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Current information on the situation on the front line: March 4 (updated)
2024-03-05
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 03/04/2024 to 00:00 03/05/2024.

A total of 17 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
One civilian was reported injured

DAMAGED:
  • 2 residential buildings

  • 11 artilley attacks in the Donetsk direction

  • 6 artilley attacks in the Gorlovka direction

  • A total of 48 units of various ammunition were produced.


22:30 Front bird broadcasts: Dnepropetrovsk region. Repeated sound of explosion. 04.03 22:25

And again the sound of an explosion is reported in the southern part of the region in the industrial area zones.

Second time in 24 hours in this area.

Local publics report a possible ballistic missile hitting a military facility.

21:02 The Ukrainian army fired seven rounds at the Kharkov village of Liman Vtoroy, as a result of the artillery attack one private house was destroyed, the head of the administration of the Kharkov region Vitaly Ganchev said in Telegram channel.

19:50 Zaporozhye direction, the Paratrooper’s Diary reports:

South of Rabotino we carry out attacks under artillery cover.

It is difficult to clear the labyrinths of the Ukrainian Armed Forces trenches due to the mined areas, but once they have secured positions they are a good shelter in a completely destroyed village.

Unmanned crews continue to destroy enemy forces and equipment, our UAV operators work at the level of professionals in their field.

In the western part, loitering supplies destroyed a dugout with manpower.

The Russian Aerospace Forces did a good job in Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka today, knocking out about ten rounds from the enemy. Our artillery does not stop talking at all.

Assault units press the enemy from all sides and advance on him.

19:35 The Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat to the eastern outskirts of the settlement Shipy. There are strong battles going on. The information that the Russian Armed Forces entered the populated area has not yet been confirmed. The escape routes along the right bank of the Zherebets River in the Ivanovka area are being mined.

18:49 The Russian Armed Forces entered the village. Terny on the Donetsk direction from the eastern side. Heavy artillery, MLRS, and aerospace forces are at work, military correspondent Lisitsyn reports.

17:47 Crews of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Vostok group of troops destroyed hangar with ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.

Crews of the Uragan multiple launch rocket systems of the 29th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Vostok group of forces inflicted fire on an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the border of the DPR and the Zaporozhye region. Objective monitoring footage confirmed the target was hit.

“The unmanned aerial vehicles detected an accumulation of weapons and military equipment, and the coordinates were immediately transmitted to us. We have worked towards this goal. The target was hit, our troops advanced,” said the commander of the MLRS battery with the call sign “Yuzhny”.

16:50 The enemy confirms our advance in Orlovka in the Avdeeva direction. All counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repulsed. Additional clearing of the western areas of the village is underway. Most of the settlement is under the Russian army.

16:20 There is an explosion in Dnepropetrovsk. The city was hit by a missile strike.

15:50 In Ivanovsky (Krasny), Russian military personnel have advanced significantly along the street. Voronezhskaya. Our troops are approaching the village administration building.

15:30 In the Ugledar direction, the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Russian Federation fired aerial bombs with UMPC at enemy positions -video.

14:52 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 360 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers, and a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle in the Donetsk direction;

The Russian Armed Forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions in the Avdeevsky direction, the enemy lost more than 490 military personnel;

Russian air defense shot down 81 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in 24 hours;

Within 24 hours, Russian troops improved the tactical situation in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 military personnel;

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 320 people and 9 pieces of equipment in the South Donetsk direction per day;

The Russian Armed Forces hit two enemy UAV control points in the areas of Novokalinov in the DPR and Antonovka in the Kherson region;

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two HIMARS launchers in the Kherson direction.


13:50 Calculations of 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" destroyed area where Ukrainian Armed Forces units are located in the Avdeevsky direction.

“We work mainly in the dark so that there are no return flights. The enemy doesn’t see us at night, but our operators see everything... That’s why we work at night. There is no difference - day or night. All the guys are professionals,” said the commander of the rocket battery with the call sign “Oka”.

12:47 Situation in the Artemovsk direction:

There are battles in Ivanovskoye, the enemy has nowhere to gain a foothold, we are destroying all enemy fortifications and points with artillery strikes. We are pushing through enemy positions, reports the Paratrooper’s Diary.

We are currently conducting offensive operations in the north of the village, cutting off the road along which the enemy was evacuating and delivering ammunition and weapons.

There are battles for the heights near Kleshcheevka.


12:10 Statement Head of the press center of the Center group

The Center group of troops continues to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.

The group's units, with the support of artillery fire and air strikes, repelled 11 counterattacks by formations of the 53rd Mechanized, 59th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Airborne and three assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Tonenky, Orlovka, Pervomaisky and Berdychi, as well as two attacks by the assault group of the 24th Mechanized Brigade in the area of the populated area Novgorodskoye point.

