Military report of the LPR. Situation on the line of contact on March 5 (updated)

22:16 The DPR on Saturday evacuated 84 people, including 21 children, from Mariupol and settlements in its suburbs, the republic’s territorial defence headquarters has said.

22:06 Residents in Melitopol start surrendering weapons for a reward.

22:03 The commander of the 08806 Guards unit, Colonel Vladimir Zhoga, is awarded the title of Hero of the DPR posthumously – decree by Denis Pushilin.

21:50 Pushilin spoke about the situation in Donbas: the DPR and LPR militaries are chewing out every meter of land.

21:30 Another batch of nationalists were denazified today in Volnovakha. Every flag from the military uniform is a destroyed AFU fighter.

Another batch of nationalists today underwent denazification in Volnovakha. Every flag from the military uniform is a destroyed AFU fighter.

Очередная партия националистов сегодня прошла денацификацию в Волновахе. Каждый флаг с военной формы – уничтоженный боевик ВСУ.

21:20 DPR head Denis Pushilin on Solovyov Live said that the ring around Mariupol is narrowing.

21:14 Ukrainian forces shell Dokuchayevsk, including with banned 120mm mines.

20:54 The Russian Armed Forces are launching heavy strikes on Nazi positions near Kramatorsk. The airfield is struck.

20:05 No civilians were able to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha through the security corridors, the nationalist battalions took advantage of the “silence regime” to reinforce their positions – Russian Defence Ministry.

19:17 DPR People’s Militia forces with fire support from the RF Armed Forces occupied six settlements in Volnovakha direction during the current day, 31 AFU armoured fighting vehicles were seized – Basurin.

19:10 The LPR representation in the JCCC and in the negotiation process reported that five residential buildings were damaged as a result of mortar shelling in Donetskiy settlement.

19:40 As a result of the shelling, the Kalinin hospital in Donetsk was damaged. There is no glazing, part of the hospital is de-energized.

18:44 AFU escaped from Talakivka shooting civilians.

18:26 In Berdyansk, civilians receive humanitarian aid from the Russian Armed Forces. People lined up for humanitarian aid, dozens of people gathered in the street.

17:54 School No. 116, located in Petrovsky district of Donetsk at 1 Samarskaya Street, was hit by the shelling.

17:50 In Mariupol, locals insist the Ukrainian occupants move the Grad MLRS away from residential buildings – where the installation came to cover as a human shield.

17:38 Official statement by the International Red Cross on the evacuation situation in Volnovakha and Mariupol: there will be no evacuation today.

17:21 According to media reports, a civilian was injured in Horlivka due to the shelling of the AFU.

17:20 LPR shelling at Popasna-Pervomaisk: 152mm artillery gun (15 shells)

17:20 AFU fired 4 mines of 120mm calibre at Novomikhailovka settlement – Donetsk, Trudivskaia mine settlement.

17:06 As a result of the shelling, the infrastructure of the Ekos communal enterprise located at 36, Gorkogo Street, Yasinovataya town was destroyed. There were no casualties.

17:01 Azov militants and members of the territorial defence forcefully detain workers on the territory of the Mariupol metallurgical plant.

16:37 Ukrainian social networks report that local authorities refused to remove civilians from Mariupol. At the same time, they confirm that the Russians wanted to liberate the city from all inhabitants and then carpet-bomb the entire settlement, destroying all Azov positions and heavy equipment inside the city. In essence, it would have been certain death for the Nazis.

15:40 Shelling of VFU n/a Zaitsevo (north) – n/a Zaitsevo (south): 6 120 mm mines fired.

15:30 Seventeen people, including children, managed to escape from Mariupol via a humanitarian corridor – Eduard Basurin.

15:12 It is reported that JCCC LPR observer Andriy Kosyak, seized by Ukrainian terrorists, has been released. He was being held in the Starobelsk pre-trial detention centre, which was recently released by the Russian Armed Forces.

