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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: August 3rd, 2022
2022-08-04
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:37 Additional information about the injured civilian, a woman born in 1960, was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC. as a result of shelling from the side of the VFU of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on the street. Miner's Glory, 12.

Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on August 3, 2022 increased to 16 people (two died, 14 injured).

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

Donetsk:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Polukhina, 6/2 - damaged garage and car.

Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Miner's Glory, 12 - apartment building.

As of today, as of 23:30, the enemy fired 520 ammunition of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRSs, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.

Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.

22:11 Social networks report that Peski and Semigorye have come under the control of the allies.

It is noted that while it is difficult to give an assessment, most likely, a long sweep is ahead. But you can record success in these areas and wait for official information.

21:18 The situation in the Soledar direction as of 20.00 August 3, 2022

In the Soledar direction, the efforts of the allied forces are concentrated on pushing through the defensive lines near Soledar and Bakhmut (Artyomovsk).

--In Soledar, fighting is taking place along the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway. Russian units came close to the southeastern outskirts of the settlement: clashes unfolded on the territory of the Knauf Gips plant and the Extra railway station. one km southwest, the cleansing of Bakhmut continues.
--The attackers from the side of the Pokrovsky division are grinding the enemy defenses in Bakhmut, suppressing firing points in the city.
--The capture of Semigorye made it possible to establish control over Travnev and come close to Kodem. The assault on the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues throughout the Travnevoe-Kodema-Vershina section.

21:17 Allied forces knocked out the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the southern outskirts of Maryinka in the DPR.

20:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the DPR: over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than three hundred and forty rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of eight settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were killed and nine were injured. Thirty-seven residential buildings and five civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).

We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, four defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died and nine were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

19:16 Most of the sand is under the control of the NM DNR. The 11th Regiment of the NM DPR and the assault battalion "Somali" already control most of the village. The commander of the unit of the 11th Regiment "Small" told the project@wargonzothe situation on this sector of the front.

19:00 Ukrainian prisoners who were kept in the Yelenovka prison (DPR)tell,how they survived the moment of the APU attack on the barracks with HIMARS missiles.

18:41 The Allied Forces are storming the settlement of Maryinka. NM DNR 1st Army Corps work with fire support from the art division of the Russian Federation. There are reports that the enemy is retreating and that most of Maryinka is already under the control of the DPR. Reports the military commander Rudenko.

18:30 Sappers of the MOC of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue cleaning water areas of rivers and lakes in the liberated territories of the LPR from explosive objects.

18:08 Allied troops are already on the outskirts of Avdievka. Literally a kilometer from the DPR military NM there are well-fortified positions of the APU militants, from where the enemy is shelling Donetsk/corr. TK Zvezda Andrey Lazarev/.

18:00 Residents of the cities of Severodonetsk and Rubizhny, as well as the Kremensky district, will begin receiving pensions from August 10, the LPR government reported.

17:51 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

-17:25 β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber;
-17:35 β€” n.p. Dacha - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): eight mines fired in 120mm caliber.

17:42 Offensive in the Svetlodarsk direction. Soldiers of the 2nd Corps of the LNR Armyshowwhat fortified areas the allied forces had to storm during the liberation of the Uglegorsk TPP.

17:31 This is how the shelling of cluster rockets filled with hundreds of PFM-1 β€œpetal” mines sounds, the use of which is prohibited.

Whistling and hum - a consequence of the dispersion of mines in the air. They are designed so that when the cassettes break, they begin to rotate rapidly, slowing down the fall and not exploding during contact with the ground.

Video filmed in the village of Klinovoye near Artyomovsk.

17:17 The work of the artillery of the NM DPR on the fortifications of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Peski.

Allied troops methodically grind the enemy's defenses, leaving no chance for the Ukrainian militants.

17:10 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

-- n.p. Marinka (western) - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 mines fired with a caliber of 120mm;
β€” n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): fired six mines with caliber 120mm;
β€” n.p. Netaylovo - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.

17:09 Representatives of the DPR found at the site of the shelling of the oil depot in Makeyevka, fragments of a HIMARS shell with preserved markings, which, among other things, will make it possible to identify the crew that carried out the shelling.

16:30 Serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Borodyukov, a native of Krasny Luch told that the commanders left him in the forest without support for certain death.

16:23 Offensive on Peski near Donetsk continues. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village are under continuous shelling, aviation is working.

16:17 A resident of the DPR who was blown up by a mine "Petal" spoke about the incident

"There was a proven path, there was nothing there, I walked there. This mine, apparently, flew there. Negligence - came, and that's it. Flash, bang. Completely lost consciousness. I tried to run, but I realized that there was nothing. He fell, crawled to the gate, and then the neighbors," the man told TK Zvezda.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to shell the peaceful cities of the DPR with cluster rounds with anti-personnel mines inside.

16:11 The local history museum in Popasna, despite pressure from the Ukrainian authorities, has managed to preserve exhibits from Russian culture and Soviet history. Roman Oleksin, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth of the LPR, announced this after a trip to the liberated territory.

15:56 Ukrainian militants fired upon a tank farm in Makeevka (DPR). The task force of the Russian Investigative Committee went to the scene.

15:44 At 13:50, as a result of another shelling of Yasinovataya, a 110 kV overhead line was damaged, three 110 kV substations and four 35 kV substations were de-energized. 93 TS, 13,800 household subscribers of Yasinovataya and 2,931 subscribers in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka were de-energized. Without tension also Verkhnekalmiusskaya filter station.

