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Current information on the situation on the front line: February 25 (updated)
2024-02-26
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/25/2024 to 00:00 02/26/2024.

A total of 26 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

Three civilians were reported injured

DAMAGED:
  • Three cars destroyed,

  • 10 residential buildings,

  • Two civil infrastructure facilities,

  • Three cars were damaged.


Six artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction.
A total of 20 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 99 units of various ammunition were fired.

22:15 The front bird is broadcasting: South of Ukraine. Geraniums work. 25.02 22:00

Information is being received about the work of our flying flower Geraniums on enemy positions.

The work of enemy air defense is also reported.

21:05 Explosions in Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi - Ukrainian)

21:04 Russian fighters entered Rabotino, continue to advance and grind the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Governor of the Zaporozhye region Balitsky told RIA Novosti

He also added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Rabotino lost thousands of soldiers and a huge amount of equipment.

18:55 Today, as a result of the UFU aggression, three DPR civilians were injured.

In the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, two women were injured - born in 1971 and 1966.

In the village of Zaitsevo, a man born in 1973 was wounded when a PFM Lepestok mine exploded.

Ten residential buildings in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky districts, a kindergarten in the Kievsky district and a civil infrastructure facility in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk were damaged. In addition, three cars were damaged, and the same number were destroyed by enemy rounds.

Eight attacks were recorded, the enemy fired 29 ammunition, rocket artillery, 152mm and 155mm caliber artillery, and attack UAVs were used.

18:50 Explosions in Poltava and Kremenchug, Poltava region.

18:24 In the Sin'kovka area, fighting has intensified.

More than 20 FAB-500 aerial bombs were dropped on the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There has been a strong battle all day.

19:10 With a missile strike, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the launcher and hit the radar of the American-made Patriot air defense system in the area of the settlement Petrovsky –video.

18:50 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kyiv region of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.

18:00 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in Kramatorsk (DPR, temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces).

17:49 Avdeevskoe direction. At the Armed Forces of Ukraine Problems after retreating towards Thinnky.

The stabilization of the front line, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces spent the last 72 hours on, did not help and the defense west of Avdievka continues to collapse.

Russian troops have not yet entered Tonenkoye itself; a “barrage of fire” is actively used: after each retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to new lines, the positions of the Ukrainian army are ironed by Russian artillery. It is almost impossible to gain a foothold in such conditions; you have to retreat further.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat mainly on foot, which is why the speed of movement remains low, and the arrival of each shell or aerial bomb leads to the maximum possible number of casualties.

17:37 Detonation American 155mm self-propelled gun M-109 in the Artemovsk direction. After the Lancet hit the vehicle's wheelhouse, the ammunition detonated, destroying the vehicle and its crew.

16:57 Ukrainian Telegram channels confirm the advance of the Russian Armed Forces to the settlement. Tonenkoe.

16:10 The progress of the RF Armed Forces in the Artemovsk direction is reported by “Reports and Analytics of the North Military District”:

Enemy resources confirm the success of our army in the Artemovsk direction. It is reported that our fighters are already in the center of Ivanovsky (Red).

The Russian Aerospace Forces use FAB with UMPC. Also, our artillery and MLRS are working closely. The enemy feels “shell hunger.”

Our troops use artillery 10 times more intensively.

15:55 Explosions were reported in Zaporozhye (temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces) Before the explosions, a missile threat was announced.

15:50 Ukrainian Telegram channels report missiles in the direction of Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovsk region)

15:17 The situation Boris Rozhin reports at the front:

Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka. Fierce street battles for the village continue.

Counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Rabotino. The enemy drove our forces out of the center of the village and they again retreated to the southern outskirts. Fierce fighting in and around the village continues.

Advancement of our troops south of Krasnogorovka. In fact, fighting began on the outskirts of the city. The capture of Krasnohorivka will significantly reduce the intensity of artillery attack of Donetsk.

