Ispan wrote:Today's briefing: covers yesterday evening and the morning and various other interesting reports and analysis on tactics, casualties, and results
https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/03/21/parte-de-guerra-21-03-2022-1200-horas/
Thanks again. Don't forget guys that my translations do not include any maps etc that Ispan may have included.
Map of military operations and the situation on the fronts on the evening of March 20
Do not try to find changes in the borders of the fronts, today they are not on our map.
But this does not mean that the fight has been put on pause. The troops advanced on the Donetsk front (Eastern Front) and in the Kiev region (Southern Front), but this is simply not visible on a map of this scale. The Russian Army completes the defeat of the Nazi battalion "Donbass", and the forces of the 53rd and 54th Ukrainian brigades. The troops advanced 12 km deep, reached the Nikolskoye border, and together with the DPR forces blocked Sladkoye from three sides. All this is in the direction of the village of Kurakhovo (central Eastern front).
In addition, it is worth noting powerful attacks in the area of Nikolaev, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv and Kiev. It so happened that in some places the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin to surrender en masse. For example, the Ukrainian servicemen of the 14th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine today massively laid down their weapons in the Kopylov area. In Mariupol, more and more territory is being liberated from the Nazis. More precise information is not yet available. But in fact, it remains to take the main hornet's nest - a factory turned into a fortress. After that, there will be little left to do. We hope that the destroyed city is about to be liberated, full of hell, and a humanitarian catastrophe is taking place.
Other reports - Donetsk-Vechernee
Events on the fronts for the afternoon of the 20th
Kharkov front. Positional battles. Reliable sources say that the Russians occupied the Kharkov suburb of Saltovka, from where artillery strikes are being carried out to suppress the fire positions of the Ukrainians in Kharkov. The situation is similar near Chernihiv and Sumy.
The Donbass front. The enemy is trying to counterattack in Mariupol and in the direction of Rubizhne, however, without achieving much success. In Mariupol, this is explained by the hopelessness of the situation of the surrounded group, and in the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk-Rubizhne triangle, attempts are being made to slow down the offensive and distract as many Lugansk militia forces as possible.
The main events on the front are taking place in the Izyum area, where the most intense battles are taking place with an unclear outcome. In other directions, we have occupied the city of Uglegorsk, and there is a slow advance and with hard fighting towards the rear of the defending group. Moreover, for some reason inexplicable to me, the enemy does not withdraw his troops at the threat of encirclement. Intense fighting is taking place for Marinka, the assault on Avdiivka did not give results, it is being shelled by artillery and aviation.
South front. In the direction Nikolaev unchanged. In the north, fighting is taking place several tens of kilometers from Krivoy Rog and Zaporozhe. There is no progress and activity is low.
Information field. The enemy resorted to terror tactics in the liberated cities, and a car of local pro-Russian activists was shot in Kherson. There are dead and injured. In addition, pro-Ukraine demonstrations are continuing in Melitopol, Berdyansk and Energodar. The reason for this phenomenon is obvious: clear plans for these territories are not implemented and articulated. Moreover, there are no attempts (apart from relying on the old elites) to organize and arm the local population by creating a militia. Practically no filtering and operational support of the territories is carried out.the destruction of people by a terrorist attack or a rocket attack to destabilize buildings.
As for the situation in the Kiev region, it is as follows. To the west of the capital, the Russian Forces continue to move towards Makarov and Byshev, the control zone around Borodyanka is also expanding, and are ongoing battles in the area of Bucha, Irpen, Romanovka and Lyutezh (see the detailed map here).
To the east of Kiev, the Russian Armed Forces are concentrating on the approaches to Brovary and Boryspil. On this return, the picture has not changed for several days. At the same time, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Forces fears that in the near future new advances towards the capital will begin.
At night a missile hit the area of the Retroville shopping center. The blast wave blew out the windows of houses within a radius of several hundred meters.
At first, Ukrainian sources said in unison that the enemy was hitting civilian targets. However, later on the network there were videos of a fire in the area of the shopping center where the explosions of ammunition can be heard. It was evidently an ammunition depot. Also in the photos of the scene you can see photos of artillery ammunition pods for the 203mm caliber Pion guns
Subsequent investigations have determined that the shopping center was a firing position of multiple rocket launchers of the Ukrainian artillery
Video surveillance footage shows the departure of rocket shells from the Ukrainian side at 22.07 local time. At 2246 hours, the firing position and the ammunition supply point in the Sports Life were destroyed by an attack by the Russian Armed Forces.
