18:36 DPR special forces working on Azovstal’s perimeter. Today, the @wargonzo project managed to get almost close to the Azovstal plant, where militants from the Azov battalion are entrenched. The neo-Nazis still hold a few adjacent multi-storey buildings, but in general, the perimeter of the plant has already been taken under control by the DPR People’s Militia and the Russian Armed Forces. Our special forces have only a few buildings left to clean up, which the Nazis have made their outpost.
17:41 The JCCC operational line of the DPR received information from the DNR Ministry of Health that twelve civilians, including four children, were wounded from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.
17:31 Mariupol residents recount how they were shelled by Ukrainian nationalists: “It’s hell, Azov was shooting at us, I saw it personally.”
17:12 “We gave birth to women and then they put them in basements” – Tetyana Bolyuk, a junior nurse at a maternity hospital in Volnovakha talks about how she and her colleagues worked while the Ukrainian armed forces used the city as a battlefield. And her mother, who lives nearby, recounts how Ukrainian tanks “drove around the hospital” and hid behind its building, taking cover from return fire.
17:00 Russia starts paying pensions and social benefits to state employees in liberated Genichesk. People are given 10 thousand rubles each.
16:58 More 183 people evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye: During the day on March 26, between 08:00 and 16:00, 183 people, including 50 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in Novoazovsky district – reports the Territorial Defense Headquarters of the DPR.
16:49 Fighting for residential areas goes on in Mariupol. The Russian military is having a hard time clearing the area of Nazis as there may be civilians in the houses. The Azov soldiers do not engage in open combat, but use the tactics of using the residential areas as cover.
16:33 The Russian military caught a Ukrainian commander – the deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian 503 separate battalion of marines who was trying to leave Mariupol. He said their battalion had broken into groups, with the remnants of the team attempting to break out of the encirclement about two days ago.
16:24 Soldiers from South Ossetia have left for Donbass to take part in a Russian special operation. President of South Ossetia Bibilov made the statement.
16:22 Russian sappers have started demining in the liberated village of Verhnetoretskoye
16:21 A Ukrainian Tochka-U rocket was allegedly shot down over Lysychansk in Luhansk region.
15:40 Employees of the Criminal and Forensic Department of the LNR Prosecutor General’s Office organised and delivered humanitarian aid to the town of Schastie. Residents received food (cereals, pasta, oil, sugar, canned food, juice) and sweets for children.
15:17 A convoy leaving Mariupol is being thoroughly searched. Apparently, they are looking for the city’s runaway mayor. Earlier, several Azov Nazis managed to flee the city in a similar way, it became known after the cowardly Nazis started bragging on social media, posting photos of themselves leaving in ambulances and in ‘hearse’ under the bodies of corpses. It is likely that all convoys will now be checked so thoroughly. None of the Azov terrorists will leave the city again.
14:45 The shelling of the Horlivka village of Zaitsevo by AFU led to the burning of a house on Poletayev Street – Mayor Prikhodko.
14:41 Russian Armed Forces units carry out demining of Verkhnetoretske village
14:31 “Ukrainian armed formations are launching daily artillery strikes on the infrastructure of Pervomaisk. Extermination of LNR residents is taking place, genocide is taking place, they (AFU) are cornered like rats and are trying to do as much damage as possible”, – said LPR representative office officer in JCCC Viktor Matveev.
14:28 Ukrainian punisher in Dmytrivka shot a civilian with an assault rifle while trying to steal a car.
“The kid is 25 years old. He was in Dmytrivka taking firewood and water to our basement with his car. And some wandering Ukrainian soldier jumped out and shot at the car with a submachine gun”. Aleksandr, a resident of Donskoe village, told this.
“We were barely able to get him back to Donetsk. A vertebra was fractured and two lungs were shot through. He shot just for fun. Probably wanted to get away from the village.
14:27 Afternoon update from the DPR Territorial Defence Headquarters on 26 March 2022: During the joint operation by the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR to demilitarise and denationalise Ukraine, a group of DPR troops continue to liberate settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic that were previously under the control of the AFU. Fighting is currently taking place for Marinka, Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka. Efforts to mop up Verkhnetoretskoye are ongoing.
14:26 AFU attacked Horlivka. Ukrainian fighters’ artillery smashed house buildings along Velikan Street in Gorlovka’s Tsentralno-Gorlivka district.
14:25 “Kill them on the spot. No captivity!”. The women of Pervomaisk, which came under AFU shelling, told what kind of reception awaits the captured fighters in the city. “Idiots! No pity for anyone. Let them be brought here. Our May Day women will give for the children, and for everyone,” added a resident of the town.
14:10 “When will it end, you scum!”. Pervomayskoye resident on the brutal shelling of the peaceful sector by the AFU: “My wife, daughter and granddaughter were killed in 14. Three of them were killed. For what? It’s a horror,” the man added.
13:17 The DPR JCCC operational line received information from the DPR Ministry of Health about nineteen civilians wounded, including four children, from the previously liberated part of Mariupol.
