Military report of the LDPR. Situation on the line of contact on April 7 (updated)

16:08 More than 1,400 subscribers left without power supply in Yasynuvata

As a result of the shelling of the AFU in Yasynuvata, 7 transformer substations and 1,444 household subscribers were de-energized.
Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation allows.

16:05 The operational line of the JCCC of the DPR received information about a civilian, a man born in 1957, wounded as a result of the shelling of Yasinovataya settlement, 26 Babushkina Street.

The victim was taken to Yasinovataya Central District Hospital, where he is receiving the necessary care.
Damage was recorded as a result of the shelling of AFU at the addresses:
 Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
– 3 Yasenevaya Street – private sector.
Kuibyshevskyi district:
– Stepnaya Street, 17 – direct hit to a private house.
Yasinovataya settlement:
– 30 Chkalova Street – private sector (garage fire);
– Babushkina str. 27 – private sector, direct hit.

15:50 In the liberated areas of Mariupol, communal workers have begun removing rubbish. The liberated areas of Mariupol are slowly beginning to return to peaceful life. Six cubic metres of drinking water are delivered daily to the former Metro shopping centre, where a temporary humanitarian aid centre is now set up. Such volume for half-million city, certainly, is not enough.

15:48 The settlement of Donetsk in Kirovsk LPR is regularly subjected to shelling by Ukrainian militants. As a result of shelling from Grad MLRS and 152 mm, 122 mm and 120 mm artillery pieces, more than 20 residential buildings were destroyed this week, and a transformer substation was damaged by employees of the LNR prosecutor’s office are checking each instance of shelling.

15:44 AFU shelling of Donetsk’s Petrovsky and Kuybyshevsky districts – Tetro Defense Headquarters As a result of the shelling of the AFU in the Petrovsky district, on Socialistska Street, and Kuibyshevsky district, on Stepnaya Street, houses were damaged. Details are being clarified.

15:38 The Ukrainians clung to Kamenka, which stands on the Kharkiv-Slavyansk highway, for a long time. From here it is 45 kilometres in a straight line to the symbol city of Russian resistance in Donbass. But the Ukrainian armed forces managed to dislodge them. Leaving here they left dozens of bodies of their dead paratroopers. As well as several battered vehicles and a tank, on which tactical Z-signs have already been applied. Our Vistula Division is working in this direction. And it’s going further, towards Slavyansk.

15:10 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation: The commander of the Ukrainian armed forces’ 19th Independent Missile Brigade, Yaroshevich, has been implicated in the death of civilians in Donetsk as a result of the Tochka-U strike. He has been charged in absentia under the article “Use of prohibited means and methods of warfare”.

15:08 Turchak and Pushylin hoist Victory flag and Russian flag in Rozovka, Zaporizhzhya.

15:07 The photo shows the aftermath of shelling from the AFU side of the road near the stadium leading to the village of Panteleymonovka in Horlivka.

The photo shows the consequences of shelling from the direction of the Ukrainian armed forces of the road near the stadium leading to Panteleymonovka village in Horlivka.

14:50 As a result of a Russian air force air strike, a major of the Independent Airborne Assault Brigade, Viktor Lytvyn, was killed. Ukrainian media specify that the officer died from wounds incompatible with his life after air strikes on the village of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Region.

14:10 As of 7 April 2022. on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a grouping of DPR troops with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces has liberated and established full control over 160 settlements, including Novohrigorovka (Volodarsky District), Pannovka, Suzhenka, Lugovoye, Sadovoye, Fedorovka, Kalchinovka, Nazarovka, Ukrainka, Respublika, Xenovka, Novoromanovka, Sergeyevka, Starchenkovo, Peremoga, Priazovskoye, Shevchenko (Pershotravne district), Ilyichovskoye, Rybatskoye, Chervonoye, Shirokaya Balka. Clearing of Mariupol continues.

14:00 The target detection and targeting radar of an AFU S-300 surface-to-air missile system near Kurakhovo is destroyed.

13:47 11-year-old Sasha from Mariupol spent a month looking for his parents. The family reunion scene is better not recounted but watched on video.

13:27 In Artemivsk, north of Horlivka, the Ukrainian armed forces have deployed positions on the territory of the Vistek machine-building plant. Several units of armoured vehicles and MLRS are located there. The coordinates are 48.599213, 37.995633.

13:10 Two commanders of the Azov National Battalion (an organization banned in Russia) are involved in the assault on the lives of at least eight captive Russian servicemen – Russian Investigative Committee.

13:09 As a result of today’s shelling by Ukrainian armed formations in the Petrovsky district, the village of Luganske and the village of Signale (4 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired) were left without electricity. Repair and restoration work will begin as soon as the situation allows – Kulemzin.

13:01 Bastrykin arrived in Donetsk, held a meeting to investigate war crimes against civilians and the Russian military in Donbas and Ukraine, instructed to ensure permanent deployment of investigators to Donbas.

