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Current information on the situation on the front line: February 14 (updated)
2024-02-15
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/14/2024 to 00:00 02/15/2024.

Twelve facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

There were no reports of civilian casualties.

DAMAGED:
No damage to residential buildings and civil infrastructure was recorded.

  • Five artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction

  • Five artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction

  • Two artillery attacks in the Yasinovat direction

  • A total of 39 units of various ammunition were fited.

23:00 Front bird broadcasts: Kharkov region (border region), 14.02 22:50.

A repeated strike on a military facility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is reported. The military technical workshop was damaged.

Our tactical aviation worked without entering the enemy’s air defense coverage area.

21:12 Artillerymen of the “Center” group of troops destroyed area of deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction

19:52 Ukrainian channels confirm the significant advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the village of Ivanovskoye (Krasnoe) in the Artemovsk direction.

18:59 Crews of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Zapad group struck the rear positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.

This time, rocket artillery crews destroyed the fortifications and ammunition depot of Ukrainian militants. Aerial reconnaissance helped identify the target: from above it was possible to notice systematic movements of groups of militants and heavy equipment, as well as a large number of cargo transport.

17:45 Powerful “arrivals” are reported in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

According to preliminary data, carriage and locomotive depots are working out, writes Military Chronicle.

17:35 In the Zaporozhye direction, UAV operators of the 35th Army destroyed another American Stryker armored personnel carrier, -video.

17:20 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in Volchansk (Kharkiv region)

16:55 Kyiv militants attacked a civilian car in Lysichansk using a drone, resulting in a civilian being injured. This was reported to the city administration.

“On February 13, civilians in Lysichansk were hit twice by Ukrainian drones. At approximately 18:00, in a remote area of ??Lisichansk, the VFU carried out a kamikaze drone attack for the second time that day against a civilian resident of the city - a middle-aged man who was in a car at the time of the incident. Thanks to the prompt work of medical workers, the victim was hospitalized in a timely manner,” the administration said.

16:50 Avdeevskoe direction. Our troops at 16.30 broke through enemy defenses in several places at once from the eastern flank.

The assault units of the Russian Armed Forces are already in close proximity to the Avdeevskaya Stella, closer to the city center.

16:23 Air defense systems shot down a Mi-24 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

What else was reported in the summary:

Three attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled in the Kupyansk direction. The enemy lost up to 130 troops;

In the Krasnolimansk direction, the troops improved the situation along the front line; they repelled two attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy lost up to 320 troops;

In the Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, repelling six attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy lost up to 360 fighters;

In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces improved the tactical situation, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 160 military personnel;

In the Kherson direction, enemy losses amounted to up to 40 military personnel.

Russian troops destroyed the S-300 air defense missile launcher, the Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station, four ammunition depots and two control posts for UAV drones;

Air defense systems intercepted seven HIMARS and Alder missiles. 98 Ukrainian UAVs were shot down.


16:04 Battle for Avdiivka: cutting off Industrial Avenue. Situation as of 16.00 February 14, 2024

The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the private sector in the north of Avdeevka.

Despite rather contradictory data, Russian forces were able to advance in the private sector, as well as expand the zone of control in the Avdeevskaya motor depot area, cutting off enemy communications along Industrial Avenue.

The 116th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was withdrawn from Avdievka: only a small consolidated group of several infantry fighting vehicles and tanks remained in the Khimik microdistrict. Apparently, the General Staff command is making a fairly large bet on the 3rd Assault Brigade "Azov", which almost "alone" should hold the front (due to its numbers and staffing).

15:43 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in the occupied Ukrainian Armed Forces of Kramatorsk

15:27 Explosions in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkov region.

15:25 Our troops entered Ivanovskoye (Krasnoye) from the direction of Artyomovsk, reports the Divanny General Staff

14:50 South Donetsk direction: advance of RF Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka and west of Sladkoye:

Russian troops are developing success in the South Donetsk direction. In Novomikhailovka they managed to advance along Timiryazev Street, occupy at least part of the Sintezprodservice industrial zone and establish control over the cemetery.

Further progress in the village is difficult due to development in the central part of the village, where there are permanent buildings of the recreation center, temple and administration.

