[NewsFrontInfo] 23:33 Belgorod region: AFUfired uponBorisovka village. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. An explosive device was dropped from a quadrocopter on one of the administrative buildings, there was no fire, the roof was broken.
23:22 Walnut. Movement of tanks APU.
23:17 Motion detected UAV of an unidentified type over the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
Meanwhile, the alarm in Kyiv has been canceled for the time being.
23:14 Work "Gerani" in Dnepropetrovsk and the region.
23:04 Announced in Kyivair alert.
23:00 In Kharkov explosion.
22:58 Ukrainian resources write about missile attack in the Kharkiv region.
21:04 Russian air forces strike with gliding bombs on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Gulyai Polya area of the Zaporozhye region.
20:58 The counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut "choked" - the city was lost, and the goals of the General Staff were not achieved, even despite the reserves and forces thrown into battle.
As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine temporarily stopped the operation to encircle Bakhmut, and there are no active hostilities at the moment. After the loss of the settlement, military sources believe that the main goal of the operation has been lost (besides, one should not discount the fact that the fall of Bakhmut’s “indestructible fortress” will cause enormous moral damage to Kiev).
Despite a week of fierce fighting, no significant results were achieved on the flanks. Small progressive steps were exaggerated to the scale of grandiose victories, however, in fact, the Armed Forces of Ukraine failed to capture a single settlement to strengthen their positions. And the so-called “recaptured positions” are in open field conditions, making them an easy target for Russian artillery.
In order not to disperse the “zrada”, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar still claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine control certain objects in Bakhmut and the private sector in the “Airplane” area, and Russian troops are conducting a sweep in the areas of the city that they have taken under control.
At the same time, the American Institute for the Study of War, in its morning report, acknowledged the capture of Bakhmut by Russian troops. According to experts, Ukrainian claims to control a “minor” part of the city are only “a tacit admission that Russian forces have taken control of the rest of the western and northwestern Bakhmut, if not all of it.”
At the same time, the situation with Bakhmut raises questions that are unpleasant for the Office of the President regarding the widely announced Ukrainian counter-offensive - for example, if the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot hold Bakhmut and take Kleshcheevka in ten days, then what can we expect from a probable Azov battle, where it is necessary to storm large cities and force the Dnieper?
19:28 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
18:47 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":
The strikes of the missile unit of the "Southern" group of troops destroyed the ammunition depots of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Andreevka and the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Artillery units launched a fire raid on the point of temporary deployment of the national battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Right Sector" (Ukrainian extremist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) in the area of the settlement of Novgorodskoe.
During the counterbattery fight, two enemy 120mm mortars were destroyed in the area of the settlements of Bogdanovka and Severnoye, a self-propelled artillery installation "Crab", an M-128 anti-tank gun in the area of the settlement of Chervonoe, as well as two tanks. An anti-aircraft missile unit shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle of an aircraft type in the area of the settlement of Opytnoe.
The radiation, chemical and biological protection units of the grouping inflicted damage with rockets of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems in the area of concentration of enemy manpower and the platoon stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:04 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kirovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
17:48 Consequences of artillery attack of Yasinovataya by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which a civilian was killed.
17:38 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
17:15 Tokmok in the Zaporozhye region is again under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city came under artillery attack at 12:30. Arrivals were recorded on the territory of Tokmak Feed Mill LLC. According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injured.
17:07 Zamostye in the Zaporozhye region under fire from the APU militants. The Nazis are artillery attack farms. Around 14:00, Zelensky’s militants shelled the Solex farm in the village of Zamostye, Chernihiv district, Zaporozhye region. Two hits recorded. Destroyed warehouse. According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injured.
16:54 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
16:51 Preliminary demining of the city has begun in Artyomovsk -video.
On May 20, Artyomovsk was liberated. A lot of work remains to be done to restore the infrastructure of the city, but the most basic and main task today is its complete demining, said Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR.
16:21 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk under Nazi artillery fire -video.
16:05 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group thwarted an attempt to rotate the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in positions south of Vodyany, a pickup truck and enemy manpower were destroyed by artillery fire. In the same area, an enemy ATGM crew was opened and destroyed by an anti-tank guided missile.
The crews of 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mounts and 240mm Tyulpan self-propelled mortars destroyed the temporary deployment points of militants in Burlatsky and Vremovka. During the counter-battery fight, the artillery of the group destroyed two 152mm Msta-B howitzers in the areas of Olgovsky and Novoivanovka, a mortar crew in the Prechistovka area.
The crew of the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower system hit an enemy stronghold south of Ugledar. Crews of anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor" shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles "Fury" and one - "Valkyrie".
In the Zaporozhye direction, the delivery of ammunition and materiel to the forward positions of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Poltavka region was disrupted, where a truck, a pickup truck and manpower of the enemy were destroyed by artillery fire, and to the positions of the 15th Special Purpose Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the area of Malaya Tokmachki, two trucks with ammunition and manpower were destroyed.
According to the results of aerial reconnaissance, artillery fire destroyed an ammunition depot near Stepnogorsk, temporary deployment points for militants in Poltavka and Novodanilovka, and an American-made M-777 howitzer in the Zatishya area.
