Voenkor "Magician" about the situation in the DPR
The summary states, in particular:
“This week, the number of shelling of Donetsk decreased, and there was practically no shelling of Dokuchaevsk. Shelling increased on the southern front and on the northern, in the Gorlovka area. The fighting and shelling in the Debaltseve area completely subsided. APU again increased the number of assault attacks of the gray zone and our strong points. There were several such attacks in a week. They began to transfer a lot tanks and artillery.
4 July, Monday.
The heavy shelling, which began on the evening of July 3, lasted several hours and ended almost in the morning. We gave otvetku, but very little and not everywhere. Until three in the morning of Monday, art rattled on both sides. In a strange way, for some reason, Donetsk was not shelled on Sunday. I doubt that the artillery was withdrawn, most likely, there were NZ shells left and waiting for delivery. Until the evening, everything calmed down, unless of course we take into account the standard 2-3 arrivals of mines every 2 hours during the day and the work of our charger (anti-aircraft installations) on the UAV.
In the evening, with 18: 30, shelling began again. The front line Airport - Spartak - YAPG (Yasinovatovsky traffic police post) started a shootout with the support of mortars.
19: The 55 section of the front of the Yasinovatovsky traffic police post began a strong battle - machine guns, sniper, AGS, mines 82-mm and 120-mm mortars, tanks (as an ACS). The militiamen punished one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces sniper, the second was sent for long-term treatment if they were taken to the hospital. In the Petrovsky district the same situation, with the exception of tanks. The positions of the DPR under the Red Partisan are also under fire from mortars and artes.
C 20: 10 APU from three sides began to cover mines and arty mines and the suburbs of Gorlovka.
In 20: Our 50 began to return fire on the APU batteries located west of Marinka - Krasnogorovka. Worked minutes 40.
22: 00 Front Line Airport - Spartak - YPG battle began to intensify, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is working on the full program! The first arrivals of heavy shells began in the Kuibyshevsky district - 1 and 2 platforms, Oktyabrsky and Grabari. The sound of the incoming shells will not be confused with anything, as if scaffolding and concrete slabs are breaking. Ours also respond. Artillery duel. On the horizon, everything sparkles, as if a thunderhead is coming.
On 22: 20, fighting continues on the entire front, from the Novoazovskiy region to Gorlovka. APU began to use more tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Getting into the bus next to the street Stepanenko. Two wounded. Contact with the two-story house and the shop "Constellation". More 40 shells flew through the streets of Stepanenko, Makarenko, Pascal, Narva.
23: 15 heavy arta APU attacks continue. People sit in basements. Work Hyacinths APU. Our answer, than they can, on the positions of the APU glow.
From 23: 20 to 23: 50 another shelling of Grabari (Kuibyshev district). You would see what the local cemetery turned into after the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 00: 00 Punishers fired heavy artillery from the direction of Krasnogorovka in Biryuzova, Lidiyivka (Kirovsky district). The high-pressure gas pipe is broken, there is a strong hum and smell. Ukrainian militants from positions near the station. Dyleyevka and Romanovki are firing heavy artillery at Gorlovka. We were shot at 438 once a day. Kharkiv hospital received 10 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
5 July, Tuesday.
00: 35 Shelling went on a new circle, mines and shells fall in Petrovsky and Kirovsky areas. Every 3 seconds arrives. Ours began to respond to suppression. They called from the southern front, there, too, the whole horizon was on fire, heavy shelling. Northwest of Donetsk, began melee.
In 00: The Donetsk team 50 began to count arrivals again. West and North of Donetsk under hurricane fire. On Avdeevsk promkom started a strong battle, the APU covers the heavy arta on the rear of our positions. They cover with squares, they can not find our mortar batteries to help repel the attacks of the APU.
In 01: 00 became quiet, only the lonely lines of machine guns and the memory broke the silence of the night.
Our intelligence service in the gray zone, in the area of one of the private courtyards of Marinka, found 40 bodies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine military personnel. 60 mercenaries of foreigners arrived in Mayorsk, they do not enter into contact with the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and keep themselves apart. Before lunch it was quiet, again, except for the work of snipers on both sides and a mortar paintball.
