[NewsFrontInfo] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 08/26/2023 to 00:00 08/27/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 71 instances of firing by the AFU.
Information was received about the wounding of six civilians in the Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Evgenovka.
Eight residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, Evgenovka, as well as a civil infrastructure facility in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
The region of six settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Kalininsky, Nikitovsky districts), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city. Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeivka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Yevgenovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 50 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky eight artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky 12 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 241 units of various ammunition.
In the previous day, 63 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
23:30 The Russian Armed Forces attacked the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnieper and Dnipropetrovsk region.
"At the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this region, a mixed blow is being dealt: missiles of an unknown type and a lot of drones are being used," Military Chronicle reported.
22:50 Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz said that the Russian air defense systems stopped the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack with aircraft-type drones.
22:21 The administration of Kramatorsk reported damage to the gas pipeline as a result of the explosion.
21:24 Tu-22M3: murderer aircraft carriers
The Tu-22M3 long-range bomber bomber is designed to destroy sea and land-based targets with guided missiles and aerial bombs.
The aircraft was created to destroy local targets - primarily aircraft carrier strike groups. A long-range missile-carrying bomber can disable three large ships at once, since it is able to fly with several long-range missiles equipped with warheads up to a megaton. Hence the plane's nickname - "Carrier Killer".
The Tu-22M3 is armed with a 23mm GSh-23 cannon, three air-to-ground guided missiles, and bombs weighing up to 24 tons.
In addition to powerful weapons, the strength of the Tu-22M3 lies in its flexibility of use.
Variable sweep of the wing, the ability to fly at very high and extremely low altitudes, accelerate to 2300 km/h make it possible to bring a 42-meter aircraft to the target unnoticed, hit a given object and escape retribution.
21:23 In the Beryslav district of the Kherson region, the Russian militarydestroyedlarge caches and hangars with enemy military equipment, representatives of the Novokakhovskaya administration reported.
The reconnaissance forces of the Dnepr group of troops worked, pointing several Su-34 fighters at the objects. Ukrainian armed formations lost a large number of manpower, two armored personnel carriers and four military vehicles.
20:18 "Ghostly" developer supplies the Russian military in the Zaporozhye region with unique equipment - ground unmanned vehicles -video
The situation in the Zaporozhye direction remains tense, so our fighters have many tasks. Brave volunteer developers help them in destroying the enemy — they produce unique equipment that helps the Russian military out in the most difficult situations, and tests are carried out right in the NVO zone. Readovka found out from the programmer with the call sign “Ghost” why he voluntarily went to the war zone.
“I think that this is how I can be useful to our country. It became a shame that after partial mobilization, people began to move en masse, to look for a new place of residence in other countries. As a developer, it became unpleasant for me, so I chose this solution for myself - to come here and help our fighters, ”the volunteer told us.
He also noted that there are other programmers-developers who come to hot spots and support our defenders in carrying out dangerous tasks. All this happens on a voluntary basis, so volunteers need to unite, and not wait for a request from above - otherwise you can lose a lot of time.
20:14 The senior post of the VAI spoke about his duties and the specifics of the work of inspectors in the NVO zone -video
19:04 Ukrainian TG channels reported explosions in Kramatorsk (DPR, occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
19:00 Sun of the Russian Federation defended counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction:
In the area of N. p. Torskoye, the enemy made two attempts to attack with armored groups of 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The attacks were repulsed by artillery fire, the enemy suffered heavy losses. Artillery strikes prevented two attempts by militants to transfer reserves of 63 Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the area of Serebryansky forest, three attacks of assault groups of the 42nd and 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled. The enemy was stopped by small arms and artillery fire. Army aviation inflicted two strikes on clusters of the 42nd and 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are preparing for assault operations.
18:37 Kherson direction setting as of August 26, 2023:
Near the Dnieper in the Kherson region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to “probe” the soil, sending one reconnaissance group after another in order to gain a foothold on the islands southeast of Kherson.
Yesterday, two enemy DRGs, five people each, tried to land on Melkiy Island in two boats. One of the boats was destroyed by artillery fire, and the other was able to unload the group and land the wounded members of the TRO.
