LDPR summary: situation on contact line (March 16, updated)
11:02 More than 20,000 volunteers, including from the United States, have proposed to participate in the operation in the Donbass on the side of the DPR – the head of the republic, Denis Pushilin.
11:00 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired more than 170 ammunition on the territory of the DPR. They used MLRS, 122 mm artillery, 120 and 82 mm mortars, and tanks. 15 settlements came under fire, 11 residential buildings and 12 infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:52 The People’s Militia of the DPR began to storm Avdiivka and Maryinka.
10:41 The forces of the People’s Militia of the DPR took control of the settlements of Mikhailovka, Stavka, Botmanka, Vasilievka in a day and are fighting for Verkhnetoretskoye.
10:41 The forces of the People’s Militia of the LPR, continuing offensive operations, are fighting in the city limits in the northwest, northeast and east of the city of Severodonetsk.
09:49 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Pantleymonovka in the DPR. They used 120 mm mortars and fired four rounds of ammunition at the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
09:38 A Ukrainian shell hit a residential building in Vasilievka (DPR). Under the rubble are people, two of whom show no signs of life.
09:37 Ukrainian sources massively report that the ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are supporting the operation to capture Mariupol with fire.
09:36 The Russian Federation handed over new weapons and equipment to the People’s Militia of the DPR: BMP-3, cars, night vision systems, bulletproof vests and unloading for fighters. In addition, trophy equipment recaptured from the Ukrainian Nazis was also adopted.
09:33 The grouping of Ukrainian militants in the still occupied part of the LPR has been dissected. The forces of the republic divided the Kiev punishers: some of them are surrounded in Rubizhne, where a cleansing is already underway, and some are in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. The enemy has significant losses.
09:30 The People’s Militia of the LPR entered Rubizhne. Now there is a cleansing of the city and the evacuation of the civilian population. This morning, the defenders of the republic have already been able to take out of the city about a thousand people. All of them were delivered to the rear of the LPR and provided with everything necessary.
08:58 Ukrainian punishers fired at the settlement Dacha – settlement Golmovsky: 6 shells with a caliber of 122 mm were fired; Novomikhailovka – Yelenovka settlement: 5 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
08:45 A grouping of Ukrainian security forces in the west of the LPR has been dissected and destroyed, writes the Telegram channel “Reports of the Novorossiya militia”. The group in Severodonetsk/Lysichansk is surrounded separately in Rubizhne. Units of the People’s Militia have already entered Rubizhne and are conducting a liberation battle. Civilians are simultaneously being rescued. The neo-Nazis have significant losses and those who do not lay down their arms will obviously be finalized.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of the settlement Troitskoye- settlement Mikhailovka: 10 mines in 120 mm caliber were fired; Troitskoye – Panteleimonovka settlement: 4 mines of 120 mm caliber were fired.