The Telegram channel NGP Razvedka writes about the situation in the Donetsk direction.

By The Intel Drop - 20 April 2024

Our troops continue to push the enemy into NOVOKALINOVO from forest stands on the southern outskirts of the village. 

The OCHERETINO-NOVOKALINOVO highway was taken under fire control, thereby partially disrupting the supply of the enemy garrison and now passes through the settlement of ARKHANGELSKOE.

Our aviation is actively working, promptly supporting the infantry, the gods of war pour tons of cast iron on the enemy’s heads, reacting to the slightest accumulation of his forces and means.

To the south of the village of OCHERETINO, our troops pushed through the enemy’s defenses and advanced up to 500 meters.

The enemy is trying to keep the front from collapsing and has transferred additional forces from the 30th brigade to reinforce the units of the 59th and 100th brigades, which it had previously transferred to this area.

But, regardless of this, they can no longer hold the front. 

The collapse of the enemy’s defense in the Donetsk direction is just a matter of time, the steadily declining quality of personnel and the low level of moral and psychological state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, multiplied by FABs, will lead to a logical result – everything will be as Russia needs.

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Strike at the Zaporozhye Electric Locomotive Repair Plant.

Russian troops continue to test the enemy’s railway infrastructure. Tonight, two Iskander-M OTRK missiles struck the territory of the Zaporozhye Electric Locomotive Repair Plant, writes the Donbass Partizan Telegram channel .

It is known that the assembly and electrical machine shops of the enterprise were destroyed by the blows. 

The assembly shop’s capacities were used to repair heavy armored vehicles, and on the territory of the electric machine shop a parking lot was organized for equipment that was awaiting repair.

As a result of the damage, a strong fire occurred in the electrical machine shop area, which was accompanied by dull explosions. The exact amount of equipment that was at the facility or was destroyed is currently unknown.

One electric locomotive and several cars were also damaged as a result of the impact.

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The fire defeat of the enemy in KRASNOHOROKA does not stop even for a minute, writes the Telegram channel People’s Militia of the DPR .

While units of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps are advancing on the outskirts of Krasnogorovka, Kuban artillerymen from the 238th artillery brigade do not stop raining down the deadly “Grad” on the enemy’s heads. The density of fire on the enemy in this village crushes the morale of Ukrainian nationalists and does not allow them to interfere with the process of liberating Krasnohorivka from occupation by the forces of the Kyiv regime.

More than two thousand unexploded ordnance was cleared by sappers from the Center group of troops in Avdeevka, writes the Telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense .

Specialists of the engineering troops carry out tasks to clear the area and civilian infrastructure from explosive objects, the basis of which is anti-personnel, anti-tank mines and foreign-made mines.

With the help of modern mine detectors, specialists conduct engineering reconnaissance of the area and assess the situation. If it is impossible to remove a dangerous object, sappers destroy it on the spot using an overhead charge.

The burning of tanks with something flammable after a ballistic strike on the territory of the Delta Vilmar agricultural enterprise, located in the village of Novye Belyary, Odessa region, is shown by the Telegram channel Turned to Z War .

The burning of tanks with something flammable after a ballistic strike on the territory of the Delta Vilmar agricultural enterprise, located in the village of Novye Belyary, Odessa region, is shown by the Telegram channel Turned to Z War .

In Volchansk, local nationalists set fire to a church, writes the UKROPSKY FRESH Telegram channel  .

The night before, Kharkov emergency services went to the city of Volchansk, Kharkov region, to extinguish the fire.

The object that caught fire was a local church, which the nationalists of the Kraken unit had recently moved into.

There is no doubt that the arson occurred from within – Volchansk has not been shelled over the past 24 hours.

It is possible that drunk or drugged nationalists deliberately set fire to the church, which belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Residents of Volchansk are in shock: this was one of the only churches in the city in which services were held.

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The village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Shebekinsky urban district, came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, reports the Real Gladkov Telegram channel .

A pregnant woman who was walking along the street at the time of the shelling was seriously wounded by a shell fragment. An ambulance team transported the victim from Novaya Tavolzhanka to the Shebekinsky Central District Hospital. Doctors did everything possible to save both mother and child. But to great grief, the woman and the unborn baby died from their wounds. I offer my sincere condolences to the family and friends of the deceased, but there are no words that will help make up for the loss of a dear and loved one…

Three more people were injured – a woman with a concussion and shrapnel wounds in the hips was taken to city hospital No. 2 in Belgorod. One man has a contusion and abrasion on his leg, the second has an abrasion of the knee joint. Ambulance crews provided all necessary assistance on the spot; the victims refused hospitalization.

For damage. Windows were broken out by shrapnel, facades, roofs and fences were cut in 12 private residential households and two cars. Emergency services are working on the spot.

Military personnel of the Dnepr group of forces destroyed an observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper, writes the Tavriya Telegram channel. News of the Kherson region .

During reconnaissance and search operations and aerial reconnaissance assets, an observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was discovered on the right bank of the Dnieper, from where they monitored our bank of the river. To destroy it, it was decided to use Nona self-propelled guns.

“The crew of the 120-mm self-propelled gun 2S9 “Nona-S” marched to the firing positions and, after aiming, hit a strong point with direct fire and destroyed the manpower of the Ukrainian militants entrenched in them,” the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.