The landings to the north and west of the settlement are also under the control of the enemy, who relies on the logistics hub in Konstantinovka, where artillery positions are equipped in the vicinity. The situation is also complicated by the large number of FPV UAVs the enemy has.

At the same time, the RF Armed Forces were able to make some progress in plantings west of Sladkoye in the direction of Vodyanoye, knocking out the enemy from several forest stands.

14:07 Storming of Avdievka: the Russian army continues to close the cauldron around the Zenit fortified area at the air defense base, write Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring:

Russian troops yesterday advanced into the dacha village west of the private sector of Avdievka and from the side of Opytny and continue to close the ring around the fortified area at the air defense base. Now Ukrainian military propagandists are again reporting further advances of the Russian Armed Forces.

“Northeast of Opytny, Russian troops advanced in the direction of the Vinogradniki 2 station in an area up to 1.4 km wide to a depth of 930 m. They are going around the Zenit and Cheburashka fortified areas, threatening to encircle them. The Russians advanced and entrenched themselves in the northern part of the Vineyards 2 gardening community to a depth of 300 meters,” enemy resources write.

13:31 Ukrainian armored personnel carrier VAB (4×4) destroyed in the Kherson direction, received from France as military aid -photo.

13:10 Flanks of Artyomovsk. While operational-tactical aviation and rocket artillery are dismantling the defense line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Chasov Yar and Bogdanovka, the special forces of the Southern Military District continue to breakthrough through the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces behind Kleshcheevka.

The work is not going well - the Ukrainian troops, despite the losses, are trying to carry out rotation and snap at every attack. Night “birds” with drops play a big role in combat work.

13:04 Fun things under our control: paratroopers are confident they will hold liberated territories and continue their systematic advance in the Soledaro-Artemovsk direction.

Military personnel of the Tula Guards Airborne Forces control all access roads, preventing the enemy from rotating personnel. Attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are stopped even on the approaches to our positions.

The village of Veseloe, Donetsk People's Republic, was liberated on January 18 of this year as a result of successful actions by units of the “Southern” group of forces.

12:35 Situation on the Maryinsko-Ugledarsky sector of the front - analysis from Multi_XAM and z_arhiv

As the situation in the area of the Avdeevsky salient becomes more and more critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, combat operations in the area from Mar'inka to Ugledar are gaining intensity, where our main goal is to create a bridgehead for developing an offensive and cutting the enemy’s line of communications.

The fact of the advance of the RF Armed Forces north-west of Marinka in the direction of Georgievka has been confirmed by the majority of domestic, Western and Ukrainian resources. Our units also managed to gain a foothold southwest of Mar'inka, as a result of which we managed to expand the zone of control along the Mar'inka - Pobeda - Konstantinovka highway to a depth of more than 1.5 km, pushing back enemy formations from the 197th battalion of the 124th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade, as well as 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade. At the same time, the right flank of our forces advancing in the northeastern envelopment of Novomikhailovka was covered.

This allowed the attacking formations of the Russian Armed Forces to gain a foothold on the eastern outskirts of the village, knocking out the enemy stronghold on the approach to it. However, the enemy, with the help of the 3rd battalion of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade, continues to hold positions on the farm territory at point 47.860570, 37.498791, acting with the support of the Alcor aerial reconnaissance group.

Four km to the south, advancing from the area of the village of Sladkoe, the Russian Armed Forces continued to move in a wide range in the direction of the Konstantinovka - Ugledar highway, pushing the enemy along the landings and forcing him to retreat to the area of the company stronghold.

In parallel with the advance here, over the course of two weeks, the Russian Armed Forces launched a series of high-precision strikes against the rear control point of the OTG Donetsk on the territory of the former Yuzhnodonbasskaya mine in the area of the Vodyanoye settlement. In this area, the enemy gradually began to retreat, but still holds positions with the forces of 4 battalions from the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, as well as the 116th and 128th Territorial Defense brigades.

The forward movement of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of the Konstantinovka - Ugledar highway at the intersection with the S-05-11-02 highway (Vodyanoy section) simultaneously solves 2 problems: creating conditions for an attack on Ugledar from the northeast; establishing fire control over the supply route of the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, represented here in full force.

