[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/16/2023 to 00:00 07/17/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 48 facts of firing by the VFU.
Information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman, in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka.
Four civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. a teenager born in 2006, in the Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Damaged 10 residential buildings in the Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Central City, Nikitovsky districts), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Lugansk. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 29 attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky 17 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky 2 artillery attack from artillery 155mm and 152mm. Having fired 288 units of various ammunition.
A previous 31 attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day
21:03 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia counted about three hits on the school of the village of Stulnevo in the Zaporozhye region, fragments of, presumably, ammunition of the HIMARS system were found on the spot, reports correspondent RIA News.
19:42 Artillerymen of the Southern Military District disrupted the rotation of the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction -video.
Crews of 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the Southern Military District disrupted the rotation of enemy forces and the transfer of his reserves to the line of contact.
19:26 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which a fire broke out in an apartment building.
17:49 In the area of Svatovo and Kremennaya, the initiative went over to the side of Russia, this was stated by the Kiev gauleiter, the so-called head of the Severodonetsk regional military administration, Roman Vlasenko.
Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar also reported on the aggravation of the situation on the eastern front. According to her, the Russian Federation has been actively advancing in the Kupyansk direction for two days in a row.
“Russian troops are actively advancing in the Kupyansk direction and continue the offensive in Avdeevsky and Maryinsky, fierce battles are going on. We are on the defensive,” wrote Malyar.
17:05 Fixation of consequences of the artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk 06/16/2023
Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the artillery attack of the Kievsky district, and also specified the weapons used and the direction of fire.
The enemy fired from their positions located in the area between the settlement. Desired First and n.p. The desired Second, using 152mm artillery.
16:22 Under the aimed fire of the VFU, the village of Zaitsevo (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko reported.
15:57 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of troops, supported by artillery and aviation, repelled several attacks by the enemy, who tried to advance in the direction of Makarovka, Staromayorsky and Urozhaynoye.
During the battle, armored combat vehicles and vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, enemy infantry groups were liquidated.
Artillery fire opened and destroyed a group of militants in the Novodonetsky area, one reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was trying to advance in the direction of Staromayorsky, as well as a mortar crew in Novomayorsky and an ammunition depot in Prechistovka.
Army aviation hit the places of accumulation of nationalists in Makarovka, Novodonetsk and Urozhaynoe.
In the Zaporizhia direction, aerial reconnaissance equipment opened and artillery fire destroyed one reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as armored combat vehicles and concentrations of militants in the area of Priyutnoye, and an reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lobkove area was liquidated.
During the counterbattery fight, a towed howitzer was destroyed in the Charivnoye area, and Solntsepek TOS crews hit the places of accumulation of APU manpower in the Rabotino area.
14:51 Heavy fighting in Staromayorsky continues: ours are counterattacking, squeezing out the APU
Today our reinforcements approached and joined the battle. The landing force and infantry destroyed several enemy armored vehicles. They also struck at suitable reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fierce fighting continues.
14:40 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.
13:50 Situation in Kherson direction:
Over the past day, artillery and mortar battles have been going on, on all frontiers of this direction. UAVs, kamikaze drones and drones with the release of grenades and VOGs fly, at night or in the early morning large drones fly and drop shots from RPGs or mines.
The movement of manpower was observed at many frontiers. From the right bank, in addition to artillery and mortars, the enemy fires small arms. The enemy worked for two days with the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS with incendiary ammunition. Forests and fields are burning in many places.
13:30 Vremyevsky section situation as of July 16, 2023:
Today, assault detachments of the 35th Infantry Regiment of the Ukrainian Navy, after intensive artillery preparation, resumed the assault on Staromayorsky from the directions of Makarovka and landings to the northwest.
The main efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were concentrated on the positions of the RF Armed Forces on a hill to the west of the village. Staromayorskoye itself is located in a lowland, and without control over the adjacent heights, the offensive will be complicated.
During the ensuing battle, assault detachments of the 35th NNaval Infantry Brigade were able to break through in the north of the village. However, some time later, Russian fighters managed to drive the Armed Forces of Ukraine out of the settlement.
Now the fighting continues. Ukrainian formations are trying to take the heights. Artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively using cluster munitions, which were handed over to them more than a month ago.
13:05 The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that 15 enemy attacks were successfully repelled in the Donetsk direction in a day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 270 people killed and wounded.
Three enemy attacks were repelled in the Krasnolimansky direction, up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed.
12:42 The morning attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Staromayorskoe (Vremievsky ledge) was repulsed. The enemy suffered losses and was driven out of the outskirts of the village. Continued enemy attacks on Staromayorskoye from Makarovka are expected.
12:39 As a result of Ukrainian armed aggression in the village of Zaitsevo (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), a 16-year-old child was wounded.
