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Current information on the situation on the front line: February 13 (updated)
2024-02-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 02/13/2024 to 00:00 02/14/2024.

A total of 41 cases of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
One civilian was reported killed; another person was injured.

DAMAGED:
Five residential buildings
Two civil infrastructure facilities

A total of 13 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction

A total of 27 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction

One artillery attack in the Yasinovat direction

A total of 141 units of various ammunition were fired.

21:06 RF Ministry of Defense publishes personnel combat work of the 152mm Msta-S howitzer crews of the West group of forces in the Kupyansk direction.

19:50 Su-25 attack aircraft crews inflicted missile strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold.

Skirting terrain at extremely low altitudes, the pilots launched S-13 unguided missiles using a pitching maneuver. The interference created by a large number of enemy electronic warfare stations did not prevent the attack aircraft from successfully completing their combat mission. Forward air controllers confirmed the destruction of the target.

18:49 Today, in the area of the settlement of Tsukurino in the DPR, the Russian army launched a missile strike which crushed APU column.

Destroyed:

– Two infantry fighting vehicles;

– Four trucks with ammunition and equipment;

– Two minibuses and 4 pickup trucks with personnel;

– warehouse of military-technical equipment;

– up to 30 enemy manpower.

18:40 Personnel of a destroyed Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Rabotino in the Zaporozhye direction.

18:30 Successful night work of snipers of the 336th Motorized Rifle Brigade -video.

18:02 A Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked a civilian car in the suburbs of Lysichansk today, a woman was wounded.

“A family of three, including a minor boy, was traveling by car in the suburbs of Lisichansk. An enemy drone dropped explosives on a civilian vehicle,” the press service of the LPR Government reported, citing the head of the Republic’s Ministry of Health, Natalia Pashchenko.

The woman has multiple shrapnel wounds to the head, chest, right lower limb, as well as a 1-2 degree thermal burn to the face.

The victim was taken to the Severodonetsk hospital and received all the necessary medical care.

17:56 It is reported that the Russian army has advanced in the Chasov Yar area, occupying several oporniks.

17:10 Telegram channel “Welders” writes:

“About the same time as the attacks on Selidovo, a missile attack on Konstantinovka began.

A Russian missile strike destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition warehouse 3 hours ago. It's still detonating.

Also in Konstantinovka there were rotational brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

We didn’t even have time to get to LBS.

Mobile refrigerators were also spotted among the ambulances and corpse carriers near Selidovo.

The usual tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command are to hush up real losses and delay payments.”

16:48 The Ukrainian military reports regular massive airstrikes on Novomikhailovka in the DPR.

16:10 It is reported that today the Russian army launched another extremely successful attack on Ukrainian reserves in Konstantinovka. From there they were going to send them to Avdievka.

15:56 It is reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces continue to carry out massive air strikes on Avdiivka and Chasov Yar.

15:46 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in Odessa.

15:25 The Russian army launched another massive missile strike with cluster munitions at a training ground near Selidovo. The strike took place in the evacuation zone.

15:05 A serviceman of the reconnaissance unit of the “Southern” group of forces spoke about the peculiarities of the combat work of BMP-3 crews on the front line, as well as about the most memorable destroyed target -video.

14:22 The landing force advances on Chasov Yar, storming a number of powerful enemy strongholds.

13:57 Telegram channel “Reports and Analytics of the North Military District” reports the situation in Selidovo after a massive attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces:

The city is completely closed to entry and exit; there are many ambulances and corpse trucks near the landfill. According to the channel, the enemy’s military leadership is completely at a loss. The number of losses is in the hundreds.

According to preliminary data, it was the 3rd assault brigade “Azov”, which was supposed to go to relieve the Avdeevka garrison, that fell under this distribution.

Our troops used several Iskander OTRK missiles with a cassette part and added the 300mm BM-30 Smerch MLRS, also with a cassette part.

13:40 Ukrainian resources report further advance of the Russian army in Novomikhailovka (DPR).

13:37 As a result of artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kremennaya, three civilians were killed. A young man was injured. He was taken to a medical facility in the city of Rubezhnoye with a mine-explosive injury, said LPR Health Minister Natalia Pashchenko.

The minister also noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the area of ??the local hospital. The dead people were not far from the medical facility when the artillery attack occurred.

