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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Over the past day Representation reported about 17 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 8 attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoye two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery. By releasing 72 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kalinin, Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Yelenovka, Nikolskoe, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of four civilians in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. Wounds of varying severity were received by five civilians in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk.
Six residential buildings in the Kievsky district of Donetsk were damaged, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
Previously, eight artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU side in 24 hours.
23:27 A residential area of the city of Kremennaya in the Lugansk People's Republic was shelled by the armed forces of Ukraine, said Rodion Miroshnik, former LPR ambassador to Moscow, on April 6 in his Telegram channel.
According to Miroshnik, as a result of the shelling, multi-storey residential buildings, cars and buildings were damaged. According to preliminary estimates, there were about 10 arrivals. Information about the victims has not yet been received.
21:50 Video- As a result of the strike of Ukrainian terrorists on Donetsk, nine people were killed, seven more were injured.
Ukrainian terrorists attacked a civilian vehicle fleet in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk using American HIMARS MLRS.
As a result of the artillery attack of the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, nine civilians were killed, another seven were injured of varying severity. Ukrainian bastards used "Hymers" on a civilian vehicle fleet.
At 16:50, Ukrainian terrorists fired four MLRS rockets from their positions in Konstantinovka. The goal of the militants was an ordinary service station, where civilian cars were repaired.
21:25 "Wagner" storms Bakhmut from all parties, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking, trying to throw PMCs off the "road of life."
This is reported by Ukrainian military analysts and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an evening analytical note:
“In the north of the gray zone in Bakhmut, street fighting continues south of Rose Alley. "Wagner" deployed 12-15 assault groups of 25-30 people each to this area.
- “In the center of Bakhmut, the PMC is conducting an active offensive in the gray zone. An approximate situation is marked with arrows” (the concept of the center here is arbitrary, according to our statements, the center has been taken, according to Ukrainian reports, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still trying to hold on somewhere).
“The Russians are trying to push our units out of the railroad,” the report said a day ago.
“There are still sections to the east of the railway controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” says today’s summary (i.e., the Ukrainian Armed Forces have practically been ousted from the area).
- In the area of Ivanovsky, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are counterattacking to push back PMCs, near Khromovoe, the Russians continue their assaults.
- In the direction of Seversk, as well as between Stupochki and Ivanovsky - positional battles.
- On the eastern approaches to Bogdanovka, south of Ivanovsky and west of Kurdyumovka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to counterattack using drones and artillery.
20:56 Video- A serviceman with the call sign "Copper" has been in the zone of a special military operation for the second month. He was called up for military service from the city of Karabash, Chelyabinsk region.
“I was not afraid - I came to protect my Motherland, to help the people of Donbass. I didn’t sit out somewhere - I just came here voluntarily, at the call of the soul, at the call of the Motherland," said the fighter.
He calls on fellow citizens, especially men, to take part in a special military operation:
"If not you, then who? Ask yourself the question: what will you tell your children, your grandchildren?" - refers to "Copper".
20:35 Video "Time has chosen us."
In the rear area of the special military operation zone, a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces from North Ossetia with the call sign "Biser" is undergoing a training course in tactical medicine. During a break between classes, he wrote down an appeal to the Russians.
“The Russian spirit is unshakable, our faith is righteous. Russia has never started a war. Russia has always completed them victoriously with dignity. So it was at all times. Time has chosen us. Let's end Nazism and Satanism for the last time. Wait for us home with victory,” says “Beads”.
20:07 Video- AFU shelled Lisichansk in the LPR, - reported the JCCC
According to the JCCC, three people were killed and one was injured when a bus stop in Lisichansk was shelled.
20:05 Maryinka DPR. Reminds me of words of famous songs "City that does not exist," the consequences of hostilities in the urban area
19:43 Video- Yunarmee of the Kherson region Veronika Mikhailova: "We feel the unconditional support of our President"
Yesterday a meeting of the Security Council of Russia was held on issues of ensuring law and security in the Kherson region and on the territory of other liberated territories.
"Yesterday Vladimir Putin held the Russian Security Council. Our President directly accused the West and the Kiev regime of organizing terrorist attacks, the victims of which were ordinary people. The task of Russia now is the security and legal protection of all of us. Our guarantors are Russia and our President. We have made our historic choice to be together with Russia. And we feel the unconditional support of our President."
