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Actual information about the situation on the front line: August 6 (updated)
2023-08-07
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/06/2023 to 00:00 08/07/2023

Over the past day, the Representation reported 53 facts of firing by the AFU.

Information was received about the wounding of nine civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, Staromikhaylovka.

Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka and Staromikhaylovka, as well as four civil infrastructure facilities.

Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 35 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.

On Gorlovsky 16 attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm and 122mm.

On Yasinovatsky two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

By releasing 202 units of various ammunition.

In the previous day, 60 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.

23:08 Four people were injured as a result of a strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Azotny microdistrict in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

In his Telegram channel, the mayor of the city Alexei Kulemzin wrote that among the victims were two women born in 1953 and 1976, as well as two men born in 1956 and 1977.

21:21 Ukrainian troops fired ten rockets from the MLRS in Gorlovka, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported in its telegram-channel.

21:20 Calculation of the Russian modernized MLRS "Tornado-G" supports infantry advance behind Novoselovsky, taken under the control of the Russian Federation, in the Donbass.

20:05 Ukrainian troops fired on Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing eight rounds of the "NATO" caliber of 155mm and 15 rounds of 152mm caliber, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported (JCCC).

19:47 The situation in the Artemovsk direction is reported by Archangel Spetsnaz:

“There were attempts to attack in the number of two to three tanks and three infantry fighting vehicles. Two out of three tanks were disabled by ATGM operators without the possibility of recovery. 1/3 of the infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, the enemy infantry fled to the landings. According to radio interception, up to ten KIAs, several two wounded (from 3-5) and big problems with evacuation.

They enter under smoke screens, thanks to thermal imagers they can still be seen. They move in small groups of three to five people with a large distance of 30-50 meters.

19:10 Fixing the consequences of shelling. Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk 08/06/2023–photo.

The enemy fired from their positions located in the area of ??the settlement. Galitsinovka, from artillery with a caliber of 155mm with US-made M-864 rounds with a cluster warhead (M-42 cumulative and M-46 fragmentation submunitions).

18:40 First frames from Dniprorudny, which was fired upon by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.

Six people were injured in the terrorist attack. A civilian car was completely burned out, windows were shattered in the houses by the blast wave.

17:59 A bus with children from the Zaporozhye region came under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region - military commander Kurlaeva.

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to shell the way to the Chongarsky bridge in the Kherson region, but during the attack, a bus with children from the front-line areas who were going on vacation to Yevpatoria came under fire,” the military correspondent said.

17:39 Six civilians were wounded as a result of targeted artillery attack of the center of the city of Dniprorudne.

The arrival was recorded in the courtyard of two nine-story buildings, the glazing, transformer, and cars were damaged. Six civilians were wounded.

Two people received severe head injuries, one was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the city hospital, the second was urgently sent to the Melitopol hospital. Four more people received shrapnel wounds, said the operational services of the region.

16:57 During the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of Dniprorudny, Zaporozhye region, civilians were injured.

Buildings and cars were damaged in the arrival radius, one car burned down, the operational services of the city reported.

16:03 Kyiv terrorists fired NATO Storm Shadow missiles at the Chongar bridge and the village of Chongar. This was announced by the Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.

“The bridge was damaged by a rocket, but the main villainy of the regime is getting into the village school. Transport communication with the Crimea continues to work through Chaplinka and Armyansk. I ask motorists to take this into account in their plans,” Saldo wrote in his Telegram channel.

15:47 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the bridge across the Tonkiy Strait connecting Genichesk with the Arabat Spit, 12 missiles were fired, air defense shot down nine of them, Vladimir Saldo, Acting Governor of the Kherson region, said.

15:24 Arrivals on the Chongar bridge. Three to four arrivals. The amount of damage is still unknown, informedBoris Rozhin.

15:05 Russian paratroopers repel an enemy attack in the Artyomovsk direction -video.

14:40 Video: this is what the Donetsk University of Economics and Trade looks like now after the night arrival of cluster rounds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the fire was extinguished only in the morning.

The next night artillery attack of the Voroshilovsky district will be remembered by the residents of the city and especially the students of this university by hitting directly into the 1st building of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade.

The fire engulfed the roof, the fight against the fire went on all night, and only in the morning the emergency services reported that the open fire had been eliminated - firefighters are still working inside.

The facade of the building suffered little damage, but the roof of the temple of science no longer exists, the summer Donbass sky turns blue through it, and many internal premises burned down. It is obvious that classes here, if they begin, will definitely not be this September.

And besides, the Ministry of Education and Science has already reported that diplomas of graduates of this year and documents of the selection committee were burned in the building. For the fire at the Western Ukrainian airfield in the Khmelnitsky region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as if out of habit, decided to take revenge on the residents of Donetsk and burned down a civilian university.

