[NewsFront] 21:30 The situation at the border has changed, but remains tense.
The enemy continues military activity on the border, trying to “spoil” the Russian presidential elections.
The intensity of fighting on the border has noticeably decreased. The enemy is testing our defenses in small groups and regrouping for a possible resumption of offensive operations.
Attacks in the Kursk region in the Tetkino region have weakened, the enemy is pretending to be active in the adjacent Ryzhevka, Sumy region, moving in small groups through the village. Artillery is working on it.
From 15.03. The enemy in the Belgorod region concentrated his main efforts on reconnaissance in force and incomprehensible head-on attacks with small forces, where, when faced with return fire, he retreats with losses, without trying to persist.
Clashes took place in the Grayvoronsk direction; in the Spodoryushino area, the enemy again rode on equipment and tried to organize small attacks, was stopped by fire and retreated with losses.
Along the front line, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to actively use MLRS, attack drones and howitzers, trying to reduce the defense capability of our forward positions.
The movement of equipment continues in the concentration areas closest to the border in the Sumy and Kharkov regions.
Army and operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces continues to carry out strikes, both with conventional FABs along the border, and with controlled FABs with UPMK at places where enemy forces and equipment accumulate in rear areas.
19:54 This is what the battlefield on the border looks like now. In the video, the IX leaders finish off militants from the Kyiv regime. Before the Lancet strikes, the enemy manages to fire a grenade launcher -video.
18:34 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Slobozhansky direction: destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces landing force at Kozinka.
Throughout the night, Ukrainian formations attacked the section of the border near Grayvoron in the Belgorod region, trying to build on the success after the helicopter landing at Kozinka. However, Russian units repelled all attacks and thwarted the enemy's plans.
During the clashes, soldiers of the 2nd Special Forces Brigade destroyed all the enemy forces landed at Kozinka, preventing them from gaining a foothold in the village and waiting for the armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to arrive there. The settlement is under full Russian control.
During the day, Ukrainian formations tried once again to enter Tetkino in the Kursk region, but were unable to reach the outskirts of the village and are firing at it from the adjacent Ryzhevka in the Sumy region. Messages about “battles in the area of the railway station” are again just a common hoax.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces does not stop artillery attack other settlements in the region with artillery and MLRS. Although Russian air defense systems work extremely intensively, some rounds fall on residential streets. Unfortunately, there are casualties - one civilian died in a store in Belgorod, and more than a dozen were injured throughout the region.
Although it is too early to talk about the end of the fighting on the border, the enemy clearly suffered very significant losses in people and especially equipment. At the moment, he has not achieved any military or even media goals.
At the same time, in retaliation for failures, the Kiev regime will traditionally try to “get even” on civilians, continuing indiscriminate artillery attack of cities and villages in the Belgorod region. Which will raise the question of response actions on the part of the RF Armed Forces, especially in conditions when the Armed Forces of Ukraine have partially “used up” their potential in the battles of recent days.
16:27 Russian Army and FSB rebuffed attempts to break into the Belgorod and Kursk regions, destroying enemy equipment and forces.
From March 12 to 15, as a result of proactive and coordinated actions of Russian troops together with the forces of the border service of the FSB of Russia, all attempts to break through the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions were prevented.
Air strikes and artillery fire destroyed more than 550 militants, 16 tanks, 19 armored combat vehicles, including 11 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (USA) and 15 vehicles.
From March 9 to March 15, the troops carried out 50 group strikes with high-precision weapons, MLRS and UAVs on the airfield infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, weapons and military equipment repair shops, storage depots for UAVs and unmanned boats, arsenals and bases of fuel and lubricants. All designated targets are hit.
The locations of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Nazi formations and foreign mercenaries were also hit.
15:40 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group -video.
Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction.
During active operations, the group's units improved the position along the front line and repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Vladimirovka and Staromoisky.
Enemy losses amounted to 128 military personnel, a tank, two vehicles and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
14:35 Fights in Orlovka and half-circle in Semyonovka: situation in the Avdeevsky direction on March 15.
The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to draw up reserves in the Avdeevskoe direction in order to prevent the further advance of the Russian army to the west. The introduction of reserves has only a temporary effect: where the infantry of the RF Armed Forces is forced to take a break, aviation and artillery instantly join in.