15:05 NGP RaZVedka reports on the situation in the South Donetsk direction:

The Russian Armed Forces attacked the enemy in the area of ??the settlement Tonenkoye. Previously, the area was subjected to missile and bomb attacks from the Aerospace Forces and powerful artillery bombardment.

The settlement is currently being stormed. Our soldiers are already on its territory. After the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the settlement. Lastochkino and Northern the question of Tonenkoye suggested itself. The Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot hold the settlement, the prospects are clear.

14:49 "Lancet" destroyed a tank of the Ukrainian army. Loitering ammunition identified and disposed of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces -video.

14:10 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC on February 25, as of 14:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the DPR:

Donetsk (Kirovsky district):

- on the street Petrovsky, 101 wounded: woman born in 1971;

- on the street Valentina Tereshkova, 2, a woman born in 1966 was injured.

Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the VFU:

Donetsk:

Petrovsky district:

artillery attack at 07:55:

– st. Stepana Shchipachev, 33 – apartment building.

artillery attack at 08:25:

– st. Krasnogorovskaya, 12 – direct hit in an apartment building.

Kirovsky district:

artillery attack at 01:30:

– st. Feta, 35 – private residential building.

artillery attack at 11:50:

– beauty salon “Elite” on the street. Petrovsky;

– st. Petrovsky, 111 “v” - apartment building, 3 cars were also destroyed, 3 cars were damaged.

13:50 The situation in the Donetsk direction is reported by the SVO Reports and Analytics:

The entry of our army in the south of Krasnogorovka (Maryinsky district) is confirmed. There is a fight on the street. Paris Commune and Shevchenko Street.

Our artillery, MLRS and airborne forces continue to strike enemy fortifications and firing points. The Donetsk agglomeration hears the intensive work of our army.

13:47 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.

13:15 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Russian Armed Forces occupied more advantageous positions in the Avdeevsky direction and repelled seven counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces per day in the Donetsk direction exceeded 360 military personnel;

Within 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces defeated 3 brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction, the enemy lost up to 140 military personnel;

Russian air defense forces destroyed 77 Ukrainian drones in one day;

The Russian Armed Forces repelled four counterattacks in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 180 people;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle in the South Donetsk direction.


13:05 Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk are under fire - Mayor Kulemzin.

12:49 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Tekstilshchik microdistrict in Donetsk. This was announced by the mayor of Donetsk Alexey Kulemzin.

“According to preliminary data, cars are on fire and there is a direct hit in an apartment building. The information is being clarified,” the mayor said.

12:30 Statement Head of the press center of the Vostok group:

Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction. During the day, the enemy’s attempts to strengthen forward positions and carry out rotations of military personnel in the areas of Ugledar, Staromayorsky and Priyutny were suppressed.

Bomber strikes, artillery fire, and heavy flamethrower systems hit strong points and areas where manpower accumulated in the 58th motorized infantry brigade and the 108th territorial defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Shevchenkovo ??and Lugovskoye areas.

Twelve temporary deployment points, six unmanned aircraft control points and a field ammunition depot were destroyed.

The enemy's losses were: a towed howitzer M777, six units of automotive equipment, an electronic warfare station based on a pickup truck, and up to 125 military personnel.

11:50 American Abrams tanks were spotted for the first time near the line of combat contact northwest of Avdievka, advisor to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky told TASS.

10:53 Pushilin showed new ones personnel from liberated Avdeevka.

10:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers announced their withdrawal from the village of Lastochkino, west of Avdiivka, Ukrainian media write.

The military claims on social networks that the flanks and supply routes were under threat, so the decision was made to withdraw.

10:05 Frontline summary on the morning of 02/25/2024:

In the Zaporozhye direction there are oncoming battles in the Kamensky area. Russian troops have activated a new section of the front. The Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, continued the assault on the village of Rabotino from the east and south. Ukrainian positions in Plavny, Lobkovo, Pyatikhatki, Malye Shcherbaki, Malaya Tokmachka and Charovnoye are under attack. Russian ones are in Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy.

