LDPR military summary: situation on contact line (April 19, updated)

11:56 Fire was detected from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: Avdiivka – Yasinovataya settlement: 5 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.

Source: RIA News

11:54 DPR artillery strikes at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The video filmed this night was published by the First Deputy Minister of Information of the Republic Daniil @neoficialniybezsonov Bezsonov.

11:40 Pushilin: The information that there are allegedly civilians on the territory of the Azovstal plant, where the remnants of the Ukrainian group in Mariupol are blocked, has not been confirmed. He stressed that there are about 400 mercenaries from different countries at Azovstal, and the Ukrainian side will continue to come up with pretexts to create “all kinds of new corridors” for them, although they were given such an opportunity the day before.

“If we pay attention, yesterday Viktor Medvedchuk, I am sure, was forced to pronounce a certain text, which also pointed to the civilian population, which is located directly at Azovstal. I think this is not the last such step on the part of the Ukrainian regime, which will put pressure on the emotional component,” he said.

11:35 Shelling from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of:

settlement Krasnogorovka – settlement Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired;
settlement Avdiivka – settlement Yasinovataya: 4 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.

11:33 Residents of Mariupol tell how nationalists constantly mocked Russians:

“The Azov people showed themselves very arrogantly at checkpoints and drove around the city, behaved very impudently”; “It got to insanity… it happened that they asked you to smoke in Russian, you answer in Russian – it means you are Russian, and it even came to a showdown”; “the most important thing is that our children will study in Russian. It was terrible, just a nightmare. It’s a pity for the children, the Russian-speaking population was tortured.”

11:20 “I have no illusions about the corridor announced by the Russian Defense Ministry. I don’t think the nationalists will leave Azovstal. They have a command not to give up, so they are not expected in Kyiv, if they enter our territory, they will be judged”, Denis Pushilin.

11:18 Troops of the DPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated 163 settlements, including Novoandreevka, Stepnoe (Volnovakhsky district) and Kropivnitskoye. The cleansing of Mariupol is being completed.

11:10 Information about civilians in Azovstal is not true – Denis Pushilin.

11:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed in the direction: settlement Novomikhailovka – settlement Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.

11:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation again offered the Ukrainian military in Azovstal to lay down their arms and surrender from 12:00 Moscow time. According to the plans of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, a silence regime should be introduced from 13:30. From 14:00 to 16:00, without exception, the defenders of Azovstal will have to leave without weapons and ammunition.

10:13 Special groups began to storm the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, said Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People’s Militia of the DPR.

10:07 During the clashes with units of the defense department of the LPR, over the past day, Ukrainian punishers suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:

28 personnel;
2 tanks;
2 infantry fighting vehicles;
1 armored personnel carrier;
3 vehicles.

09:57 As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk People’s Republic, 66 transformer substations and 5,552 household subscribers are de-energized – the Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR.

09:35 Fire was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: settlement Ozeryanovka – settlement Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov mine): 8 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.

09:32 Armed formations of Ukraine are shelling the Gorlovsky villages of Zaitsevo and Michurin. Explosions of shells are heard in the villages. All residents urgently go to shelters – Prikhodko.

09:31 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: settlement Codema – settlement Zaitsevo (southern): 10 shells fired caliber 122 mm.

09:29 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a case against the Ukrainian battalion commander involved in the shelling of Donbass.

08:41 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction: settlement Marinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district) settlement : 4 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.

08:27 The correspondent showed weapons and equipment abandoned by Ukrainian nationalists not far from the Ilyich plant in Mariupol. During the retreat, the Azov fighters left behind combat vehicles, anti-tank complexes, heavy machine guns, as well as communications equipment and night vision devices.

* The Azov Battalion is a terrorist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation

Due to censorship and blocking of all media and alternative views, stay tuned to our Telegram channel