Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the Torsky ledge and Serebryansky forest were hit by artillery fire, attack and army aviation strikes.

During the counterbattery fight, more than 20 field artillery crews of the Ukrainian troops were exposed and suppressed.

Enemy losses in this direction amounted to over 255 Ukrainian military personnel.

11:00 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. Knyaze-Grigorovka five rounds;

-- n.p. Malaya Lepetikha foir rounds;

-- n.p. Sergeevka six rounds;

-- n.p. Peschanivka nine rounds;

-- n.p. Velikaya Lepetikha 22 rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha 13 rounds;

-- n.p. Krynki 15 rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery seen rounds.

As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Peschanivka, one civilian died.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Podstepnoye, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Proletarka, firing a total of 34 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

10:42 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10.30:

Early in the morning, the enemy launched an attack south of Rabotino, throwing infantry into battle with the support of an armored group of 10 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. Russian artillery and ATGM operators opened fire on the advancing enemy.

At Verbovoy, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to attack with small groups of infantry. Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces repel attacks in a shooting battle under the cover of artillery.

Active counterbattery warfare continues throughout the Rabotino-Verbovoye sector. Russian artillery strikes enemy field gun positions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also respond with attacks with high-explosive fragmentation and cluster munitions.

10:30 The Russian Armed Forces are breaking through to Severny from the side of the quarry, the guys have taken the forest regiment. It’s hard, but we’re moving forward.

09:35 Zaporozhye Front, Rabotino district:

In the morning, the enemy again threw infantry and armored vehicles into battle. Up to 10 tanks and armored combat vehicles on the Rabotino-Novoprokopovka line. One has already been destroyed.

08:50 Russian fighters ripped off an enemy attempt to transport military supplies near Novomikhailovka in the South Donetsk direction.

The forces of a unit of the Vostok group of troops repelled an enemy attack near Priyutnoye and thwarted four attempts to rotate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Levadnoye, Urozhaynoye and north of Vladimirovka.

During the counterbattery fight, the enemy lost the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, 152mm D-20 and four mortar crews. Strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit places where the Ukrainian Armed Forces' manpower and equipment were concentrated.

08:25 Russian troops attacked military infrastructure in the Dnepropetrovsk region at night - an air alert sounded in the south-eastern part of Ukraine. The strikes on infrastructure facilities located in Krivoy Rog were confirmed by the head of the regional military administration, Sergei Lysak.

08:17 Situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:

Svatovo-Kremennoe direction: In the Kupyansky sector, the Russian army attacked in the area of Sin'kovka and Ivanovka. Ours continue to advance in the Makeevka area. At Torsky, as in Serebryansky Forest, there are no changes.

Donetsk direction: in the Avdeevsky sector, our fighters hold positions near the railway in the Berdychi area. The waste heap is in the gray zone, there are oncoming battles there. In addition, the Russian army attacked in the Severny area and south of Avdievka. In the Maryinsky sector, our assault operations continue on the western outskirts of the city.

Zaporozhye direction: The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack near Novoprokopovka. There are oncoming battles in the Verbovoye area. On the Vremevsky ledge, our fighters counterattacked in the Novodonetsky area.

08:04 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed combat footage work crews of 203mm self-propelled artillery units “Malka” of the Western Military District when performing fire missions in the zone of a special military operation in the Kupyansk direction.

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