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Russo-Ukraine War - 03 September 2022 - Day 192

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On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

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The UK Ministry of Defence reported that since 29 August 2022, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been conducting renewed offensive operations in the south of Ukraine. One element of this offensive is an ongoing advance on a broad front west of the Dnipro River, focusing on three axes within Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast.

The operation has limited immediate objectives, but Ukraine's forces have likely achieved a degree of tactical surprise; exploiting poor logistics, administration and leadership in the Russian armed forces.

With fighting also continuing in the Donbas and Kharkiv sectors, a key decision for Russian commanders in coming days will be where to commit any operational reserve force they can generate.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian forces continue to focus their efforts on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk oblast, maintaining the captured districts of Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv oblast. Offensive and assault operations continue in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas. The Russian military is actively using anti-aircraft defense to cover its troops. Russian forces did not conduct active combat operations in the Kramatorsk and Novopavlivsk directions.

During the current day, 8 missile and more than 10 air strikes were carried out on military and civilian objects on Ukrainian territory. In particular, the infrastructure of the settlements of Peremoha, Husarivka, Bilohirya, Pryshyb, Vremivka, Poltavka, Zaytseve, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Vodyane was affected. Russian forces actively conducts reconnaissance using UAVs.

Feeling danger, Russian occupiers strengthened the administrative and police regime in the settlements located on the banks of the Dnipro River and the protection of the coastline in the temporarily captured areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts. In addition, state companies of the Russian Federation have been presented with new norms for the selection of "volunteers" for the war. Thus, the Russian Railways company received an order to search for up to 10,000 new candidates for a short-term contract among civilian employees.

Also, there remains a further threat of systematic massive air and missile strikes on military and critical infrastructure facilities throughout Ukraine.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. The Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus are conducting a check of the readiness of field communication systems as part of preparations for the command and staff exercises.

In other directions, Russian forces attacked military and civilian infrastructure using tanks, combat vehicles, barrel and rocket artillery, namely:

in the Seversky direction - three settlements in the Chernihiv oblast and one in the Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction - the areas of Krasnopillya, Prudyanka, Ruski Tyshky, Cherkaski Tyshky, Ruska Lozova, Stary Saltiv, Pryshyb, Husarivka, Nortsivka;
in the Slovyansk direction - Karnaukhivka, Nova Dmytrivka, Velyka Komyshuvakha;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Bohorodychne, Raihorodok, Siversk;
in the direction of Bakhmut - Zaitseve, Kodema, Vesela Dolyna, Bakhmutske, Soledar, Bakhmut;
in the Avdiyivka direction - Novokalynove, Berdychiv, Vodiane, Pervomaiske;
in the Novopavlivskyi direction - Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Velyka Novosilka, Paraskoviivka, Zolota Nyva;
in the Zaporizhzhia direction - Shcherbaky, Novoandriivka, Orihiv, Hulyaipole, Dorozhnyanka, Uspenivka, Novopil, Vremivka;
in the South Buh direction, Russian forces carried out shelling along the entire line of contact. In addition, Russian forces conducted reconnaissance with the active use of UAVs, in total - more than 30 sorties.

Units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces hold their positions and prevent the enemy from advancing deep into the territory of Ukraine. The defense forces successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Dolyna, Soledar, Novobakhmutivka, Kodema, Zaytseve, Avdiivka, Maryinka settlements.

During the day, to support the actions of the land groups, the Ukrainian aviation carried out more than 5 strikes during which combat equipment, electronic warfare equipment, anti-aircraft defense and a significant number of personnel were destroyed in the Donetsk and South Buh directions.

Ukrainian air defense units destroyed one helicopter, three UAVs and five Kalibr cruise missiles in various directions.

Missile troops and artillery of the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, disruption of the enemy's control system and logistical support. Damage was inflicted on three command points. One enemy personnel facility was destroyed. Thus, a unit of Russian special forces entered the affected area. Information on losses is being clarified. Also, electronic warfare equipment and ammunition storage were destroyed, which significantly reduced the enemy's ability to conduct offensive actions.

 

The Russian Ministry of Defense during the daily briefing stated that the Ukrainian troops during the previous day continued unsuccessful attempts to gain a foothold in certain areas of the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction. As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 23 tanks, 27 infantry fighting vehicles, 14 other armored fighting vehicles, 9 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and more than 230 servicemen.

