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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: February 15th, 2023
2023-02-16
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] 22:24 The "southern" group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 190 Ukrainian military in the Donetsk direction, as well as eight pieces of equipment, including one American M777 howitzer, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

21:48 Accurate hit according to the 122mm BM-21 "Grad" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Ugledar. The fighters of the BARS "Cascade" discovered and corrected the fire on the enemy combat vehicle.

21:47 Tankers near Kremennaya beat on Ukrainian troops

20:38 Boi in Ugledara: blow on the American 155mm self-propelled guns M109 by our Lancet kamikaze UAV.

19:40 Fixation of consequences of the artillery attack of Budyonnovsky and Proletarsky districts of Donetsk on February 15, 2023.

Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the artillery attack of the Budyonnovsky and Proletarsky districts using the 300mm BM-30 Smerch MLRS, and also clarifieddirectionfiring and the type of missiles used.

18:50 Personnel fighting near Avdievka: our troops are working for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The village of Novoselovka Vtoraya is located in a lowland. Our fighters occupied the height closest to it. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still higher. The situation on this sector of the front is quite complicated, for more than six months there have been fierce positional battles.

18:26 Ukrainian militants fired at Dokuchaevsk, firing five rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

17:53 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, fired eight rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

17:48 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on February 15, 2023.

17:41 In the Ugledar direction: crews of Tor-M2 anti-aircraft missile systems continue to perform combat missions during a special operation

Crews of the Tor-M2 air defense system of the Pacific Fleet naval infantry track and successfully destroy a wide range of enemy air attack weapons that pose a threat to the ground grouping of our troops in the Ugledar direction.

In the course of carrying out combat missions, anti-aircraft gunners are confidently fighting enemy reconnaissance and attack unmanned aerial vehicles. Due to its characteristics, the complex is the most effective means of dealing with small high-speed targets.

The main feature of the Tor air defense system is its unique ability to search for targets and destroy them on the move, being part of the convoys of vehicles.

Torahs are the key to maximum results in ensuring the security of our troops from air attacks.

17:26 Ukrainian troops fired on Yasinovataya, fired five rounds of 155mm caliber, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

17:20 Artillery units of the Russian Armed Forces in the Artyomovsky directiondestroyedpositions of the Armed Forces.

16:45 Military of the 11th Regiment of the DPR forces near the village of Novoselovka Vtoraya occupied dominating heights and have been fighting for several days.

"The servicemen of Ukraine are trying to fight them off. Already the fourth or fifth time, advancing again and again. As soon as the “eyes” see a Ukrainian serviceman, they immediately report to their higher leadership - and the “birds” fly up quickly ... They start working out with artillery - a very competent tactic," said RT correspondent Rokot.

16:34 Prigozhin explained the meaning of Artemovsk (Bakhmut): it is needed to paralyze the Ukrainian army there, and it is paralyzed there.
You'll notice Prigozhin's reference to nukes two days ago was scrubbed from Russian internet.
16:16 Ukrainian troops shelled the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

15:57 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction per day amounted to 190 soldiers;

The RF Armed Forces inflicted a defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Ugledar and Novoselka in the DPR;

The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhnodonetsk and Zaporozhye directions over the past day amounted to more than 60 servicemen;

The RF Armed Forces destroyed the 122mm selfpropelled Gvozdika and towed howitzer 122mm D-30 howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.


14:30 Looks like New Kakhovka after yesterday's artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

14:15 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 15, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Leninsky district):

- on the street. Ivana Tkachenko, a woman born in 1945 was wounded.

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

Donetsk:

Leninsky district:

- Damage was recorded to the building of the neurological department of the Central City Clinical Hospital No. 6 on the street. I. Tkachenko;

- Damage was recorded to the building of the plant management of the DMZ on the street. I. Tkachenko.

Budennovsky district:

- st. Prokofieva, 11/2, 40/2 - private residential buildings;
- st. Yeniseiskaya, 7/1, 7/2, 22/2, 24 - private residential buildings;
- st. Olshansky, 7 "a" / 1, 9/1, 9 "a" / 1, 10/1, 10 "a" / 1, 12/1, 16 "a" / 1 - private residential buildings;
- st. Olshansky, 9/1,11/2 - private houses;
- st. Olshansky, 11/1 - a private residential building; the car was also damaged;
- st. Olshansky, 7 "a" / 1, 9 "a" / 1 - apartment buildings;
- st. Orshanskaya, 17/1, 17/2 - private residential buildings;
- st. Orshanskaya, 19/1 - a private residential building; the car was also damaged;
- st. Orshanskaya, 25 - a private residential building; the car was also damaged.

