The People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic published the official report on the situation in the area of Snegirevka on the Kherson front lines.
Yuriy Bukharev, a military correspondent of the DPR People’s Militia: “As you know, the other day the Ukrainian media began actively spreading information about a large-scale offensive on Kherson. In fact, the situation at the front does not look as rosy as they would like. On the overwhelming majority of the front sections, the enemy failed to advance by 1 km or 2, while he suffered very heavy losses in manpower and equipment.
Now we are in the positions of our units in the settlement of Snegirevka. The situation here is difficult. The enemy, angered by the unsuccessful offensive in this area, is actively firing at the city. Civilians are suffering, infrastructure facilities are suffering. At the moment, it is not possible to estimate the preliminary losses of the AFU during this unsuccessful offensive on this sector of the front, but the objective control footage tells us about the heavy losses in manpower and armored vehicles of the enemy.”
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Serviceman of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation call sign “Quiet”: “A very advantageous boundary was for them, 1.5 km from our front line. We heard the sound of the equipment, raised the “bird” and saw that the equipment was coming, advancing. The ir artillery covered them very well, but our artillery also worked well. They lasted 1.5-2 hours and that’s it! We gave them time so they could take their wounded. We saw them evacuated, nobody opened fire on them.”
Correspondent: “Did they take them?”
Serviceman: “Part was taken away. The 200s remain there until now. If they want to take them away, we’ll let them do it.”
Correspondent: “And approximately how many 200s are there left?”
Serviceman: “Approximately? Maybe around 40. Because our artillery and our tanks worked in such a way that they had no chance. D-30s worked, AGS, they were covered there “in full”.
Correspondent: “What do you have in your hands?”
Serviceman: “(Ukrainian) Z-10, sniper rifle. We didn’t study it much, disassembled it, cleaned it. 7.62*51 Win 308 caliber, 20-round magazine, Harris bipod, most likely Japanese sight. Most likely there were mercenaries among them. There were also machine guns, we took everything, but there is nothing left to take from these machine guns and submachine guns.”
Correspondent: “And what lies in front of us?”
Serviceman: “NLAW. One remained until it was handed over, we will study it. In total, we took five NLAWs. When the AFU came in to the boundary, they prepared all the NLAWs, put them in a pile, we saw them and immediately hit them and they are already unusable.
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Yuri Bukharev, military correspondent of the DPR People’s Militia: “Having failed to achieve success in the offensive on Kherson, so widely advertised by the Ukrainian media, Ukrainian militants have again returned to their favorite tactics of artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure.
Behind my back is the destroyed building of the administration of the village of Snegirevka. It was hit by MLRS “Grad”, HIMARS and artillery pieces.
The village is under constant shelling. While we are here, enemy mortars are working here, but they have no progress. Our fighters stopped them and do not allow them to pass on.
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Yuri Barbashov, head of the military-civil administration of Snegirevka district of the Mykolaiv region: “There was an offensive in the Snegirevka area yesterday, it was repelled, as well as in the Alexandrovka direction. This offensive differs from previous attempts, firstly, by involving a large number of armored vehicles, i.e. previously one tank was launched with the support of three BMPs. Many dozens of tanks were involved this time. In addition, there are more forces involved. Previously, such strikes were inflicted by a battalion, with a crossing of the Ingulets river, then the battalion was destroyed. Now we see that the enemy has introduced slightly larger forces. But again, this is not the very announced offensive on Kherson. In fact, Ukraine has not been able to take offensive actions so far. In some areas, on local ones, on the scale of one locality – this is not an offensive.
This is not something that will satisfy their Western partners and it is not something that will change the strategic situation. Therefore, they announce an offensive on Kherson, and then explain that in fact they wanted to deceive the enemy.
Here in the center of the building where my office was located, two shots from HIMARS broke through all the ceilings, the building was destroyed, people suffered from the blast wave, from shrapnel. Three people were injured, thank God the injuries are not serious. It was a terrorist strike aimed at intimidating current and potential employees of the administration.
Apart from the administration building, schools are being shelled now, two schools were destroyed in Berislav before the start of the school year, a demonstrative strike was inflicted on our school. They didn’t hit the building directly, but they showed the availability of their artillery, i.e. 1200 people and 50 tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were lost only in order to intimidate the population of the Kherson region at least on the right bank. In order for them to be afraid to work in the administration, afraid to let their children go to school, afraid to cooperate with our authorities, i.e. this is terror, in its pure, undisguised form.”