19:19 Video- In the Bryansk region, a Ukrainian DRG is still hiding in one settlement. Unwanted guests are blocked there and will be sent by express to Bandera on the first order.
19:00 Finnish armored personnel carrier SISU XA-180 is fighting against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Trophy fighters of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps have now turned against their past masters
18:36 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (04/06/2023)
- In the Kupyansky direction, strikes by assault and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Western" group of troops defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechnaya, Peschanoe and Masyutovka of the Kharkov region.
In addition, the actions of three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoye, Artemovka of the Lugansk People's Republic and Pershotravneve of the Kharkiv Region.
During the day, over 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two cars, as well as a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar were destroyed in this direction.
– In addition, today at about 8.30 am, the cover units of the State Border of the Western Military District, together with the border detachment of the border department of the FSB of Russia in the Bryansk region, prevented an attempt to penetrate the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering more than 15 militants, into the territory of the Russian Federation near the village of Sluchaevsk, Bryansk region.
During the clash with artillery fire from the Western Military District, the enemy was defeated. The sabotage group was dispersed and, having suffered losses, retreated to the territory of Ukraine. There are no losses among Russian servicemen.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Center" group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova and Chervonopopovka of the Luhansk People's Republic.
Up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, a 120mm Nona self-propelled mortar, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction, during the active operations of units, strikes by operational-tactical aviation, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems of the "Southern" group of troops, the following were destroyed in a day:
more than 140 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles, a Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery mount, 122mm Gvozdika and 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
- In addition, in the area of ?the settlement of Sergeevka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the 107th Rocket Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, operational-tactical aviation strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, Marfopol and Zagornoye, Zaporozhye region.
- In addition, an attempt by the enemy assault group to counterattack in the direction of the settlements of Vodiane and Nikolskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic was suppressed.
During the day, up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, as well as 152mm D-20 and 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in these areas.
- In the Kherson direction, up to 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two cars and a 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were destroyed during a fire attack per day.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops (forces) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the 92nd artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 128 districts.
- In the area of the settlement of Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the command post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.
- Air defense systems intercepted 11 rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
- In addition, eleven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Tavolzhanka in the Kharkiv region, Kremennaya and Kovalevka in the Luhansk People's Republic, Nikolskoye, Novoselovka and Sands in the Donetsk People's Republic.
- The Kiev regime deliberately destroys its military personnel with artillery fire to suppress attempts to leave their positions and retreat under the onslaught of Russian troops.
- April 5 this year units of the "Southern" group of troops in the area of the settlement of Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic were active in capturing the enemy's stronghold.
- During the battle, the commander of the unit of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, located at the stronghold, turned to the Russian command via an open radio channel, declaring that his unit of 14 people had voluntarily laid down their weapons and the desire to surrender.
- For the safe exit of Ukrainian military personnel from the stronghold occupied by the Russian group, hostilities were suspended and the fire was completely ceased.
- Taking into account the dark time of the day, Ukrainian servicemen were placed in a dugout until the morning for subsequent removal to the rear zone of the Russian group.
- At night, Ukrainian artillery purposefully opened heavy fire on the dugout where the surrendered Ukrainian servicemen were. About three hundred large-caliber rounds were fired.
As a result of a deliberate artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, all fourteen Ukrainian servicemen who laid down their arms were killed.
18:26 Video- More consequences of the artillery attack on the street. Sechkina, 26 in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk
18:00 Video- The T-80 mechanic praises his tank, to which he moved after serving on the T-72
17:45 Video- Consequences of artillery attack on the street. Sechkina, 26 in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which nine people died and seven people were injured
17:20 Video- Artillery Donetsk 2nd Army Corps works in the Disputable area.
16:55 Video- A column of Turkish armored vehicles was destroyed on the road near Bakhmut.
On the footage, Kirpi armored vehicles destroyed by fire from Russian fighters tried to drive along one of the country roads near Bakhmut.
On the left and right on the road there are about 10 units of equipment destroyed and stuck in the mud, among them at least four Turkish MRAPs.
16:27 Video- "Timir, you're handsome": PMC "Wagner" fighters turned to the schoolboy Timir Bakhtierov
The boy found a bag with money and military medals and handed it over to the police.
