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2023-04-15 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: April 14th, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:05 Fixed shelling from the VFU.

22:42 Fixed shelling from the VFU.

22:07 Another shelling at Yasinovataya by Ukrainian militants.

22:04 Footage of destruction ofenemy radar station in the Artemovsk area.

21:59 Video- M-113. Trophy

He will return to the front line, only against the Ukrainians, to help our troops.

21:56 Video "Good evening to us from the counteroffensive."

21:52 There are reports from Bakhmut that the strongest the battle goes to the western outskirts of the city.

Artillery work and shooting battle in the area of ??st. Liberators of Donbass, where the fortified area of the 127th and 241st territorial defense brigades is located. Yesterday, not far from this place, the fighters of the PMC "Wagner" advanced well.

21:36 Video- In the Kherson direction, Kyiv formations began to use German Leopard tanks. Of these, they fire at Russian checkpoints. As an officer of the Sokol volunteer battalion said, the Russian military had already drowned one of the "cats" in a swamp.

21:32 Video- The first destroyed of the old British Spartan armored personnel carriers imported by Poroshenko and Prytula. Filmed in Bakhmut.

21:17 Video- The Ukrainian military says that they are being shot at with everything they can, there are wounded and corpses.

20:53 Video- Covering the Ukrainian strong point in the forest belt near Kremennaya

20:43 Video- A self-propelled gun of the 132nd Brigade of the Donetsk 1st Army Corps caught and destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle with personnel inside in the Avdiivka direction.

20:37 Video— Vushnikov caught during the construction of a crossing in the Kherson region

20:20 Video- The work of UR-77 Wagners in Bakhmut

19:52 Video- Personnel of the use of UMPC 500 by the aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.

19:33 Another S-300 Ukrainian air defense "knocked down" five-storey building in Slavyansk.

Stringer from Slavyansk showed a rocket that fell on the city, illuminating its markings. Yes, this is a Ukrainian rocket, which once again failed and fell in a residential area.

5B55 is the marking of old missiles of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. The index can be checked by any user, a search engine is enough. The flight range of such a missile is 90 km.

We are waiting for stories from Ukrainian propagandists about the artillery attack of the city from the air defense of the RF Armed Forces. Classic

19:28 Video- Yakut fighters near Energodar showed how they confuse the enemy on the air.

A battalion formed from Yakut volunteers has been standing in Zaporozhye for half a year now. They serve together with the Airborne Troops from Ussuriysk as part of the Far East Brigade. The task of this unit is the all-round defense of the city of Energodar.

As it turned out, the Yakuts are excellent warriors - they are hunters, fishermen, and reindeer herders. According to the fighter with the call sign "Birch", the soldier's life for the Yakuts is largely familiar. Hunting and fishing are not exotic for them, but a normal part of life.

Here you can often hear pure Yakut speech. It's better than any encryption. No one will understand this data exchange, even if the conversation is intercepted. The Yakut battalion tries to communicate with each other in this way.

The commanders are not against such a "national flavor", because this affects the coherence of the battalion only for the better. Full mutual understanding, and hence the execution of orders will be clear and immediate.

19:03 "Smart bombs" hit the industrial object in Chernihiv region, - APU

At 16:00, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked an industrial enterprise in the Semenovsky district of the Chernihiv region with guided bombs, reports the Sever Operational Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the impact, there is destruction of buildings.

The enemy notes that over the past 24 hours, the use of planning bombs has been noted in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson regions.

The enemy still has nothing to report on cases of successful combat with planning bombs.

18:43 Video— A fiery tornado on the positions of the Ukronazis in Bakhmut

Incendiary munitions strikes on enemy lines of defense are inflicted constantly.

These ammunition make it easier to push the enemy out of well-fortified defensive positions.

18:23 Video- Aimed fire: combat work of tank crews of the Central Military District in the zone of the special operation

In the course of carrying out combat missions, tankers of the Central Military District destroy command and strongholds, equipment and manpower of the Ukrainian army, provide cover for assault detachments in the area of a special military operation.

