22:23 There is an explosion at an oil depot in Rovenki LNR due to shelling of the VFU. Approximately 200 tonnes of diesel fuel are on fire. According to preliminary information, there are casualties.
21:52 Consequences of a shell hitting a residential building near the centre of Donetsk.
21:53 A teenager was injured as a result of shelling in Donetsk.
21:43 Arrival in the centre of Gorlovka. According to preliminary reports, a gas pipeline was broken, information is being clarified. The shelling of civilian towns in the DNR from heavy guns continues.
21:42 Surrendered AFU soldiers call on the rest of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to lay down their weapons, LNR People’s Militia reports.
21:37 Nothing changes. Everything that happens in Ukraine is being dispersed. And it doesn’t matter who is to blame. It’s all Russia’s fault anyway – Pushilin on Solovyov Live
21:36 People are tired, it is impossible to impose the idea of Russophobia on them. They speak and think in Russian. You cannot build your ideology on hatred – Pushilin on the air of Solovyov Live
21:24 A shell hit a residential building near the centre of Donetsk, information on casualties is being clarified, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.
21:21 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are not letting Mariupol residents out of the city, they are practically “hostages,” Pushilin said.
21:18 Pushilin said that the DPR is advancing, with the echeloned defenses of the Ukrainian forces overcome in many parts of the front.
21:09 An explosion has occurred in the LPR in Rovenka, presumably at an oil depot, LuhanskInformCentre reports.
20:50 The Ukrainian army damaged 30 houses and 14 infrastructure facilities in the DNR over the day. The strikes were carried out using rocket and gun artillery, mortars and tactical missiles.
20:49 The Russian Liberation Army has entered Mykolaiv – head of the local administration.
20:43 According to the People’s Militia of the DPR, the republic has taken control of 12 more settlements today: Nikolaevka, Novognatoka, Bogdanovka, Trudovskoye, Vasilievka, Rybinskoye, Starognatovka, Chicherino, Prohorovka, Andreevka, Pavlopol and Pischevik.
20:33 As a result of shelling by the AFU, 26 transformer substations in the Kiev district of Donetsk were de-energized, 5,500 subscribers were left without electricity – head of the city administration Oleksiy Kulemzin.
19:40 More than 40 Ukrainian servicemen have voluntarily laid down arms and defected to the Donetsk people’s republic, the republic’s ombudsman, Darya Morozova, has said.
19:20 The offensive in the Mariupol direction continues. Part of the Ukrainian armed forces’ settlements are surrendered without a fight. The Ukrainians are leaving some strongholds in such a hurry that they are abandoning not only ammunition, ammunition and service documents, but also the bodies of their dead comrades.
19:15 Shelling of the AFU between Opytne and Veseloye: 7 shells of 152 mm calibre were fired.
19:10 Russian air force carried out six strikes on AFU positions in Sartana, north of Mariupol.
18:54 According to local residents, fascists from the Ukrainian armed forces are mining a bridge in Lysychansk.
18:28 DPR forces cut the northern Mariupol-Volnovakha highway. Starognatovka and Donskoye are taken.
18:11 DPR forces enter Svobodnoye and Donskoye, state TV channel ChP-Donetsk reports
17:50 The Donetsk People’s Republic took Novoapostolovka and Chicherino under its control.
17:20 The SMM recorded shelling by the SMM from Marinka to Oleksandrivka: 8 120 mm mines were fired.
15:40 The shelling of Novomikhailovka – Luhanske by the Ukrainian armed forces: 20 82 mm mines fired.
15:00 Social media says that in Severodonetsk, Novikova str. 23B in a residential area near a school there is a tank of the Ukrainian punishers. It drives out, fires, and then drives into the residential area again. This is the edge of the city in the direction of Shchastia and Luhansk.
14:00 Five Grad rockets have just been fired at Horlivka from the direction of Kurdyumivka station (controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces).
13:54 Leonid Pasichnyk said that the LPR is now in control of Lopaskino, Trekhizbenka, Muratovo, and Grechishkino settlements. The most important thing for us is that Stanytsia Luhanska is finally ours.
13:47 Basurin: 5 civilians killed, 15 wounded in DPR in 24 hours.
