19:09 Former Opposition Platform – For Life party MP Kostyantyn Ivashchenko appointed as Mariupol mayor
18:41 A reception room of the Public Movement of the Donetsk Republic has opened in Mariupol. Now city residents can directly contact the DPR authorities, including Pushylin. They can address any issues, such as housing restoration, payments of benefits and pensions, and volunteer work. Mariupol is beginning to return to peaceful life. The day before, a meeting of community leaders recognised the results of the 2014 referendum on DPR independence. City lawmakers also chose a candidate for mayor and asked Pushylin to approve him. He was Azovmash director Konstantin Ivashchenko.
18:38 LPR head Leonid Pasechnyk has met families evacuated from the territories temporarily under Ukrainian control of the Republic and housed in the dormitory of Luhansk Higher School of Physical Culture.
17:51 Branch of the Central Republican Bank № 0601/01 opened in Volodarskoye, located at 89 Svobody Street, Volodarskoye.
17:31 The wounded continue to be evacuated from the centre of Mariupol. Civilians injured in shelling are being transferred to Novoazovsk. The nationalists remaining in Mariupol have never complied with the requirements of the “silence regime” since 31 March, and the day before they increased the intensity of shelling of the humanitarian corridor.
17:10 The DPR authorities have provided payments to over 3,000 people in the liberated territory of the republic. From 7 March to 25 March, 2,952 people were paid pensions and 368 received social welfare benefits in the liberated towns, the press service of the Donetsk people’s republic said.
17:01 More than 3,500 Ukrainian fighters have been killed by Russian, DPR and LPR forces since the start of the special operation. The exhumation of enemy bodies is under way in the Donbas Republics. In compliance with the requirements of international humanitarian law, the bodies of the dead undergo all the necessary procedures of identification, documentation and burial. The Ukrainian side is not responding to requests to hand over the bodies.
17:00 The DPR’s Grad multiple rocket launcher is firing at the positions of Azov nationalists in the Azovstal industrial zone. One salvo is five rockets from each vehicle. Such fire is not directed at residential areas and settlements in order to avoid civilians and civilian objects falling into the target area. The deeper Azov fighters retreat deep into the industrial zone, the freer our artillerymen work.
16:13 More than 100 people, including 16 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol hospital number 4 in the Left Bank district. Units of the Black Sea Fleet of the Southern Military District together with DPR reservists ensured the evacuation of all the patients of the medical facility in the zone of military contact with the Nazis of Azov units.
15:30 An underground city of 8-9 stories has been built under the Azovstal plant since Soviet times. And all of it today is a military stronghold. That is to say, a mop-up is about to descend from the ground beneath it. A gigantic network of communications, its own power supply and ventilation. There is no way to use heavy equipment there.
15:28 Civilians continue to be evacuated to Starobelsk from temporarily occupied areas of the Republic and settlements that are under fire from Ukrainian militants.
15:26 Nazis blockaded Mariupol, fire points in flats, residents expelled. “Yellow barricades” at the exit from the Vostochny Microdistrict, Azov blockaded the city with them. Using the population as a human shield, Nazis from the Azov regiment set up loopholes in residential flats, kicking people out into the street.
15:00 A resident of Popasna showed strikes by the AFU in the city centre. According to him, an hour before this filming, Ukrainian armed formations struck residential areas. “My neighborhood is being bombed by the AFU, not the Russians. Let our people know how you are ‘defended'”.
14:45 Ukrainian forces shelled Yasynuvata settlement in Donetsk People’s Republic, firing three 122 millimeter artillery shells.
14:40 The DPR selects sites in Mariupol and Volnovakha to build new residential areas. Representatives of various relevant and communal agencies have held a meeting on the possibility of building new homes in Volnovakha and Mariupol. The meeting participants also discussed the issues of connecting the new houses to utilities: electricity, water, gas.
14:24 DPR power engineers restore power supply to recently liberated Khlebodarovka village – Ministry of Coal and Energy.
