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Current information on the situation on the front line: May 21 (updated)
2024-05-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 05/21/2024 to 00:00 05/22/2024.

A total of 35 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.

Information was received about the death of a civilian, and four civilians were also injured.

DAMAGED:
Two cars,
Nine residential buildings,
One city bus,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.

A total of 14 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 21 attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 109 units of various ammunition were fired.

23:52 Khar'kov region. TARGETAL.

The use of several types of MLRS by our artillerymen and rocket men has been reported. In particular, the 122mm BM-21 MLRS “Grad” and “Tornado-S” worked.

There is also high activity of Russian aviation.

21:35 Russian Armed Forces finish clearing Netailovo -video.

We can say that today Netailovo in the DPR is already completely under the control of Russian troops.

Soldiers of the 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade are finishing clearing the western outskirts of the settlement, flushing out the enemy from their positions using drones.

After the complete liberation of Netailovo, the road to Karlovka, a strategic height in this direction, opens for our troops.

20:51 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Kleshcheevka by forces of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division of the 3rd Army Corps -map.

Fighting in the populated area is still ongoing.

19:47 Fire footage of the “Solntsepek” flamethrower systems and the 122mm BM-21 “Grad” MLRS at the positions of Ukrainian formations in the area of the settlement. Belogorovka –video.

18:27 Spectacular strike by a gliding volumetric detonating bomb ODAB-1500 with UMPC on the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Volchansk in the Khar'kov direction -video.

17:31 Telegram channel "Fisherman":

Bakhmut direction: battles in Kleshcheevka.

In addition to the assault on high-rise buildings in the Kanal microdistrict in Chasov Yar, Russian troops went on the offensive in Kleshcheevka. Fighting for it has been going on since last summer, when most of the village was abandoned by the Russian Armed Forces, and the settlement itself found itself in the “gray zone.”

After the enemy transferred some of the units to the Slobozhanskoye direction, apparently, the Russian Armed Forces had the opportunity to advance in the Kleshcheevka area to the southeast of Chasov Yar.

Today, footage of a Russian tank, equipped with an improvised “barbecue”, driving through the entire village appeared. Despite attacks by FPV drones, the vehicle successfully reached the southern outskirts of Kleshcheevka and returned to its original positions in the north.

Objective monitoring footage also confirms the presence of Russian forces in the center of the village near the destroyed Holy Protection Church: most likely, the main units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated to the dominant heights to the west.

At the Andreevka-Kurdyumovka line there have been no significant changes in the situation over the past few months. Recently, the Russian Armed Forces hit an HMMWV armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Russian assault groups regularly carry out raids in the village. During one of these, they managed to reach the southern outskirts of the village and take several Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers prisoner. At the same time, there is no need to stay for long, since the village is in a lowland, and the forest to the southwest remains under enemy control.

16:57 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of May 21, 2024) –video.

15:25 Special military operation. Situation on May 21 –map.

14:17 Enemy for the first half of the dayconfirmsloss of positions in Volchansk and in the western part of Netailovo. Conversations about stabilizing the front in Volchansk, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces supplemented with two days ago, remained just talk.

12:53 Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group -video.

Units of the Dnepr group of troops defeated the personnel and equipment of the 65th Mechanized, 141st Infantry, 128th Mountain Assault brigades, as well as the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of Stepnoy, Stepnogorsk, Rabotino and Novopokrovka.

An enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group on Pereyaslavsky Island was destroyed.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses amounted to up to 30 military personnel, a tank, nine vehicles, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer.

12:01 Reported about complete control by our troops over the village of Belogorovka.

During the liberation of Belogorovka, they managed to capture captured NATO-made small arms and missile weapons.

11:42 Statement by the head of the press center of the “West” group -video.

Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.

As a result of active actions, the group’s motorized rifle units improved the tactical position and defeated manpower and equipment of units of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade, as well as the 1st Operational Brigade in the Chervonaya Dibrova and Kuzmino areas.

The enemy lost up to 60 military personnel, a tank, an armored personnel carrier, three cars, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.

11:05 Expansion of the zone of control of the Russian Armed Forces in the village of Rabotino -map.

10:33 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/21/2024.

Zaporozhye Front. Positional battles continue northwest of Verbovoy. LBS unchanged. In the Rabotino area, Russian troops, supported by artillery, continue to put pressure on the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Fig. 1)

Donetsk front. There are advances by the Russian Armed Forces in Paraskovievka. There, Russian troops were able to advance in the central part of the village. Urban battles continue in Krasnogorovka. In the Nevelskoye area - no changes.

In Netailovo, cleanup continues on the western outskirts of the settlement. We can say that soon the village will completely come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

The situation is similar in Umansky, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces still retain their presence, but the Ukrainians will not be able to hold back the onslaught of the Russian army for long. Fighting continues on the outskirts of Novopokrovsky, without any major changes. (Fig. 2)

In the Chasovoyarsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to transfer reserves to slow down the advance of Russian troops, who, with the support of aviation and artillery, are storming the first streets on the eastern outskirts of the city. (Fig. 3)

Khar'kov front. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also actively transferring reserves here. There are fierce urban battles in Volchansk. Also, fighting continues in the Liptsov area. In the area of the village of Zelenoe, Russian troops are also carrying out offensive operations in order to remove the “pocket” formed between the groups. (Fig. 4).

09:51 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. Pesknii two rounds;

-- the village of Dnepryany four rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka five rounds;

-- n.p. Korsunka three rounds;

-- 3 rounds in Tavriysk settlement.

As a result of a drone attack on the village. Novaya Mayachka, an Orthodox church and a private house were damaged. In addition, due to mortar fire on the village. Dnepryan 3 people were injured.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Tsukury, n.p. Vasilyevka firing a total of 21 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:24 During last night suppressed an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using the Vilkha multiple launch rocket system and aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Duty air defense systems destroyed one Vilkha MLRS rocket and two UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region.

08:40 Telegram channel "Fisherman":

Chronicle of a special military operation for May 20, 2024

– Russian troops attacked Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in the Nikolaev region, as well as a military airfield in Poltava.

– Ukrainian formations shelled the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic during the day; according to official data, more than ten people were injured.

– In the Slobozhansky direction, Russian troops liberated almost half of the territory of Volchansk. After taking control of the aggregate plant complex of buildings, the advanced groups reached the destroyed bridge on Privokzalnaya Street.

– Data are coming from the Seversky direction about the successful assault by Russian units on the positions of Ukrainian formations in Belogorovka.

– In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, fierce fighting continues on the territory of the Kanal microdistrict in Chasovoy Yar. On the southern flank, the territory of the Stupki-Golubovskie-2 reserve almost completely came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

– In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops are advancing in the Netaylovo area, fighting is taking place in the area of ??Kolkhoznaya and Naberezhnaya streets.

08:00 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC:

A total of 18 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.

Nine civilians were reported injured.

Damaged:

One residential building,

One car,

Two civil infrastructure facilities.

A total of 16 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,

2 attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.

In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 41 units of various ammunition.

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