Power engineers will carry out emergency recovery work as soon as the situation allows, the DPR Ministry of Coal and Energy reported.

15:30 Circumstance in the direction of Svetlodarsk.

15:08 The assault on Soledar has begun, representatives of the DPR report.

15:03 A strike was made on the positions of the AFU militants on the outskirts of Artemovsk. It is reported that they arrived in the direction of the quarry, a huge column of smoke rises from the place.

14:10 Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation inspected the shelled area near the For Friends store in the center of Donetsk, where a person died. The rounds of the armed formations of Ukraine hit civilian infrastructure - a bus stop and a grocery store, there are no military facilities nearby.

14:03 Radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the RF Ministry of Defense are inspecting four especially dangerous facilities on the territory of the LPR to assess their environmental condition.

The four most dangerous objects in the LPR include:

- industrial site of the plant "Lisichansky orgsintez" (LNR)

-industrial site of the state-owned chemical plant "Zarya" (LNR)
-industrial site of PrJSC "Severodonetsk Association "Azot" (LPR)
- landfill for industrial waste (Volcheyarovka) (LPR)

Based on the results of the survey, objects to be brought to a safe state as a matter of priority will be identified.

13:30 Allied forces are cleaning up the territory of the KNAUF building materials plant in Soledar from Ukrainian security forces, the assistant to the head of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

13:01 In the DPR, there have already been 12 cases of undermining civilians, including one child, on the β€œpetal” mines scattered by Ukrainian militants in Donetsk and settlements adjacent to the city.

12:04 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry

A missile attack on Radekhiv in the Lvov region destroyed a base with foreign-made weapons and ammunition that arrived from Poland;

The commanders of the units of the 132nd Reconnaissance Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kharkov refused to obey the orders of the command and departed for the point of temporary deployment;

Russian air defense systems shot down five Ukrainian drones in a day, intercepted two Tochka-U missiles;

Over 50 nationalists and six vehicles were destroyed in Nikolaevka as a result of a strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces at the temporary deployment point of a unit of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

12:02 There are reports that militants of the Kyiv regime are running and running from the front lines in Peski under massive Russian artillery fire. The Armed Forces of Ukraine no longer controls the situation at once in several sectors of the front line in the area of Peski and Avdievka. There is information about the destruction of the enemy's fortifications in the area of the AKHZ - Avdievsky coke plant. This is one of the largest enterprises in the DPR. According to military commander Yevgeny Poddubny.

11:58 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Rovnoy wounded two people.

11:33 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:

β€” n.p. Nikolaevka Second - n.p. Golmovsky: 15 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 22 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.

11:10 The headquarters of the TerO DPR reports that a woman was killed as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

10:45 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 03.08.2022

The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military targets.

Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired 419 rounds from Uragan (BM-27) and Grad (BM-21) multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.

Artillery was fired at the areas of 11 settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, two civilians were killed and twenty-five were injured, two of them were children born in 2005 and 2016. Thirty-six residential buildings and 13 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two M-777 howitzers, one truck and more than twenty personnel. Two enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka and Kurdyumovka.

10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. as of 08/03/2022

Over the past 24 hours, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:

-48 personnel;
-nine armored personnel carriers;
-six units of special automotive equipment;
-two long-term firing points.

Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During August 2, they cleared more than seven hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Severodonetsk and Voevodovka.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.

09:49 Russian troops entered Soledar. Sources @wargonzo reported that at the KNAUF plant, located within the city, clashes began with English-speaking mercenaries.

09:27 In Donetsk, five people have already blown up on the mines "Petal". This was reported by the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.

09:12 Cars of the next, 179th, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food and educational literature to Lugansk. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.

"On Tuesday, August 2, the cars of the next convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry with humanitarian aid for the residents of Donbass arrived in the capital of the LPR. The current convoy of Russian rescuers, consisting of 15 vehicles, delivered to Luhansk food (pasta, canned meat) with a total weight of 145.5 tons and educational literature (5,020 pieces) for the Luhansk Pedagogical University," the report says.

08:11 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:

β€” n.p. Avdievka - Makeevka: three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
β€” n.p. Pervomaiskoye - n.p. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
β€” n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Golmovsky: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
β€” n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Golmovsky: fired six rounds of 122mm caliber;
β€” n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired eight rounds of 122mm caliber.

08:09 The deplorable situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front near Avdievka is recognized in Kyiv. The main summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

--In the Kharkiv direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carried out an advance in the direction of Kochubeevka-Dementievka.
--The Russians are concentrating their main efforts on the Bakhmut direction. There shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery. The Russian Federation launched airstrikes near Semigorye and Belogorovka, conducted an offensive in the Berestovoye area, in the Vladimirovka-Yakovlevka and Semigorye-Kodema directions.
--On the directions Vladimirovka-Soledar and Pokrovskoe-Bakhmut, hostilities continue.
--In the Avdievka direction, the military of the Russian Federation fired at the Avdievka area and improved the tactical situation.
--In the Slavyansk, Novopavlovsk, Zaporozhye and Yuzhnobuzh directions - shelling.

08:00 DPR, Makeevka. On the night from 02 to 08/03/2022, at about 4 am, there were five arrivals at the Artemis oil depot, as a result of which a fire occurred. At present, the open fire has been extinguished by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations

06:35 Footage of the shooting battle of the DPR assault group in the Avdievka direction.

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