13:40 AFU’s echeloned defence is practically passed – Basurin.
13:26 Head of Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidymeste said that with Stanytsia Luhanska, the LNR has taken control of Krymskoye and Markovka .
13:14 According to the LPR, Stanytsia Luhanska has been liberated.
13:00 AFU shelling was recorded at Vodyanoye – Leninske: 5 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
12:46 20 AFU fighters from Bugas surrendered. They reported that they were ready to move towards the neutral strip to surrender. Negotiators moved out to meet the surrendering platoon
12:40 Ukrainian nationalists plan to fire rocket artillery at Dmitrovka and Donetsk, the LNR has reported.
12:16 The head of the DPR said that there are certain successes in the advance of the army of the Donbas republics in the southern direction towards Mariupol.
12:13 DPR spokesman Eduard Basurin: Ukrainian nationalists retreating from positions in Donbas are planning a series of bloody provocations with shelling of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Dmitrov with multiple rocket launchers.
11:59 Subscribers continue to send photos to the Southern Bridgehead telegram channel. Photo shows Stanytsia Luhanska liberated from Ukrainian punishers.
11:57 Medvedev says the operation to protect Donbas will continue until all the results Putin said are achieved – no more and no less.
11:48 Consequences of Amvrosiyivka shelling. Ukrainian fascists shelling civilian infrastructure.
11:40 More photos from Zaitsevo settlement, 45 Gladkova str. A Ukrainian shell hit was recorded, the explosion demolished a summer kitchen, the house was left without glazing.
11:33 Photos emerged of the consequences of the shelling of the Solnechniy Microdistrict in Gorlovka by the Ukrainian armed formations. Glazing in apartment buildings on Bogun Street 37, 39 was damaged and two cars were damaged. A heating main in Bogun Street 37 was broken and the Avoska shop building was damaged.
1:25 LPR forces liberated Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint and the central part of the settlement.
11:11 A photo from Ukraine’s temporarily occupied Severodonetsk has surfaced. Ukrainian armed forces place 122mm D-30 howitzers in residential areas.
Ukrainian armed forces deploy 122mm D-30 howitzers in residential areas
11:10 The Ukrainian armed forces have reportedly left Luhanska village without a fight.
11:03 The media report that the DNR People’s Militia has taken control of Pavlopol, Pischevik, Hnutove and Talakovka townships.
9:54 The LPR forces liberated the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint and the central part of the village.
8:45 An LPR representative in the gumshaped group said that seven civilians were killed in the DPR and LPR by shelling by Ukrainian armed formations during the day.
08:30 AFU shelling Verkhnetoretske (north) – Verkhnetoretske (south): 10 82mm mines fired; Zhovanka – Zaitsevo (south): small arms fire used.
7:50 The DPR Territorial Defence Headquarters reports the interception of two Tochka-U missiles over the republic. The missiles of the tactical missile complex did not work. As a result, residential houses and outbuildings in Ilovaysk and Amvrosiyivka were damaged.
07:45 Shelling of Verkhnetoretske village north and south by Ukrainian punitive forces: 5 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired.
3:50 Ukrainian military forces shelling of Dokuchaievsk n/a Sadoviy lane. Sadoviy, 2, 4 – numerous damages to the gas pipe. Also recorded damage to 6kV high-voltage line, 3 transformer substations disconnected.
3:40 A Ukrainian shell hit Staromikhailovka settlement: 2 window blocks knocked out, 9 double-glazed windows damaged, 20 m² of wall slashed, 3 cars damaged in Oktyabrskaya str. 5a. At 7 Oktyabrskaya Street, fire was recorded as a result of the shelling, damaging a metal shed in 12m², belongings and a car.
3:30 VFIs shelled Donetsk, Kievsky district. Glazing and doors at Buslaeva Street, 35a, kindergarten of MPEI No. 251 were damaged.
03:10 The shelling of Maiorsk – Horlivka, Shahta 6/7 settlement was recorded: 6 RPG grenades were fired, also large-caliber machine guns were used.
3:00 Ukrainian armed formations recorded 9 shelling of 7 LPR settlements. Five houses were damaged in Donetskiy settlement.
Two locals were killed and one wounded as a result of the shelling of Donetskiy, the JCCC LPR reported.