On the way back, having come under heavy fire, the boat was also hit along with five people on board. The evacuation was thwarted, but there is still a DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the observation post on the island.
The command of the Ukrainian group "Kherson" sent another group closer to the night. The boat was moving towards the Dnieper along the Ingulets River, where it was destroyed by a strike drone of the RF Armed Forces.
Attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to gain a foothold on the islands are currently unsuccessful. Russian fighters stand ready, artillery attack the approaches to the coast. However, the enemy deployed additional fire groups of the 406th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Kherson-Tyaginka line, intending to strengthen the fire cover of the assault groups.
18:40 There is some activity of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Ugledar. According to military commander Yevgeny Lisitsyn.
"A column of three tanks was seen to the east of the settlement, they were forced to retreat by artillery fire. It is reported that one of the tanks was disabled by a Lancet strike,” he added.
18:20 Zaporozhye direction, Orekhovsky section.
Our army at that moment entered the reserve. There is a powerful counterattack from our side. VKS works at the maximum level.
17:35 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 26, as of August 26, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- on st. Spartak, 34 wounded woman born in 1970
- on st. Spartak, 46 "a" a woman born in 1930 was wounded.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): - st. Spartak, 38 - a direct hit in a private residential building, followed by a fire.
17:19 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group
The advanced subunits of the Vostok group of troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, repulsed two enemy attacks in the direction of Urozhaynoye. Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated.
The activities of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Priyutnoye were stopped.
Rocket and cannon artillery fire hit the militants’ temporary deployment points in Staromayorsky, two strong points south of Novomikhailovka, two strong points and a mortar crew in the area north of Nikolsky, and the 122mm Gvozdika artillery installation southwest of Shakhtyorsky.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" destroyed a towed howitzer 152mm "Msta-B" and a howitzer M777 manufactured by the United States north of Neskuchnoye, another M777 was destroyed in the area south of Elizavetovka, as well as a towed howitzer 152mm D-20 east of Novopol and an AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery station south of Novomikhailovka.
Bomber, attack and army aviation hit the places of accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Velikaya Novoselka, Harvest, Staromayorsky, Malinovka.
The Tor anti-aircraft missile system and the use of Verba MANPADS shot down three UAVs of the Furia, Leleka and Sky Eagle aircraft type.
17:05 Russian troops are moving forward on the Kupyansky direction
Tankers from the Zapad group, together with attack aircraft and artillerymen, went on the offensive, the Telegram channel “Actually in Khar'kov” reports.
Our soldiers liberated Novoselovskoye, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to Berestovoye.
16:35 Howitzers of the 80th Tank Regiment work according to the forward supporters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Svatovo - Kremennaya. During the assault on the RF Armed Forces, the enemy lost three platoon strongholds.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine had to withdraw to reserve positions, where they are actively conducting engineering training. One of the Russian servicemen told RT military correspondent Igor Zhdanov about this:
“Our goal now is to prevent the construction of engineering structures, we are trying to suppress, cover. Targets are platoon strongholds, the manpower of the enemy.
16:00 Combat work of crews of 82mm mortars "Trending" of the Western Military District when performing fire missions in the Kupyansk direction in the NVO zone -video.
15:30 AFU militants fired at Nova Kakhovka - a local resident was injured
The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Nova Kakhovka. As a result of the shelling, a 25-year-old man was injured - he was riding a motorcycle near the Mayak store. With numerous shrapnel wounds to the chest, shoulder and an open fracture of the hip, he was taken to the Skadovsk hospital.
15:05 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for August 26, as of 15:00, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Pascal, 38, 40, 42, 44 - private residential buildings;
- st. Teachers, 15 - a private residential building.
13:55 Naval infantry burned the Bradley near Rabotino -video.
In the Rabotino area, an active offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues. Most of the village is under the control of the enemy, but it is too early to talk about the abandonment of the settlement by the Russian troops. Our guys do not stop inflicting fire damage on enemy equipment and infantry, seeking to break through our defenses.