14:20 Alexander Khodakovsky about the situation in the South-Donetsk direction:

Today the enemy was not lucky: the beginning was promising, they even crossed the river, but they could not solve the task. I know who and how is holding the defense on Urozhayne - well done guys. The wind today is strong and gusty: let alone fly, artillery is difficult to correct. But, nevertheless, they worked, and even fell.

14:02 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 6, as of 14:00, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - on the street. Tretyakova, 30 wounded man born in 1985

n.p. Staromikhaylovka: - on the street. Gorky, 2 wounded man born in 1960

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

Donetsk:

Kyiv district: - st. Krupskaya, 142 - a private residential building.

Kirovsky district: - according to updated information, a direct hit followed by a fire in a private residential building was recorded on the street. Tretyakova, 30.

n.p. Staromikhaylovka: - st. Gorky, 2 - a private residential building.

13:37 “Every day rounds fall here”: an eyewitness showed the consequences of the artillery attack of the DPR by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The rounds damaged the roof of a residential building in the Kurakhovsky district, which started a fire. The Zhilploshchadka quarter in Donetsk was also badly damaged - windows were broken in many apartments, walls were damaged by fragments.

13:30 Today, at about six in the morning in the Orekhovskaya direction in the area of Malaya Tokmachka and Novopokrovka, our units opened the advance of an enemy group towards our positions, again without the support of equipment. The group was hit by fire, the enemy suffered losses and retreated to the north. About it informed Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye Region Yevgeny Balitsky.

According to him, at 0700 hrs, another enemy group without equipment, supported by artillery, made an attempt to attack our positions in the Staromayorsky area. At the moment there is a battle, the enemy is suffering losses.

At night, the enemy again tried to strike at the civilian infrastructure of the Zaporozhye region. Thus, the enemy launched a missile attack from the Haimars MLRS on a bakery located in Tokmak. The building was partially destroyed, but there were no casualties.

12:55 Consequences of the artillery attack of an apartment building in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk -video.

12:46 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

The RF Armed Forces repulsed offensive attempts in the Donetsk, South-Donetsk, Kupyansk, Krasnolimansk and Zaporozhye directions;

In the Donetsk direction, the losses of Ukraine amounted to 170 military personnel;

An assault attack was repelled in the South-Donetsk direction;

In the Kupyansk direction, the RF Armed Forces repelled eight attacks, the enemy's losses amounted to 50 Ukrainian servicemen;

Up to 110 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the Krasnolimansky direction;

In the Zaporozhye direction, two enemy attacks were repelled, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 80 people per day;

In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed;

Tonight, a high-precision strike was inflicted on the air bases of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlement. Starokonstantinov Khmelnitsky region and Dubno Rivne region. The target of the strike is reached, the designated objects are hit.


12:28 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.

11:37 Situation in the South-Donetsk direction:

At the Vremevsky site, the information previously published by Comrade Dambiev is confirmed. First, at around 0500 hrs, the enemy tried to attack northeast of Urozhaynoye with the help of two assault groups supported by two tanks and four armored vehicles. Army aviation strikes and artillery fire destroyed one tank and two armored vehicles, at 05.40 the remaining equipment withdrew to the north.

At 0600 hrs, a concentration of enemy armored vehicles north of Urozhaynoye was opened (three tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles and UR-77). One tank was destroyed by an FPV drone, the second drowned in the Wet Yaly River during the maneuver. Twenty minutes after the first fire damage was inflicted, a group of up to 20 units of enemy manpower was discovered, which was trying to force the river. Our art also worked on them. At 0900 hrs, a group of 30 militants already tried to force a water barrier, the attempt was also suppressed by artillery. At 1000 hrs, the battle for Urozhaynoye continues.

To the west of Staromayorsky, the enemy is conducting a rotation of personnel and reconnaissance in force. Probably, he is also preparing a roll from this side.

To the north of Priyutnoye, the enemy’s company stronghold was hit by TOS fire.

In the Ugledar sector north of Nikolsky, an enemy reconnaissance group of up to seven militants attempted to approach the positions of our troops through a forest belt in the “gray zone”. During the advance, two militants were blown up by mines, the group was dispersed, and requested evacuation. The area was hit with mortar fire.


11:10 In the defense zone of the 1st Tank Army, units of the 25th Separate Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack the positions of Russian troops in the Novoselovsky area.

The artillery of the grouping inflicted a fire defeat, the losses of the enemy amounted to an infantry platoon, the DPR Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

11:05 Artemovsk (Bakhmut), Klescheevka at 11:00

The enemy does not abandon attempts to occupy the adjacent heights in the given operational direction. Yesterday, closer to the night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an assault with up to a company. As a result, “they got hit by a heavy machine gun and 82mm mortars and were forced to roll back. Enemy losses amounted to two squads.