13:16 “For all the civilians”: Reactive artillery of the DPR National Front suppresses firing points of nationalists near Georgievka settlement.
13:06 There is information that a NATO general is in one of the bomb shelters at Azovstal in Mariupol. The AFU SDF has been tasked to evacuate him.
12:18 LPR received help from Russian social activists. LPR People’s Militia personnel received 10 generators. A total of over 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid has been delivered to the LPR for residents and refugees in need.
12:06 A large shipment of food and medicine has been sent to DPR health facilities. During a special operation, health care institutions in the DPR face a particularly heavy burden. To facilitate the recovery process for wounded DNR NM fighters and civilians, more than ten tons of food and medical supplies were sent to hospitals in the Donetsk People’s Republic with the assistance of the DPR People’s Militia by Russian civilians.
12:04 The military experts of the JCCC Task Force DPR confirmed the use of BM-27 “Uragan” during the shelling from the AFU Kuybyshevskyi district of Donetsk on 06.04.2022.
11:35 LPR military units advancing towards the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
11:30 As a result of shelling of WFU in Novotroitske, near the local administration building, 2 people were killed and 1 more wounded. Details are being clarified.
11:25 Russian Defence Ministry releases video of Mariupol residents describing how Ukrainian National Battalions set up firing points in kindergartens and hospitals and fired on civilians.
11:05 A department of the central regional hospital opened in Volnovakha.
11:03 Restoration of railway communication between Rostov Region and the DPR and LPR may take place in the near future, security issues need to be addressed – Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev.
11:01 Water and power supply restored in Schastye. Schastie is one of the first towns to be liberated in the LPR. There were fierce battles there. High-rise buildings and infrastructure were also damaged. Plus, the “wars of light” left, blowing up everything they could reach behind them. Today Luhansk specialists have restored gas, water and electricity supplies in Shchastia. Next will be the repair of supply lines to houses and flats, and the restoration of damaged housing.
10:54 Donetskiy settlement in LPR shelled from howitzers! 12 152mm artillery shells were fired at Donetskiy settlement from Ukrainian positions in Novotoshkovskoye.
10:34 Law enforcers found and seized 23 grenades, 21 fuses, two MANPADs, a rifle and 630 rounds of 5.45mm ammunition in Dokuchaievsk.
09:45 Rostov Region intends to help Donbass in rebuilding the region. The head of the region, Vasily Golubev, believes that other Russian regions will also take part in the restoration of the territories.
09:40 As a result of the hostilities, 60 transformer substations, 4855 household subscribers in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Yasinovatsky district of the Republic were de-energized – Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR.
09:25 56 people injured in the liberated territory of the DPR during the day – DPR Ministry of Health.
09:22 Mariupol residents tell of atrocities by Azov nationalists.Mariupol residents have been waiting 8 years for liberation from nationalists and thank the DPR and Russian Federation soldiers for liberation.
09:05 According to the DPR Territorial Defense Headquarters, 572 people, including 110 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in Novoazovsk district over the past day.
08:58 Ukrainian armed formations shelled Dokuchaievsk in the morning – five shells of 122 millimetre calibre were fired.
08:42 LNR military units advancing towards the outskirts of Severodonetsk.
08:00 The Russian Armed Forces have evacuated 18,654 people, including 2,837 children, from dangerous areas of Ukraine, the DPR and LPR to Russia overnight, a total of 620,760 people have already been evacuated, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the Russian Federation National Defence Management Centre, said at a briefing on Tuesday.
07:25 As a result of overnight shelling of Grabari settlement of Kuibyshev district by the Ukrainian militants at 42 Staromontazhnaya Street, the fence, gas pipeline and power transmission line were damaged – Kulemzin.
07:50 The Ukrainian troops made five shelling in the direction of Pervomaysk and Donetskiy settlements in the LPR over the past day.
06:55 The shelling from the direction: Novomikhailovka – Dokuchaievsk was recorded: 5 shells of 122mm calibre were fired. – JCCC.
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