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Actual information about the situation on the front line: July 22 (updated)
2023-07-23
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.


[NewsFrontInfo] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 07/22/2023 to 00:00 07/23/2023

Over the past day Representation reported about 56 facts of firing by the VFU.

Information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman, inKirovsky districtDonetsk.

Three civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka.

9 residential buildings were damaged in Kievsky, Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk. Damage to civil infrastructure facilities was not recorded.

Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Mikhailovka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Luhanske.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 50 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky three artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky three artillery attack from artillery 155mm and 152mm.

Having fired 175 units of various ammunition.

A previous 38 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.

21:06 Statements of head of the press center of the West group. Main:

-- During the hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Zapad group of forces launched an air strike on the point of temporary deployment of units of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the area of n. Petropavlovka settlement.

-- Artillery of the grouping destroyed the DRG from the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade in the area of ??the settlement. Ivanovka village.

-- In addition, the fire of 152mm Msta-S self-propelled artillery mounts, anti-tank systems, towed guns 152mm "Gyatsint-B" and 122mm D-30 howitzers struck at the positions of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and territorial defense units in the area of the settlement. p. Kislovka, Novoselovskoe.

19:53 Statements of head of the press center of the Vostok group. Main:

-- In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group of forces, with the support of artillery, liquidated two reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area west of Makarovka.

-- In the course of counter-battery combat, a mortar crew east of Urozhayne, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the area of Velikaya Novoselka, and a counterbattery station of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vodyanoye were destroyed.

-- Army aviation hit concentrations of militants in the Staromayorsky area. The crew of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system shot down two Fury and two Valkyrie UAVs.

18:57 Personnel successful work of our fighters on enemy equipment in the Kherson direction

17:40 Broken armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of four M2A2 Bradley ODS-SA combat vehicles and one T-64BV tank in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region.

16:33 Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet-3” destroyed SAM "Strela-10" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region

16:31 Russian artillery destroyed already the third Slovenian tank M-55S of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Zaporozhye

15:37 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which a woman died

14:45 Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet-3” destroyed American howitzer M777 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.

14:00 Enemy drones shot down near Sadovoye - RF Ministry of Defense

In addition, over the past 24 hours, more than 30 AFU militants, two combat armored vehicles, two cars and two 122mm D-30 howitzers were destroyed in the Kherson direction.

12:55 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS

The rounds hit the apartment building. As a result of the shelling, a woman born in 1968 was wounded.

12:54 Over the past day, the enemy has made 44 attempts to shell peaceful towns and villages of the Zaporozhye region in the Pologovsky, Tokmaksky and Vasilyevsky directions.

This morning, the enemy made an attempt to break through the defenses in the area of Novodanilovka and Novoprokrovka, suffered significant losses during the battle and retreated in the direction of Malaya Tokmachka.

On the Vasilyevsky direction, the enemy is regrouping in positions remote from the first line, probing the front in the direction of Rabotino. Our units remain in their positions.

In the morning, the movement of enemy infantry was revealed. The 58th army, together with the Sudoplatov battalion, destroyed the enemy infantry in the Pyatikhatki-Lobkovy area.

In the Pologovsko-Orekhovsky direction, the situation is unchanged, our guys carried out a sweep northeast of Rabotino.

The situation remains tense, the enemy uses the so-called exhaustion tactics, does not spare his manpower, as a result of which he suffers significant losses.

12:53 Residential multi-storey building was damaged due to artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Petrovsky district.

According to the JCCC, due to artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, six housing constructions in Kievsky, Kirovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk were damaged. Damage to civilian infrastructure facilities was not recorded.

12:32 Consequences of artillery attacks of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants

11:17 Statements of head of the press center of the "South" grouping. Main:

-- Subdivisions of the "Southern" grouping of troops thwarted two enemy attempts to conduct reconnaissance in force in the Lisichansk direction by sabotage groups of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

-- The crew of the multiple launch rocket system "Tornado-S" inflicted a defeat on the accumulation of manpower of the 77th Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Menkovka.

-- During the counterbattery fight, the artillery of the group destroyed an enemy 120mm mortar in the area of the Belaya Gora settlement and a 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer at a firing position near Maksimilyanovka.


