10:20 Fighters of the Aydar National Battalion equipped firing positions right on the territory of the Orthodox Holy Dormition Monastery of St. Nicholas in Nikolsk. About 300 civilians and monks were held hostage.
9:44 A heating main in Yasynuvata was damaged under shelling by Ukrainian troops, 2.7 thousand subscribers were left without power supply – DPR defense headquarters.
9:13 Air defence forces intercepted already the fifteenth Tochka-U missile over the republic. Ukrainian militants used Tochka-U missiles in the direction of Shakhtyorsk, as they did yesterday. It is noted that debris from the downed missile fell in the vicinity of school No 1.
8:50 The media report that as a result of the shelling in Yasynuvata, apartment buildings and private houses on Mashinostroiteley Street, B.Khmelnitskogo Street and Molodezhnaya Street were damaged. There were 2,700 subscribers without electricity. The heating main was broken. All the emergency services eliminate consequences of the fire. No casualties.
8:43 The cathedral mosque “Akhat Jami” in the north of Donetsk is damaged by AFU fire. It is located on Marshal Zhukov Avenue in the Kuybyshevsky district of Donetsk. The mosque has repeatedly come under fire from Ukrainian fighters.
The JCCC reports that shelling from the direction of the AFU was recorded:
08:20 n.p. Marinka – Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 4 shells of 122mm calibre were fired.
08:10 Krasnogorovka – Staromykhailivka: 14 120-mm mortars fired;
07:30 Avdiivka – Yasynuvata: 8 shells of 122 mm calibre fired;
07.20 There was shelling from the direction of Verhnetoretske (north) to Panteleimonovka: 6 mines with a calibre of 120mm were fired – JCCC.
7:00 The JCCC reported that three shelling of three LPR settlements was recorded by Ukrainian armed formations. One residential house was destroyed, 3 houses, a farm building, secondary school No.12 and a DN-57 mm medium pressure gas pipeline were damaged in Irmino. Fifteen subscribers were left without gas supply.
Military report of the LPR. Situation on the line of contact on March 13 (updated)