Yevgeny Prigozhin also thanked him for the right act.
15:48 Video- How the Donetsk Kulibins protect the tank. In the Avdievka direction, even moving between positions on armored vehicles is fraught with the fact that the enemy will carry out a drop from a drone. But the Kulibins from the tank battalion have their own solution for this.
15:27 Consequences of shelling of Aleshek in the Kherson region
15:00 Video- Destroyed in the zone of the NMD, the accumulation of equipment of the Ukrainian army, including the BTR-80 and the T-72B tank.
14:50 Video- To the west of Artemovsk, the slush continues to have a significant impact on the course of hostilities. This applies to both roads and fields, as well as trenches filled with water and mud in the style of Passchendahl -1917. Video from the APU.
14:25 Video- Evgeny Prigozhin checked the work of the call center and worked as an operator in order to personally understand the portrait of recruits who want to join the Wagner PMC.
14:01 Video- Our air defense shot down a HIMARS MLRS missile in the Ugledar area.
13:50 Video- It was not possible to disguise from Mavic with VOG grenade
13:25 Video– The work of the MLRS of the 291st artillery brigade in the Zaporozhye region
13:03 Video- A report from the Vodiane area in the Avdeevsky direction: Russian tankers bypassed the Ukrainian trenches through the forest belt and forced the Vushniks to flee so as not to be surrounded
12:42 Video- Exact hit of the Whirlwind on Ukrainian technology, Zaporozhye region.
12:27 What does Avdievka look like thanks to its transformation intoUkrainianfortified area
11:54 Video- PMC "Wagner" cleared the center of Bakhmut, knocking out the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The main fighting is now in the west and near the railroad.
- It was not easy to approach the center of Artemovsk - right behind the labyrinth of private houses, high-rise buildings begin, in the apartments of which the Ukrainian Nazis equipped their firing points, - says Iz military commander Dmitry Astrakhan.
- Most often, our fighters are faced with foreign mercenaries and trained Nazis.
“When they start to retreat, they abandon the mobilized, leave them without communication ... Roughly speaking, they simply throw them“ on meat ”to be ground,” says one of the Wagner operators.
- The complexity of the advance was also in the fact that the attack aircraft had to go on an even front in order to knock the enemy out of the buildings.
11:26 Video— Russian artillery works on the positions of Ukrainian militants non-stop day and night
11:07 Video- Today "Vladlen" looks like this
10:38 Over the past day, militants of the Ukrainian regime released on the civilian infrastructure of settlements 111 rounds. Of these, 74 rounds were fired during the day, including on settlements:
Geroiskoye - 14;
Pokrovskoye - 11;
Aleshki - 10;
Korsunka - 10;
Kardashinka - 8;
Podlesnoye - 6;
Solontsy - 6;
Staraya Zburyevka - 5;
Kazachi Lagerya - 4.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued artillery attack civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Gornostaevka and Cairo, firing a total of 37 rounds from cannon artillery.
10:19 Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces shot down a Ukrainian drone frombigamount of explosives. The size of the UAV is two desks. HEAT projectiles are attached to the UAV, which are designed for armored vehicles due to the heavy weight of the drone cannot rise high.
Before launching a huge UAV, Ukrainian militants launch a reconnaissance drone to find out the location of the equipment
10:04 Video- Night battles near Donetsk: the Sparta battalion responded to statements about the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Avdievka.
. We are trying to understand and cannot understand what it means to move close to the city, if the city of Avdievka is already under the Armed Forces of Ukraine? If we are talking about Novoselovka, then this is a village.
“A postcard to everyone who “broke through” near Avdievka today,” (https://t.me/btr80/4830) jokes the commander of the Sparta battalion
09:54 Chronicle of blows and mutual shelling in the NWO zone for the night from April 5 to April 6, 2023
In the early morning, Ukrainian formations fired at the village of Zapesochye in the Bryansk region, damaging houses and cars. There were no casualties.
Russian troops worked on targets in Turya and Leonovka in the Chernihiv region, as well as in Seredina-Budy, Bezsalovka and Volfino in the Sumy region.