Currently, the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine follows the 32-km route Kurakhovo - Uspenovka - Bogoyavlenka - Ugledar, which is located on average at a distance of up to 18 kms from the LBS. This makes it difficult to carry out targeted strikes on enemy vehicles. The section from the Konstantinovka – Ugledar highway to a depth of 15 km in the direction of Elizavetovka, Uspenovka and Bogoyavlenka is a layered system of fortified areas and defense lines, covered by the forces of the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade of air assault troops.


11:47 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:

Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction.

Motorized rifle units, with artillery support, repelled two attacks by formations of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Prechistovka area, destroying two infantry fighting vehicles, two combat reconnaissance patrol vehicles, a pickup truck and more than 35 military personnel.

Bomber strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flamethrower systems hit strongholds and manpower concentrations of the 58th Motorized Infantry, 72nd Mechanized brigades and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Urozhainy, Ugledar and Staromayorsky, four temporary deployment points were destroyed, three control points for unmanned aircraft and an electronic warfare station.

During the day, four enemy attempts to carry out rotations at forward positions in the Staromayorsky and Mirny areas were stopped.

The total enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 250 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, two infantry fighting vehicles, an M777 towed howitzer, and three vehicles.


11:40 The cannonade in Artemovsk does not stop for a minute - the “kamikaze road” is constantly being roundsed by the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The film crew of “Stars” showed personnel combat work of units of the Southern Group of Forces.

10:54 Over the past 24 hours, 11 Ukrainian drones were detected and suppressed over Donetsk, Makeyevka and Gorlovka, the Russian FSB Directorate for the DPR reported.

10:36 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10.30:

The enemy attacked our positions west of Rabotino and north of Novoprokopovka in small groups. Soldiers of the Russian army are engaged in shooting battles with the support of artillery and mortars.

Near Verbovoy, UAV operators discovered several units of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces moving along the line of combat contact. Mortar crews and artillery struck the identified targets.

09:47 The Russian Armed Forces took fire control over one of the main supply roads for Ukrainian troops near Donetsk. This was announced by adviser to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky.

09:43 Over the past 24 hours, military investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee recorded further crimes against the civilian population of the DPR.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, using 155mm caliber artillery, including with a cluster warhead, roundsed the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Yasinovatsky district, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and the village within 24 hours. Ozeryanovka.

In addition, in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky districts of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, drops of explosive objects from UAVs were recorded, as a result of which a man born in 1963 died in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. and one man was wounded, born in 1956.

In total, five residential buildings and two civil infrastructure facilities were damaged during the inspection by the VFU.

09:37 Three shots are enough for tankers to completely defeat positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - artillery supports the actions of attack aircraft in pitch darkness

Tank units operate exclusively from closed firing positions, constantly changing them - it is impossible to leave armored vehicles in plain sight in Artemovsk.

“If the artillery covers us, then we hit it pointwise either at the fortifications or at the points that are given to us. We fired back and returned, hiding so that no one could see us,” explained the commander of a tank platoon with the call sign “Noise.”

09:35 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. Kakhovka four rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;

-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka three rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery five rounds;

-- n.p. Korsunka two rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to rounds civilian infrastructure in the village. Peschanivka, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kardashinka, Maslovka village, firing a total of 15 roundss from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:20 In the Chasov-Yarsky direction in Bogdanovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to restrain the Russian Armed Forces by pushing our people back from the center of the village. But there was a breakthrough by the Russian Armed Forces along the ridge along the Bakhmut-Chasov Yar road. Ours entered a hill, so they approached Chasov Yar at a distance of 1.2 km and began to bypass the defense forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ivanovsky, which is located in a lowland.

Also, in connection with the transfer of the Azov battalion from near Kleshcheevka to the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Federation has achieved success.

09:11 The pincers for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdiivka continue to close.

A significant tactical improvement in the position of the Russian Army is reported in the Vinogradnik-2 SNT on the southern flank of the city, east of the Tsarskaya Okhota base.

Also from Opytny, the second group of our forces advanced up to 1 km in the direction of Vinogradniki in order to close the encirclement of the Cheburashka region and the Zenit fortified area (former air defense base of the Ukrainian Armed Forces).