11:16 Zaporozhye direction, n.p. Rabotino:

The morning offensive bogged down, artillery, FPV and ATGMs worked hard and the enemy stopped. The situation has stabilized.

At 05:50, an offensive began with forces of two tanks, three Bradleys and infantry up to 70 people, the enemy was badly defeated by artillery, ATGM operators and FPV drones. Once again, the enemy did not have success.

At 6:30 another two ravings jumped out but were scared away by artillery and left towards the forest belt, aerial reconnaissance is underway.


11:15 A report from the Zaporozhye direction south of Orekhov transmits:

From early morning our aerial reconnaissance records the movement of lightly armored vehicles of the enemy, as well as the transfer of a certain number of enemy manpower closer to our positions. Of the enemy equipment, mainly NATO BMD and tanks. Howitzers were also found.

Currently, the identified targets are being processed by our gunners from the 152mm MSTA-S self-propelled guns and mortar crews. VKS is also in touch. We are working.

10:32 Front-line summary for the morning of 07/22/2023

In the Zaporozhye direction, the opposing sides exchanged artillery strikes. The RF Armed Forces also used aviation in some places. Ukrainian units were under fire in Lobkove, Pyatikhatki, Tavriysky, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Yegorovka, Belogorye, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaipole and Malinovka. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Rabotin, Verbovoe and Novopokrovka.

At the Ugledarsky sector, the RF Armed Forces counterattacked from the direction of Priyutnoye, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to advance near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. Both sides are unsuccessful. Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions in Makarovka, Blagodatny, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Zolotoy Niva, Vugledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk).

On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, carried out assault operations near Novomikhailovka, in Maryinka and near Nevelskoye. No promotion. Russian artillery worked for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Zhelanny Pervoi, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka) and Avdeevka. The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked Alexandropol. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in Donetsk and Gorlovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian units counterattacked from Andreevka and in the Orekhovo-Vasilyevka area. The Armed Forces held their positions. The Russian Armed Forces shelled Ukrainian units in Aleksandro-Shultin, Stupochki, Ivanovsky, Chasovoy Yar, Bogdanovka, Markov, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Disputed and Verkhnekamensky. They themselves were under attack in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka, Kleshcheevka, Bakhmut, Yagodny and Berkhovka.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops conducted offensive operations in the Sinkovka area. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered strikes against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Torskoy, Nevsky, Kislovka, Kucherovka, Kupyansk, Zapadny, Monachinovka, Dvurechnaya, Figolevka, Krasny Pervy, Kamenka and Topolyakh.

09:17 Bradley cemetery in Zaporozhye direction — video

09:16 Criminal Kyiv 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 fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Aleshki fired 32 rounds;
-- Nine rounds were fired at the village of Radensk;
-- Five rounds were fired at the Solontsy settlement;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery 12 rounds.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement Naked Pier, n.p. Peschanovka, n.p. Korsunka, settlement Kardashinka, n.p. Kostogryzovo firing a total of 36 rounds from cannon artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed

08:26 Another goal worked out - video

Artillery units of the Western Military District continue the systematic destruction of nationalists in the special operation zone.

Kupyanskoye direction

Crews of 152mm self-propelled guns "Msta-S" hit the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment, firepower, destroy defensive structures and suppress the control points of Ukrainian militants.

08:11 Tough battle of the Orekhov Spartans: Mobilized guys from Moscow and the Moscow region repelled eight enemy attacks near Rabotino - video

The 6th company of the 1429th Motorized Rifle Regiment defended a stronghold northeast of the village of Rabotino on the Zaporozhye front.

On the morning of July 17, the company's positions were subjected to a massive fire raid, including the use of Excalibur high-precision projectiles and cluster munitions.

The enemy, using the results of fire damage, attacked our defending unit with superior forces.

Acting courageously, skillfully and in a coordinated manner, the soldiers of the 6th motorized rifle company, being under constant enemy fire, repelled 8 fierce attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the heroic actions of the unit, the enemy suffered significant losses: more than 40 militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, armored personnel carriers and 2 pickup trucks were destroyed.

Being seriously wounded, the commander of the 6th company, Senior Lieutenant Aleksey Melnikov, continued to manage the battle without leaving his subordinates. The officer died from his wounds. He and the personnel of the company are presented for state awards.

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