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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: August 20th, 2022
2022-08-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:16 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, on August 20, additional information was received about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the cities of the Republic by the AFU:

Donetsk:
Kievsky district:
- a man born in 1950 died.

n.p. Vladimirovka (included in the area of ??responsibility of the administration of the Starobeshevsky district):
- a woman, born in 1953, died.

As of 10:00 p.m., the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on August 20, 2022 amounted to 11 people, including one child (two died, 9 injured), including one person from the previously liberated settlement. Vladimirovka. The information continues to flow.

Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kievsky district:
- st. Karmalyuka, 16, 18 - private residential buildings;
- st. Buslaeva, 30 - apartment building.

n.p. Gorlovka: - st. Bluchera, 6 - a private residential building; - st. Chernyakhovsky, 7 - a private residential building.

n.p. Yelenovka:
- he is. Krupskaya, 30, 30 "a", 31 - private residential houses;
- he is. Lenina, 3 — administrative building of Yelenovskogo district "Avtodor";
- he is. Postovaya, 22 "b" - Church of the Rabbis Constantine and Elena.

As of today, as of 22:00, the enemy fired 229 different types of ammunition, including the BM-21 Grad MLRS, 80mm unguided aircraft rockets, and 155mm, 152mm and 122mm artillery ammunition.

21:53 VFU attacked the Kyiv region of Donetsk, a civilian was killed Ukrainian militants launched an artillery strike on the street. Buslaev, a man born in 1950 died in his apartment.

20:15 The former commandant of Lisichansk, after the occupation of the city by Ukrainian troops in 2014, was subjected to torture and repression by the SBU.

They beat him, broke his fingers, threatened to kill him and sell his organs, throw him into a mine pit, as the Nazis once threw members of the Young Guard.

18:30 A new intercity bus route Luhansk-Severodonetsk-Lugansk has been opened. Buses will depart daily from the Luhansk bus station at 7:00 and 14:00.

The point of arrival and departure of buses in Severodonetsk is located at the address: Khimikov Avenue, 36 (market).
Ticket price - 240 rubles.

17:40 The village of Severny in the Kuibyshev region came under fire. Residential and residential buildings were damaged. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.

17:00 Russia appreciates North Korea's decision to recognize the DPR and LPR and its strong support for the special operation in Ukraine - Russian Foreign Ministry.

16:44 The memorial at Saur-Mogila is planned to be opened on August 25. The restored Saur-Mogila memorial complex will be opened on August 25.

16:09 In Mariupol, they report an attempt on the life of the mayor of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko.

An explosive device was planted at the entrance to the Mariupol Zoo, and went off at the moment the official arrived. Ivashchenko was not injured. Sappers are working at the site of the explosion.

15:37 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. Damage to the car of LLC Ecological Company Gromada while driving on a mine "Petal".

15:20 The northern part of the village of Zaitsevo has been liberated. For eight years, the Gorlovsky settlement was literally a line of demarcation: the northern part was occupied by the VFU, and the southern part by the NM of the DPR. The offensive continues towards Artemovsk (Bakhmut).

15:10 Repair of 225 apartment buildings, 94 educational facilities, 11 cultural facilities, eight healthcare facilities and many infrastructure facilities is planned in Donetsk - Head of the DPR.

15:02 In Lisichansk continues analysis blockages after the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukraine, as always, sought to strike at civilians, so it hit the ambulance station directly - directly at civilians and those who save their lives.

15:00 APU wounded a child in Donetsk. Ukrainian militants during the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of the city wounded a girl born in 2018. on st. Yunokommunarskaya. The child was delivered to the RTC.

14:24 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a garbage truck was blown up on a Ukrainian mine PFM-1 "Petal".

14:22 On the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for August 20 received additional information about civilian casualties as a result of shelling of the cities of the Republic by AFU:

Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:

- a child (girl) born in 2018 was wounded.

Kirovsky district:

- wounded men born in 1994, 1979, 1985

Leninsky district:

- a man born in 1958 was wounded.

n.p. Gorlovka, Zaitsevo settlement:

- a woman born in 1937 was wounded.

Received additional information on damages as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:

- st. Dmitry Donskoy, 28 - a private residential building, a gas pipeline was damaged;
- st. Ivan Susanin, 35 - Donetsk penal colony No. 124.

Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Yunokommunarskaya, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 - private residential buildings;
- he is. Svetlichnaya, 17 — PM mePetal"The garbage truck of the Ecological Company Gromada was blown up."

13:38 According to preliminary information, in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a child was wounded as a result of shelling, houses of the private sector were destroyed. The information is being specified.

13:35 VFU wounded a civilian in the Leninsky district of Donetsk. During the shelling of the dacha cooperative "Prometheus" in the Leninsky district of Donetsk on the street. Verkhovinskaya, a man born in 1958 was wounded. Delivered to DokTMO.

13:10 As a result of the shelling of the village of Zaitsevo by Ukrainian punishers, an elderly civilian, born in 1937, was injured.

12:48 AFU continue shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk

Ukrainian militants from positions in Krasnohorivka are shelling residential areas of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk using 155mm NATO artillery.

12:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired six rockets from the 122mm BM-21 MLRS at the city of Gornyak.

11:47 According to eyewitnesses, the rounds of Ukrainian militants continue to fall in Kirov (Svoboda Square) and in Kuibyshev (microdistrict Gornyak) of the city of Donetsk.

11:18 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: four NAR 80mm were produced (without the use of aviation);
n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): eight rounds fired caliber 122mm.

10:22 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 20, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:

Kirovsky district:
- as a result of a mine explosion PFM "Petal» wounded man born in 1955

As of 10:00 am on August 20, 46 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. two children, I passed PFM «Petal". One of the injured died in the hospital.

Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka:

- st. Velikan, 39 - apartment building, damaged gas pipeline;
- st. Initiative, 12 - a private residential building.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

09:39 It is reported that Kodema has completely passed under the control of the Allied Forces.

09:32 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on August 20:

In the areas of the settlements of Zvanovka and Paraskoviyivka of the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 200 personnel, two tanks and seven special vehicles were destroyed by high-precision air-launched missiles in the 3rd and 12th battalions of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian air defense systems destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Vrubovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, Novomikhailovka, Staromlynovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,776 unmanned aerial vehicles, 367 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,354 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 809 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,320 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,969 units of special military vehicles.

09:23 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement of Kurdyumovka - the settlement of Kurdyumovka. Gorlovka: 5 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.

09:15 This morning, a man born in 1955 was injured by the detonation of the Petal mine in the courtyard of his own house in the Kirovsky district.

08:37 According to the JCCC, over the past day, on August 19, in the city of Donetsk, two people died from shelling - a man and a woman born in 1949 and 1951. - residents of the Kirovsky district, the village of Lozovoe.

08:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Orlovka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three rounds fired with a caliber of 152mm.

08:26 Work artillerymen of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR on enemy positions in the city of Avdievka. Artillerymen during the special operation turned into snipers, each shell flies exactly into a trench or a dugout.

08:00 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:

n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Zaytsevo (southern): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Friendship - n.p. Gorlovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.

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