In total, about 300 identified enemy targets were hit during the day, including 12 strong points, one command post and more than 60 artillery positions.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 450 troops. Three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, a Polish self-propelled howitzer "Crab", two 152mm "Gyacinth-B" guns, a 122mm 2S1 self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" and an unmanned aircraft control center were destroyed.


11:50 Soldiers of the Aida group from the Akhmat special forces in full control of the territory of the chalk plant near Belogorovka (LPR).

The last building was cleared; more than 20 Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were eliminated during the assault. The work is intensive: UAV crews may not change for several days, snipers are in positions in three eight-hour shifts, said the commander with the call sign Hades. According to him, the enemy does not give its military the opportunity to surrender. The dead were found with a control shot in the back of the head - in order not to carry the wounded, “the VSEushniks simply finished off their brothers-in-arms.”

“Their morale is extremely fragile, on the verge of breakdown, they are already in some kind of agony. So it’s a matter of time before the whole front collapses,” Hades added.

10:34 Ukrainian troops attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing seven rounds of 155mm caliber. From the position in the village of Kurakhovka - the representative office of the JCCC in the DPR.

10:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine admitted that the Russian Armed Forces are attacking Ivanovskoye in the Artemovsk direction and now there are serious battles there

“Moreover, now the battles are already taking place within the populated area,” said Ilya Yevlash, head of the press service of the Eastern Group of Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

10:02 The enemy attempted to attack a settlement in the Gulyaypole region in the Zaporozhye region. Thanks to the well-coordinated work of the crew of the Buk air defense system of the 35th Army, the enemy Leleka received “reactive hello” from our guys.

09:30 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 si rounds;

-- n.p. Golaya Pristan four rounds;

-- in the village of Kazachi Lagery seven rounds;

-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;

-- in the village of Peschanivka three rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Sagi, n.p. Kazachi Lagery, firing a total of 14 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine transferred reserve units to the area of the village of Berdychi near Avdeevka in an attempt to hold the defense line, said adviser to the head of the DPR Igor Kimakovsky.

09:22 In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy lost another ammunition supply point -video.

09:05 The DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 13 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces during the day, and 40 ammunition were fired.

In the Donetsk direction the enemy carried out five artillery attacks, in the Gorlovsky direction - 8.

As a result of artillery attack, a man was wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. A child born in 2009 was also injured. due to the detonation of a high explosive in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. 3 residential buildings in Gorlovka were damaged.

08:17 Yes looks drone control point not far from the line of combat contact. A crew of three people works in a small room, shifts last 12 and sometimes 16 hours. The entire “picture” from a reconnaissance drone equipped with a thermal imager is transmitted to the command post. If a target is detected, report “to the top” and engage the enemy with fire.

The enemy armored personnel carrier manages to escape from being hit by rocket fire, but not far. Our attack drone catches up with him, accurately dropping ammunition - another target is destroyed.

“Last night we shot down one Bradley, now it’s standing in the field, the one-timer flew just fine. 10 “Germans” tried to enter, but in the end they also did a good job,” said a senior UAV operator with the call sign “Bulldozer.”

08:01 Frontline summary on the morning of 03/04/2024:

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, attacked on the southern approaches to the village of Rabotino. Ukrainian positions in Pyatikhatki, Malaya Tokmachka, Gulyaypole and Malinovka are under attack. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked against Russian units in Zherebyanki, Kopany, Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy.The Donetsk front is still burning. The Russian Armed Forces continue the assault on Novomikhailovka from the south, east and northeast. They also strive to develop the success of Victory. Ukrainian units are putting up fierce resistance. With the support of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces carried out offensive operations near Georgievka, on the southern and eastern outskirts of the city of Krasnogorovka.

There was also an attack at Nevel'skoye, Tonenkoye, Orlovka and Berdychi. LBS has not changed significantly. Under fire, Ukrainian positions in Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name to the southwest of Bakhmut), Paraskovyevka, Kurakhov, Pervomaisky, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine Novobakhmutovka (the settlement of the same name to the east of the Russian Armed Forces), New York and Severny (settlement to the north -west of Gorlovka). Russian ones are in Marinka, Donetsk, Avdeevka and Gorlovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, tried to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Andreevka. They also carried out assault operations near Kleshcheevka. This time from the southeast and on the heights northwest of the village. In addition, Russian troops attacked in Ivanovsky and Bogdanovka. Russian long-range weapons operated against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chasovoy Yar, Vasyukovka and Razdolovka. Ukrainian in the RF Armed Forces in Bakhmut and Yagodnoye.

In the Lugansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, managed to advance at Yampolevka and Ternov, increasingly pressing the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards the Zherebets River. There are tough oncoming battles in Tabaevka. Ukrainian positions in Belogorovka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Berestovoy and Peschanoye are under attack.

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