[NewsFront] 23:56 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC on December 23, as of 00:00, 74 cases of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces were recorded.
Information was received about the injury of 14 civilians in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, Pavlovka.
A total of 17 residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Tsentralno-Gorodsky, Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
Districts of six settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), Yasinovataya, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Pavlovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 29 attacks from AGM-88 HARM, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cluster warhead, an attack UAV.
At Gorlivske there were 41 artillery attacks from MLRS, 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Yasinovatsky there were three artillery attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
At Volnovakha one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 256 units of various ammunition were fired.
A previous 16 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.
22:10 A series of explosions were heard in the city of Zaporozhye controlled by Ukrainian troops, said the head of the Zaporizhzhya movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov in his Telegram channel.
21:17 Consequences of arrivals at Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Kherson this evening
A critical infrastructure facility was damaged, said the head of the Kyiv-controlled Kherson Regional Military Administration, Alexander Prokudin.
19:30 Motorized rifles are training to capture enemy strongholds
Military personnel of motorized rifle units of the Vostok group of troops hone their skills at training grounds located in the rear zone of a special military operation on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
After completing combat missions on the front line, the units continue training to capture strong points and positions, long-term firing points and dugouts of the enemy.
Assault squads, under the guidance of experienced instructors, who have more than one successfully completed combat mission behind them, automatically hone all possible options for actions and situations that can occur in a real battle.
During training at the training ground, combat groups storm, clear and then hold enemy dugouts and trenches, practice first aid and evacuate the wounded from the battlefield.
These trainings help fighters understand each other almost without words, and most importantly, minimize personnel losses in real combat.
19:00 Tanks of the Tiger battalion of the 255th Motorized Rifle Regiment continue the offensive beyond Mar'inka after the liberation of the village -video.
18:30 Frontline reports: North of Kurdyumovka, the Russian Armed Forces took the forest belt from Ukrainians.
18:00 Reportage from RT about the work of a platoon of reconnaissance UAV operators of the 9th Brigade, 1st Army Corps in Piski near Donetsk.
17:25 Front bird broadcasts: Artemovskoe direction, northern flank
The first confirmation from the enemy side about our consolidation in the village of Bogdanovka, which practically flows into Chasov Yar. The operation to capture Chasov Yar is in full swing.
16:30 Front bird broadcasts: Donetsk direction (DPR) 23.12
It is reported that our artillerymen struck with 152mm gunfire at the deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces troops in the area of the settlement of Druzhkovka (temporary occupation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine) and Ivanovka.
Heavy mortars are also used.
We systematically knock out the enemy.
15:20 APU continue to terrorize civilians in the border regions of Russia.
In the Belgorod region, a drone attacked a bridge in the Grayvoronsky urban district while repair work was being carried out there. As a result of the incident, three workers were injured.
The victims are provided with all necessary medical care. At the moment, the condition of one of them is assessed as serious, the other two are of moderate severity.
There were also artillery attacks in the neighboring Kursk region. In the Glushkovsky district, the enemy fired more than 40 rounds at the village of Alekseevka.
Residential buildings, administrative buildings and power lines were damaged. One of the residents died after a direct hit on his house.
UPD: also in the Belgorod region, the settlements of Kozinka and Mokraya Orlovka were under fire. Several houses were damaged, but no one was injured.
14:50 According to operational lines of The DPR representative office in the JCCC on December 23, as of 14:00, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
Five civilians were injured of varying severity:
– as a result of the release of high explosives from a UAV along the street. Biryuzova, 15, women born in 1966 and 1966, men born in 1970, 1970 and 1972 were wounded.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- on the street Rybatskaya, 8, a man born in 1964 was wounded.
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- on the street Pavel Tychina, 25, wounded, man born in 1973.
Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
– st. Doronina, 10 – direct hit in a private residential building with subsequent fire.
n.p. Yasinovataya:
– st. Pavel Tychyna, 25 – private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka:
Nikitovsky district:
– st. Rybatskaya, 2, 6, 8, 12 – private residential buildings.
Central City District:
artillery attack at 11:55:
– st. Gottwald, 92, 93 – gas pipeline damaged;
– st. Nesterova, 73 – private residential building.
artillery attack at 13:15:
– st. Pushkinskaya, 72 – multi-apartment residential building.
14:20 Footage of the work of the assault group of the rifle battalion to capture the enemy stronghold -video.
14:00 Fighting near Avdievka: 110th Brigade attacks trenches and dugouts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, breaking into enemy defenses
The skill of the UAV operators of the 110th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps is impressive - covering distances at an extremely low altitude, the drones of the Russian Armed Forces “at low level flight” accurately throw explosives at the Ukrainian Nazis in the trenches and dugouts -video.
13:35 Russian Ministry of Defense: a soldier of the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who surrendered spoke about the “street” mobilization and the situation in Ukrainian units
One day, when Pavel Koshchenko was leaving work, representatives of the territorial recruitment center stopped him, they checked his documents and immediately took him to the military registration and enlistment office. At the same time, Koshchenko’s phone was confiscated, without even giving him the opportunity to call his family. After passing the commission, the mobilized was sent to a training ground near Dnepropetrovsk. “We dug trenches, there was medical service a couple of times, and once we went to shoot,” says a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
Colleagues in the unit immediately told Koshchenko about the heavy losses. “When I joined the unit, the guys said that there were a lot of KIAs and wounded, mostly mobilized. They are immediately sent to zero. And the brigade has been in position for almost a year and has not changed. And the entire personnel has already changed,” says a captured serviceman of the 79th Airborne Reconnaissance Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Pavel Koshchenko noted that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine often deployed those mobilized from the eastern regions of Ukraine to the forefront.
