LDPR military summary: situation on contact line (April 21, updated)

Source: lv.sputniknews.ru

13:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR, firing 15 rockets at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

13:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Gorlovka in the DPR, firing three 122 mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

13:45 A resident of Rubizhne told how Ukrainian Nazis kicked him out of his own apartment at gunpoint and took up defense there. People had to live in basements to escape the incessant shelling of the city. And only when the military of the LPR entered the territory of the city, the residents were helped to evacuate and provided them with food and clothing.

12:54 A civilian from Donetsk suffered under fire from Ukrainian Nazis.

12:54 The Armed Forces of Ukraine used the children’s rehabilitation center in Mariupol as a firing position.

12:54 Kiev militants fired on Zheleznaya Balka in the DPR. Three grenades were fired at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

12:10 Over the past day, the People’s Militia of the DPR destroyed 57 Ukrainian nationalists, one firing position of a 120-mm mortar, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers. One infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers were captured.

11:44 Zelensky about the impossibility of unlocking the Nazis at Azovstal:

“The question that we are talking about watches is true, because we do not know how many hours or days they can last there. As for our army, today we are not allowed to pass these occupied 120 km by the equipment of the Russian Federation in order to reach the military unblocking of the city of Mariupol. We cannot do this today.”

10:46 The forces of the People’s Police of the LPR have established control over the city of Kremennaya.

10:45 A Ukrainian missile “Tochka-U” was shot down near the village of Donetsk (LPR).

10:44 During the day, the LPR forces destroyed 17 Ukrainian militants, three armored personnel carriers and eight cars.

10:44 Ukrainian punishers fired at Donetsk in the LPR, firing eight shells of 152 mm caliber at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

10:15 It takes three or four days to complete the operation on Azovstal – Shoigu.

10:15 Putin confirmed that all those who surrendered in Mariupol are guaranteed life

10:15 Putin explained the cancellation of the assault on Azovstal by the considerations of saving the lives of the Russian military.

10:11 Putin said that he did not consider it expedient to storm the Azovstal industrial zone, ordered it to be canceled.

10:10 Militants in Mariupol four times covered themselves with civilians when they retreated, driving them out of the basements of houses. More than 142 thousand civilians were evacuated from Mariupol.

10:05 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Mariupol was taken under control. More than 2,000 militants are now blocked in Azovstal, 1,478 have already surrendered.

09:54 Ukrainian Armed Forces is preparing for a retreat in the Rubizhne-Lysichansk-Severodonetsk triangle. Most likely, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine understands the futility of attempts to hold the territory of the LPR and is preparing a “tactical maneuver” with a retreat across the Seversky Donets River.

09:33 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on the DPR 21 times. One child was killed and four civilians were injured.

08:30 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Yelenovka in the DPR. They fired ten 122 mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

08:29 Under the fire of the Ukrainian punishers the civilian of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk suffered.

08:28 In the hospital in Mariupol, they found 26 civilians who died during shelling from the side of Azov*.

08:27 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. They fired five 122 mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.

08:26 During the day, Kiev militants opened fire twice on the territory of the LPR. They fired from artillery with a caliber of 152 and 122 mm the villages of Zolote-5 and Donetsk. Two houses and a kindergarten were damaged.

* – prohibited in the Russian Federation

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