[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/21/2024 to 00:00 02/22/2024.
A total of 51 cases of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Two civilians were reported injured
DAMAGED:
Three residential buildings
Three civil facilities infrastructure
Eleven artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 37 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction,
Three artillery attacks in the Yasinovat direction.
A total of 181 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:00 SVO reports and analytics: Kurakhovskoe direction.
The enemy confirms the catastrophic situation in this direction. The enemy side confirms the loss of Victory and active advance in Novomikhailovka.
The Russian army is gradually breaking through the enemy’s defenses and moving towards the settlement of Konstantinovka, which is a strategic point in this direction. After the capture of which the enemy garrison in Ugledar will be operationally surrounded.
21:05 Captured Ukrainian serviceman told about forced conscription into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the devil-may-care attitude of the command, as well as the low morale of the personnel.
21:05 Explosions are also reported in Nikolaev
21:03 Ukrainian TG channels report about Geraniums in the direction of Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovsk region)
19:56 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit a hospital in the center of Donetsk. A woman was previously injured -photo.
19:15 Advancement south of Mar'inka over the past 2 days. Occupation of Victory and the oporniks north of it.
Front near Rabotino. After bringing reserves into battle, the enemy was able to recapture the opornik near the southern outskirts of Rabotino. Attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to return the heights from Verbovoy were unsuccessful. Here our troops continue to maintain pressure in the direction of the eastern outskirts of Rabotino.
Advancement of the Russian Armed Forces on the Vremevsky salient. Here the front remains quite active north of Priyutnoye, west of Staromikhailovka and in the Novodonetskoye area.
Limited strikes in different directions force the enemy to withdraw reserves. The enemy understands this and spends them extremely reluctantly. They are afraid that our General Staff is deliberately stretching them along the front before a more serious blow.
In general, the front is now very dynamic for a significant extent.
18:48 One of episodes of assault of Victory. The first BMP-3 lands troops in the eastern part of the village and works point-blank at the enemy, the second supports fire from the Ugledar road. The soldiers of the 255th Motorized Rifle Regiment drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the streets for another four days and repelled counterattacks.
Between Mar'inka and Pobeda, there are continuous fields. It was impossible to advance with small infantry groups - there would be a lot of walking, the enemy would quickly notice from a drone and cover with artillery, and the equipment would be in direct line of sight of the enemy ATGMs. Therefore, the soldiers of the 255th Motorized Rifle Regiment had to first take enemy fortifications along the road in order to make a relatively safe corridor for the infantry fighting vehicles.
17:55 Donetsk direction. (Novomikhailovka settlement) with the support of BTR-82A and T-72 tanks, our soldiers advanced up to half a kilometer into the enemy’s positions.
16:46 The “Brave” who stormed Avdievka spoke about the details of the successful operation -video.
15:46 Donetsk direction: what to expect after the Victory: situation as of 15.00 February 21, 2024
The prospects for cutting off the logistics of the Ukrainian group in Ugledar are not the only ones that open up with the taking of control of the village of Pobeda.
In the short term, we should expect an attempt by the enemy to regain lost positions, since a populated area is tactically important not only for building a defense, but also for attacking further.
The personnel of the 33rd Mechanized Brigade withdrew to the west to the plantings adjacent to the village. Their abundance and placement on the hill will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to hold back the onslaught, but now Russian troops can move not only to Konstantinovka, but also to Georgievka from the south along the H15 highway.
Georgievka itself lies in a lowland near a reservoir, which is why positions there are very easily shot through. And the H15 road lies on a hill, which, if controlled, will greatly simplify the assault on Georgievka, where two assault groups of the 46th Brigade arrived the other day.
If so far the front line in Georgievka has remained without any significant changes, then from the north near Krasnogorovka there are some pretty good news: the Russian Armed Forces have gained a foothold on the southern outskirts of the village.
There is no confirmation of this yet, however, if this is true, then with a high degree of probability Russian fighters advanced along Geologichnaya Street in the direction of the gas station.
At the same time, you shouldn’t expect quick success here. Krasnogorovka lies on a hill, which is also crossed by the railway. And in the central part there are several objects that the Ukrainian Armed Forces use as fortified areas, for example, a fireproof plant.
