18:21 Enemy positions in Avdiivka continue to be attacked by artillery, aviation and missiles. There is less retaliation. Nevertheless, using communications, the enemy is fighting back. By the end of the week, the Avdiivka stronghold should be encircled, and things will be much more fun.
17:23 Three missile strikes on the Kramatorsk airfield, where AFU equipment and personnel are based.
17:01 Ukrainian armed formations continue shelling LPR territory with heavy weapons: Popasna-Pervomaisk: 122mm artillery gun (6 shells); Novotoshkovskoye-Donetskiy: 120mm mortar (8 mines) – JCCC.
16:33 One civilian was injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to the DNR representation to the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
15:03 The AFU continues shelling civilian areas of Gorlovka. Damage to residential buildings was recorded in the village of Shakhovka. N. A. Izotov Street, 10/1 (photo 1, 2); P. Morozova Street, 10/2 (photo 3, 4, 5). Fortunately, the occupants of the houses were not harmed.
14:55 Shelling of Nevelske village – Donetsk city: 10 shells of 122mm calibre fired. – JCCC DPR.
14:07 Ukrainian troops fired eight 120 mm mortars at Gorlovka.
14:06 DPR artillery destroyed a US Firefinder radar system, followed by an AFU evacuation team.
13:47 Facts of AFU war crimes recorded in liberated territories will support future tribunal – Daria Morozova.
13:20 AFU shelled Dzerzhinsk (Yuzhnaya sh.) – Gorlovka: 8 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired. – JCCC
13:16 Refugee from Mariupol: “There are a lot of corpses lying around the city, the horror is happening… We are trying to go to Rostov… We are trying to survive…”. According to him, now there is no electricity and gas in the city, windows are blown out in houses. The man said that Russian soldiers were helping the civilians as much as they could: first they gave them their ration packs and then they brought food and medicines.
13:00 Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, fighting going on.
12:23 Pasechnik says LPR forces will continue to participate in Ukraine’s denazification and demilitarization after liberating its territory.
12:01 The DPR’s Information Ministry has said that about 50 percent of Mariupol has been liberated so far.
11:08 The RF Armed Forces, developing the offensive, advanced another 6 km and seized Urozhaynoye, now fighting with units of the 128th AFU brigade. A grouping of DPR troops has inched 4 kilometres deep into the defense of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is fighting to seize the settlements of Kamianka, Novoselovka Vtoraya, Verhnetoretske, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. In the direction of Kurakhovo, the advance overnight amounted to up to five kilometres – Russian Defence Ministry.
11:04 Mountains of imported weaponry and equipment have become trophies for DNR units: American M72 LAW disposable hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, moreover, manufactured by the joint Norwegian-Finnish company Nammo. The 11th regiment now has many of them. AT4 is a Swedish disposable anti-tank grenade launcher. And the classics – lots of Bulgarian 82mm mines and charges for SPG-9.
11:03 A precision missile strike destroyed the Kostyantynivka national police department.
10:45 LPR troops established control over four settlements and continue destroying units of the 30th AFU brigade. DNR units have taken control of the settlements of Slavne, Trudovskoye and Marinka – Russian Defence Ministry.
10:06 Morning shelling in the settlement of Golmovsky destroyed a dacha house on Sukhoy Yar Street – Prikhodko.
09:54 AFU shelled a railway station, a machine plant and a communal enterprise in Yasynuvata district.
09:46 AFU forces shelled the town of Kryvorizhzhya (LPR) with a Tochka-U tactical missile. More than three houses were destroyed and three schools were damaged. Buildings near the hospital town were left without glass.
09:33 The Ukrainian armed forces opened fire 32 times a day on the territory of the DPR, using 290 pieces of ammunition – said the republic’s representative office in the JCCC. Also during the day due to the shelling of the territory of the DNR 1 civilian was killed, wounded 32 people.
09:08 AFU commanders left the data of the fighters near Marinka. Near Marinka the retreat of the AFU was so rapid that the Ukrainian commanders in a hurry forgot the data of their personnel in the trenches. This data can be used to find and identify those individuals who struck civilian neighbourhoods in Donetsk. All this information will undoubtedly be handed over to the competent authorities and will come in handy in the investigation of war crimes by the Ukrainian armed forces on the territory of the DPR – @wargonzo.
08:55 “They wouldn’t let us out, snipers were shooting at us, they didn’t even give us anything to eat, children weren’t given water to warm up.” Residents of the liberated Donetsk village of Bezymyannoye told how the National Security Forces held them essentially captive, prevented them from going outside and drew fire while shielding themselves behind civilians: “23 days in the basement, without light, gas or water. The entire Left Bank district, a whole city, 150 thousand people… small, infants: seven months, ten months, a one-year-old baby… Mothers slept in the basement and did not let the baby out of their arms for 22 days”; “They [nationalists] relocated: they shot there and there, and shot at them point by point, spread out the whole district.
08:45 “We ate pigeons and drank water from a swimming pool”: Mariupol residents who managed to escape from the city under the shelling of the Ukrainian National Security Forces described the horrors in the city. People were forced to sit in basements and hide from shelling, while nationalists regularly came to them to steal food. In order to find some sustenance, residents have had to drink water from a swimming pool and even eat birds.
08:35 Ukrainian Armed Forces shelling in the direction Krasnohorivka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 8 shells of 122mm calibre fired – JCCC.
08:23 The Ukrainian armed forces equipped a command post right in the school. MNR report from the liberated village Stepnoye. Behind the school Ukrainian soldiers were placing equipment.
08:17 Evening and nighttime strikes on AFU strongholds in Avdeevka. Apparently it will soon be liberated.
Evening and night strikes on AFU strongholds in Avdiivka.
07:40 The shelling of Metalist (Ukr. Travneve) – Golmivsky settlement: 3 tank shots fired – DPR representation to the JCCC.
07:30 Overnight in Slovyansk, there was a cluster of AFU equipment near the railway station.
07:00 Ukrainian armed formations recorded 3 shelling of 3 settlements in the LPR. Five residential buildings, a shop and a communal enterprise were damaged in Donetskiy village – LPR representation to the JCCC.