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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: December 13th, 2022
2022-12-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:19 Campaign for Bakhmut turned into the fiercest battle since the beginning of the NWO.

The Russian military is moving along the entire line of contact, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, said.

The main battle - "Bakhmut meat grinder" - is for the strategically important city of Bakhmut or Artemovsk.

Every day, Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries lose between 100 and 250 people there only seriously wounded.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eve blew up one of the last bridges from the city and blocked the highway to Slavyansk.

The release of Bakhmut, a key transport hub, will disrupt the supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and open the way for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to Slavyansk.

19:30 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction have lost:

- more than 30 people were killed and wounded, of which 11 people were killed and more than seven wounded - as a result of an artillery strike by the RF Armed Forces on a warehouse of missile and artillery weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the Kherson cotton mill, identified by reconnaissance means.

In addition, during the day the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to:

- seven units of automotive and combat armored vehicles;
- three artillery pieces and mortars;
- one unmanned aerial vehicle.

Also, the anti-radar missile "HARM" was intercepted by air defense systems of the RF Armed Forces near the settlement of Makarovka, Kherson region.

18:27 Video of the defeat of the enemy fortifications in the Avdeevka direction by soldiers of the 1st obspn.

The soldiers of the 1st Special Purpose Battalion of the 1st Army Corps identified and hit a number of enemy firing points with the help of ATGMs. Combat work is carried out both in the daytime and at night with the use of thermal imagers.VideoNM DNR.

17:59 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on December 13, 2022.

17:35 In the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian militants fired three rounds with a caliber of 152mm and three rounds with a caliber of 155mm. Also under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was the settlement. Mineralnoye fired four rounds with a caliber of 122mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.

17:08 Armed formations of Ukraine fired on Lisichansk on the evening of December 12, as a result of which damaged multi-storey residential building and gas pipe. This was announced by the city administration in its Telegram channel.

17:07 APU continue to attack the civilian population of the Kherson region, another missile strike hit a residential building in Aleshki - fortunately, everyone survived.

Ukrainian militants again hit a residential building in which there were no military men - only civilians.

Residents of an apartment building in Aleshki, which was under attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that a tragedy was miraculously avoided:

"It was lucky that the girl was not injured, if she sat at the table and did her homework, the child would no longer exist."

The girl, who was wearing headphones at the time of arrival, still has tinnitus in her ear. After the explosion, she was able to hear only the most important thing - how her mother shouted: "I'm alive!"

16:55 Soledarskoye direction situation as of 15:00 December 13, 2022.

Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" broke through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern outskirts of Artemovsk.

At the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) site, Russian units established full control over the Champagne Winery and the Siniat winery. To the southeast, fighting is going on near the waste sorting plant and on Fyodor Maksimenko Street.

Assault groups are also advancing to the northeast. Several strongholds of the enemy were occupied near the village of Podgorodnoye.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducts an emergency rotation of personnel to maintain combat capability. In the central part of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and on the northern outskirts, assault groups were formed to conduct a counteroffensive.

The forces of the 58th brigade have been withdrawn from the combat zone to training grounds in the Sumy or Chernihiv region.

In the area of Soledar, the assault group of PMC "Wagner" established control over the platoon stronghold.

16:42 Investigators examined the site of a Ukrainian missile strike in the center of Donetsk, direct hits on apartment buildings were recorded and after interviewing the victims, RIA Novosti correspondent reports

16:21 Stripe offensive PMC Wagner.

From Popasnaya to Artemovsk. May-December 2022.

16:17 The JCCC in the DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Friendship - n.p. Mayorsk: fired five mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Leonidovka - n.p. Novoselovka: 10 152mm rounds fired;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yakovlevka: three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

16:01 Artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces support the fighters of the 1st AK DPR with fire in the Pervomaisky area.

On one of the most difficult sectors of the front - in the Pervomaisky region, where the enemy is constantly making attempts to counterattack, Russian artillerymen from the Kuban provide fire support to the soldiers of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR. The military correspondents of the press service of the NM DPR filmed the work of the crews of howitzers 152mm 2A65 "Msta-B" at the enemy's stronghold.VideoNM DNR.