13:13 The Russian military is fighting for the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka in Donbass, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the Ministry of Defence’s official spokesman, said.
12:53 Fighters from the Nazi Azov battalion have changed their combat tactics. Disguised in civilian clothes, they infiltrate in pairs, a sniper and a machine gunner, into urban territory liberated by Russian and DPR forces in order to open fire from there. Therefore, the DPR and Russian Armed Forces have to comb through previously cleared Mariupol neighbourhoods again.
12:18 The AFU shelled the neighbourhood “Quarter 88”, which is located in the Central City District of Gorlovka. A direct shell hit a private sector house on Mozhayskiy Street, 57, was recorded. Details are being clarified – Prikhodko.
11:33 In the DPR, 64 civilians were killed in 36 days of escalation as a result of shelling by the AFU, another 583 were wounded – the republic’s representation to the JCCC reported.
11:17 JCCC recorded shelling by the AFU in the directions of:
Avdeevka – Makiivka: 5 shells of 122mm calibre were fired.
Avdiivka – Yasynuvata: 5 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
11:08 The DPR People’s Militia destroyed 64 Ukrainian nationalists, captured 16 people and seized several pieces of military equipment during the day. This was reported by Eduard Basurin, the DNR’s deputy commanding general.
11:00 DPR forces, backed by the Russian army, have liberated 132 populated areas, – the army defence headquarters. During the day they liberated: Aslanovo, Chersonese, Kellerovka, Yalta, Yurievka, Azovskoye, Melekino, Belosarayska Kosa, Buryakovaya Balka, Portovskoye, Glubokoye, Ogorodne, Demyanovka, Urzuf, Kamyshevatoye, Starodubovka, Krasnaya Ukraina, Zakharovka, Babakh-Tarama, Novoyanisol, Lesnoye, Malovodnoye, Zaporozhskoye, Bakhchevik, Druzhnoye, Obilnoye, Polkovoye, Kirovskoye, Privolnoye, Veseloye (Volnovakha district).
10:51 Construction materials have been delivered to the liberated Stary Krym to restore infrastructure.
10:50 One civilian was killed, and 54 civilians (51 from the previously liberated areas), including 4 children, were wounded in various degrees over the past 24 hours.
10:48 The shelling of Nevelske – Staromikhailovka by the AFU was recorded: 4 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired. – JCCC.
10:44 Nazis from Azov manufactured homemade ammunition to kill Donbas citizens. The militants, having learned of the approach of the DPR People’s Militia troops, abandoned their military units, which were located in the vicinity of the town of Mangush, in fear. The Ukrainian nationalists’ bases are now completely under the control of the DNR National Militia.
10:42 “Don’t be afraid, speak Russian!” – such posters have appeared in LNR territories liberated from Ukrainian occupiers.
10:39 More than 3,000 people received payments in the liberated territories: Between 7 March and 25 March, 2,952 beneficiaries received pensions and 368 people received social benefits in the liberated localities, the Donetsk people’s republican government said on Monday (Mariupol).
10:36 Police departments have been organized in Mariupol. Addresses of temporary locations of district police departments of Mariupol police department of DNR Interior Ministry:
Illichivsky district police station of Mariupol police department: 8b, Klubny lane, Sartana village, Mariupol:
Orjonikidzevsky Regional Department of Mariupol Department of Internal Affairs of the DNR: Vinogradne, 38 Sovetskaya str;
Primorsky District of the Mariupol Department of the DPR Interior Ministry: 8 Gagarina Street, Melekino village.
10:23 JCCC recorded shelling of Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Petrovsky District): 4 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired.
10:12 Ukrainian armed formations shelled Krasnohorivka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 5 120 mm mines fired and Krasnohorivka – Aleksandrovka: 5 120 mm mines fired. – JCCC.
09:50 AFU shelling Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 14 rounds of 122mm calibre shells fired. – JCCC.
09:22 The JCCC operational line received information from the DNR Ministry of Health about twenty-four civilians (including three children) wounded from the previously liberated part of Mariupol settlement.
09:08 JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the directions of:
Zhovanka – Zaitseve South: 3 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired;
Novhorodske village – Horlivka village (Gagarin’s settlement): 18 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired;
Novhorodske village – Zheleznaya Balka village: 58 grenades from AGS were fired;
Avdiivka – Yasinovataya: 6 shells of 122 mm calibre fired.
08:27 Ukrainian armed formations shelled the Horlivka village of Hagarin Mine. Gagarin mine village with heavy weapons. Shell bursts were recorded behind the Galaktika shopping centre – Prikhodko.
07:00 Two shelling attacks by Ukrainian armed formations were recorded in two LPR settlements: Pervomaisk township damaged 9 multi-storey buildings and the Central Library of Pervomaisk township. Pervomaysk – LPR representation in JCCC and negotiation process.
05:55 AFU shelling Petrovske (Ukr. Stepovoye) – Yasinovataya: 40 BM-21 Grad rockets fired – JCCC.