On the evening of September 17, in Kherson, Russian security forces neutralized a group of armed persons, TASS reports citing a representative of the operational services.
“A group of armed persons who resisted was identified.
The Russian security forces promptly went to the place and neutralized the criminals.
There are no victims or injured among civilians.
At the moment, the shooting has ended,” he said.
At the same time, the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region added that no significant material damage was caused to the city and its inhabitants.
Initially, the Vesti Krym TV channel reported that a counter-terrorist operation was taking place near the Kherson railway station.
American media - about the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass
The Ukrainian military is suffering heavy losses in the Donbass, as a result of which they are forced to retreat, writes The New York Times, citing one of the Ukrainian soldiers on the front line.
“The Ukrainian military is suffering heavy losses in the Donbass, and the Russians are storming us every day,” the source said.
According to him, Russian military personnel, together with units of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, are gradually knocking out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from their positions.
In addition, he pointed to Russia's superiority in artillery, noting that concentrated fire strikes inflict heavy damage on Ukrainian troop groups.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a video with captured Ukrainian servicemen.
So, one of the prisoners of war named Bohdan stated that the Ukrainian military suffered heavy losses.
Zaporozhye region
In the Zaporozhye region, unreliable citizens began to be expelled to Ukraine for their subversive activities.
This was announced by a representative of the Russian law enforcement agency.
“On Saturday, four people were expelled from the territory of the Zaporozhye region, who were conducting pro-Ukrainian propaganda, contributed to the disruption of the educational process in the schools of the Melitopol region, and also prevented the work of citizens with the military-civilian administration,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
It is specified that one of the deportees carried out activities to destabilize public security.
At the same time, the other used administrative resources to organize and conduct unauthorized rallies, provided financial support to the media that promote terrorist and sabotage activities in the Zaporozhye region.
“Ukraine continues to show itself as a terrorist”
The Kyiv regime continues to conduct terrorist activities.
This was stated in his video message by the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin.
“Ukraine continues to show itself as a terrorist, and terrorists must be destroyed.
This also applies to the Ukrainian regime as such, so it is absolutely fair that now the methods and approaches of the allied forces are starting to change significantly,” he said.
According to him, the village of Dibrova and the village of Shchurovo near the city of Krasny Liman are not under the control of Ukrainian troops, but the situation in this direction is difficult.
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“The most difficult section remains, of course, the Krasnoliman direction: Krasny Liman, Yampol.
Taking into account the approach of reinforcements, the enemy has now minimized the work of sabotage groups and switched to shelling these settlements with artillery, ”the head of the DPR emphasized.
Summary of the DNR and LNR
In total, over the past day, the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic was shelled 45 times by the Ukrainian military, who fired 211 units of various ammunition, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine used 155 and 152 mm artillery, 120 mm mortars and tanks.
“Under enemy fire were areas of eight settlements of the republic: Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kalininsky, Kirovsky, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts), Zaitsevo, Gorlovka, Novobakhmutovka, Yasinovataya, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district), Yelenovka, Dokuchaevsk,” the official information summary of the JCCC DPR.
It is noted that as a result of the shelling, nine civilians were killed in the Voroshilovsky, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka.
At the same time, 17 people received injuries of varying severity, including a girl born in 2014.
“44 housing constructions in Voroshilovsky, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Makeevka and Gorlovka, as well as eight civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged,” the report says.
The official representative of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, said that during the offensive, the Ukrainian military lost up to 40 personnel, two armored personnel carriers and three units of special vehicles.