15:19 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the village. Lugansk killed three people.

14:39 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian militants fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.

14:36 It is reported that the General Staff of Zaluzhny insists on the withdrawal of the remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Artemovsk (Bakhmut) in order to preserve at least the remnants of combat-ready formations.

To speed up the decision-making by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the rotation base in Kramatorsk is being calibrated right now, the evacuation hospital of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and repair shops are also located there.

13:34 Artillery of the 3rd Brigade hit the enemy manpower.

The UAV operator of the 3rd Guards Brigade, during reconnaissance, discovered the movement of manpower in the area of enemy positions. Artillery fire was immediately opened on the identified targets - the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses in killed and wounded. Video NM DNR.

13:24 Lit high-rise building in Artemovsk.

In the city itself, on the outskirts and in the industrial zone, street fighting continues. PMC "Wagner" continues assault operations in Opytny and in the Podgorodny area.

13:00 Clarification for Artemovsk:

The Russian Army occupied two blocks of the private sector of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) along the line of Maksimenko Street. The assault on Artemovsk continues in small groups in the north and south of the city.

12:51 In the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian militants fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.

11:35 As a result of the shelling from the MLRS Grad of the Kievsky district of Donetsk, a woman was killed.Video: reporter Rudenko.

11:32 Ukrainian militants fired three rounds of 155mm caliber in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.

11:29 According to the Kherson Vestnik Telegram channel, during the week, one of the units of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at night transported ammunition for cannon and rocket artillery to the territory of the cotton mill. During the observation period, it was noticed that more than six trucks were involved in the transportation of ammunition. Subsequently, the territory of the plant was converted into an ammunition depot.

Last night, the Russian Armed Forces launched an artillery strike on the facility, as a result of which the ammunition located at the plant was detonated. As a result of the fire damage, all ammunition available on the territory of the plant was destroyed, and the unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses: four units. automotive technology, 11 people liquidated, more than seven people. received injuries of varying severity.

11:27 So now looks at the bridge blown up yesterday between Melitopol and Konstantinovka.

Two spans sank, traffic on the bridge is now closed. Cynologists
...a specialist in the training and breeding of dogs? Surely not what was intended here...
and sappers are working on the spot.

11:21 Wargonzo exclusive. "Pigpen" of nations: Milonov about mercenaries.

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the party "United Russia" Vitaly Milonov in the vacated positions near Gorlovka told project, what kind of mercenaries he had to deal with, and showed a trophy - a piquant detail of a military toilet, which remained from the Norwegians, the "brothers" of St. Petersburg in the northern latitudes.

10:53 The main statements of the Acting Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Solovyov-Live:

- the shelling of the cities of the Republic “in squares” is terror, absolutely open and biased;

- now people are doing real feats, trying to evacuate, shelter those who were nearby during the shelling, these are employees of cafes, shops, taxi drivers;
- The situation in Marinka is complicated, but it definitely leads to the fact that the settlement will soon be under our control.


10:47 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for December 13, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the VFU of the cities of the Republic: n.p. Aleksandrovka de-energized 19 transformer substations. Without power supply of 2,000 subscribers. Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

10:45 In the DPR, the route in the direction of Krasnogorovka, along which the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Maryinka were supplied, was taken under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. The settlement itself is in a dense environment of Russian troops. Fights go for the city center. Now Russian forces control more than half of the territory of the settlement.

10:35 Statement by the NM of the DPR on the situation as of 10.30 13.12.2022

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: one 122mm self-propelled artillery mount ("2S1 Gvozdika"), nine units of armored and automotive equipment. Losses in enemy manpower amounted to more than 50 people.

10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Major Filiponenko I.M. as of December 13, 2022

Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:

- up to 90 personnel;
- four tanks;
- six armored personnel carriers;
- three artillery installations;
- two unmanned aerial vehicles;
-15 units of special vehicles.

The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements. Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Svatovo and Kremennaya, using 155mm artillery, firing 14 rounds.

As a result of the attacks:

-in n.p. Kremennaya wounded two civilians born in 1999 and 1973, as well as one house was destroyed and one was damaged.

-in n.p. Svatovo destroyed one and damaged three residential buildings, damaged the warehouses of the wholesale base, the gas pipeline and five cars.