Northern flank: Ocheretino - Berdychi. In the Novobakhmutovka area, the 31st Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces received reinforcements. The fighting in this area does not enter the positional phase, since Novobakhmutovka, like nearby Ocheretino, is located on a hill and allows crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ wandering mortars to work on Berdychi.
In some cases, the arrivals are clearly audible, after which there are no more than ten seconds before the mine arrives. Also, the problem with the Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks, which are rolling out of the forest clearings to the west of the abandoned airfield, has still not been resolved. The fire from the tanks is suppressed, but their activity as a whole prevents the infantry from breaking through to the west and taking Berdychi completely.
At the same time, artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces intensified from the south/southwest, which indirectly indicates the strengthening of the 406th Separate Artillery Brigade or the transfer of additional guns to this area. There are no changes to territory control yet.
Center: Semyonovka - Orlovka - Tonenkoe. After several failures in Berdychi (including the loss of M1A1SA tanks), several companies of the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade "Magura" were moved to Semyonovka, including the reserves of the 25th Separate Brigade, which were originally supposed to be transferred to Berdychi. Fresh units entered their positions.
Tactically, the battles in Orlovka and Berdychi complicate the defense of Semyonovka, around which the conditions for forming a semi-circle are being formed, but the decision to abandon the village of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, if made, will probably not be in the near future. Servicemen of the 109th Troops Operation are also actively involved in “meat assaults”. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are also trying to tighten control over the exit from Orlovka through the street.
Elagin and Panskoy and Zoryansky reservoirs. Heavy fighting is also taking place near the intersection of the street. Elagin, Stepova and Novoselov. West of Orlovka, reserve units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already digging in in Umanskoye. Firing positions are also being built near the Uman quarry. Apparently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are digging in in case the front collapses along the Orlovka-Semyonovka line.
The main defensive line, most likely, in the event of an unfavorable outcome for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, will run along the S-051801 Netailovo - Orlovka highway. There are no territorial changes in Tonenkoye: a little more than half of the village is behind the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the western part, including SNT “Sovetskaya Donetsk”, is behind the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
South/southwest: Nevel'skoye - Pervomaiskoye - Krasnogorovka. Despite rumors about the encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Pervomaisky, this has not yet happened. The 55th Separate Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, whose crews move between Galitsynivka and Karlovka, causes a lot of headaches in this area.
The former positions of the Ukrainian army in Nevel'skoye provide great assistance in attacks on the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Pervomaisky. Some of them were restored and used for their intended purpose. The height difference between the two villages is enough to facilitate the work of mortars.
At the same time, Russian troops enter Pervomaiskoye itself from two sides. Infantry and armored groups of the Russian Armed Forces use Maryinsky tactics (a smaller version of bite & hold), cutting off small areas and squeezing out Ukrainian troops from there.
13:17 Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group -video.
The Center group of troops continues to carry out tasks in the special military operation zone.
During the day, the group's units repelled 8 counterattacks by assault groups of the 24th, 47th, 59th Mechanized, 3rd Assault and 78th Airborne Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novogorodskoye, Novobakhmutovka, Berdychi, Semenovka and Orlovka areas.
Enemy losses amounted to 410 military personnel. Three armored fighting vehicles were destroyed, including a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, an AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar and nine vehicles.
22 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by air defense systems.
12:22 Air raid warning announced in a number of regions of Ukraine:
Nikolaev region
Odessa region
Sumy region
Kharkov region
11:30 Summary of Russian Ministry of Defense:
On March 14, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with the border authorities of the FSB of Russia, foiled another attempt to break through units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, this time in the area of the border settlement of Kozinka.
At about 16.30 Moscow time, in order to achieve surprise, a Ukrainian sabotage group of special operations forces militants and foreign mercenaries, using two Mi-8 helicopters, using the terrain features, carried out a landing of up to 30 people on Ukrainian territory, at a distance of one km from the State border of the Russian Federation.
After the landing, the sabotage group secretly moved towards the village of Kozinka, Belgorod Region, located directly at the State Border of the Russian Federation, where it entered several houses on its outskirts.
When attempting to advance deeper into the populated area, Ukrainian saboteurs were discovered and stopped by units of the Russian Armed Forces together with the border authorities of the Russian FSB.
Artillery fire, army aviation strikes and the use of guided aerial bombs inflicted fire damage on the enemy. To exclude the approach of reserves, remote mining of the area was carried out.
Having suffered significant losses, Ukrainian militants began to retreat into Ukrainian territory. A group of saboteurs tried to gain a foothold in one of the houses on Respublikanskaya Street, directly adjacent to the state border, where they were blocked by units of the Russian army.