Gunners and tank commanders, in cooperation with reconnaissance units around the clock, inflict defeat on the enemy with shots from 125mm guns from closed firing positions.

Tankers, using the terrain and forest areas, conduct aimed fire at a distance of more than five kilometers. This method allows you to hide the combat vehicle from the enemy and conduct targeted fire along a ballistic trajectory. Such measures provide high accuracy of fire, combined with a low level of danger to crews.

17:57 The consequences of the artillery attack of Sloviansk, which resulted in one dead and five injured

17:55 Video– A Wagnerian in Bakhmut was saved by a helmet from a Ukrainian sniper’s bullet

17:34 Video- In Slavyansk, it just flew into a residential building. As usual.

17:12 Video- The process of preparing and training replenishment for the front.

16:43 A new stash with weapon

In Berdyansk, investigators found a cache with weapons in the household of a Ukrainian policeman.

When checking operational information, police officers, together with representatives of other law enforcement agencies, inspected a non-residential building located in Berdyansk, owned by a 32-year-old citizen of Ukraine, who previously served in the Berdyansk regional police department of Ukraine as an inspector. Earlier, he left the territory of the Russian Federation and is in the territory controlled by the Zelensky regime.

As a result of the inspection, law enforcement officers found:
- Foreign-made AT4 CSRS anti-tank grenade launcher - 1 pc.,
- 5.45mm caliber cartridges for AK - 300 pcs.,
- F-1 grenade - 4 pcs.,
- UZRGM-2 - 4 pcs.,
- TNT checker 400 gr. - 1 pc.,
- Factory-made fighter - 1 pc.,
- Flags of Ukraine - 2 pcs.
All found ammunition and items have been seized.

16:18 Video- Naval Infantry of the 155th brigade are bombing the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Vugledar.

15:31 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (04/14/2023)

- In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Ivanovka and Dvurechnaya of the Kharkov region.

- In addition, the actions of five sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Olshana, Krakhmalnoye and Timkovka of the Kharkov region were stopped.

Over the past day, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers have been destroyed.

- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the group of troops (forces) "Center" defeated enemy units in the areas of Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic of Chervonopopovka and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.

Up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed.

- In the Donetsk direction, the Wagner assault detachments are conducting high-intensity combat operations to seize quarters in the western districts of the city of Artemovsk.

- The units of the Airborne Forces operating on the flanks provide support to the assault squads and prevent the enemy's attempts to deliver ammunition to the city and bring in reserves.

- Aviation of the "Southern" group of troops to support the assault detachments in this area completely 14 sorties. Rocket troops and artillery carried out 62 fire missions.

The total losses of the enemy per day in this direction amounted to 340 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, five armored combat vehicles, four vehicles, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers.

- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, operational-tactical and army aviation strikes, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops defeated the enemy’s manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Marfopol, Zaliznichnoe, Novoandreevka and Kamenskoe Zaporozhye region.

During the day, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in these areas. In addition, near the village of Chervonaya Krinitsa, Zaporozhye region, a depot with ammunition of Ukrainian troops was destroyed.

- In the Kherson direction, as a result of enemy fire, up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, six vehicles, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed.

- Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation defeated the 93rd Artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 136 districts in a day.

Air defense systems intercepted six rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system per day. In addition, six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Tambovka, Zaporozhye region, Velyka Lepetikha and Maslovka, Kherson region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 407 aircraft, 228 helicopters, 3,753 unmanned aerial vehicles, 415 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,672 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,084 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,584 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 9,504 units of special military vehicles.


15:26 Video- "Brave" attack the enemy's trenches near Kremennaya

Strong footage of strikes on the enemy line of defense. The projectile flew straight to the Ukrainian militant.

After such artillery preparation, the trenches are in a dilapidated state and assault groups are advanced for cleaning. This helps to minimize losses on our part.

15:14 Video- Polish mercenaries showed their combat work in Bakhmut.

A group of Polish "volunteers" filmed and made public these frames on their resources.

Recall that at the end of March, the country's authorities reported that in a week in battles with the Russian army, 3 Polish mercenaries who fought for the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed.