13:30 Frames of destruction of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Operators of FPV drones disable an American-made APU armored personnel carrier with a precise strike.
12:59 Ukrainian militants fired five rockets from the MLRS in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - Representation of the JCCC DPR.
12:42 The situation at the Rabotino-Verbovoye section on August 26:
Reports about the taking of settlements under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not confirmed by the sources of the Military Chronicle on the ground. The night on the front line was relatively quiet.
The units of the Ukrainian army, after several dozens of small and large surges in recent days, have had a large regrouping - some units (mainly reconnaissance companies and battalions) are partially withdrawn from the front due to the loss of combat capability.
The artillery of both sides is now playing the main part: the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to use a large number of cluster munitions, Russian counter-batteries are returning fire and plugging Ukrainian howitzers.
Aviation is still of key importance: FAB-250/500 bombs with universal planning and correction modules (UMPC) are used by the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine both in the nearest rear areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Rabotino-Verbovoye area, and in tactically important objects in Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Novopokrovka, Yurkovka and Tavriysky at a distance of 25-30 kms from the front line. Heavy losses are incurred by the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, deployed to strengthen the offensive.
On video- an American armored personnel carrier Stryker destroyed on the positions of the Ukrainian army. Vehicles of this type are used by the 82nd Airborne Brigade, a formation prepared for strikes according to NATO standards and equipped, among other things, with Challenger-2 heavy tanks. In the battles near Rabotino, these tanks are still not used.
11:50 RF Armed Forces destroyed hangars with military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction -video.
11:21 The Kiev regime continues the terror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services.
Yesterday, fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 53 rounds from cannon artillery at the settlements: Alyoshki, Golaya Pristan, Sadovoe, Kazachi Lagery, Podstepne.
The artillery attack did not stop at night - the Ukrainians fired 30 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Vasil'yevka and Solontsy.
11:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 26, as of 11:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - a woman born in 1951 was wounded at the Trudovskaya bus station.
10:25 Circumstance in the South-Donetsk direction:
In the Vremevsky sector, there is a decrease in the intensity of artillery attack from the enemy, as well as a concentration of efforts on the evacuation of their wounded and the restoration of the combat capability of the forward units, which suffered losses during the week. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to transfer those units of the marine brigades that were previously withdrawn to the rear after losses incurred in the battles for Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye.
In the area of Velikaya Novosyolka, a newly arrived battalion of the 35th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by six tanks, has already been deployed. To the east of Urozhayne, artillery and FPV drones stop the movement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on vehicles, and systematic fire impact continues along the forest belts with infantry.
At night, the enemy made an attempt to attack on foot southwest of Staromayorsky. It was opened in a timely manner and, having suffered losses from the heavy weapons of our units, retreated. To the north of Priyutnoye, the activity of foot groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also remains. According to radio intercepts, as a result of the fire “combing” of the forest belts north of Priyutnoye, the enemy’s losses amounted to 10 militants.
In the Ugledar sector, a reconnaissance group of the RF Armed Forces opened two strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Novomikhailovka, and they were hit by fire. At night, in the Sladkoye area, surveillance devices detected the movement of an enemy group of up to 15 militants, the group was dispersed with a mortar and AGS, enemy losses amounted to five units of manpower.
There is some activity of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Ugledar. A column of three tanks was seen to the east of the settlement, and was forced to retreat by artillery fire. It is reported that one of the tanks was disabled by a Lancet strike.
09:15 Frontlinesummaryon the morning of 26.08.2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, attacked Novoprokopovka. No advance. But similar actions in the direction of Ocheretovaty and north-west of Verbovoy brought them partial success.
In the first of the listed settlements there is a powerful fortified area of the RF Armed Forces. It is less than 9 kilometers from LBS. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Plavni, Orekhovo, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye and Gulyaipole are under shelling. Russian - in Zherebyanki, Nesteryanka, Kopany, Novopokrovka and Novofedorovka.
