[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/17/2023 to 00:00 07/18/2023
Over the past day Representation reported about 36 facts of firing by the VFU.
Information was received about the wounding of three civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the previously released Cherished Zhelaniya.
Damaged two residential buildings in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as well as one civil infrastructure.
Under enemy fire were areas of nine settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Chervonoye Zhelanie .
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 18 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, NAR.
On Gorlovsky 12 artillery attacks from artillery 152mm and 122mm.
On Yasinovatsky five artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 152mm artillery. By releasing 205 units of various ammunition.
A previous 48 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
23:12 The RF Armed Forces took control of the settlement of Novoselovka in the Luhansk People's Republic, oursourcesfrom places. This village already passed under the control of Russian units in November of this year, but then they were knocked out. Also, our subscribers from the scene specify that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are urgently transferring reserves to the recently taken Novoselovka in order to counterattack.
This information is confirmed by Ukrainian officials, casually mentioning the difficult situation for the enemy army in this region.
21:03 A civilian was injured during the artillery attack of the settlement Cherished Desire, reported representation Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
“On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for July 17, as of 20:00 (coincides with Moscow time), additional information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic: Cherished Zhelanie settlement (Velikonovoselkovsky district): on Shevchenko Street, 1, a man was wounded 1974 year of birth, ”the message of the representative office in the telegram channel says.
19:40 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok grouping of troops, in the course of systematic fire impact on the enemy, destroyed a pickup truck with nationalists east of Makarovka, two mortar crews in the Novomayorsky and Novodonetsky areas.
By means of aerial reconnaissance, concentrations of nationalists in the Novodarovka area were opened and artillery fire destroyed.
Assault and army aviation inflicted fire damage on accumulations of manpower and equipment in the areas of Staromayorsky and Urozhayny.
Also, in the area of Staromayorsky, the crews of the TOS "Solntsepek" hit the places of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Zaporizhia direction, the enemy made attempts to attack our positions with small groups of infantry in the areas south of Maly Shcherbakov and Stepovoe. All groups have been destroyed.
Artillery fire inflicted fire damage on accumulations of AFU manpower in the Priyutnoye area, destroyed a towed howitzer in the Charivnoye area, as well as a pickup truck with nationalists in the Novodanilovka area.
Assault and army aviation inflicted fire damage on accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Pyatikhatka and Rabotino.
The crews of the Tor and Strela-10 air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian UAVs Fury and Leleka.
The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions.
The gun commander of the self-propelled artillery battalion of the group's motorized rifle brigade, warrant officer Alimagomed Khanmirzaev, with subordinate personnel, performed tasks of hitting the enemy by fire, attempting to break through the defensive orders of Russian troops in one of the sectors of the South-Donetsk direction.
During the fighting, competent and timely adjustment of the fire, carried out by ensign Khanmirzaev, allowed the artillerymen to hit the enemy's KNP and destroy more than a dozen nationalists.
As a result, the command and control system of the Ukrainian troops in this sector of the front was disrupted, and the enemy attack was thwarted.
18:27 In the Kupyansk direction, our troops advanced two km deep into the enemy's positions.
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine unsuccessfully tried to advance in the Donetsk and Krasno-Limansky directions. 15 attacks repulsed.
17:35 Soledar direction situation as of July 17, 2023:
Russian artillerymen, together with the Airborne Forces units, repulsed the attack, dispersing the Ukrainian formations along the landings and, in the end, squeezing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to their original positions.
However, the most intense fighting goes south. Combined assault groups of the 3rd and 5th battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to cling to the heights adjacent to Kleshcheevka.
Attacks by Ukrainian formations continue almost non-stop in small groups. And if earlier the enemy managed to advance at least a little towards the village, now Russian troops are repulsing attacks even on the outskirts.
16:25 Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky spoke about the situation in the Zaporozhye direction:
“The situation remains stably tense, the enemy has concentrated his efforts on restoring combat capability.
In the Vremevsky direction, the enemy made an attempt to break through the front line of our defense, the enemy did not achieve success.
An enemy group was discovered that was trying to approach our positions, the enemy was opened. In the course of the competent actions of the fighters of the 58th Army and the Sudoplatov battalion, an enemy group was identified that tried to conduct reconnaissance activities, the group was liquidated. By competent actions of our guys, the main path of approach and withdrawal of the enemy was cut off.
16:00 Military Chronicle reports a powerful blow to the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Orekhov, Zaporozhye region.
According to preliminary data, FAB-250 bombs with planning and correction modules, as well as rocket artillery are used. Presumably, warehouses with weapons and equipment of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault and 44th Artillery brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.
15:30 Highlights from the new briefing of the RF Ministry of Defense:
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repulsed two attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day in the Krasnolimansky direction;
In the Krasnolimansky direction, the actions of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a fuel depot for military equipment of the Liman operational-tactical group near Kramatorsk in the DPR;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction lost up to 60 servicemen and the M777 artillery system;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 240 fighters and a US-made Paladin self-propelled gun in a day in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
Russian troops destroyed an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Malaya Tokmachka, Zaporozhye region;
Russian air defense systems intercepted three Storm Shadow cruise missiles and three HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in a day;
The Russian military repulsed 13 attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction, including in the areas of Belogorovka and Maryinka in the DPR;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novoegorovka in the LPR, Kramatorsk and Vodiane in the DPR;
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in the Donetsk direction amounted to 320 fighters;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 40 servicemen and 152mm self-propelled guns "Acacia" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 35 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk sector.