14:48 Video- The fighting in the Lisichansk direction does not subside.

Artillerymen of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian Army from the LPR destroy the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during positional battles.

UAVs, as always, are indispensable when searching for targets and adjusting fire.

14:36 Video- Center of Artemovsk, Freedom Square.

“Listen, do you know that Zaluzhny entered the list of one hundred influential people in the world? And in "Time" on the cover of his photo was published ...

— Oh, there it is. We'll fix it now. There is just one cover here, let's go ... - the scout of the Wagner PMC leads us to a building with a graffiti portrait of the Ukrainian commander in chief. - Where is this Zaluzhny, where is it all? And we are standing here. That's the problem. He's a hat, in short.

14:03 Video- Pan Khokhl has another bout of bipolar disorder. For some reason, a farmer is poking at a destroyed British Husky armored car from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:24 My friend got into our kind hands.

12:24 Video— Field meeting of the working group of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation in Kolomna

12:17 Video- Storming of a building in the industrial zone of Artemovsk, during which the snipers of the Wagner group eliminated three Ukrainian shooters who interfered with the advance of the infantry.

11:54 Video- The Polish self-propelled guns "Crab" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated by an accurate hit with precision-guided ammunition

11:34 Video— Kurganmash delivered a new batch of BMP-3s to the army

11:09 Chronicle of strikes and mutual artillery attack in the NVO zone during the night of April 13-14, 2023

- The RF Armed Forces carried out strikes against the targets of the Armed Forces in Galaganovka, Chernihiv region.

- In the Kharkov region, enemy positions were hit in Udy, Cossack Lopan and Gatishche.

- In the Starobelsk direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on the accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomlynsk, Masyutovka and Tabaevka.

- In the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian army's deployment points in Vasyukovka, Novomarkovo and Grigorovka.

- In the Donetsk direction, cannon and rocket artillery of the RF Armed Forces worked on targets in Maryinka, Avdeevka and Pobeda.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked housing estates in the center of Gorlovka. Residential buildings, a kindergarten and a substation were damaged.

- In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces struck at the enemy forces in Vugledar, Shakhtyorsky and Novoukrainka.

- At night, the RF Armed Forces launched several missile strikes on targets in Zaporozhye. Local authorities claim an attack on critical infrastructure.

- In addition, in the region, Russian aviation and artillery hit enemy concentrations in Olgovsky, Gulyaipole and Orekhovoe.

- On the southern sector of the front, the RF Armed Forces attacked the places of deployment of personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Stepanovka and Antonovka.

Ukrainian formations fired over a hundred rounds at Novaya Kakhovka, Staraya Zburyevka and Sagam, killing one person.


10:44 Investigative Committee of Russia is investigating the facts of shelling inhabited points of the DPR

An 83-year-old man was injured during the artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian armed forces.

Also, two women were injured as a result of rounds from the Ukrainian side in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. In the city of Gorlovka, a kindergarten was damaged.

The investigation will establish the persons involved in the commission of these crimes.

10:23 RF Armed Forces destroyed enemy howitzers in the Kherson region

Yesterday afternoon, in the Kachkarovka area, our gunners destroyed a 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition - together with it, four APU militants were liquidated, three were wounded, emergency services reported.

At night, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer was destroyed in the Goncharny area and five Ukrainians were liquidated.

09:44 Kyiv regime continues terror civil infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services

Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 84 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Novaya Kakhovka, Zabarino, Staraya Zburyevka, Sagi, Krynki, Aleshki, Solontsy, Peschanovka, Pokrovskoye.

At night, the artillery attack did not stop - the Ukrainians fired 46 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka and Kakhovka, Gornostaevka, Tavriysk, Zabarino and Kardashinka.

09:22 Kherson direction

1. During the day, artillery fire in the area of the settlement. Kachkarovka destroyed 152mm howitzer MSTA-B with ammunition loss of four dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three were injured of varying severity.

2. At night in the area of N. p. Goncharnoye destroyed a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer with ammunition loss of five dead of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

09:12 Footage of the destruction of a Polish-made self-propelled artillery installation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Krab —video

After the discovery of a disguised firing position by self-propelled guns, unmanned aerial vehicle crews hit the self-propelled gun with precision-guided munitions. SAU Crab was destroyed by the first shot.