The administrative building of the city hospital was damaged. Glass shattered on the third floor in the surgical department. The doctors were not injured during the shelling.

13:26 It is reported that in the Rabotino area, operators of anti-tank missile systems of the 42nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division shot down a Ukrainian helicopter.

13:20 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the residential microdistrict of Kremennaya, said Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry on special assignments for crimes of the Kyiv regime

Residents report at least three “arrivals” in the residential sector. As a result, there are damaged buildings.

12:54 Kherson direction, settlement Krynki. As a result of a short battle, an enemy landing attempt was stopped -video.

12:53 From 11:30 today there is a powerful attack on the Selidovo training ground.

The first stage involved the use of cluster munitions for 20 minutes.

Soon the Ukrainian military arrived to collect and transport the wounded and dead and immediately came under new cluster fire.

As of 12:40, artillery attack and detonation of ammunition continues.

12:31 Avdievka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces decided to take advantage of the darkness of the night and quietly rotate soldiers from the 9th quarter.

The plan was not bad, but our intelligence copied them. As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had 13 dead, proving that evacuation was impossible.

11:40 Significant advances of our forces are reported in the plantings west of the village of Artemovskoye (Khromovo), just south of the Popovsky forest. The width of the offensive flank in the direction of Chasov Yar is steadily increasing.

11:11 Mi-28 crews completed hit of unguided aircraft missiles at the enemy control center and armored vehicles in the Donetsk direction. The forward air gunner confirmed the destruction of the target.

10:42 Situation in Avdievka on February 13:

The main part of the fighting continues to develop from three directions: from the side of the sand quarry towards Industrial Avenue, from the southeast to the northwest from the industrial zone into the depths of the private sector, and also from the south to the area of the Zenit position at the former air defense base (military unit A1428), where the boiler gradually begins to close. A significant part of the car depot and the neighboring industrial zone (including a metal structures plant) is still behind the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The plan for delivering a cutting strike, judging by the progress of the assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces, has not changed and continues to be executed as originally planned.

Statements about the blocking of Avdiivka, heard since yesterday, are still premature. For a physical blockade to take place, assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces need to occupy the intersection of Industrialny Avenue and Privokzalny Lane. There are difficulties with advancement in the area of the Donetsk filtration station, which is still held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This position is critically important for the eastern flank, since its “folding” will lead to a straightening of the front and increased attacks from the Russian Armed Forces.

There really is a shortage of “roads of life”, and it feels like it has become much more difficult for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to rotate not just between Avdievka and the Lastochkino-Orlovka section, but also within city blocks. In general, this indicates a violation of the command and control system and a growing shortage of people and ammunition.

Due to the fact that heavy equipment can no longer safely move between Avdiivka and Orlovka, all military cargo of the Ukrainian Armed Forces again fell on “mosquito logistics” - unarmored pickup trucks, which previously became the last nail in the coffin of the Ukrainian group in Artyomovsk. It was also used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Zaporozhye and on the Vrem'evsky salient with an equally natural and inevitably negative result.

About two months passed between the beginning of the use of “mosquito logistics” and the retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Artyomovsk, but in Avdeevka, the roads around which are controlled not only by artillery and Ka-52 helicopters, but also by operational-tactical aviation with FAB-500 adjustable bombs, events are developing much more faster.


10:35 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10:30:

Despite the low clouds and periodic bursts of rain, the enemy is actively conducting reconnaissance from UAVs. Artillery is operating along the entire section of the front, conducting harassing fire, and also artillery attack planned targets.

Near Rabotino, the Russian army continues to attack the enemy. In the Novoprokopovka area, our fighters successfully advanced and captured several strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

At Verbovoy, the Russian Armed Forces are actively putting pressure on the enemy’s defenses. The enemy desperately resists and regularly launches counterattacks. There are oncoming battles
.

10:20 The DPR Representation in the JCCC recorded the release of high explosives from a drone in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka today at 8:00.

10:15 Over the past 24 hours, over Donetsk, Makeevka and Yasinovataya, downed 30 Ukrainian drones.

According to the Defense Headquarters, 9 of these “flying wing” reconnaissance drones were intercepted over one of the rear military units.

10:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:

Units of the “Southern” group of forces successfully repelled 13 attacks by assault groups of the 42nd Mechanized, 79th Airborne Assault, 81st Airmobile brigades and the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Bogdanovka, Georgievka and Belogorovka.

With the support of air strikes and artillery fire, they occupied more advantageous lines and positions.

The enemy in the Donetsk direction lost up to 240 military personnel wounded and killed.

A tank, three vehicles, and two field artillery ammunition depots were hit by anti-tank guided systems, loitering ammunition and artillery.

During the counter-battery fight, two American-made 155mm M777 howitzers and a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.


09:41 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;

-- n.p. Podlesnoye two rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery five rounds;

-- n.p. Solonetz three rounds;

-- n.p. Sergeevka two rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novata Lagerya, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Dnepryan, firing a total of 18 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:25 Front-line report as of February 13 from military correspondent Evgeny Lisitsyn

Donetsk direction:
The Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the north of Avdeevka, where fighting is taking place in the area of ??Industrial Avenue and the railway station. According to received data, the 3rd assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of Azov* fighters, is heading towards the city for so-called “reinforcements”.

Positional battles are taking place on the southern outskirts of the city. Avdievka was practically broken in half during the offensive actions of our fighters. In Pervomaisk, fighters of the Russian Armed Forces attack the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the central part of the village.

Zaporozhye direction:
In the Orekhovsky sector, our troops returned part of the positions northeast of Novoprokopovka. The situation on the Vremevsky salient remains unchanged.

Bakhmut direction:
Our forces are advancing south of Bogdanovka in the direction of Chasov Yar and east of Kleshcheevka. There is also progress in the Andreevka area.

Svatovo-Kremennoe direction:
On the Tor ledge the situation remains without major changes. Our troops are gradually advancing on the outskirts of Belogorovka.


08:47 Military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee recorded artillery attack of the territory of the DPR.

Thus, within 24 hours, the VFU, using 155mm caliber artillery, including with a cluster warhead, fired at the Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, the Chervonogvardeysky and Sovetsky districts of Makeyevka, the Yasinovatsky district and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, and also recorded in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk dropping an explosive object from a UAV.

In addition, there are casualties among the civilian population in the village. Pervomaiskoye, a woman born in 1941 was wounded. and in the village Avdeevka, a man born in 1954 was wounded.

In total, two residential buildings and one civilian infrastructure facility were damaged by artillery attack in the DPR.

08:19 Avdeevskoe direction:

Cards the enemy clearly shows the reasons for the panic among the enemy’s military analysts.

The city is “cut” into two parts, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces complicates the enemy’s logistics in the south-eastern part, many FABs with UMPC are used against enemy positions, and our artillery is working.

At the same time, the enemy puts up fierce resistance, in conditions of limited access to the overall picture, “everyone holds his own position.”

In fact, Avdievka is turning into a new giant fire sack. Heavy fighting is going on.

08:11 FSB discovered cache with weapons and secret documentation of the SBU in Mariupol

An RPG-7 grenade launcher, a PKM machine gun, an AK-74 assault rifle, as well as secret documents were seized from the cache.

The papers have been sent for examination, and additional verification activities are being carried out.

08:04 Crews of Mi-28 helicopters as part of a mixed tactical group using unguided aircraft missilesdestroyedplatoon stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

08:00 Summary on the morning of February 13, 2024:

During the first half of the night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes with Geranium UAVs on enemy targets in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kherson regions. In the Kherson direction there is a hunt for enemy UAV operators, strikes are being carried out on the enemy’s shore, incl. in the Berislav area. There are no changes to the LBS, the enemy holds part of the settlement. Krynki.

On the Zaporozhye Front, enemy resources reported the alleged occupation of a forested field south of Kamensky, which is regularly attacked by our artillery, incl. reactive. Rabotino and Verbovoy have opposing battles.

South of Mar'inka, our troops reached the village. Victory. There are battles in the Novomikhailovka area.

Our troops are developing success in Avdievka, to the south of the Blue Lakes (sand quarry) several hundred meters have been covered with fighting. Fighting is already taking place in the area of the Avdeevskaya motor depot, which is causing decadent sentiments among enemy military analysts.

West of Artemovsk, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the same areas near Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky (Krasnony) and Kleshcheevka. Near Kupyansk there is a battle at Sin'kovka and further south at Tabaevka.

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