10:28 It’s not a pity to destroy the inhabitants of the villages located near Artemovsk (Bakhmut), because they are all “separnya and katsaps,” considers an individual in the form of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and does not hesitate to declare this publicly.

Another instructive video for those who, despite everything that is happening, still naively believe in the good intentions of the Ukrainian state.

The official ideology of Ukraine is "one country, one people." This means that the rest of the nations will be expelled or destroyed. The Nazis offer no other solution.

10:00 In the Lisichansk direction, tankers of the 2nd AK destroyed the positions of the militants of the Kyiv regime.Videoreporter Rudenko.

09:57 Personnel consequences of the strike on the center of Gorlovka.

The video shows that the strikes hit civilian infrastructure - residential buildings were destroyed.

09:31 Fights for Novoselovskoye, Svatovsky district, LPR.

09:09 Front-line summary for the morning of December 13, 2022:

In the Luhansk direction, both opposing sides became more active. In the north, the initiative passed to the Russian army. With the support of artillery, she attacked Stelmahovka. Also assault actions in the direction of Makeevka. Thus, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are trying to push the Ukrainian army to the right bank of the Zherebets River. In turn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to move towards Lysichansk from Belogorovka.

East of Seversk, Russian troops attack in the Verkhnekamenskoye area. Artillery works on the Disputable.

Hot near Soledar. PMC "Wagner" storm the Donetsk Belogorovka. Also fierce fighting in the city of Soledar. It's hot in Artemovsk too. There is a fight on the eastern outskirts. Attacks PMC "Wagner".

On the northern sector of the Donetsk front, Russian troops are trying to advance in the Yuryevka area. New York is covered by artillery. To the south on the ground, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are again attacking the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krasnogorovka and Marinka. They also conducted assault operations near Novomikhailovka.

09:01 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 December 12 to 06:00 December 13

Over the past day, the Representation reported 43 facts of firing by the AFU. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm and 152mm. On Yasinovatsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 152mm. On Gorlovsky - artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 125mm tank, mortars 120mm. Having fired 195 units of various ammunition.

The areas of nine settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts), Mayorsk, Gorlovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Yasinovataya, Kashtanovoe, Yakovlevka, Mineralnoye, Makeevka.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of five civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka.

Wounds of varying severity were received by four civilians in the Kievsky and Voroshilovsky districts of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka.

A total of 40 houses were damaged in the Voroshilovsky, Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Central City, Kalininsky and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka and Aleksandrovka, as well as eight civil infrastructure facilities.

In the previous day, 51 attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.

08:59 Information on the shelling of Horlivka as of 08:00 on 12/13/2022

08:39 On photographs- the consequences of the shelling of the territory of the State Unitary Enterprise "Stirol" (Kalinin district of Gorlovka) from the positions of the VFU. Fixed explosions of enemy rounds between the buildings of the mechanical repair shop.

08:36 Heavy fights in the suburbs of Artemovsk.

08:16 On photographs- the consequences of the night shelling of the Central City district of Gorlovka by Ukrainian militants. The fire water conduit was broken, the Rodina hotel was damaged.

08:01 During the day, four people were killed on the territory of the DPR, 4 more were injured. Over the past day, from 08:00 on December 12 to 08:00 on December 13, four people were killed and four more civilians were injured as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.

07:37 Two civilians were injured during the shelling of Kremennaya by Kyiv security forces on December 12. This was reported by the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.

07:30 Ukrainian militants again fired at the territory of the State Unitary Enterprise Stirol in Gorlovka. The degree of destruction is specified.

06:22 Night Work of Russian artillery in the Maryinka area. The enemy's reserve, which was going for reinforcement in this area, was destroyed.

04:15 Russian military knocked out two British Mastiff armored vehicles south of Donetsk.

04:00 Ukrainian mortar battery was destroyed by fire from 152mm Msta-S howitzers in the DPR. Video: RIA News

03:20 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Svatovo with the use of artillery pieces 155mm (one shell). Information about the victims and damage is being specified.

02:02 The Central City district of Gorlovka is again under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the shelling, the building of the Rodina Hotel was damaged.

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