On the Donetsk front, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked in the Sladkoye area and regained some of the previously lost positions. This is important for them in terms of holding Novomikhailovka, where Russian troops were conducting offensive operations from the south and east with the support of long-range weapons.

In turn, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked in Pobeda after the artillery strikes. There is a struggle for initiative. The Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, continued the assault on Pervomaisky. There is their advance in Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka) and Lastochkino. In the last of the listed settlements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces maintain a partial presence only on the western outskirts.

Under fire, their positions in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Ekaterinivka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Netaylov, Tonenkoye, Orlovka, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine Novobakhmutovka (the settlement of the same name to the east of the Russian Armed Forces), Ocheretin, Alexandropol (populated point north of Donetsk) and New York. Russian ones are in Marinka and Donetsk.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, advanced to Ivanovsky. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kurdyumovka, Belaya Gora, Andreevka, Bogdanovka, Vasyukovka and Razdolovka. Ukrainian artillery worked against the Russian Armed Forces in Bakhmut and Yagodny.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops attacked in the Ternov area and with artillery support in Sin'kovka. No advance. Ukrainian positions in Belogorovka, Serebryanka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Berestovka and Petropavlovka are under fire.


09:43 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka five rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Mayachka three rounds;

-- Kachachi Lagery five rounds;

-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;

-- Peschanivka three rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Peschanivka, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:30 Consequences artillery attack of the center of Donetsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a cafe where a wedding was being celebrated at that moment.

Presumably the artillery attack was carried out from the HIMARS MLRS.

09:20 Over the past 24 hours, military investigators from the Russian Investigative Committeerecordedthe next crimes committed by the UFU against the civilian population of the DPR.

During the day, Ukrainian militants shelled the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as the Voroshilovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk. artillery attack of DPR areas was carried out using MLRS and 155mm caliber artillery, including cluster warheads.

In addition, Ukrainian militants dropped an explosive object from a UAV into the village. Zaitsevo where a man born in 1994 was wounded.

In addition, as a result of the artillery attack of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1973 was killed, and a man born in 1984 and a woman born in 1955 were injured to varying degrees of severity.

In total, six residential buildings, two civilian infrastructure facilities and seven vehicles were damaged by DPR shelling.

09:10 Crews of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system around the clock control of airspace above Russian positions in the NWO zone.

The anti-aircraft missile and gun complex has two double-barreled 30mm cannons with 1,400 rounds of ammunition and 12 anti-aircraft missiles. The Pantsir's armament allows it to destroy any air attack weapon within the established operating range.

“The mood is great, fighting! The enemy will definitely be defeated, it is just a matter of time. Victory will be ours!" - the deputy crew chief and operator of the Pantsir-S1 air defense system is confident.

08:17 Airborne artillerymen hit with howitzers a temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an ammunition warehouse on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported -video.

08:00 Summary on the morning of February 25, 2024:

In Krynki, Kherson region, on our bank of the Dnieper, the enemy has reduced its presence, but not in connection with the work of its evacuation groups: our UAV operators and artillerymen are definitely hitting. Enemy information centers admitted that the retention of Krynok was intended to have only a media effect. It cost the Ukrainian Armed Forces 3,500 personnel in killed aloneOn the Zaporozhye Front, the Russian Army is waging heavy, bloody battles on the Rabotino-Verbovoe line, gradually gaining positions. Our armored groups are faced with many drones and artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy is conducting a maneuverable defense.

In the Kurakhovsky direction there were battles in Georgivevka, north of Marinka there were battles near Krasnogorovka. To the south there are battles at Pobeda and Novomikhailovka. This week, Far Eastern warriors tightly ironed the enemy with enemy MLRS. A plan to advance to Ugledar is visible.

West of Avdievka - battles near the village. Lastochkino. The battle continues.

The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the direction of Chasov Yar. This week, the main fierce battles took place near Ivanovsky (Krasny) west of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

To the north there are battles in Belogorovka (our troops are advancing), at Tern and Torskoye.
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