11:05 Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region:
According to the operational data of the command of our fighters in the Zaporozhye direction of the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, over the past day the enemy has made 28 attempts to fire at our positions.
The main areas of artillery attack are Pologi, Tokmak, Vasilievka.
In the Pologovsko-Orekhovsky direction, the operational situation is unchanged, the enemy is not taking active actions.
As for the Kamensky direction, our guys received Kitolov-2M and Krasnopol-M2 precision-guided munitions, designed to destroy armored targets and military installations.
10:35 Frontline summary on the morning of 07/16/2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked from the side of Kamensky just to the east of the M-18 highway and managed to take a number of important positions. The Ukrainian command temporarily abandoned the assault on Zherebyanok. With the support of artillery, the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced near Rabotin. No success.
A new active site has also appeared. Ukrainian units advanced in the forest belt along the railway line just west of Dorozhnyanka. Here is a convenient place to reach the rear of the Russian positions in this village and break through from the west to the highway to Pologi. Forest plantations hide the movement of troops. Russian artillery hit the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Zheleznodorozhny and Gulyaipole.
In the Ugledar sector, Ukrainian troops, after artillery strikes, carried out assault operations near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. No promotion. But here, too, a new direction of attacking efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has appeared. They managed to take a number of positions southwest of Pavlovka.
The idea is the same - to go to the rear of the Russian troops and cut the road between Pavlovka and Yegorovka. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation worked on Ukrainian units in Makarovka, Blagodatnoe, Novoukrainka and Bogoyavlenka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with powerful artillery support, are pressing in the Kleshcheevka area. In the northern sector of the RF Armed Forces, they counterattacked from the direction of Berkhovka. And the Ukrainian troops stepped up just north of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka near the M-03 highway.
Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Aleksandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Chasovoy Yar, Vasyukovka, Fedorovka, Rozdolovka, Vesel (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name north-west of Donetsk and north of Avdievka), Sporny and Verkhnekamensky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka and Bakhmut.
In the Luhansk direction, the RF Armed Forces managed to advance in the Serebryansky forest from Shipilovka, attacked near Novosadovoe. Russian troops hit the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoy, Nevsky, Berestovoy, Kotlyarovka, Kislovka, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Figolevka, Kamenka and Kolodeznoy.
10:27 Retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko said that the Ukrainian military had hit Lugansk using long-range cluster munitions.
10:17 APU inflicted missile attack on a school in the village of Stulnevo, Chernihiv district, Zaporozhye region
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation found fragments from the Himars MLRS at the site of the shelling, Andrei Rudenko reports. As a result of the rocket attack, the school building was completely destroyed.
09:59 Over the past day, 31 cases of firing by the AFU have been recorded.
Two civilians were reported wounded in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Dokuchaevsk. Damage to residential buildings and civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.
Under enemy fire were areas of five settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhaylovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 19 attacks from a shock UAV, 155mm artillery. On Gorlovsky seven attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm. On Yasinovatsky five artillery attacks from 155mm artillery. Having fired 181 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 45 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:20 Heavy fighting on the Vremevsky ledge is reportedMilitary commissars of the Russian Spring: the enemy is trying to break through the front near Staromayorsky and Priyutny
For almost 1.5 months, heavy fighting has not stopped on the Vremevsky ledge at the junction of Zaporozhye and the DPR, in recent weeks the enemy has been breaking through to the villages of Priyutnoye and Staromayorskoye.
Using numerous waves of attacks and massive artillery fire, the enemy managed to advance through the forest belts. Our fighters repelled many “meat waves” and burned a mountain of enemy equipment here, but he continues to throw new armored groups and infantry into the offensive.
Over the past few days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been especially actively attacking Staromayorskoe, advancing from Makarovka. Our forward lines of defense were plowed up by massive artillery fire, forcing the fighters to retreat to the next line of defense. Then the assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on armored vehicles began attacks. The hard fighting continues.
09:16 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 barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Aleshki fired 13 rounds;
-- n.p. Proletarian fired nine rounds;
-- 15 rounds were fired at the village of Peschanovka;
-- Five rounds were fired at the village of Korsunka;
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Nova Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Novaya Zburyevka, n.p. Solontsy, firing a total of 33 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
08:14 Gunners showed how 152mm Msta-S howitzers thwart militant attacks in the Zaporozhye direction: footage from the cockpit
Our fighters smash the camouflaged positions of the enemy, his tanks and armored vehicles, using high-explosive, high-explosive fragmentation and high-precision artillery ammunition.
The division commander called the artillery installation a weapon of victory.
“This gun, this crew destroyed five guns in four days, towed by a direct hit along with the BC. This weapon is a weapon of victory that brings our victory closer,” the soldier said.
08:10 In the South Donetsk direction, the troops of the Vostok group repelled the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Makarovka.