18:50 Shelling was recorded from the direction of the Ukrainian armed forces:
Novhorodske – Panteleymonovka: 8 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired;
Avdiivka – Yasynuvata: 5 rockets from BM-21 Grad were fired;
Avdiivka-Mineralnoye: 5 rockets from BM-21 Grad were fired.
18:42 As of now we know about 20 non-walking wounded “Azov” people who were taken to Novoazovsk hospital.
18:33 Ukrainian Nazis are shelling the Gorlovka urban settlement of Panteleimonovka! Residents hear shells bursting near the park area, cemetery, highway. The video shows arrivals in Vasilievka settlement. Residents living in the immediate vicinity of the shelling zone are urged to find shelter!
18:00 Advancing on the enemy grouping near Avdeevka, Separate Assault Battalion “Somali” seized with heavy fighting the key height on the eastern flank – the village of Velyka Novoselka-2. This will ensure a comfortable advance of the DNR forces in this direction. It is almost completely defeated by the artillery of retreating AFU forces.
16:16 An agreement has been reached with the Ukrainian side to remove the wounded from Azovstal – Russian Defence Ministry
Surrender of Azovstal’s wounded started, they are being taken to hospital in Novoazovsk
16:10 As a result of the shelling of the administrative settlement “1 Ploshchadka” of the Kuibyshev district, the glazing of windows in apartment buildings Nos. 12, 14, 15 and 19 on Lenkoranskaya Street was damaged.
15:38 There is 20-25 days of water supply left in Donetsk – Vitaliy Kizhaev, acting general director of the DNR’s Voda Donbassa state unitary enterprise.
15:25 Advancing on Avdeevka suburb, fighters of Somali separate assault battalion seized US anti-tank weapons. They were thrown by retreating Ukrainian soldiers. A combatant with the call sign “Boykot” shows.
15:12 The removal of Ukrainian wounded from Azovstal has started, they will be taken to hospitals in the DPR.
15:10 Fighting resumes again in the cities. Severodonetsk, ahead obviously Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and others. And if the Mariupol experience is any indication, one of the main conclusions is the need for specialised heavy engineer assault units designed to operate in fortified areas, particularly in urban areas.
They should be equipped with special weapons, including heavy BMPs and tanks for urban warfare, demolition and mine-clearing vehicles, heavy bulldozers and tractors, and, of course, specially trained infantry – with appropriate support, including a large number of drones that allow looking both behind and inside a house.
Such units would also come in handy in Mariupol and Severodnetsk-Lisichansk and many other places. Of course, we must be aware that even if we start creating them now, they will probably not have time for this operation. But the experience of urban fighting that our army is now receiving at a high cost must not be lost without a trace – all the more since no one has promised the absence of new wars in the future.
14:52 Near Kramatorsk, Ukrainian militants blew up another tanker with chemicals. A little later, they will once again accuse the “Muscovites” of using chemical weapons, and some time later their own administration will deny it. This is exactly what happened the three previous times.
14:50 Two kindergartens “Ivushka” and “Zvezdochka” resumed their work in Shchastia LNR. They stopped working in February 2022 due to the outbreak of hostilities. Five groups are now being opened in the “Ivushka” kindergarten for 130 children, with 86 children attending the facility.
14:42 Ukrainian armed formations recorded shelling from the direction of Vrubovka to Molodezhnoye using 152mm artillery (5 shells) – LPR representative office in JCCC.
14:41 The LDPR recorded shelling from the direction of Avdeevka to Yasynovataya: 4 BM-21 Grad rockets were fired.
14:20 As a result of yesterday’s artillery shelling of Zolote-5, 2 apartment buildings were damaged – LPR representation to JCCC.
14:14 Novoselovka II was taken. Regarding the talk about the Avdiivka cauldron. De facto it is certainly not encircled, as there is a possibility of supply through Orlovka, although the enemy lost opportunities to use the road Konstantinovka – Avdeevka with the loss of Novobakhmutovka and Novoselovka-2. Nevertheless, since the road from Orlovka is periodically covered by artillery, this allows us to speak about a kind of operational encirclement of Avdeevka, as there are problems with safe supply of the grouping defending the Avdeevka fortification. It appears that the real kettle will start there when permanent fire control is established over the Avdeevka-Orlovka road.
