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Current information on the situation on the front line: April 20 (updated)
2024-04-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:12 Front birdbroadcasts: Kharkov region (border region). New strikes.

It is reported that FAB-500 and KAB-500 hit buildings and structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. An enemy armored engineering vehicle and trucks were also reported to have been hit.

Our KABs hit Ukrainian Armed Forces targets with pinpoint accuracy. The strikes were carried out by our front-line bombers.

21:35 Good news from the Ugledar direction. Marines of the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade have taken Novomikhailovka after a months-long assault. It was a damn difficult assault, but the naval infantry turned the enemy around.

20:15 Chasov Yar.

The enemy expects another massive attack on Chasov Yar and the surrounding area in the next 24 hours.

Reported about a significant concentration of our army in this area.

19:25 Hit at the Zaporozhye Electric Locomotive Repair Plant.

Russian troops continue to test the enemy's railway infrastructure. Tonight, two Iskander-M OTRK missiles struck the territory of the Zaporozhye Electric Locomotive Repair Plant.

Coordinates: 47.8297603, 35.1726337

It is known that the assembly and electrical machine shops of the enterprise were destroyed by the blows.

The assembly shop's capacities were used to repair heavy armored vehicles, and on the territory of the electric machine shop a parking lot was organized for equipment that was awaiting repair.

As a result of the damage, a strong fire broke out in the electrical machine shop area, which was accompanied by dull explosions. The exact amount of equipment that was at the facility or was destroyed is currently unknown.

One electric locomotive and several cars were also damaged as a result of the impact.

18:40 Series of powerful explosions in Konstantinovka.

After arrival, a secondary detonation is heard. The alarm continues to roar in eastern Ukraine.

17:22 Krivoy Rog. Explosion.

Single powerful explosionthunderedat a military industrial enterprise in the suburbs of Krivoy Rog.

Local public pages write about a bright flash.

16:35 Battle for Krasnogorovka. 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" from the 238th Guards Artillery Brigade support the advance of our troops with fire -video.

15:20 Around 14.30 Moscow timesuppressedan attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.

14:39 Hit at the enemy point in Druzhkovka.

At night, Russian troops attacked the enemy’s deployment point in Druzhkovka.

Coordinates: 48.6325740, 37.5265221

The enemy continues to deploy personnel in residential areas, hiding behind civilians. The impact damaged houses near the intersection of Novaya and Krasnodontsev streets.

12:20 Arrivals in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye. struck infrastructure facilities.

11:54 More than eight regions of the Russian Federation shot down 50 Ukrainian UAVs.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported repelling a large-scale UAV attack on Russian regions. Duty air defense systems intercepted and shot down 50 aircraft-type UAVs: 26 in the Belgorod region, 10 in the Bryansk region, eight in the Kursk region, two in the Tula region and one each over the territories of the Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow regions.

As a result of the raid in the village of Poroz, Grayvoronsky district, Belgorod region,two local residents were killed: a disabled woman and a man caring for her. In the Bryansk region, when a downed UAV fell, an energy infrastructure facility caught fire.

10:45 Powerful explosions thundered in the suburbs of Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson, the air raid alarm is blaring.

Fires started at the arrival site, local channels write.

09:52 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":

Frontline report for the morning 04/20/2024

– On the Zaporizhzhya Front there are no significant changes in the LBS. Encounter battles continue in Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoy.

– On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in a number of directions. In Krasnogorovka, Russian troops continue to carry out assault operations within the city limits.

In Netailovo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are putting up stubborn resistance, and there are fierce battles for landings.

In Semyonovka and Berdychi, the Russian Armed Forces continue to knock out Ukrainian troops from these settlements, actively using long-range weapons, including heavy flamethrower systems. There are advances of Russian troops in the direction of Novobakhmutovka.

In Ochertino, fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of the village. There are also advances of Russian troops in the village of Novokalinovo.

– Chasovoyarsk direction. Fighting continues in the Bogdanovka area. Russian troops continue to put pressure on the Ukrainian garrison in Chasov Yar from the eastern side, while simultaneously taking assault actions on the flanks
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09:28 Criminal Kyiv regimecontinuesto 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. Kakhovka three rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka two rounds;

-- n.p. Yubileiny two rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;

-- n.p. Kairos four rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Velyka Lepetikha, n.p. Novaya Mayachka, n.p. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Dnipro fired a total of 17 rounds from cannon artillery.

As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. One civilian was killed in Cairo, one local resident was injured in the village of Kakhovka, and Kyiv militants also attacked an ambulance.

08:56 Telegram channel «Fisherman":

Chronicle of a special military operation for April 19, 2024

– Russian troops attacked the enemy’s transport infrastructure in Dnepropetrovsk, Pavlograd and Krivoy Rog, as well as the port of Yuzhny in the Odessa region. A Tu-22 M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Stavropol Territory due to a technical malfunction.

– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, fierce fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of Chasov Yar, as well as on the outskirts of Bogdanovka and in the Kleshcheevka area.

– In the Avdeevsky direction, Russian troops are consolidating on the outskirts of Ocheretino, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are drawing up reserves to prevent a breakthrough of the defense line.

– In the Donetsk direction, fighting continues in Krasnogorovka. Russian troops are advancing in the Pervomaisky area in the direction of Netailovo.

– In the Ugledar direction, Russian troops are storming the western outskirts of Novomikhailovka. At the Sladkoe - Novomikhailovka line, the Russian Armed Forces advanced slightly.

– There are no significant changes in the combat situation in the Zaporozhye direction. North of Rabotino, the enemy is accumulating reserves for a possible counterattack.

– In the Kherson direction, Ukrainian naval infantry maintain a presence in Krynki. Almost daily attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to transfer reinforcements to the village by boat continue.

08:05 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC.

A total of m31 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.

Information was received about the death of one civilian, and three civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity.

Damaged:

One residential building.

Eight attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.

A total of 23 attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.

In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 103 units of various ammunition.

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