The remnants of the sabotage group, retreating to the territory of Ukraine, entered a minefield, where they were destroyed.
At the same time, the enemy group, which was moving forward to evacuate wounded and killed Ukrainian saboteurs, was eliminated by the fire of the 300mm BM-30 Tornado MLRS. The total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 50 people.
At present, control over the settlement has been completely restored, and the area where the sabotage and reconnaissance group was blocked has been cleared.
In general, over the past three days from March 12 to 14, troops of the Russian Armed Forces Group “West”, together with the border agencies of the Russian FSB, all attempts by Ukrainian militants to break into the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation were stopped. Attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces units were repelled.
The total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 1,500 militants, of which about 500 were irrevocable, 18 tanks and 23 armored combat vehicles were destroyed.
10:25 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10:00.
At night, due to deteriorating weather conditions, strong winds and rain, aerial reconnaissance by UAV operators on both sides was difficult.
Active work of cannon artillery and missile defense crews continues on the line of combat contact. Strikes are carried out against the positions of enemy field guns and places where troops and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are concentrated.
Soldiers of the RF Armed Forces are conducting oncoming battles; neither side has the full initiative to push back the front line and move forward.
09:47 Criminal Kyiv regimecontinuesto 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. Kakhovka seven rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan four rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka five rounds;
-- at Golaya Pristan settlement four rounds;
-- n.p. New Kakhovka five rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Aleshki, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Velyka Lepetikha, n.p. Podstepnoe, firing a total of 18 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:24 Telegram channel “WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 03/15/2024
– On the Zaporozhye Front, there were oncoming battles on the Rabotino-Verbovoe line. Neither side has the initiative enough to push back the front line. As a result of difficult battles, positions change hands, but it is too early to talk about any changes in the line of combat contact.
– On the Donetsk front there are oncoming battles in the area of Novomikhailovka Pobeda and Nevel'skoye. As a result of the assault actions, the Russian Armed Forces were able to advance in Krasnogovka. In Pervomaisky and Georgievka, despite the desperate resistance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops also continue to advance slowly but surely, squeezing Ukrainians out of these settlements. In Tonenkoye, Orlovka and Berdychi the battles are also predominantly of a positional nature, but the Russian Armed Forces strive to improve their positions at every opportunity.
– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, positional battles in the area of Kleshcheevka and Ivanovsky (Krasngo).
– On the Lugansk front, the Russian Armed Forces repelled a counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ternov area and carried out assault operations in Belogorovka. In the last settlement, Russian troops have tactical successes.
– In the Khar'kov and Sumy directions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are expanding the scale of the offensive, trying, with the support of armored vehicles and artillery, to break through to the border in the Tyotkino region in the Kursk region and in the Sdaryushino and Kozinki region in the Belgorod region, simultaneously striking at the territory of the regions using long-range weapons.
Despite the most adventurous and risky maneuvers, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not achieve any tangible successes. The equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian troops are destroyed mainly on the approaches to the border territory. The enemy is suffering significant losses without making progress, but the fighting on the border continues and in the near future their activity will only increase.
08:54 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of March 13 – 14, 2024
– Ukrainian formations have been trying to penetrate Russian territory for three days. There are battles in several areas in the Belgorod and Kursk regions; the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not allowed to advance.
– In parallel, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched massive UAVs at various targets in Russia. The targets of the attack were oil infrastructure and military airfields.
– 50 km from the front line of the Russian Armed Forces caught two Ukrainian Armed Forces helicopters. The devices were immobilized with cluster munitions and then hit with a rocket.
– Russian forces are pushing through enemy defenses in the Tern area. The enemy lost several positions in the gullies east of the village.
– Positional battles continue in the Belogorovka area. The sides are conducting counter attacks, but without much success.
– But to the west of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Armed Forces are successfully advancing. Russian forces managed to strengthen their position in the private sector of Ivanovsky.
– The Russian Armed Forces resumed attacks west of Avdeevka. After repelling the counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the advance began again.
– Some success has also been observed further south, in the vicinity of Krasnogorovka. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the city and neighboring village of Pervomaiskoye.
08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC:
Five facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
There were no reports of civilian casualties.
No damage to residential buildings or civil infrastructure was recorded.
One artillery attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction.
Four attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 16 units of various ammunition.