14:54 South Donetsk direction: liberation of Victory
Situation as of 14.00 February 21, 2024
A few hours ago, Russian military personnel hoisted the Red Banner over one of the houses in the center of the village of Pobeda, for which fighting had been going on for months. The settlement came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Around Pobeda, the Ukrainian Armed Forces built a defense along the line Mar'inka - Pobeda - "Menagerie". It was the fortified area near the village that did not allow Russian troops to move to Konstantinovka, located on the logistics route to Ugledar.
The importance of the settlement is emphasized by how desperately the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to hold it. Over the course of several weeks of active defense, there were paratroopers from the 79th and 95th Airborne brigades, as well as units from the 33rd Infantry Brigade, two assault groups of which were sent yesterday for a counterattack, but to no avail.
Most likely, the Ukrainian formations are trying to slow down the advance of the Russian Armed Forces by establishing strong points in the landings to the west of Pobeda - they are located on slightly higher hills, which simplifies their defense.
From Annovka and Katerynivka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces randomly fire at Russian positions, holding back the onslaught. However, the enemy’s position on the Konstantinovka-Novomikhailovka line is becoming more complicated every day, since the Russian Armed Forces are advancing further in the Novomikhailovka area.
Evidence has emerged that Russian troops were able to expand the zone of control on the southern outskirts of the village, as well as from the northeast. Considering that the “menagerie” has long been under our control, the Russian Armed Forces probably approached along route 00531.
13:55 Solntsepekov crews from the beginning of the special operation reduced the time spent at firing positions was reduced to a minimum, while increasing the deployment speed by two times, said the crew commander with the call sign Dragon.
13:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the "West" group
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the Kupyansk direction.
Motorized rifle units, in cooperation with artillery and aviation, repelled four counterattacks by assault groups of the 30th and 32nd Mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sin'kovka area.
During the counterbattery fight, operators of Lancet loitering ammunition destroyed three Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mounts, a 155mm PzH 2000 self-propelled artillery mount and a US-made M119 towed gun in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoye and Tishchenkovka.
The group's air defense systems destroyed four unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including two Valkyries, Fury and Baba Yaga.
In addition, enemy losses in the Kupyansk direction amounted to up to 45 military personnel and two pickup trucks.
12:45 The settlement of Pobeda, after a three-day assault, came under the control of the Russian army. Enemy resources confirm the capture of the village of Pobeda by our army.
All enemy counterattacks were repulsed and in the morning our troops occupied the western part of the village and completely cleared the settlement of the enemy. At these moments there is a massive attack on Novomikhailovka.
11:50 Yes, looks abandoned equipment of the militants - there is a whole “zoo” of it left in Avdievka. Just outside the city, fighting continues. Units of the "Center" group of troops press the enemy further. Russian evacuation teams are working on the streets, collecting trophies.
An American-made M113 armored personnel carrier fell into a crater from a gliding bomb and remained in Avdeevka. Fleeing from the city, the enemy left behind personal belongings, weapons and armored vehicles. To pull the M113 out of the puddle, a powerful repair and recovery vehicle was needed. This American armored personnel carrier was abandoned in a completely repairable condition.
“We’ve never seen anything like this, now we’ll study it. We will check every bolt with our own hands and in the future our mechanics will restore this equipment too,” said the commander of the evacuation platoon with the call sign “Ares”.
Captured American armored personnel carriers, after restoration, will likely become museum exhibits. But the infantry fighting vehicle will be repaired and sent into battle - naturally, painting over the enemy “crosses”.
11:29 After the assault on the village of Pobeda near Mar'inka, a slight straightening of the front began. To the north (closer to Mar'inka) a number of Ukrainian Armed Forces support forces were taken.
11:17 Ukrainian Telegram channels report a rocket in the sky over the Poltava region.
11:05 Five apartment buildings in the urban-type settlement of Vergulevka in the LPR were damaged as a result of shelling from Kyiv militants, said the head of the Bryanka urban district, Evgeniy Morozov.
10:50 Detachment “Barbarian” of the special forces “Akhmat” tore off rotation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kleshcheevka (Artemovsk direction).
“Our FPV drone flew into the machine gunner’s nest twice. Three hundred people arrived during the day... He was evacuated at night - and new forces were brought in there. The next day they were extinguished again,” the group commander with the call sign Varvar told RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa.