14:53 According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, artillery fire was opened on Russian positions at 10:08 from Mariupol, and from 10:11 to 10:21 continuous fire from Volnovakha, a residential building in Mariupol was blown up at 10:39, up to 200 people, including elderly and children, may be under the rubble.

14:30 A total of three families got out of Mariupol, these people have not heard of any humanitarian corridor. The Kyiv authorities did not notify anyone in any way. They were leaving under shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces. Not only that, but the nationalists had mined roads and blown up bridges.

14:27 Novhorodske – Shirokaya Balka: 6 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired.

13:55 Meanwhile, queues of people are lined up in Mariupol ready to evacuate. People have been unable to leave the city for an hour and a half now because Ukrainian nationalists have blocked humanitarian corridors.

13:49 On the initiative of local authorities intimidated by Nazis, the evacuation of civilians in Mariupol has been disrupted.

13:45 Ukrainian armed formations recorded shelling from the direction of Katerynivka to the area of Pervomaisk: 120mm mortar (10 mines), 82mm mortar (6 mines).

13:06 The nationalists refused to provide a humanitarian corridor for Mariupol residents.

13:00 AFU launched shelling of Trudivske village.

12:56 Azov militants detonated an explosive device in Mariupol on Meotida Boulevard, with up to 200 people, including children, under the rubble in the basement – Pushilin. This information has been officially confirmed.

12:40 Shelling of VFU Novotroitskoye – Dokuchaievsk: 2 120mm mines fired.

12:30 Not a single person has left Mariupol via the humanitarian corridor yet. But the DNR authorities are ready to receive people and are doing everything to do so.

11:48 Shell hit in the Komsomolets residential area in Gorlovka. As a result of the shelling, glazing and double-glazed windows were damaged at the addresses: 61, 63, 60 Let USSR Street. The data is being clarified. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working on the site.

11:04 The LPR military with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces reached the Boguslavka-Telmakhovka-Kalinovka line. The Donetsk People’s Republic’s National Front units advanced 27km overnight. Novohrigoryevka, Novonikolayevka, Vishnevatoye, Volnoye, Listvyanka and Antonovka were taken under control.

11:00 According to JCCC information, three civilians born in 1970, 1984, 1993 were wounded as a result of shelling by the AFU in Golmovsky settlement near the Church of St. Andrew the Apostle.

10:11 DPR forces continue squeezing the ring around Mariupol, Azov and Aidar (banned terrorist organizations in Russia) fighters fire from positions equipped in schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals and kindergartens at people’s militia units that have entered the city.

10:10 Russian forces over the past 24 hours have taken control of the settlements of Pribrazhenka, Komsomolskoye, Zagornoye, Dorozhnyanka, Reshetilovskoye, Konstantinovka, Shevchenko, Chubarevka, Proletarskoye and Lyubimovka.

10:07 DPR forces advanced 27km overnight, taking control of Novohrigorovka, Novonikolayevka, Vishnevatoe, Volnoe, Listvyanka and Antonovka, LPR forces continued to reach the Boguslavka – Telmakhovka – Kalinovka line with fire support from Russian forces.

10:05 The DPR military are tightening the ring around Mariupol, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

09:10 Shelling Zaitsevo – Golmivskyi: 2 82mm mines fired.

09:10 AFU shelling of Peski – Donetsk: 2 mines of 120 mm calibre fired.

9:00 Shelling of Novotroitskoye – Dokuchaievsk was recorded: 5 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired.

8:30 Night-time shelling of Kuybyshevskyi district of Donetsk from the direction of AFU recorded a shell landing on Stepanenko Street, 26a – glazing was damaged in the apartment building, said the head of Donetsk Kulemzin.

8:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces fire artillery at Donetsk: 10 shells of 122 mm caliber fired at the northern outskirts – JCCC

03.00 Ukrainian armed formations recorded 3 shelling of 2 LPR settlements.

0:58 According to preliminary information, as a result of shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk at 82 Druzhba Street, gas pipeline and power transmission line were damaged