DPR fighters are fighting in the center of Marinka, knocking out a well-fortified enemy from administrative buildings.
Footage from a copter is published by military correspondent Denis Kulaga, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A journalist is reporting near the destroyed building of the education department of the Maryinsky District Council.
In addition, according to yet unconfirmed information from military correspondent and militia member Alexander Matyushin, DPR troops reached the building of the Maryinsky Executive Committee and began storming it.
“If these data are confirmed, then a maximum of two weeks remain before the fall of another enemy defense center in the Donetsk direction,” Matyushin writes in his tg channel.
In addition, according to information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, cases of desertion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are noted in certain areas.
“In the Marinka region of the DPR, due to heavy losses and lack of ammunition, more than half of the servicemen of the 3rd battalion of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces voluntarily left their combat positions and left the combat area,” said department spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
VGTRK military correspondent Andrei Rudenko talks about the general progress in this direction, where the main goal is to completely cut off Avdievka from supplies and the possibility of rotation.
“After taking Pesok, our units reached Vodyanoye, are fighting for Pervomaiskoye and are approaching Nevelskoye. The capture of these villages will make it possible to block Avdeevka from the western side.
In order to slam the cauldron, our units must advance in the Gorlovka area and block Avdiivka from the north, it is squeezed head-on from Donetsk and Yasinovataya.
An enemy fortified area was taken north of Gorlovka on the way to the southwestern outskirts of Artyomovsk. There are assaults in the New York area and a battle for the liberation of Zaitsevo,” the military correspondent told RT.
The defenses in the Ugledar area were also breached, as a result of which the Maryinka-Ugledar road was cut off. Today's battles were preceded by the capture of the key waste heap of the mine in Marinka. Thanks to the occupation of this height, DPR fighters gained fire control over the territory.
“The offensive in Donbass is developing without haste, and therefore without unnecessary losses. The enemy's artillery and personnel are being systematically destroyed, and supply routes are being cut off. As soon as there is an understanding that the enemy has been squeezed out in the direction, our attack aircraft enter there and liberate the populated area,” Rudenko explained.