AFU is firing Lepestok anti-personnel mines scattered via MLRS at Donetsk, again. Authorities are warning citizens not to let their children out and to be careful while moving around the city. Even intercepted cluster munitions can still scatter some of their mine payload
Several streets in Donetsk have been closed off due to the mine danger, mostly in Voroshilovsky district, but also around Donbass Arena in Kievsky district & near the children's hospital in Kalininsky district
This area is reported to be the most affected. Locals are marking the mines with branches or other objects they have on hand to warn other people. Several cars have already been damaged. Emergency services are working on removing the danger
(Virtually every single Ukrainian source is currently reporting that 'the orcs are shelling Donetsk with anti-personnel mines to blame the Ukrainian military', as usual)
Lepestok mines are too small to do any damage to tanks so those can be used for demining.
Demining operations in downtown Donetsk today
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So they're really going with the theory that Russia shelled a prison on DPR territory to kill Azov militants whom they could have just as easily publicly hanged to the thunderous applause of virtually everyone in Russia & half of Ukraine
And then also collected GMLRS debris all over southern Ukraine & brought it to Yelenovka
Several wounded POWs have been saved by Russian medical personnel on site btw. Maybe they'll have something interesting to say later
Uh, the DPR Deputy Minister of Information Bezsonov says that AFU hit the prison in Yelenovka with a HIMARS missile. That's where Ukrainian POWs are held. He says 40 dead, 130 wounded so far
Specifically, Yelenovka is where many of the Azovstal prisoners are being held
RU MOD: "Last night, Ukrainian forces struck with HIMARS missiles at the detention facility near Yelenovka in Donbass, where Ukrainian POWs, including Azov fighters, are held, 40 Ukrainian POWs were killed and 75 wounded, eight employees of the facility were also wounded."
Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson under attack again - some Ukrainian sources are claiming the bridge has been fully destroyed, waiting on visual confirmation of damage
TASS reports that, according to the local military-civil administration, "the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson suffered no damage as a result of shelling of the city by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Tuesday evening".
RIA says that local authorities have told them that "Ukrainian forces tried to strike Kherson for the third time today, but air defense intercepted all missiles"
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Reports coming in that the Uglegorsk Power Station has been captured by Russian & DPR forces, so far unconfirmed.
According to other reports, fighting is still ongoing. Not quite clear as of now what the situation is, but there definitely is/was an assault.
More details coming out: Power Station is not yet captured, but as a result of yesterday's assaults AFU retreated from several important strongpoints around the Power Station & are now encircled, # of AFU soldiers who remain unclear