“Well, they consider us, immigrants from the eastern regions, to be second class. We are simple, hard-working people. And they consider themselves an elite, close to the West,” the serviceman noted.
When Koshchenko’s unit was thrown into combat positions, the military personnel were not provided with communications, food, or ammunition. He and his colleagues lasted only three days at the position. They then ran out of ammunition and food. The prisoner says that they were not given a radio station to communicate with the command.
“There were five of us in the house. For two days we were well “ironed” with artillery. Three people were killed among us, one (...) was wounded. I do not know them. We were collected just before departure. But I know for sure that everyone was mobilized,” says the prisoner of war.
Finding themselves in a hopeless situation, Koshchenko’s group decided to surrender. “Your people came up and offered to surrender. We surrendered,” he added.
13:00 Frontline reports: overnight the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the Artemovsk direction, more than five kilometers.
12:30 Front bird broadcasts: Kupyansk direction. 23.12
Intensification of artillery duels is reported.
The enemy fired an MLRS.
Fortunately, the whole bag is covered in milk.
Our 152mm 2S19 MSTA-S self-propelled guns hit the enemy after receiving aerial reconnaissance data.
We fight.
12:00 Crews of 152mm Msta-B howitzers inflicted fire on Ukrainian artillery on the right bank of the Dnieper
As part of the counter-battery fight, the personnel of the crews of the 152mm Msta-B howitzers inflicted fire on artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine identified by reconnaissance. Several shots destroyed the positions of the Ukrainian 152mm howitzer D-20, camouflaged in the area of the village of Belozerka, Kherson region. The crews also destroyed the positions of the mortar crew on the banks of the Dnieper.
Thanks to the high-quality work of the artillerymen of the Dnepr group of forces, the Ukrainian Armed Forces units on the right bank of the Dnieper in the last week alone have lost over 20 vehicles and lightly armored vehicles, as well as more than 10 field artillery guns -video..
11:30 Front bird broadcasts: At night, a traditional strike was carried out using the Geranium UAV on the enemy military airfield in Starokonstantinov.
10:55 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 23.12 10:50
Tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces identifies enemy positions for high-precision strikes.
The sound of an explosion was reported.
10:25 Criminal Kyiv regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Krynki 20 rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka five rounds;
-- village of Novaya Mayachka three rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan five rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka six rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha seven rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Proletarka, n.p. Aleshki, firing a total of 27 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:40 Frontline reports: West of Mar inka, the Russian Armed Forces occupied a forest belt in the direction of the village of Pobeda.
09:20 Telegram channel “Two majors“: Summary for the morning of December 23, 2023.
– During the night, the enemy reported 9 “Geraniums” in the sky over Ukraine. Explosions were heard in the area of the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region, as well as in the Cherkassy, Odessa and Kherson regions.
– In the Kherson region, the Russian Army lost Su-34 aircraft yesterday. The enemy prepared an ambush for military pilots who had been carrying out missions along a similar route for weeks and shot down our planes with air defense systems. A combination of factors led to the tragedy, including the lack of interaction among the flight units with a separate reconnaissance brigade and obtaining a complete picture of the positioning areas of enemy air defense forces before departures. Fighting on the ground continues near Krynki.
– On the Zaporozhye Front, in the Rabotino-Verbovoye sector, small assault groups with armored vehicles from the 82nd separate air assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces undertook attacking actions. The attacks were repelled by small arms and artillery fire. Our aviation is working, FAB and UMPC are being used.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction they report the advance of our troops in the direction of Ivanovsky (Krasny). The zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces north of Kleshcheevka is expanding, and fighting is taking place near Bogdanovka.
– On the remaining sectors of the front there are local battles, the initiative is in the hands of the Russian Army.
– The enemy attacked UAVs in Zaporozhye, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga and Moscow regions yesterday. The use of UAVs with jet engines is noted. In the Belgorod region, the outskirts of Shebekino, as well as the village, were shelled. Terebreno, Krasnoyaruzhsky district, power lines were damaged. In Donetsk (DPR), seven civilians were injured from Nazi fire
08:45 Telegram channel “Fisherman“: chronicle of a special military operation for December 22, 2023
– Russian troops attacked Ukrainian infrastructure and military facilities several times a day. Explosions were reported in Odessa, Nikolaev, Khmelnytsky and Kyiv regions. In addition, last night the Russian Armed Forces interrupted a meeting of the Ukrainian command with Western instructors in Mirnograd with an accurate hit.
– Ukrainian formations were also not idle and once again tried to attack the rear regions of the Russian Federation. Russian air defense intercepted several drones in the Bryansk, Kaluga and Moscow regions. At the moment, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' raids are not widespread and are carried out to test the waters for a massive UAV attack.
– Fierce fighting continues along the entire line of contact at the fronts. In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, Russian troops were able to take control of the Zverinets fortified area and continued to develop the offensive at the Pobeda-Novomikhailovka line.
“Meanwhile, in the Kherson direction, fighting continues at Krynoki, where the Ukrainian command is actively transferring additional forces. There were some sad events: today Russian Su-34s were ambushed in the Chaplinka area. According to available information, one crew of the plane was saved, the fate of the rest is still unknown.
08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 December 22, 2023 to 00:00 December 23, 2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 16 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
As a result of airborne discharges from UAVs, seven civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
In addition, five employees of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations were injured in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
One residential building in the Central City district of Gorlovka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility, was damaged.
The areas of two settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky, Central City districts), the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 11 attacks from 155mm artillery and attack UAVs.
On Gorlovsky there were five artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
A total of 45 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 39 artillery attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.