14:31 Svatovsko-Kremensky section situation as of 14.00 July 17, 2023:
In the Karamzinovka area on the Svatovsky sector, Storm assault units, with the support of the 21st Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, attacked the positions of Ukrainian formations on the opposite bank of the Zherebets River.
During fierce battles, the fighters of the RF Armed Forces knocked out the enemy from two strongholds at an altitude northwest of Novovodyanoe. The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed two groups of 25 Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to carry out a counterattack, as well as an M777 battery to Makeevka.
To the south, in the vicinity of the Zhuravka Beam, positional battles are taking place. In units of the 518th battalion of the 1st arr of special forces of the 9th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, they reported an attack by the RF Armed Forces on the strongholds of the 1st Brigade. In Terny, reserves are put on alert.
On the Torsk ledge, after several days of assault, Russian servicemen went on the defensive. Ukrainian formations in small groups continue rolling in the forest belt, probing the borders of the RF Armed Forces.
The enemy is actively using reconnaissance equipment to aim artillery. At the same time, an electronic warfare station was deployed to the area of Serebryansky forest to suppress control signals from Russian UAVs.
14:27 Combat Job military personnel of the 9th brigade in the Avdeevsky direction.
In the Avdiivka direction, units of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps continue to carry out combat duty, covering the offensive of our assault units with fire, systematically destroying enemy strongholds
14:15 There is information that the Russian military managed to capture foreign mercenaries in the Kherson direction. Presumably, we are talking about the Germans. A video of the interrogation is reportedly coming soon, in which, according to Russian fighters, "the Germans cried."
13:34 Reports on the combat situation in the Kherson direction Diary of a Paratrooper:
“At 07:20 today (July 17), two Mi-8s of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the direction of Zolotaya Balka-Nizhniy Rogachik struck 8 NARs at the positions of the units of the Dnepr group of troops (the result of the “flying flights” was lousy - a flight of one km).
The anti-aircraft missile department of the Igla MANPADS of our units shot down a helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the launch of just one missile. There was a direct hit on a helicopter and its fall in the area south of one km of the settlement of Zolotaya Balka.”
12:24 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for July 17, as of 12:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - on the street. Wagner, 23 injured woman born in 1958 and a man born in 1954
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - shop "Zhovtnevy" on the street. Wagner, the car and the roadway were also damaged.
12:05 Subdivisions of the Southern Group of Forces successfully defended attack of enemy assault groups in the Soledaro-Artemovsky direction.
11:45 Orekhovsky area situation as of July 17, 2023:
At the Orekhovsky section, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are strengthening the front lines. Reinforcements from the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived at the strongholds north and northeast of Rabotino.
Also, two additional assault groups have been deployed to Lobkove, where detachments of the 3rd battalion of the 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the 10th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced by units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade, are now occupying positions. And a group of SSOs of Ukraine arrived in Shcherbaki.
In addition, the strengthening of the forward positions was noted in the vicinity of Belogorye southeast of Orekhov. The assault detachments of the 78th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stationed there.
10:27 In Donetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Kuibyshevsky district of the city, civilians were injured, including a child -video.
09:45 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 33 rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki fired nine rounds;
-- Six rounds were fired at the village of Korsunka;
-- Seven rounds were fired at Peschanovka settlement;
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. Alyoshki, n.p. Dnepryans, firing a total of 30 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
09:30 The situation in the Krasnolimansky direction from Archangel Spetsnaz:
The enemy seeks to prevent the advance of the Russian troops and counterattacks, trying to force the units of the RF Armed Forces from the "Torsk" ledge.
The enemy made an attempt to break through the defenses of our troops at the Berestovoye-Novoselovskoye line, but was unsuccessful, suffered losses in manpower and organized the evacuation of the wounded, two groups were destroyed.
09:04 Over the past day, 48 artillery attacks from the AFU were recorded - DPR Representative Office in the JCCC
Ukrainian militants fired from MLRS, artillery of 152mm and 155mm caliber, firing 288 different types of ammunition across the territory of the Republic. Gorlovka (Central City, Nikitovsky districts), Golmovsky, Zaitsevo, Yasinovatsky district, Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district) and Lugansk were under enemy fire.
As a result of the shelling, a woman was killed in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. Four civilians, including a teenager born in 2006, were injured of varying severity 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.
08:14 Summary for the morning of July 17, 2023:
On the Zaporizhia Front, the enemy is concentrating forces in the Kamenka direction, hoping to still break through our defenses, despite the losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the Orekhovsky direction, after the loss of a sensitive amount of armored vehicles, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are throwing infantry into battle in small groups through forest plantations.
On the Vremevsky direction of the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, the battles went for an important settlement. Staromayorskoye, held by our troops.
On the northern flank of the Artyomovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, the Russian Armed Forces have been conducting counterattack operations for several days near the settlement. Berkhovka.