10:05 The Ministry of Defense published personnel combat work of the Ka-52 in the Donetsk direction.
09:49 With a well-aimed throw, the Russian UAV operator of the 4th military base destroyed calculation of kamikaze drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kamensky, Zaporozhye region.
09:40 Captured during the assault on Avdievka, captured infantry fighting vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will serve on the side of the Russian troops. The deputy battalion commander for armaments of the Russian Armed Forces with the call sign Clever spoke about this.
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. Peschanivka five rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery five rounds;
-- n.p. Rybalche two rounds;
in the village of Novaya Mayachka three rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Podstepnoye, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Velikaya Lepetikha, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:06 The Ukrainian Armed Forces left Avdievka in a hurry - the abandoned Zenit fortification was full of NATO weapons, cigarettes and food.
RT military correspondent Stanislav Obishchenko showed a bunker where the enemy was hiding. It was built back in the Soviet years - several floors, reinforced concrete floors.
The air bombs used by the Russian Armed Forces penetrated all of this, although it was assumed that the bunker could withstand a nuclear strike.
“It was difficult to break through here, but we did it. I'm glad that we finally took it [Avdievka]. They had a good fortification here, but we broke off their horns,” said one of the fighters.
08:57 The enemy records the activation of our troops in the Svatovsko-Kremensky sector. This was reported by a military expert, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the LPR NM Andrey Marochko
“The RER forces have established that the enemy is noticing the activation of our troops in the areas of the settlements of Makeevka (LPR), Nevskoye, Terny, Yampolovka, Torskoye, Serebryanka, Belogorovka. The number of attacks is increasing. Data is also being transmitted about the regular growth in the number of our contingent,” Marochko wrote in the Telegram channel.
08:19 The M-113 tracked armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed by units of the Russian Armed Forces in the Avdeevsky direction -photo.
08:16 Over the past 24 hours, the UFU has committed crimes against civilians of the DPR.
Ukrainian militants fired artillery at Kuibyshevsky, Voroshilovsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeyevka, as well as Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, using MLRS and 155mm caliber artillery, including with a cluster warhead.
As a result of artillery attack of the territory of the DPR by Ukrainian militants within 24 hours, a woman born in 1955 was killed, and 10 people, women born in 1989, born in 1951, and born in 1973, were injured of varying degrees of severity. and born in 1982, as well as men born in 1989, born in 1991, born in 1952, born in 1970, and born in 2005.
In total, six residential buildings and six civilian infrastructure facilities, as well as 6 vehicles, were damaged by DPR shelling.
08:02 Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces told how the Russian flag was hoisted over the administration building of liberated Avdievka.
According to the group commander with the call sign Artist, they passed by the building while clearing the block of Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. They didn’t have the flag with them, so they asked the command to drop it from a drone.
“There was still a lot of enemy around, even artillerymen were working on neighboring buildings, there were arrivals, but this did not bother us,” said a military man with the call sign Khrom.
08:02 Governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo thanked the naval infantry of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade for the liberation of Krynok. Corresponding address from the head of the region published in the Telegram channel.
“A low bow to you, heroes, from all residents of the Kherson region and my personal deep gratitude,” wrote Saldo.
08:00 Summary on the morning of February 21, 2024:
Yesterday evening there were reports from the Kherson direction that part of the settlement. Krynki still remains with the enemy, small groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces are sitting in basements, and the destruction of enemy boats on the river continues. Dnieper.On the Zaporozhye front, the enemy retreated from the settlement. Rabotino, located in the lowlands, to the heights, continues to defend the flanks of the front sector. Our units are advancing.
South of Maryinka, our troops occupied the village Pobeda, but clashes with the remaining groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue in the village. There are battles in Novomikhailovka, and in Georgievka (west of Mar'inka) the Russian Armed Forces are also continuing their offensive.
The zone of control of the Russian Army to the west of liberated Avdeevka is expanding. There are reports of battles near Lastochkino. Some front-line soldiers regarded statements about minimal losses in the battles in the Avdeevsky direction as a harsh propaganda technique, leveling the severity of the battles and the merits of their units.