The situation in Mariupol
From the official Russian communique:
- the worst humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded in Mariupol as a result of the anarchy organized by Ukrainian nationalists;
– every day from 80 to 235 innocent citizens die at the hands of the Nazis – these are terrible statistics only for the last three days, and these are exactly the people who are trying to get out of the city on their own, the militants just shoot at them;
— as a result of the adoption of effective measures over the past three days from the home of terror and tyranny, organized in the city of nationalists in Russia, managed to evacuate 59 304 people, as well as 139 foreign citizens;
– 130 thousand civilians and 184 foreign citizens from six countries are currently being held hostage in the city;
– the Russian Federation from 10:00 am GMT tomorrow, March 21, opens humanitarian corridors from Mariupol in the East and, according to the Ukrainian side, in the western areas;
– every citizen of Mariupol and a foreign citizen is guaranteed the exclusively voluntary choice of any of the humanitarian corridors or the right to stay in the unblocked city;
- we send an official appeal to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, whose representatives we invite to accompany the practical activities of this humanitarian operation.
Note: the Kiev regime has refused to surrender the city or allow evacuation. Proving once again that Western Ukraine has nothing to do with the Russian population of the East and that Ukrainian soldiers are occupiers who do not care about the lives of Russian civilians.
Chronicle from the Kiev front - Komsomolskaya Pravda
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27378.5/4560756/
Summary of Cassad 20 Marzo
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7506798.html
Today, 21 March
Summary of Strelkov – 08:00 horas
Ugledar - as of last night – is mostly under the control of the DPR and Russian Forces. The enemy, it seems, did not consider this relatively small village suitable for long-term defense as a "fortress". Several smaller settlements are also occupied in this area, but Kurakhov, the center of enemy defense and the main rear center of the entire Donetsk UGRIC group, is still far away.
On the outskirts of Donetsk, near Avdiivka and Marinka, heavy fighting, in general, the situation has no significant changes in our favor. Donetsk, Horlivka, Makiivka and beyond are periodically subjected to heavy shelling. Fighting continues near the town of Verkhnetoretskoye (Artem). The situation there is still unclear, except that the city itself is still in the hands of the enemy.
Severodonetsk-Lisichansk-no significant breakthrough of the armed forces of the LDNR has yet been reported.
Izyum-yesterday fighting continued in the southern part of the city and in the area of the village of Kamenka, located on the Izyum-Slavyansk highway. If Kamenka is taken, the Ukrainian garrison defending the southern part of Izyum will find itself encircled. Maybe I already am. It was reported about the gradual advance of Russian Forces to the south and southwest from the bridgehead in the specified area.
I have no data on significant changes in the front line near Gulai-Pole Zaporozhye. There is information about the advance of Russian troops to the southern outskirts of Krivoy Rog, but, given the huge length (about 10 kilometers) of this city (from the south to the northeast), I do not expect it to be attacked by Russian troops, this will require a lot of troops. Unless the garrison and the authorities decide to surrender (but there is little hope for this).
10:00 OFFICIAL STATEMENT RUSSIAN ARMY (summary)
South-west of Donetsk
Units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced another 4 kilometers overnight and have taken full control of the village of Sladkoye. The scattered groups of the Donbas nationalist battalion are being destroyed.
A group of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic completes the defeat of the remnants of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces advancing towards the settlement of NOVOMIKHAILOVKA.
A total of up to 50 militants, 3 tanks, 4 BMPs, 2 field artillery guns and 4 off-road vehicles were destroyed overnight in the area.
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Russian Defense Ministry briefing (21.03.2022)
In total, during the night in this area was destroyed up to 50 militants, three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two field artillery pieces and 4 off-road vehicles.
️ In the village of Nikolaevka in the suburbs of Kiev, Russian servicemen took control of a protected, buried command post of the armed forces of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, 216 unmanned aerial vehicles, 180 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1506 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 152 multiple launch rocket systems, 592 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,284 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
A planned provocation of Ukrainian nationalists was carried out in the city of Sumy at night which the Russian Defense Ministry officially warned about a few days ago.
