Voenkor "Magician" about the situation in the DPR
The summary states, in particular:
“Recently, attempts to penetrate small groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the gray zone have become more frequent. The task is under the cover of mortar and artillery shelling, to secretly penetrate the gray zone, gain a foothold, wait for the reinforcement of manpower and fire weapons. After that, heavy armament and equipment are pulled up. This is of course, if we do not notice them and we will not cover them.
11 July, Monday.
Shelling continued on Sunday evening.
In 01: 00 began mortar shelling of Staromikhaylovka, the dilapidated brick factory suffers again. The APU also worked on our positions with the memory.
Around 3 in the morning, a group of five Ukrainian soldiers was seen spotting the DNR, located north-west of Yasinovataya, trying to enter the gray zone. After a short battle in the gray zone, three Ukrainian soldiers remained to lie. The speakers of the ATO in the daily summary of these losses and failed another attempt, of course, did not mention.
But this night, it was not the only hot section of the front. We also had losses:
- one dead and eight wounded in the area of Promka Avdiivka;
- one was wounded by fragments of mines in the airport area;
- three of the wounded were north of Gorlovka;
- one dead west of Dokuchaevsk.
Early in the morning, the gunners of the DPR worked out on clusters of manpower and equipment with short artillery attacks.
In 05: 00 and 07: 00 in the Marinka-Krasnogorovka line.
In 07: 30 and in 08: 30 in the line Sands - Skilled - Water. It is also reported that on the southern front, near Dokuchaevsk, Yasinovataya and Gorlovka, as well as on the Svetlodar direction, the artillery of the DNR army also made short artillery strikes on the batteries and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Before lunch it was quiet, only ours worked on 10 projectiles in places of a congestion of manpower and equipment.
The 15 watch was spotted ukrov assault group north of the airport. As soon as they began to unload weapons from trucks, our gunners worked on them. The calculation of the command of the APU, was apparently taking us by surprise. Our managed to cover several Urals, which came attack aircraft. The soldiers of the APU had only time to unload, as our mines and shells began to fall in their positions. As a result, the APU has five 200-x and seven 300-x, two of them hard. The remaining dozens of soldiers after the shelling were in a state of shock. Of course, after such a shelling, there could be no talk of any assault operation.
In the evening, during a fire contact in the area of Novotroitskoye village (south-west of Donetsk), the 1 subunit of the 30 battalion of a separate mechanized brigade attempted reconnaissance by force, but was stopped by the fire of the DPR army, and subsequently rejected to their original positions.
The result of the clashes were the loss of the APU up to seven people killed.
Late in the evening 20: 50 started a fight, as usual a small-arms battle under the cover of mortars.
20: 50 north of Gorlovka in the villages of Zaitsevo and Golmovsky also started fighting and mortar duels. In the area of the villages of Molochny and Lozovoe, dill took up positions and got a new mini-boiler. Our every day it is treated with art and mortars.
With 21: 10 APU north of Gorlovka hooked arta.
22: 20 began the battle on the western outskirts of Donetsk. Also under shelling Mineral.
23: 20 began shelling Gorlovka from the south-west. APU work out quarterly. 10 minutes one quarter, then the next, and so on.
00: 00 fighting continues with the use of armored vehicles in the area of Staromikhailovka and YPG.
Over the past day we were shot at 531 times. Losses APU per day 12 people killed. Only in the hospital in Kharkov received 16 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12 July, Tuesday.
00: 10 from the side of Dzerzhinsk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are attacking Gorlovka with 122-mm shells. Work two howitzers. 01: 35 battles to the west of Petrovsky district continue.
05: 10 and in 07: 30 a short DNR artillery attack along the Water-Avdiivka line. As it turned out later, early in the morning of July 12, from 5 to 7 hours, the command of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a reconnaissance of the area adjacent to the front line. Here our intelligence found out about this event and caused a short art strike.
Until the evening it was quiet.
In 19: 20, the village of Zaitsevo began to take Ukrainian mines of 120-mm.
