LDPR military summary: situation on the line of contact (March 2, updated)

20:52 In Starognativka destroyed Ural with Nazis from 53 Obr. Resisted, were mopped up.

19:42 DPR forces destroy significant part of artillery of 56th motorized infantry and 25th airborne brigade of Ukrainian army – Basurin.

19:27 As a result of the shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces of the village of Golubovskoye using 120 mm mortars, two 15-year-olds were wounded in varying degrees of severity.

17:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces began shelling the Petrovsky district of the city: under the shells of the militants comes the Tikhiy district.

16:36 Message from local residents of the village of Aleksandrovka (southern outskirts of Donetsk): at 15A Chelyuskintsev Street, a Ukrainian sniper wounded a civilian born in 1964. This is already the 11th case of Ukrainian snipers shooting at civilians in that village since the beginning of the year.

16:23 From Gorlovka they write that at night the Armed Forces tried to enter the city. The attack was repulsed, judging by the equipment, these were paratroopers from the 95th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

16:21 The forces of the LPR, with the support of the Russian army, captured the settlement of Novoaidar – a statement from the army.

14:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired mines in Gorlovka and Golmovsky.

13:55 In the liberated territories of Donbass, cash payments are allowed in two currencies: rubles and hryvnias. The course will be – 2.7, both buying and selling – the same for accounting for all retail chains – a statement from the Central District Bank of the DPR.

13:45 Message from local residents of Volnovakha district, Donskoye village: “Since the February 27, Ukrainian punishers have been shelling us, people are sitting without electricity, gas in places, no water, only in wells. Communication is jammed for the second day without getting through. A humanitarian catastrophe is beginning, if there is an opportunity to get trhough someone who could fix communications, we will be immensely grateful! Thanks. Photo of the village after the shelling of the Nazis”.

12:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: Verkhnetoretskoye settlement (northern) – Verkhnetoretskoye settlement (southern): 29 AGS grenades were fired, heavy machine guns were also used;  Marinka settlement – Aleksandrovka settlement: fired 7 mines with caliber 120 mm, 8 rounds from BMP-1.

11:40 Podzemgaz. Lisichansk. Ukrainian Armed Forces shell the city.

11:30 For 2 weeks, six people died due to shelling in the LPR. Four were injured, the JCCC reported.

11:00 A group of DPR troops entered Volnovakha, Donetsk reported.

10:50 At 10:50 Ukrainian militants opened fire on Aleksandrovka.

10:49 The DPR forces, developing the offensive with the active support of the Russian army, captured 37 settlements in the Donbass: Pavlopol, Pishchevik, Viktorovka, Bogdanovka, Novognatovka, Nikolaevka, Rybinskoye, Trudovskoye, Vasilyevka, Prokhorovka, Starognatovka, Svobodnoye, Donskoye, Anadol, Andreevka, Granite, Gnutovo, Bugas, Staromarevka, Peaceful, Kamenka, Novoselovka, Novoselovka Second, Kremenevka, Fedorovka, Zamozhnoye, Shirokino, Talakovka, Sartana, Berdyansk, Primorskoye, Orlovskoye, Stepanovka, Topolinoye, Maloyanisol, Lebedinskoye, Vodyanoye.

10:34 In the Debaltseve direction, Ukrainian bandit formations are pounding hard on advanced settlements. Logvinovo is one of the closest. Yesterday it was under fire from 152 mm howitzers. Grad and heavy mortars. The morning began with a mortar attack. The JCCC recorded arrivals of min 120 mm.

10:30 In the morning, Ukrainian fascists are shelling the village. Logvinovo and not the first day.

9:52 Basurin on blocking and storming Mariupol: Everything is going as planned. Volnovakha will be ours soon. Mariupol is blocked. The troops will continue to move in the direction that will help us finally stop the shelling of residential areas of settlements not only here, but also among our neighbors in Luhansk. It takes a couple of days to understand how the situation in Mariupol will develop. Because in any case, there will be a process of negotiations – we convince the enemy to lay down their arms, surrender or leave the city so that the civilian population does not suffer. A humanitarian catastrophe will soon begin there – without light, food. Everything must be done so that people do not suffer, which is why we said that we were opening a humanitarian corridor. If, after all, there is a normal consciousness that they will allow the civilian population to leave the city, this would make the path easier for us. If not, then, I think, negotiations, but no one canceled the special operation.

9:15 The People’s Militia of the LPR has already liberated 40 settlements: Putilino, Artem, Shirokiy, Shulginka, Teploe, Nizhneteploe, Verkhneteploe, Dam, Petrovka, Bakhmutovka, Gerasimovka, Raspberry, Lower Alder, Upper Alder, Kamyshnoye, Bobrovo, Kapitanovo, Muratovo, Orekhovo-Donetsk, Smolyaninovo, Khvorostyanovka, Denezhkovo, Crimean, Trekhizbenka, Lopaskino, Novoakhtyrka, Chabanovka, New Astrakhan, Grechishkino, Golubovskoye, Svatovo, Novoborovoe, Baranikovka, Klimovka, Bulgakovka, Krasnorechenskoye, Barykino, Valuyskoye, Stanitsa Luganskaya, Happiness.

8:40 Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Dokuchaevsk several times last night. Damaged at least 12 houses, said the head of the city administration Alexander Kachanov.

8:35 Armed formations of Ukraine fired at the capital of the DPR at night. In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a gas pipe was damaged and 4 houses were destroyed. In the Kiev region, Ukrainian shells flew into the territory of the Tochmash plant. And in Kuibyshevskoye, two dozen houses were hard hit at once. The Dolphin sports complex, city hospital No. 21 and school No. 71 also suffered from the shelling. This was reported by the head of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin.

8:14 DPR troops entered the outskirts of Mariupol. According to the WarGonzo military correspondent, the assault squads are moving from the east and north at once. Now there is a battle, units of the DPR are fixed on the occupied lines.

8:02 DPR forces complete the encirclement of Mariupol.