LDPR: situation on the line of contact (March 18, updated)

18:28 Two rescuers of the DPR Emergencies Ministry blew themselves up on an anti-tank mine near Granitnoye. All are alive.

17:06 The media are reporting that fighting is taking place in Lysychansk. There is partly no internet in the city, in some places there is no gas. There is a humanitarian disaster in the city. Severodonetsk is also fighting situationally. Rubezhnoye, which is already under the LPR, there were arrivals.

17:04 According to the Territorial Defence Headquarters of the DPR, 2 children (3 years and 10 months) who were left without parents due to shelling by Ukrainian militants have been evacuated from Mangush. The children have been admitted to the Republican Children’s Clinical Hospital in Donetsk.

17:03 Civilians who left Mariupol recounted atrocities by Ukrainian militants.

16:43 An operative line from the DPR Ministry of Health received information about a man born in 1983 being wounded in Mariupol.

The victim was taken to a medical facility where he is being provided with the necessary medical treatment.
Also, the operational line from the administration of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk received information about damage as a result of shelling to the VFU at the addresses:
Trudovskaya sht:
– Bokiya Street, 17a;
– Chernogorska Street, 62/1.
n.a. Aleksandrovka:
– 162 and 164 Lenina str.
Current consequences of DNR/LNR shelling on the interactive map

15:40 Mariupol airport fully taken over by DPR forces, media report.

15:35 Shell bursts on the territory of the Rosinka kindergarten (29 Parkovaya Street), which does not work due to the fact that Ukrainian nationalists destroyed it back in 2014 and continue shelling it now, were recorded as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces in the village of Panteleimonivka in Horlivka.

15:20 The Petrovsky district is again under fire from the AFU. A school, 2 kindergartens and 38 apartment buildings were left without central heating as a result of a direct hit on the boiler house at 1g Victory Square – Kulemzin.

13:30 Mariupol residents leave the city through Russian military checkpoints. People are asked to show residence registration, and if they don’t have it, their cars are searched. But most support such security measures. Only yesterday, the military unmasked 12 members of the National Security Forces who had disguised themselves as civilians.

13:02 The first humanitarian aid has arrived at the Volnovakha hospital.

12:27 about Gorlovka 10 Grad missiles were fired! Nelepovka – Gorlovka (settlement of mine named after Gagarin): 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

11:26 The introduction of a no-fly zone over the DPR with the assistance of Russia makes sense in order to prevent cases like the shelling of the center of Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile – Basurin.

11:15 DPR troops liberated 97 settlements, including Prechistovka and Novomayorskoye. There are battles for Mariupol, Avdeevka, Maryinka and Verkhnetoretskoe.

11:05 Denazification of the city department of the SBU took place in Kramatorsk.

11:00 Secretary General of United Russia Andrey Turchak and head of the DPR Denis Pushilin installed a commemorative plaque on the building of the 1st school of the liberated Volnovakha. The street that previously bore the name of the 1st of May, and then the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the 51st brigade, from that day is called the street of the Hero of Russia Vladimir Zhogi. Turchak also said that a street named after the battalion commander of the legendary Sparta would appear in Rostov-on-Don.

10:50 Fire was detected from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the settlement Novomikhailovka – settlement Yelenovka: 4 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired, which is reported by the JCCC DNR.

10:31 Soldiers of the DPR army raised the flag over the administration of the Left Bank district of Mariupol.

10:10 As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, the building of hospital No. 14 was damaged, three people were injured: 2 employees of the medical facility and 1 civilian.

09:23 A direct hit by a shell of Ukrainian punishers in a residential building on the Petrovsky street, 111v. According to updated information, 4 women born in 1960, 1972, 1974, 1997 died.

09:21 Russia has created a no-fly zone over the Donbass – Basurin, a representative of the People’s Militia of the DPR.

09:11 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the city clinical hospital No. 27 of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk – a hit on the roof was recorded.

08:23 The shells fired by the Ukrainian punishers cut off the lives of civilians. According to preliminary information, 4 people died as a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district, the number of victims is unknown. Special services left for the place – Alexey Kulemzin.

07:34 As a result of the shelling by the Armed Forces of Yasinovataya, a woman born in 1974 was wounded. A reporter Rudenko V. is in a serious condition.

07:30 JCCC DPR: Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the settlement Novomikhailovka – settlement Kremenets: fired 2 mines with a caliber of 120 mm; settlement Novomikhailovka – settlement Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 2 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.

06:50 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 1 shelling of the settlement Nizhne – Frunze was recorded: an artillery gun 122mm (10 shells) – JCCC.

05:21 The flag of the LPR is raised over the administration of Rubizhne – Peopleäs Militia of the LPR.