21: 20 district Staromikhaylovki battle - sniper, machine guns, 82-mm and 120-mm mines.
22: 40 Petrovsky District under fire from the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
23: 20 Areas of Staromikhailovka and Petrovsky District continue to suffer from shelling.
23: 20 on the line Spartak - YAPG also firing 120-mm mines.
With 23: 40 Petrovsky district under heavy shelling, several APU batteries work at once.
Our republic fired 324 times this day.
One soldier died and two others were injured, two people died peacefully among the population and two were injured. At the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 12 injured soldiers were admitted to Kharkov hospitals.
13 July, Wednesday
Terrible shelling of the western suburbs of Donetsk continues
00: 50 our artillery began to give an answer. Several batteries are working at once for the mortar and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which bombard the Petrovsky District and Staromikhaylovka.
Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts are partially without electricity, in other areas the light flashes. Despite the fact that one o'clock in the night the fighting is getting stronger. Petrovsky district, Staromikhaylovka, YAPG.
Before 03: 00 people sat in basements and listened to heavy shells falling on their homes.
Morning and day were quiet.
In 18: 50, the battle began in the area of the village Zaitsevo, using armored vehicles. The 13 battalion, the 58 th ombre, attempted to break through our positions deep into the night. Losses made 9 killed and 7 wounded.
From 21: 10 on the southern front, along the Kominternovo-Sakhanka line, there are fights. The Nazis from the punitive bat "Azov" bombarded the positions of the BCH. The OSCE refuses to go and record to that area in the evening, responded that they are monitoring the situation online via webcams.
22: 10 Zaitsevo is already three hours under fire. The APU is promoting assault groups under the cover of mortars and equipment.
22: 30 Petrovsky district and Staromikhaylovka under mortar fire, also used APU BMP-2. The 1 th battalion of the 30 th Ombre also tried to break through our orders deep into the night, but having lost four dead and seven wounded, they retreated to their positions. Again, Petrovsky district without electricity.
23: 00 Yasinovatsky traffic police post under heavy arty fire.
During the day, the territory of the Republic was fired 449 times.
In all, 2 soldiers and one civilian (75 years) died, two civilians were injured.
APU lost 13 killed and 11 wounded only in two directions of night battles. In Kharkov, 11 received wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And I notice that this is only Kharkov, but there is also Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Kiev and other cities.
14 July, Thursday.
As you are used to reading my reports, evening shelling smoothly passes after midnight on the following day.
1: 10 civilians in the capital of the republic continue to hear the shelling of the heavy arty of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Petrovsky district.
1: The 10 battle continues in the north of Gorlovka, in the Zaytsevo, Golmovsky and Nikitovka areas.
In the afternoon, in the center of Donetsk, part of the Kalininsky district was cordoned off due to the message about the laid explosives. In 13: 00, the evacuation of residents from residential buildings began.
In 19: 40, the Gorlov direction has revealed a sad summary. In the area Zaitsevo shooting and mortar shelling.
19: 40 in the southern direction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing on the positions of the BCH to the west of Kominternovo from mortars, small arms and armored vehicles.
21: 00 APU began to use artillery in the same direction. In principle, the standard - small, then mortars and later art.
21:00 shelling of Zaitsevo continues, a couple periodically crawls out tanks T-64 and are firing at our positions.
22: 00 position BCH around Gorlovka under fire, both from the north and from the west and south. Before midnight, the Gorlovsky front and southern direction thundered.
During the day, the republic was fired 485 times.
Our loss is one soldier was killed and one was wounded, and one civilian was also wounded. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have any information about the dead, 10 wounded soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces entered the Kharkov hospitals.
15 July, Friday.
Till the morning continued shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Around 04: 00 residents of Petrovsky district and Staromikhailovka began to leave the basements and inspect their homes. Until late in the evening, the republic lived a peaceful life, maybe the heat began to influence the insane soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces?
In the afternoon, our artillery covered the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Marinka.