In the Kharkiv region, the RF Armed Forces hit the enemy positions in Odnorobovka, Udy, Kazachya Lopan, Liptsy, Zibinovo and Bochkovo.
In the Starobelsky direction, Russian artillerymen attacked the accumulation of forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kupyansk, Figolevka, Poplars, Dvurechnaya, Novoselovsky, Ternakh and Torsky.
On the Bakhmut (Artemovsky) direction, the RF Armed Forces worked on enemy targets in the vicinity of Disputed, Grigorovka, Bakhmut, Chasov Yar, Kleban-Byk and Toretsk.
In the Donetsk direction, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka, Netaylovo, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Berdychi and Pobeda were hit.
In the Yuzhnodonets direction, Russian artillerymen worked on targets in Novomikhailovka, Vugledar and Bolshaya Novoselka.
In the Zaporozhye region, the RF Armed Forces hit the accumulation of enemy forces in Malinovka, Zaliznichny, Gulyaipolsky, Novopalovka and Kamensky.
At night, Ukrainian formations fired at Melitopol from the HIMARS MLRS, but the air defense systems intercepted the rounds.
On the southern sector of the front, Russian troops attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson and its environs.
The enemy responded by firing at Russian settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region.
09:23 The Russian military cut off the militants on the front line from the command with the help of the Leer-3 complex -video
Working in conjunction with the calculation of the R-330BMV complex, which allows you to detect, analyze and find the radio exchange of militants, the Leer-3 complex interferes in the entire working radio frequency spectrum. These electronic warfare systems are used in areas of combat contact.
“We can set the enemy’s copter with an erroneous flight altitude, coordinates, build him movement routes, take him away. This is very important, since copters are used on the entire front line. They are filming our positions, ”said the platoon commander with the call sign “Frenchman”.
09:18 Summary on the morning of April 6, 2023
The Russian Armed Forces continue active operations in the Avdeevsky direction.
In Artemovsk (Bakhmut), PMC "Wagner" is advancing in the central part of the city with heavy fighting.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked enemy positions from Dorozhnyanka and advanced along the highway to Gulyai Polye.
An enemy light aircraft was landed in the Bryansk region, the pilot had a machine gun and a bulletproof vest.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of a UAV dropped an explosive device in the Suzemsky district of the Bryansk region. Wounded civilian.
In the Kursk region, the settlement was shelled. Gordeevka (Korenevsky district).
In the Belgorod region, a settlement was fired from mortars. New Tavolzhanka.
In the Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine intensified artillery attack of our positions.
Explosions sounded in Melitopol at night.
In the LPR, the enemy fired on the settlement. Frontier with the use of MLRS HIMARS (two missiles). Two men born in 1956 and 1958 died, a civilian was injured, two apartment buildings were damaged.
The enemy fired 34 rounds of ammunition into the DPR. Under fire Gorlovka, Donetsk, Vladimirovka. A civilian was wounded.
08:13 Frontline summary on the morning of 04/06/2023
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, carried out assault operations in the city limits of Maryinka and in the direction of Pervomaisky. On the last of the named sites there is a slight advance.
The ground attack near the North did not bring success to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. But near the village of Keramik, they managed to take several new positions. Russian troops shelled Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Avdeevka and Novobakhmutovka (the one to the northeast of the village of Krasnogorovka). Ukrainians hit Donetsk and Novokalinov.
In Bakhmut itself, Wagner PMC is pushing through the defense of the Ukrainian garrison from the south, east and north. The entire territory along the Bakhmutka River, which flows through the city, is under the complete control of the "orchestrants".
The center of the settlement is also behind them. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are stubbornly resisting in the southwestern part at the entrance to Bakhmut. They also hold back the advance of the "musicians" in the northern districts of the city as best they can. PMC "Wagner" also attacked near Bogdanovka.
Here without success. Units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, attacked in the area of Spornovo. No promotion. Russian troops shelled Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, Novomarkovo, Minkovka, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Ivanovsky, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka and Seversk.
In the Luhansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Shipilovka continued offensive operations in the Serebryansky forest area. Dense oncoming battles resumed near Novoselovsky, which went on with varying success. Russian artillery hit Torsky, Stelmakhovka, Krakhmalnoye, Masyutovka, Dvurechensky, Kamenka and Poplars.