13:00 As a result of the shelling of Gorlovka from the AFU, damage to the Gorlovka checkpoint on Artemivske Shosse was recorded. There was a report today, April 7, of damage to a private home on Vlasenko Street, 53 as a result of a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell (the date of shelling is being ascertained). The house is not inhabited.

12:46 In Kherson, former fighters of the Ukrainian defence ministry voluntarily surrender weapons previously issued to them by the Kyiv authorities. As a rule, these are Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammunition for them. It should be recalled that all weapons were distributed by the Ukrainian side to all comers uncontrollably and without providing any documents and records in the registers for further accounting

12:30 Recorded shelling from the direction of AFU:

Avdeevka – Donetsk (Kuybyshevskyi district): 6 shells from 122mm were fired;
N. Shumy – N. Gorlovka (Komarova settlement): 6 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired;
Avdiivka – Yasinovataya: 2 rounds of 122mm shells fired.

12:15 Situation near the railway station in Kramatorsk. People are trying with all their might to get out of the city, which the Ukranazis plan to turn into a “second Mariupol”.

11:55 The work of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Air Defense Forces to intercept an air target over the town of Shakhtersk DPR.

11:53 Chronicle of the special operation. In the battle for residential areas of Mariupol, the Russian military is knocking Azov soldiers out of their holes. Under the onslaught of experienced fighters, the bandits either go to Bandera or flash their oiled heels.

11:47 Mortar shelling in Kalinovo damaged 3 residential buildings – LPR representation to JCCC and negotiation process.

11:42 Head of Ukrainian Luhansk Regional Military Administration Serhiy Haidai urged residents of the Luhansk Region’s non-liberated settlements to evacuate.

11:40 Ukrainian forces shelled Ozeryanivka in Donetsk People’s Republic, firing eight 122mm shells.

11:32 Ukrainian Armed Forces shelling Avdiivka – Yasynuvataia: 3 shells of 122mm calibre fired.

11:23 The evacuation of civilians from the hospital in Mariupol, who were not allowed out by Azov fighters* (*banned in Russia), continues. Russian marines and DPR People’s Militia troops made more than 10 visits to the hospital on BMP-2 and BTR-80 vehicles: they evacuated about 100 patients, including 16 children.

11:10 The FPR recorded shelling from the direction: Zhovanka – Gorlovka (Izotov settlement): 8 mines of 120 mm calibre were fired – JCCC DPR.

11:07 The main fighting in Mariupol has shifted to the city’s port and Azovstal plant territory. Regarding the situation in Mariupol, the central part of the city, we can say that the main fighting is over – Eduard Basurin.

11:05 Eduard Basurin: about three thousand AFU fighters may be in Mariupol at the moment. Footage of an interview with a representative of the DPR’s People’s Militia Directorate was shown on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

11:04 About 60% of DPR territory liberated from Ukrainian Armed Forces – Basurin.

11:02 Aleksandrovka again under AFU fire. As a result of this morning’s shelling, a direct hit of a shell to a residential building at 145 Gorky Street was recorded – Kulemzin.

10:50 Russian air defence assets shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Novoselovka Vtoraya, Chervonaya, Novogradovka, Ilovaysk and Khartsyzsk settlements.

10:47 The village of Sladkoye has passed under the control of the DPR.

09:26 The main fighting in central Mariupol is over. The clashes have moved to the city’s port and Azovstal plant territory – Basurin.

09:22 A military unit in Mariupol has been cleared and occupied where a combined Ukrainian police unit was trying to hold up its defence.

09:10 Renamed “Zhukov” Avenue in Mariupol to “Prospect of Defenders of Ukraine” will soon regain its former name. When the avenue was renamed, residents staged rallies in the streets, to which the nationalists responded “none of your business”. Those loyal to Russia will always remember their heroes, regardless of how the Ukrainian authorities try to erase the history of the defenders of the fatherland.

09:07 Operational line of JCCC DPR received information about wounding of 14 civilians, including 4 children, as a result of shelling by the AFU of the previously liberated part of Mariupol.

08:53 There was shelling from the direction of Avdiivka to Yasynuvataia: 3 shells with a calibre of 122 mm were fired.

08:50 Artillery shelling in Donetskiy settlement in the LNR destroyed a residential building – LPR representation to the JCCC and the negotiation process.

08:02 Two district police departments in Mariupol have changed addresses:

Zhovtnevyi district police department of Mariupol: 87 Fontannaya Street;

Ordzhonikidze district police department in Mariupol: 114, 130th Taganrog Division str.

06.20. Ukrainian armed formations recorded shelling from the direction of Gorske to Donetskiy village using 152mm artillery (5 shells) – Luhansk People’s Republic Mission to the JCCC and the negotiation process.

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