In 20: 00, Petrovsky District, Gorlovka, a sniper works for civilians, periodically flying in a pair of 120-mm mines. This situation stretches to 22: 20 battles and shelling began to grow. In the area of promka Avdiivka, the battle began with the support of mortars and infantry fighting vehicles.
23: 10 in the southern direction, our art works on the mortar battery of the battalion "Azov" in the area Shirokino.
23: 10 Staromikhaylovka under shelling of 122-mm and 152-mm shells of Ukrainian artillery.
23: The 15 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened artillery fire on the YPG (traffic police station Yasinovatsky).
During the day, the republic was fired 423 times.
Two civilians injured. One sapper was killed and one was wounded in the 16 battalion of the 5 th ombbr while working with a mine, three more were seriously injured when a mortar barrel broke during shelling of the positions of the DPR army.
In total, 9 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in Kharkiv.
16 July, Saturday.
The second hour of the night, but our war does not stop. Staromikhaylovka, YaPG, Zaitsevo. Rifle and mortars.
During the day under Marinka, the DPR army set up an ambush on the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was taken prisoner.
In 16: 10 over Donetsk worked off air defense. Distinct cotton heard in the central areas of the city.
On Saturday, the APU began shelling later on 3 hours than usual.
21: 05 Zaitsevo Rifle, AGS, VOGi (grenade launchers).
21: 05 Petrovsky District under fire from machine guns and mortars.
21: 05 started fighting and mortar duels.
22: 10 from the side of Svetlodarsk heavy art of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked on the positions of the DPR army in the area of Uglegorsk.
22: 15 southward battle continues, art. Ours are trying to crush mortars APU east Shirokino. Above Donetsk, Makeyevka, Gorlovka, the big activity of the UAV APU.
23: 00 Gorlovka immediately from three directions under fire. Petrovsky district of Donetsk two hours under shelling of mines and shells. YPG is also under heavy shelling of the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces The shelling calms down only for short 10 minutes, and then again residential areas are heavily bombarded.
00: 00 for the fourth hour is shelling the positions of the VSN at all hot spots - the southern front, Petrovsky district, Staromikhailovka, YPG, Gorlovka.
Shelling from ACS from the direction of Lomakino - Lebedinskoe, Talakivka is especially strong.
For the first time this week, missile launches are detected. Last week was one evening near Avdiivka when, according to 10 RS, the APU issued on our positions. This time in the southern direction, short packets on the 10 RS APU were issued for our positions in the Kominternovo region.
During the day, the republic was fired 700 times. One DPR soldier was killed and one was wounded, two civilians were also wounded. APU lost 12 killed, 1 captured, 23 injured. The Kharkov hospital received 23 wounded.
17 July, Sunday.
Hour of night, shelling on the same sectors of the front - the southern front, Petrovsky district, YaPG and Gorlovka. Work mortars, art and equipment APU. Ours are responsible for 10 shells. Save or are afraid to break the Minsk agreement.
05: 50 Gorlovka from the south under fire.
In the morning and in the afternoon the heat is in the shade up to 38 degrees. On the front is quiet.
From 17: 50 started all over again. Suburbs Gorlovka under fire.
22: 30 from the side of the sand shelling from small and mortar our positions at the airport.
By the way, last week and this week there was practically no hearing of this area. Arta practiced, but she was far away in the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but small arms and mortars had not been heard in the Sands area for a long time.
23: 20 Zaitsevo under heavy mortar fire
In 00: 00, a UAV was shot down over a Petrovsky district. After that, SU began to cover us with mines.
The Republic was fired 711 once a day. Wounded 3 civilians. Kharkiv hospital received 20 wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Summary.
As you can see from the report, there are fewer areas of shelling, and more battles in the same directions. Also, more often, we began to give an answer.
Separately, I want to say to the "smelters", we are not drained and merged! We have introduced a ruble zone, Russian businessmen are massively buying apartments from us in the center of Donetsk, as well as retail chains. Russia helps in all directions, starting with monetary aid and ending with various gifts that cannot be talked about.
All patience and health! ".
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