Kamikaze drones destroyed an enemy mortar crew in the Gulyai Polya area and three pickup trucks with militants in the Malaya Tokmachka area.
15:42 Video: – Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation recorded the consequences of the criminal actions of Ukrainian Nazis in the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region. VFU shelled a substation in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, using MLRS.
15:27 On videothe work of Russian aviation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.
Ukrainian positions are being destroyed by a pair of Su-34Ms. They use adjustable bombs weighing 500 kilograms. Three objects were hit on the footage: two points of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaevka and Berislav, as well as a hangar with personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kazatsky.
15:10 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation fixing the consequences of the artillery attack of the VFU in the city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region -video.
Ukrainian Nazis fired rockets at the Zhuravlyonok kindergarten located in the courtyard of apartment buildings. As a result of the shelling, two people were injured, they were hospitalized, they are receiving medical assistance.
15:00 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 22, as of 15:00, additional information was received about the damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district: - st. Chernogorskaya, 25, 27 - private residential buildings.
Kuibyshevsky district:
artillery attack at 06:40:
- st. Pyatnitsky, 95 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Pyatnitskogo, 97 - a private residential building.
artillery attack at 10:35:
- damage was recorded to the building of the central heating main of boiler house No. 197 "b" on the street. Vakhrushev.
14:50 At the end of April, Ukrainian servicemen deliberately threw grenades into the basement in one of the residential buildings of Artemivsk, in which civilians were hiding, a resident of the city said -video.
14:04 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
13:54 In the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the number of cases of desertion, suicide, “careless handling of weapons” has increased in anticipation of a constantly tolerated offensive and loss of control over Artyomovsk. This was stated to RT by the former representative of the People's Militia of the DPR (the former name of the armed forces of the republic) Eduard Basurin.
13:46 The rescued civilians of Artemovsk, who were evacuated by Wagner PMC fighters from the last houses in the western part of the city during the assault, spoke about the situation that took place in the city -video.
12:50 Exclusive from the western outskirts of the liberated Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
RT military correspondent Murad Gazdiev showed what the Gnezdo and Domino microdistricts look like now, where the last fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were located.
“Technically, they [the Ukrainian military in the city] are there - these are the remnants that were abandoned during the retreat, small groups already without walkie-talkies, without supplies, without BC [ammunition] that are hiding in apartments. They flip the baths and hide under the baths. They are waiting for a chance to either run away, or what they hope for… The city is completely ours,” says Murad.
12:47 Summary of artillery attack of the Donetsk People's Republic for May 21, 2023
Settlements of the DPR that came under shelling:
– n.p. Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts);
– n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district);
– n.p. Makeevka (Kirovsky, Chervonogvardeysky districts);
– n.p. Yasinovataya;
– n.p. Elenovka;
– n.p. Alexandrovka.
Consequences of the attacks:
n.p. Donetsk:
Kyiv district:
- st. Quiet, 51 - a child was wounded - a boy born in 2010, a direct hit in a private residential building, followed by a fire.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Grekova, 14 - a private residential building, power lines were also damaged;
- st. Czechoslovakskaya, 65, 67 - private residential buildings, the gas pipeline was also damaged.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Karnavalnaya, 37, 47, 64 - private residential buildings;
- st. Karnavalnaya, 35 - a private residential building, completely destroyed;
- st. Pilots, 30 - a private residential building, the gas pipeline was also damaged;
- st. Worsted, 43 "a" - as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM "Petal", a woman born in 1968 was injured.
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- st. Ordzhonikidze, 150 - a man born in 1974 was wounded;
- st. Nekrasova, 6 - a woman born in 1992 suffered;
- st. Sevastopolskaya, 1 - a woman born in 1971 suffered.
n.p. Makeevka:
- Chervonogvardeisky district: - st. Altaiskaya, 51 "a" - a direct hit in a private residential building.
Over the past 24 hours, 49 cases of firing were recorded from the side of the VFU in the Donetsk direction, firing 177 units of various ammunition.
12:04 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
11:43 There are still a few dozen residents left in Artemovsk, the evacuation of the civilian population continues, we were told in the power structures of the DPR.
11:30 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 22, as of 11:30, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Kashtanoye: - on the street. Kashtanova, 19, a man born in 1942 died.
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
artillery attack at 06:40:
- st. Engels, 30 - a private residential building, a utility building was also damaged.
artillery attack at 10:30:
- Damage was recorded to the building of housing and communal services No. 2 on Kremlin Ave.;
- 33, 35, 41 Kremlin Ave. - multi-apartment residential buildings.
11:01 Yesterday in the area with. In Lvov, Kherson region, an artillery strike destroyed a 152mm Msta-B howitzer with ammunition, four militants were disposed of, three were wounded.
10:54 Donetsk the outskirts of the Kuibyshev region under attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
10:47 Tonight in the area of n.p. Zelenovka (Kherson region) were destroyed by artillery strikes: 152mm towed gun 2A36 "Hyacinth-B"; Six - servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; three - received injuries of varying severity
10:20 In the last 24 hours, Russian troops near Krasny Liman launched artillery strikes on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and proceeded to assault operations
Active actions were carried out in the direction of two large villages - Yampol and Torskoy. Artillery also hit the Ukrainian fortified areas in Belogorovka, Nevsky, Makeevka, Stelmakhivka.