14:05 Ukrainian troops shelled the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, fired eight rounds of 155mm caliber, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

13:48 Found and destroyed BC field depot and artillery position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. From here they shelled the Kyiv region of Donetsk. The houses of civilians were beaten last night.

13:45 Important information about Artemovsk:

The Wagners managed to advance towards Zaliznyansky and cross the Artemovsk-Slavyansk highway in several places. Also, our DRGs enter the rear of the Nazis. The route has now lost its purpose for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is used exclusively as a line of defense.

At night, Wagner entered Praskovievka from the north, from the side of Krasnaya Gora and in the direction of Berkhovka. And in the morning they increased the pressure from the south. In case of success in the Berkhovsky direction, a threatening situation will soon develop for the Ukrainian militants in Paraskovyivka.

There are noticeable tactical advances in the northeast, east and southeast of Artemovsk, urban battles are going on.

In the Ivanovskoye-Stupochki area, the Wagners are regrouping for a subsequent offensive with the goal of completely cutting the Artemovsk-Konstantinovka highway, now it is under our fire control.

13:30 Ukrainian troops fired on the Kiev region of Donetsk, fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

13:20 APU continues provocative artillery attack of Kherson - this time a residential apartment building was destroyed.

Militants of the Kyiv regime regularly fire at the peaceful infrastructure of Kherson. One of the goals of such artillery attack is to blame the RF Armed Forces, but if you look at the footage of the consequences that appear on the network, it becomes obvious that it was the Ukronazis who fired.

At the place of damage to a residential building on the street. Platona, 17 (6 entrance), it can be determined that the shot was fired from Belozerka.

12:47 Tonight in the area of n.p. Daryevka (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which, the artillery crew was destroyed by 122mm howitzer D-30, Five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were disposed of; Two received injuries of varying severity. This calculation carried out the criminal orders of the command by artillery attack the civilian infrastructure of the settlement. Cossack camps.

12:37 There is an expansion of the territory by fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the direction of the settlement. Zaliznyanskoye and Vasyukovka.

12:30 After 4 km, the RF Armed Forces will reach the main line of defense of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. For six months, along the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal, the Armed Forces of Ukraine built defenses. Construction equipment worked daily, reinforced concrete slabs were imported, poured with concrete.

12:01 Photo: damaged houses on Dneprovsky Prospekt Nova Kakhovka after the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

11:47 UAV operatorcorrectsactions of the assault group of the RF Armed Forces to capture the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the forests of the LPR.

11:12 A woman was injured during the artillery attack of the Budennovsky district of Donetsk from the Ukrainian 220mm MLRS "Smerch" - Kulemzin.

10:55 Ukrainian troops fired on the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, fired six rounds of 155mm caliber, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

10:40 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on February 15, 2023.

10:24 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for February 15, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Budennovsky district): - on the street. Olshansky 9 "a" suffered a woman born in 1953.

Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Budennovsky district):

— fixed damage to the building of the store "Phoenix" on the street. Orsha;

- st. Orshanskaya, 21, 25 - private residential buildings.

Proletarsky district:

- damage to the infrastructure of the Central City Clinical Hospital No. 9 was recorded.

n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardei district):

— fixed damage to the administration building on the street. Malinovsky;

- st. Malinovsky, 52 - apartment building.

n.p. Ilovaisk: - fixed damage to the railway infrastructure st. Ilovaisk.

10:16 Ukrainian troops shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, fired three rockets from the Himars MLRS, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

10:09 AFU militants fired at the Kiev region of Donetsk, firing three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

10:05 AFU continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of the Kherson region - emergency services.

Yesterday, militants of the Kyiv regime fired 47 barrel artillery rounds at such settlements as Alyoshki, Podlesnoye, Cossack Camps, Dnepryan and others.

In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued artillery attack civilian infrastructure at night and fired a total of 41 more rounds at Kakhovka and Novaya Kakhovka, Hola Pristan, Aleshki and Lyubimovka.

Information about casualties and destruction is being clarified.

10:00 Ukrainian troops fired on the Proletarsky and Budenovsky districts of Donetsk, fired two rockets from the 300mm BM-30 Smerch MLRS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

09:30 Personnel of RIA Novosti from Russian positions on the banks of the Kakhovka reservoir: the situation is stable, the soldiers are confident in the reliability of their fortifications.