Accuracy control was carried out by the calculation of the UAV.

09:06 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 04/13/2023 to 00:00 04/14/2023

Over the past day, the Representation reported 26 facts of firing by the AFU.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 16 artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.

On Gorlovsky eight artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 122mm.

On Volnovakhskoye two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.

Having fired 156 units of various ammunition.

Under enemy fire were areas of four settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleymonovka, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Vladimirovka.

Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman, in the Central City district of Gorlovka.

Four civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk.

Seven residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.

In the previous day, 18 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.


09:05 Kherson direction

The Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the APU was released on the settlement.

New Kakhovka 12 cannon rounds.
At the settlement of Zabarino, 25 rounds were fired from cannon artillery.
At the settlement of Staraya Zburyevka, seven rounds were fired from cannon artillery.
n.p. Sagas fired eight rounds from cannon artillery.

Krynki fired six rounds from cannon artillery.

Alyoshki fired eight rounds from cannon artillery.

At the settlement of Solontsy, six rounds were fired from barrel artillery.

At the settlement of Peschanovka, five rounds were fired from barrel artillery.

At the settlement of Pokrovskoye, seven rounds were fired from cannon artillery. Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Novaya Kakhovka, settlement Kakhovka, settlement Gornostaevka, settlement Tavriysk, settlement Zabarino, settlement Kardashinka firing a total of 46 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed.


08:44 Militarysummary on the morning of April 14, 2023

PMC "Wagner" for the entire period of the fighting for Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and Soledar destroyed 32,000 enemy, Prigozhin said. Fighting in Artyomovsk continues.

This night, in the Zaporizhia direction in Orekhovo, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot with personnel. In the city of Zaporizhia - explosions in the Zavodskoy and Shevchenko districts.

In the Kherson direction in the city of Berislav, a warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit. In Kherson, the area of deployment of enemy equipment was covered. In the morning, artillery strikes on the enemy coast resumed.

In the Kursk region - five arrivals of enemy ammunition in the village. Krasnooktyabrsky in the Glushkovsky district.

In the LPR, under the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village. Rubizhnoye (12 HIMARS MLRS), Troitskoye (2 missiles), Svatovo (three3 M31 GMLRS missiles). In Svatovo, the boiler house of the Svatov Central District Multidisciplinary Hospital was destroyed, and the administrative buildings of the hospital were damaged.

The enemy fired 156 rounds of ammunition at the civilian population of the DPR. Near Gorlovka, Panteleymonovka, Donetsk, Vladimirovka. A woman was killed and four civilians were injured.

08:04 Frontline summary on the morning of 04/14/2023

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on Stepnogorsk, Maly Shcherbakov, Novoandreevka, Orekhov, Novodanilovka, Charovnoye, Krasnoye and Olgovskoye. APU launched a missile attack on Melitopol.

Russian artillery was extremely active on the Donetsk front. With her support, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attacked near Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, in the western part of Maryinka and in the Severny region.

Massed strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Karlovka, Netaylov, Pervomaisky, Thin, Avdeevka, Stepnoy, Keramika, Zhelezny and Druzhba. AFU fired at Vodiane and Donetsk.

Southwest of Bakhmut, Russian troops launched a ground attack on Predtechino. In the city itself, Wagner PMC, after heavy artillery attack and air strikes, continued assault operations in the central and southern parts. They also tried to advance to Chrome.

With the support of artillery, they attacked near Bogdanovka. APU hold the northern flank. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on Novodmitrovka, Ivanovsky, Grigorovka, Novomarkovo, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka and Disputed. The Ukrainian army hit the positions of the Wagner operators in Bakhmut.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops, after artillery strikes, again tried to advance near Belogorovka, towards Torskoy and Nevsky. No success. In the Makiivka area, there are dense oncoming battles. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired at Novoselovskoye, Kondrashovka, Zapadnoye, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Krasnoe Pervoe and Topoli.

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