11:00 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 6, as of 11:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):

- on st. 60 years of the USSR, a man born in 1951 was wounded near the Skazka store.

- men born in 1960 and 1966 were wounded near the Azotny market.

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

Donetsk:

Kuibyshevsky district:

- Palace of Culture "Smolyanka" on the street. 60th anniversary of the USSR, 10 "a";

- shopping pavilion at the intersection of the street. 60th anniversary of the USSR and st. Somov;

- shop "Hercules-Milk" on the street. 60th anniversary of the USSR, 24 "a";

- shop "Miner's poultry farm" on the street. 60th anniversary of the USSR, 9 "a";

- st. 60th Anniversary of the USSR, 28 - apartment building.

Kirovsky district: - st. Tretyakova, 20 - a direct hit in a private residential building with subsequent ignition.

10:49 Open burning in the building of the Donetsk University of Economics and Trade, where a fire broke out after artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has been eliminated. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

10:06 Situation in Zaporozhye direction at 10:00:

n.p. Rabotino - the enemy was preparing for an offensive from0600 hrs, at 0800 hrs he began to move and battles began. During the work of our artillery and ATGM operators, enemy armored groups and personnel were destroyed. Now there is silence, the mercenaries threw the wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the field and left in pickup trucks.

n.p. Pyatikhatki - In the morning, the enemy drove up to the house where the command post was in two pickup trucks, waited until they came in and disassembled the artillery.

09:47 Reports Raccoon from Kherson: The enemy went on the attack in the area of Artemovsk

This morning near Berkhovka our paratroopers did not start with coffee. Early in the morning, from the side of the Berkhovsky reservoir, a convoy of Ukrainian vehicles consisting of four tanks and six armored vehicles was noticed, as a result of the work of our artillery and reconnaissance units, four tanks and five armored vehicles were destroyed. The rest left. All morning, the destruction of the remnants of the surviving enemy infantry, which fled to the landings, continued.

Now the enemy is trying to evacuate on two armored personnel carriers. We catch.

09:27 Consequences of night artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

As a result of this shelling, the building of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky received significant damage.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in the course of fixing the consequences of the criminal actions of neo-Nazis, found fragments, presumably from the HIMARS MLRS with a cluster charge.

09:12 Urozhainoye, Vremevsky ledge:

In the morning the enemy threw into battle two motorized infantry platoons reinforced with tanks. Two attacks were repulsed by valiant warriors from the Far East.

09:05 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Aleshki nine rounds;

-- n.p. Cardashinka 12 rounds;

-- n.p. Podstepne seven rounds;

-- n.p. Golaya Pristan eight rounds;

-- n.p. Gornostaevka 14 rounds;

-- n.p. Nova Zburyevka 10 rounds.

As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement Gornostaevka, two civilians were injured incompatible with life.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Nova Kakhovka, the settlement of Kakhovka, n.p. Solontsy, n.p. Aleshki, firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.

09:00 Far East warriors repulsed the second wave of the enemy attack in the Urozhaynoye area. The unfinished infantry of the Ukrainian formations are being finished off in the wooded areas.

08:55 The village of Azotny in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk came under fire from the Ukrainian troops, there are dead - the mayor of Donetsk, Alexei Kulemzin.

08:50 As a result of the night artillery attack of the center of Donetsk, there were destroyed ceilings and roofing throughout the area of the Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky.

The fire, which broke out after the shelling, was localized only in the morning. In total, the fire engulfed the building over the entire area - about 3000 m².

08:48 Spetsnaz Archangel reports from the Zaporozhye direction:

8:18 - The enemy went on the offensive in small armored groups. Our art works, there are fights.

08:27 As a result of the evening artillery attack of Donetsk, which occurred the day before, a woman died in the courtyard of the house - the mayor of the city

08:25 A signalman from the ZVO connection with the call sign "Achilles" spoke aboutcombat everyday lifein the special operation zone and the importance of an extensive communication system.

The serviceman told how in combat conditions one has to change places of deployment, often go ahead of the main forces to work ahead of the curve, and also how interspecific brotherhood is felt in battle.

08:00 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants using cluster munitions -photo.

07:50 Commander of an artillery platoon with the call sign "Tvertsa" told on the work of artillery in the NVO zone.

At the moment, his unit is located in the Kherson direction. The main task is the counter-battery fight and the destruction of the enemy landing force. In battle, the artilleryman had to confront Western weapons more than once, but our "gods of war" do their job perfectly well.

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