14:00 The JCCC operational line of the DNR received information about a civilian, born in 1955, being wounded as a result of the shelling of Novoselovka settlement at 23 Artema Street by the AFU. The victim was hospitalized in Yasynovataya Central District Hospital.
13:51 Volnovakha restored the monument to the Liberation Soldiers and the memorial to the Victims of Fascism. Volnovakha residents, with the help of the All-Russian People’s Front, have restored the monument to the Warriors-Liberators and the memorial to the Victims of Fascism set up during the Soviet era.
13:30 Shelling was recorded from the direction of the Ukrainian armed forces:
Avdiivka – Vasilievka: 4 rockets from BM-21 “Grad” were fired.
Avdiivka-Mineralnoye: 4 rockets from BM-21 Grad were fired.
12:49 The JCCC operational line of the DPR received information about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of Donetsk at addresses:
Petrovsky district:
– 21 Architektorov Street – MBOU Gymnasium No. 107, Donetsk city;
– 189 Petrovskogo Street, #1 – apartment building.
Kuybyshevsky district:
– 12 Lenkoranskaya Street – apartment building.
12:10 Afternoon update from the Territorial Defence Headquarters of the DPR on 16 May 2022.
During the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR to demilitarize and denationalize Ukraine, a group of DPR troops continues to liberate settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic that were previously under the control of the AFU.
Currently, 184 settlements are under our control.
The enemy opened fire on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic using 122-mm Grad MLRS, 122-mm barrel artillery and 120-mm mortars. Areas of 10 populated areas of the republic were hit by the shelling, the DNR said.
According to the DPR Mission to the JCCC, 21 residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. The total number of ammunition used by Ukrainian militants was 200.
In the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, previously liberated by a group of DNR troops, 1 civilian wounded as a result of VFU shelling received medical treatment. A total of 2 wounded civilians across the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic received medical care during the period, the DPR Ministry of Health said.
10:51 LPR Interior Ministry officials found nine grenade launchers, rounds and other ammunition, including over 40,000 rounds of ammunition, in the forest near the village of Krymskyi, Slavyanoserbskyi district.
10:25 More than 3,100 subscribers remain without power supply in the DPR
As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the Donetsk People’s Republic, 57 transformer substations, 1 hospital, 3 educational institutions and over 3,100 household subscribers have been de-energized, the DPR’s Emergencies Ministry said.
10:03 The presence of foreign instructors was found at the site of fighting in Rubizhne (LNR).
09:52 The IAF struck Yasynuvata from positions in Avdeevka. War criminals continue using BM-21 Grad MLRS rockets against civilians
09:27 Power supply throughout Volnovakha is planned to be restored by the end of May. Now there is power in the school, kindergarten, hospital, police, prosecutor’s office and justice buildings.
09:20 There was shelling from the direction of Krasnogorovka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 8 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
09:11 There is shelling from the direction of Avdiivka – Vasilievka: 5 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
09:05 Soldiers of the DPR operational tactical formation with the support of the Russian Air Force clean up Azovstal.
09:00 The Ukrainian Forces recorded shelling from the direction: Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Leninsky district): 5 shells of 122mm calibre were fired.
08:41 The Donetsk People’s Republic representative office at the JCCC recorded shelling by the AFU in the direction of:
Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Petrovsky District): 5 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Kirovsky District): 5 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired.
Novomikhailovka – Donetsk (Leninskiy district): 4 shells of 122 mm calibre were fired;
08:10 A source in the OP said that the technologists of the Office of the President launched an anti-crisis on Azovstal, in order to shift the focus from the Azov regiment to AFU soldiers, border guards, police officers. Bankova knows very well that no one will let Azovstal’s warriors, even the wounded, be replaced, but the rest have a chance, in order to shift the emphasis from the future “zrada” messages are now being launched that Azovstal is not only the National Security Forces.
08:00 The total number of casualties recorded in the liberated territory of the DPR is 1,362, including 71 children.