From 14: 50 day shelling of 120-mm airport mines.
In 19: 40 began evening shelling of the northern suburbs of Donetsk.
20: 00 APU fired mines Gorlovka, under Zaitsevo fights with the use of technology.
22: 20 started fighting in the Petrvos district (west of Donetsk), all types of small arms, 82-mm and 120-mm mortars, armored vehicles, AGS are working. At the airport - Spartak - YPG mines do not fly intensively.
22: 20 on the southern front of Kominternovo and Sakhanka under heavy mortar shelling. Our mortars also respond.
23: 30 in Zaitsevo fights do not subside, ukry brought into the battle a few units of equipment. Over Gorlovka shot down the UAV.
During the day we were shot at 402 times. Kharkiv hospital received 12 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
6 July, Wednesday.
Until 3: 30 in the morning on the whole front is quiet, except for the Airport and Avdeevskaya promka. The airport is under mortar fire, there is still a battle on the promke. The short mortar (10 120-mm min) was in 5 and in 8 in the morning. It was quiet before lunch.
In 13: 30 on the front line airport - Spartak - YPG strong fighting with the support of mortars, art and armored vehicles. Up until about the 16 clock it rattled there. We thought another attempt to seize the highway Donetsk - Gorlovka.
19: 30 APU began mortar shelling of the suburbs of Gorlovka. South mine under attack. In 21: 30 ukry climbed from the north under the guise of mortars and equipment. Until 00: 00, Gorlovka and YaPG were noisy; there was a lull on the rest of the front.
During this day, 10 GSSR and 128 GCPR suffered losses in the number of 1 killed and 4 wounded. Also destroyed 1 tank and two infantry fighting vehicles. During the day we were shot at 386 times. Kharkov hospital received 6 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7 July, Thursday.
Two people were injured this morning as a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the village of Zaitsevo. In 10: 30 am APU opened fire from mortars. Earlier today at 9 in the morning, the OSCE observers and the JCCC staff came to the Zaitsevo inspection. The shelling of the APU began immediately after they left the village.
It was quiet before lunch. During the day, the DPR anti-aircraft gunners drove a lonely aerial vehicle over the Kuibyshev district. In 14: 30 began shelling of promka and YPG. After that, until the evening it was relatively quiet.
With 18: 50 resumed fighting along the promka and YPG. One of the batteries firing at the Putilovsky Forest (Kievsky District). There are arrivals in the frontal part of the Guard (Makeyevka). In 19: 10 fighting intensified, used all types of weapons - small, to / to machine guns, mortars 82-mm and 120-mm, art and armored vehicles. 19: 10 also, as well as on the APG APU north of Gorlovka, began to use everything they had on hand. 19: 10 The Red Partisan (south-west of Gorlovka) is also noisy, firing, mines, BMP.
21: 00 battles on the promke are only growing. VSU apply SAU and mortars. 22: 00 APU from artillery began shelling Petrovsky district. 22: 10 battles in the suburbs of Gorlovka have not subsided for the past 4 hour. APU imitate attacks from the north and south, the militia’s response is closely monitored by the APU UAV. 23: 30 Without a break from 18: 50 battles and art shelling of Petrovsky district, Airport, Spartak, YPG, Gorlovka in two directions at once.
During the day we were shot at 440 times. The Kharkov hospital received 12 wounded soldiers of the APU of moderate severity.
08 July, Friday.
00: 05 battles continue, the art of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lupit from the area of Georgeevka in the Petrovsky district. Our began to give otvetku on all fronts. Confirmation has come, ours have covered a strong point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces east of the village of Troitskoe, from which 120-mm mines were fired and mortar fire at mines to the west and south of Gorlovka.
01: 30 in the area of Broad Beams (to the west of Gorlovka) shooting, in the north Zaitsevo strong mortar fire.
In 02: 00, 03: 00, 05: 00 flew ten 120-mm mines in the Kuibyshev district. In the morning and in the afternoon it was quiet on the whole front.