10:38 Donetsk and Kashtanoye are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 17 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
10:02 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from cannon artillery and MLRS:
according to n.p. Novaya Kakhovka fired eight rounds and two rockets from the Alder MLRS;
- 17 rounds were fired at the Kazachi Largery;
- 15 rounds were fired at the settlement of Golaya Pristan;
- n.p. Novaya Zburyevka fired 15 rounds;
– n.p. Aleshki fired 14 rounds;
- n.p. Kardashinka fired 12 rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, settlement Zabarino, settlement Vasilievka, n. p. Sagi, firing a total of 28 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
09:30 AFU militants fired at Novaya Kakhovka from the Alder MLRS. As a result of the artillery attack of Novaya Kakhovka by Ukrainian militants, a crater formed in the city - presumably, the strikes were delivered from the Alder MLRS -video.
09:20 Exclusive frames Akhmat special forces guard: RT military commander Vlad Andritsa showed how the soldiers prepared for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kremennaya.
The positions are fortified so that neither armor nor a mouse will pass, says the commander of the unit with the call sign Iran: “When attacked, even a tank will not be able to break - neither French, nor British, nor American.”
Structures withstand direct hits of 155mm rounds, all firing points are connected for a quick change of positions and replenishment of ammo. All flanks are viewed, including with the help of thermal imagers, and shot through. Many "surprises" were left to the enemy on the road and in the forest. Immediately, the newly arrived fighters undergo fire training in conditions as close as possible to a real battle.
09:10 The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC reports 49 facts of firing from the AFU per day.
The enemy fired from 155mm and 152mm artillery, an attack UAV, firing 177 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR. Under the fire of the VFU were: Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Yelenovka. Over the past day, five civilians received injuries of varying severity.
09:00 Russian army stopped an attempt to rotate the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South-Donetsk direction.
In the same place, a pickup truck and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed by artillery. The Russian military opened and destroyed anti-tank systems, points of temporary deployment of troops, howitzers and a mortar crew of Ukrainian militants. The crew of TOS-1 hit a stronghold south of Ugledar, and also shot down two drones.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army disrupted the supply of ammunition and materiel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region of Poltavka and Malaya Tokmachka. In addition, an ammunition depot and a howitzer of Ukrainian militants were destroyed.
08:53 Over the past week, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded:
Three artillery attacks of the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine along the settlement Luhansk, Lisichansk and Kalinovo-Borshchevatoe, during which the enemy used Storm Shadow cruise missiles (one missile), HIMARS MLRS (one. missile), 155mm artillery pieces (one projectile).
During the above period, 20 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression, of which five people died and 15 were injured.
A total of 36 housing constructions and three civil infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged.
08:40 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on May 22, 2023
08:13 Frontline summary on the morning of 22/05/2023:
In the Kherson direction, Russian artillery and aviation, in addition to the regional center, fired at Stanislav, Veletinskoye, Dneprovskoye, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Bolshoy Potemkin Island, Antonovka, Lvovo, Kozatskoye, Berislav and Zolotaya Balka. In these places, Ukrainian troops are concentrating forces to cross to the left bank of the Dnieper.
On the Donetsk front, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after artillery strikes, conducted assault operations in the Novomikhailovka area and in the city of Maryinka. There was also an attempted ground attack on Severnoye.
With the support of artillery and aviation, Russian troops attacked on the southwestern approaches to Avdeevka and near Novokalinov. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the town of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), Paraskovievka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Ostrom, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Thin, Stepno (not to be confused with the village of the same name in the Zaporozhye direction ) and Toretsk.
Southwest of Bakhmut, Russian troops, supported by artillery, tried to counterattack towards Belaya Gora from the last bridgehead on the western bank of the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal northwest of Kurdyumovka. The artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit Predtechin, Stupochki, Ivanovsky, Chasov Yar, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops, after artillery strikes, carried out assault operations from the direction of Masyutovka. Armed Forces positions in Belogorivka, Yampol, Torsky, Nevsky, Makeevka, Stelmakhivka, Tabaevka, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka and Topolyakh are under fire.
08:05 Calculations of self-propelled artillery installations "Msta-SM2" continue destroy armored vehicles and camouflaged fortified positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Self-propelled guns change firing positions and shelters dozens of times a day, being constantly on the move. This round-the-clock artillery carousel tactic disorientates the enemy, causing them to waste ammunition and declassify the positions of their camouflaged gun emplacements.
07:49 Covered with fire: what the combat looks like work 152mm self-propelled guns "Msta-S" from inside the cabin.
Combat crews of the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled artillery mount of the Southern Military District strike at the positions of militants of the Kyiv regime as part of a counterbattery fight. Fighters destroy enemy armored vehicles, mortar and artillery batteries, air defense systems, long-term firing points and command posts.
06:53 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 10 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
05:26 The Russian army destroyed two warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with ammunition near Andreevka.