In addition, fighter aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft near Sergeevka (Kherson region), and a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force equipped for the use of HARM anti-radar missiles near Novoselivka (Dnipropetrovsk region).

Due to the heavy losses of Ukrainian formations, an acute shortage of beds, medicines and blood supplies is recorded in medical institutions of Nikolaev and the Nikolaev region. In addition, the number of patrols in the city has increased and additional posts have been set up at the entrances to identify and detain the growing number of deserters.

Within 24 hours, the location of the company tactical group of the 95th Air Assault Brigade in Slavyansk (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR) was hit by high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces during the day, more than 100 nationalists and 14 pieces of equipment were destroyed. In the area of ​​​​Konstantinovka (DNR), concentrated fire strikes hit the points of deployment of units of the 93rd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, liquidated up to 120 militants and 11 pieces of equipment.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 53 artillery units, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 157 districts. 6 ammunition depots were destroyed in the Mykolaiv, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv regions and the DPR, as well as the fuel storage of the 60th Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR. A US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) launcher with an ammunition delivery vehicle, as well as up to 30 combat crew members, was also eliminated there.

Russian Air Defense Forces shot down 3 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Bayraktar-TB2, in the DPR and Kherson region. 3 Tochka-U tactical missiles and 60 MLRS shells were intercepted.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that on the night of September 3, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted to land troops on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir near Energodar and Dneprorudny, sending 2 groups of boats and motor boats with a total number of 42 units with a landing force of over 250 people to the specified area. They were hit by the Russian Aerospace Forces, as a result of which 20 boats and boats were destroyed. In addition, Russian artillery hit the Ukrainian part of the coast in the areas of the settlements of Vyshetarasovka and Chervonodneprovka, where the remnants of the landing force came ashore. During the failed provocation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 47 militants killed, including 10 foreign mercenaries, 23 were wounded.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also revealed new details of the activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine. Thus, it is noted that the United States conducted dangerous vaccine trials in the country, which caused serious complications in the subjects. The objects of research were, among other things, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were deliberately infected with Crimean Congo fever, hantaviruses and the causative agent of leptospirosis - these tests were accompanied by an unknown risk to the lives of soldiers.

The department noted that there are more than 50 US-controlled biological laboratories near the borders of the Russian Federation. Their activities are accompanied by a worsening of the epidemic situation for especially dangerous and economically significant infections, as well as the emergence of infectious diseases that are atypical for a particular region. Now, the DoD added, the States are transferring bioweapons programs that have not been completed in Ukraine to other countries of the post-Soviet space and Eastern Europe. In addition, American experts took out of the Research Anti-Plague Institute. Mechnikov in Odessa, pathogens of ulcers and cholera.

According to the Ministry of Defense, Washington is trying to hide witnesses of the American bioprogram in Ukraine from Russia.

"We are seeing the appearance of publications in the foreign press with a nervous reaction from Washington to extremely sensitive documents released by the Ministry of Defense. Journalists note that the American intelligence services are taking unprecedented measures so that the Russian side does not have potential witnesses close to the implementation of closed military-biological projects of the Pentagon in Ukraine, "said Igor Kirillov , head of the RCBZ troops of the RF Armed Forces .

Donbass

The people's militia of the DPR in the evening report reported that since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian armed formations have fired more than 160 ammunition from the BM-21 Grad MLRS, tanks, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155, 152 and 122 mm, as well as 120-mm mortars across the territory of the republic .

The areas of 7 settlements were subjected to shelling. As a result of the attacks, 2 civilians were injured. 18 housing constructions and 6 civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

A batch of textbooks from Russia arrived in Severodonetsk in the LPR. According to and.about. Mayor Nikolai Morgunov , the Russian Federation sent 3,000 books for students in grade 11. Textbooks cover such disciplines as Russian language, literature, history, law, social studies and English.

In addition, Stakhanov's schools also received textbooks from Russia. The Omsk region handed over the first batch of 17,000 books to the city. It is expected that the second part of the shipment, which will arrive before the end of October, will fully cover the need of local educational institutions in educational literature.

Andrey Marochko , an officer of the NM of the LPR , said in his Telegram channel that an American report of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine undergoing training in the UK appeared on the Web. The document says that fire and tactical training is going badly, the military has a low level of morale and motivation.