In the Ugledar sector of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after shelling, they attacked near Priyutnoye, in the area of Staromlynovka and Kermenchik. No success. The RF Armed Forces delivered strikes against Ukrainian troops in Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions), Levadny, Staromayorsky, Blagodatny, Urozhaynoye, Bol'shaya Novosyolka and Shakhtyorsky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were beaten according to the Zavetni Zhelansk and Novodonetsk.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the Ukrainian fortified area in Novomikhailovka from the southeast and northeast, and again conducted assault operations in Mar'yinka and on the southern approaches to Avdievka. LBS hasn't changed. Under the blows of the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Yekaterinovka, Elizavetovka, Pobeda, the city of Krasnogorovka, Il'yinka, Kurakhovka, Desired First, Karlovka, Netaylov, Berdychi and Keremi. Russian - in Donetsk, Vodyany and Gorlovka.
In the Luhansk direction, the RF Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, were attacking in the area of Novoegorovka. This is the resumption of attacking operations in this area. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Ivanovka, Nevsky, Berestovo, Kislovka and Sin'kovka.
09:09 Assault units of the RF Armed Forces seized three strongholds, destroying about 40 enemy troops in the Kupyansk direction. This was announced by Yaroslav Yakimkin, an officer of the press center of the Zapad group.
At the same time, five counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repulsed by forces up to a platoon, each with the support of armored vehicles.
08:50 Assault aviation of the southern group of troopshiton the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lisichansk, Soledaro-Artemovsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovsk directions.
The helicopter crews of the group's army aviation destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle and militants in the areas of the settlements of Bogdanovka, Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. Also in the Kleshcheevka area, Russian forces hit the accumulation of APU manpower with a volley of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system.
Loitering ammunition "Lancet" of the RF Armed Forces destroyed self-propelled guns in the Seversk region, an armored car, two pickup trucks and ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belogorovka, Krasnogorovka and the village of Pobeda, as well as an enemy stronghold in Orekhovo-Vasil'yevka. Also, two Ukrainian towed howitzers and four 120mm mortars were destroyed in the area of Serebryanka, Dyleevka and Georgievka.
08:32 Over the past day, 63 facts of firing by the AFU were recorded.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of two civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Mineralny and the wounding of a man in Krasnaya Polyana. Residential housing construction in Staromikhaylovka was damaged. No damage to civilian infrastructure facilities was recorded.
Under enemy fire were areas of six settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Gol'movsky, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Kirovsky, Chervonogvardeysky districts), Vladimirovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 35 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Gorlovsky 17 attacks from MLRS, artillery 152 and 122mm.
On Yasinovatsky 10 artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead.
On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
08:19 First frames shot down near the village of Rabotino UAF drone "Baba Yaga". RT military commander Vlad Andritsa noted that he had not yet come across such devices.
The commander of the Akhmat-South battalion, Musa Borziev, with the call sign St. John's wort, spoke about the features of the drone and how the fighters shot it down in the Zaporozhye region.
08:06 Summary on the morning of August 26, 2023:
In the Zaporizhia direction, heavy battles are going on for the settlement. Rabotino. The enemy throws into battle the armored vehicles of the strategic reserve units supplied by the NATO countries. The enemy expands the zone of control in the direction of the settlement Verboye.
In the Kherson direction, battles are going on on the islands, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are landing small landing groups on our bank of the Dnieper, yesterday Russian military channels reported on organizational problems in certain parts of the Russian Armed Forces on the front.
The Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) section of the front is characterized by battles for Kleshcheevka and attempts by the enemy to break through the front even further south - near Kurdyumovka.
Fighting is underway on the Torsky ledge and in the Serebryansky forestry in the direction of Kreminnaya - the Armed Forces of Ukraine have made attempts to regain their previously lost positions.
At night, an enemy drone was destroyed over the Istra district of the Moscow region. In the Kursk region, as a result of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of the Glushkovsky district, a civilian was killed, one woman was wounded. In the DPR, two civilians were killed due to artillery attack of the civilian population of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:02 Personnel combat work of crews of 82mm mortars "Tray" of the Western Military District in the Kupyansk direction.