From 17: 55 west of Gorlovka, the APU is beaten with long bursts of armored personnel carriers. In 18: 00, the Petrovsky district, without art preparation, a shooting battle ensued, the APU launched an unexpected attack. APU forces up to 10 people decided to move to the western districts of Donetsk. Under the cover of mortar fire and the ACS, the assault team passed 300 meters on the brilliant green and was stopped by the VSN. Leaving several dead on the battlefield, the rest retired.
19: 20 0Saitsevo gunshot from machine guns, AGS and mortars.
19: 20 shelling of Donetsk 2 of the site 120-mm mines.
20: 00 shelling mines YAPG.
22: 00 began arriving 152-mm shells on the block YaPG and Yasinovataya. Fights almost all along the front line around Gorlovka, especially the Ukrainian Armed Forces use arta in the village of Zaitsevo. Everywhere mortar shelling.
On 23: 20, we have battles in the areas of the Airport - Spartak - YAPG. Mortars and equipment are also widely used everywhere.
00: 00 in the south of the republic with 20 hours is a battle with different intensity. Shelling mines 120-mm, SAU 122-mm. After breaking the position of the 122-mm battery, the ACS is now driving on the highway, in the area of the village of Sartana. During the day we were shot at 585 times. We have destroyed 26 houses. Kharkiv hospital received 16 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
9 July, Saturday.
00: 20 is another round of shelling of Gorlovka, the mines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fall on the northern villages.
Before lunch, quietly, in 15: 25 in Donetsk, we heard two explosions in the air, perhaps working off air defense.
In 19: 50, battles began in the west and north of Donetsk - Petrovsky and Kuibyshev districts. Fighting in the north of Gorlovka, in the villages of Zaitsevo and Golmovsky. Rifle, mortars, machine guns and armored vehicles.
Until 21: 00, the battles in Donetsk and Gorlovka did not stop. Dokuchaevsk has been resting for several days from shelling, and on that day there were no shelling in promka.
21: 20 Airport - arrival of four 120-mm min. 22: 05 Airport - six arrivals 120-mm min. 22: 30 Airport - Arrivals 120-mm Min.
23: 30 battles continue in Donetsk and Gorlovka without interruption for several hours with different intensity.
10 July, Sunday.
The shelling does not stop! In 01: 50 a dozen 120-mm mines fell in my area. 02: 00 shelling continues, we began to give otvetku. VSU make short artillery attacks on the airport - Spartak - YPG. In Gorlovka, after a heavy shelling of the sleeping area, there are wounded among civilians.
Until the evening, all the villages and towns of the DPR rested from the shelling, there was a heavy downpour for several hours.
In 18: 20, battles and shelling began to the west of Donetsk - Petrovsky district and Staromikhaylovka. There are several mortars 82-mm and 120-mm. Periodically crawled BMP, until it was puffed, went under its own power back to the landing. Near the hospital in Marinka, something strongly smokes, maybe the house, and maybe that BMP burns out.
18: 30 Gorlovka under mortar fire. Our answer.
20: 30 Fight in Avdeevskoy promke. Our sniper worked several soldiers APU, ukry immediately began to cover the squares of mortars.
20: 40 north of Gorlovka under heavy mortar fire, also operates in the private sector of the APU tank. Gorlovka is attacked by small assault groups from the north and south under the cover of mortars, artes and several pieces of equipment.
21: 10 southern front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (marines) conduct mortar fire on our trenches to the west of Comintern.
21: 35 Gorlovka suffers from shelling. Almost from everywhere fly mines and shells. From the side of Dzerzhinsk shells of 152-mm shells are flying. Last week there was already covered the battery. Shelling is conducted by the battery every 20 minutes for each residential quarter.
22: 15 According to Comintern, they beat out heavy arta. From 22: 50 under shelling of YPG, once in 20 seconds. arrival of heavy projectile. Minutes after 10 began to subside.
So ended the next week of the "night war".
All patience and health! ".
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