08:55 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:

Units of the “Southern” group of forces successfully repelled five attacks by formations of the 24th Mechanized, 5th Assault, 79th, 80th Air Assault brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Leninskoye, Shumy, Krasnogorovka and Georgievka.

With the support of aviation strikes and artillery fire, they occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeating the manpower and equipment of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade and the 129th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novgorod and Novokalinovye areas.

The enemy in the Donetsk direction lost up to 325 military personnel killed and wounded.

A tank, four armored combat vehicles, and 25 vehicles were hit by anti-tank guided missiles and loitering ammunition.

Air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Kremenets, Aleksandrovka, Kleshcheevka, Mezhevoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.


08:19 Frontline summary on the morning of 02/14/2024:

In the Zaporozhye direction there are oncoming battles west of the village of Rabotino and north of Novoprokopovka. The Russian Armed Forces attacked from Novopokrovka. Ukrainian positions in Malye Shcherbaki, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Krasnoye and Malinovka are under fire. Russian ones - in Novoprokopovka, Verbovoy, Novofedorovka and Novopokrovka.

On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, advanced on the southeastern outskirts of Novomikhailovka, but Pobeda did not. They also managed to take new positions in the Georgievka area. The Russian Armed Forces also attacked near Nevelskoye and in the Tonenkoye area. No success. On the southern outskirts of Avdeevka, with the support of long-range weapons, they carried out assault operations, which brought them important tactical success.

The fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area are practically blocked. There is also progress in the northeastern outskirts, where Russian units have reached the main logistics artery of the Ukrainian garrison in the city. In fact, it is no longer working. Under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Yekaterinivka and Kurakhov. RF Armed Forces - in Mar'inka and Donetsk.

In the Bakhmut direction there were tough oncoming battles near Andreevka and north-west of Kleshcheevka. The Russian Armed Forces have advanced from Khromovy and are storming Ukrainian positions in the Bogdanovka area.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops attacked at Ternov, in Tabaevka and west of Sin'kovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces held their positions.


08:11 Ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces detonated after being hit by a 122mm D-30 howitzer.

The crew of the 122mm D-30 howitzer destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' ammunition depot in Artemovsk at night. Zvezda filmed unique footage of the combat work of units of the Southern Group of Forces.

Having struck a previously identified target, the howitzer covers the ammunition depot. It detonates, also destroying a group of infantry - our military personnel learn about this thanks to footage from a reconnaissance drone.

“The crew is well-coordinated, they work perfectly, they hit targets, the enemy is simply suffering,” comments the senior battery officer with the call sign “Deputy.”

The entire crew of the howitzer are Siberians, persistent people, ready to carry out tasks in the most difficult conditions. Their goal is common to all.

08:07 “Hurricane” ZVO destroyed strengthening the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction.

This time the artillerymen destroyed the fortifications and ammunition depot of Ukrainian militants. Aerial reconnaissance helped identify the target: from above it was possible to notice systematic movements of groups of militants and heavy equipment, as well as a large number of cargo transport. Several successive missile strikes destroyed buildings, fortifications and destroyed enemy equipment and manpower.

08:00 Summary on the morning of February 14, 2024:

In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are experiencing difficulties in providing food and ammunition; enemy boats are being sunk by UAV operators. On the Zaporizhzhya Front yesterday, anti-tank crews of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division destroyed an enemy helicopter with anti-tank missiles, after which our field crew left without losses.

The offensive of our troops continues in the direction of Chasov Yar. The success of the Russian Armed Forces is reported west of Khromovo south of the Popovsky forest, advance at the front up to 1.5 km and to a depth of 750 m.

In Avdeevka, our troops intensified offensive operations in the south in the area of ??the settlement. Experienced – “Tsar’s Hunt”, coverage of the southern fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is being created. To the north, the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces towards the central part of the city continues, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are retreating to multi-storey buildings in the hope of shelter from high-explosive bombs.

Enormous one-time losses in personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the Selidovo training ground 30 km west of Avdeevka. Repeated strikes by the Russian Armed Forces on the accumulation of manpower destroyed and wounded up to 1,500 thousand Ukrainian military personnel who were preparing to enter the Avdievka Sack.

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