09:25 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on February 14, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Makeevka (settlement Khanzhenkovo):

- as a result of an explosion at the GP, a teenage boy born in 2009 was injured. and a woman born in 1974

n.p. Krasnaya Polyana (included in the area of ??responsibility of the administration of Donetsk):

- a woman born in 1945 was wounded.

Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from the attacks of the VFU on February 14, 2023 is eight people (including two teenagers born in 2008 and 2009). The information continues to flow.

09:16 Appeared video rupture of a Ukrainian rocket in a residential area of Makeevka.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces once again shelled Makiivka. This time the Chervonogvardeisky district came under attack. The American rocket AGM-88 HARM was launched from Krasnoarmeysk. Official information about the victims and the extent of destruction has not yet been reported.

09:10 100mm "Rapier" of the 1st Slavic Brigadeworksnear Donetsk.

Artillerymen of the 1st Slavic Brigade work in any weather on the enemy’s “oporniks”, work in the Donetsk direction, even in a blizzard without adjusting from the air, as everyone is used to now, the Brigade’s reconnaissance works on the ground - in the old fashioned way and corrects artillery from the ground

09:05 Near Bogoyavlenka in the DPR, the shock UAV of the OBTF DPR "Cascade"ledto the feelings of the crew of the self-propelled guns "Crab", from which fire was fired at the village. Ukrainian neo-Nazis, losing their pants, ran into the bushes.

08:50 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on February 15, 2023

08:43 Under fire from VFU Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. Ukrainian troops fired one AGM-88 HARM missile, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

08:10 During the day, five people were injured on the territory of the DPR.

Over the past day, from 00:00 on February 14 to 00:00 on February 15, five civilians were injured as a result of artillery attack of the VFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.

08:00 Front summary on the morning of 15.02.2023:
In the Uludar sector, Russian artillery hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zolotoy Niva, Prechistovka and Bogoyavlenka. On the ground, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are trying to advance towards the city from the side of Nikolsky dachas. In the open terrain that prevails around the city, and even with a limited offensive resource, this is a very difficult task.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, launched assault operations in the Pobeda area. They also attacked on the southwestern outskirts of Marinka. Artillery hit the western part of the city. Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye, Pervomayskoye, Severnoye and Avdeevka were also under shelling. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Donetsk, Makeevka and Yasinovataya.

To the southwest of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army counterattacked in the area of Ivanovskoye. Partially successful. Thus, the battles for the Konstantinovka-Bakhmut highway continue. PMC "Wagner" seeks to push through the Ukrainian defense on the eastern outskirts of the city. And to the north, despite the actual encirclement, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to resist in the area of Paraskovyovka.

At the same time, they are attacked from the south, east, north and northwest. Artillery also hits them from the dominant heights in Krasnaya Gora. To the north of Soledar, Wagner PMC is advancing on Fedorovka, Rozdolovka and Vesyoloye. In the area of the second of these settlements there is a promotion.

In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again conducted offensive operations near Belogorovka. They also attacked in the direction of Zarechny, Nevsky and in the Ploschanka area. In the latter case, they managed to move the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.


07:44 Ukrainian troops shelled Ilovaisk, fired five rockets from the Himars MLRS, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for the Regime and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reports.

07:30 A powerful explosion thundered in Donetsk, a TASS correspondent reports.

06:25 Kakhovskoye reservoir. From here to the enemy about a kilometer.

"Neo-Nazis are sitting in a neighboring village, from where they were already halfway, in fact, knocked out during reconnaissance in force, which was recently, two weeks ago. And now it turns out that this village is half under them, half under the fighters of the armed forces of the Russian Federation," says the journalist Izvestia.

03:31 Wagner fighters successfully destroy during the assault on Artyomovsk in the DPR, enemy equipment, said one of the fighters on the outskirts of the city, for which there are fierce battles

01:30 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/14/2023 to 00:00 02/15/2023:

Over the past day, the Representation reported 21 cases of firing by the AFU. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 14 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery. On Gorlovsky six artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 122mm. On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery. By releasing 85 units of various ammunition.

The region of five settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: Zaytsevo, Horlovka (Nikitovsky, Kalininsky districts), the capital city. Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts), Makeivka (Chervonogvardei district), Yasinovatsky district.

Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of five civilians, incl. a teenager born in 2008, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Staromikhaylovka.

Three civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.

In the previous day, 81 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.

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