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Russo-Ukraine War - 18 September 2022 - Day 207

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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 Russia has launched several thousand long-range missiles against Ukraine since 24 February 2022. However, in the last seven days, Russia has increased its targeting of civilian infrastructure even where it probably perceives no immediate military effect.

This category of mission has included strikes against the electricity grid, and a dam on the Inhulets River at Kryvyi Rih.

As it faces setbacks on the front lines, Russia has likely extended the locations it is prepared to strike in an attempt to directly undermine the morale of the Ukrainian people and government.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk region, organize defense and hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain areas. It fires at the positions of our troops along the contact line, carries out measures to regroup his units in separate directions, introduces reserves and does not stop conducting aerial reconnaissance. Russian forces do not stop striking the homes of civilians and civilian infrastructure objects, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war.

During the day, Russian occupiers launched 3 missile and 11 airstrikes, carried out more than 40 shellings with MLRS on objects on the territory of Ukraine. The infrastructure of more than 20 settlements was affected, including Kramatorsk, Siversk, Serebryanka, Dvorichna, Kamyanka, Spirne, Verkhnyokamyanske, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Neskuchne, Poltavka, Uspenivka, Myrolyubivka, Bilyaivka, and Visokopilya. There remains the threat of air and missile strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissay directions has not changed significantly. In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and artillery, namely:
in the Siversky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Huta-Studenetska of the Chernihiv oblast and Rozhkovichi, Sosnivka and Katerynivka of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - in the areas of the settlements of Hoptivka, Strelecha, Kozacha Lopan, Kudiivka, Vysoka Yaruha, Vovchansk, Hatyshche, Budarky, Kup'yansk and Mykolaivka;
in the Kramatorsk direction – Kryva Luka, Piskunivka, Raihorodok, Bilohorivka, Ozerne, Hryhorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction - Mykolayivka, Siversk, Rozdolivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, New York, Yakovlivka, Zaitseve and Mayorsk;
in the Avdiyivka region – Kostyantynivka, Avdiyivka, Kamianka, Opytne, Pervomaiske, Karlivka and Vodyane;
in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions, about 25 settlements were shelled. In particular, Vuhledar, Prechystivka, Velyka Novosilka, Mykilske, Kamyanske, Zaliznychne and Novopavlivka.

In the South Buh direction, Russian forces inflicted fire damage along the entire line of contact. More than 30 settlements were shelled. Among them are Ukrainka, Myrne, Kvitneve, Novorosiysk, Kobzartsi and Olhyne.

In connection with the lack of human resources to send to the war in Ukraine, measures of so-called "internal self-mobilization" are being carried out on the territory of the Russian Federation. In the Kursk region, under the guise of recruiting candidates for logistics units, and in the Nizhny Novgorod region, in particular, employees of the "Atomohorona" organization - allegedly for the units of protection of important facilities. Candidates who have signed the contract undergo a one-week rifle training course and are immediately sent to the combat zone for replenishment.

In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast, in particular in the Bilovodsk district, a new recruitment to the so-called "units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" has been announced. After significant losses in the battles, most of the full-time employees fled or deserted to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kupyansk, Hoptivka, Mykolayivka Druha, Vesela Dolyna, Odradivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka and Pravdyne settlements.

During the current day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out 20 strikes - it was confirmed that 15 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and strongholds and 4 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were hit. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units destroyed one UAV of the occupiers.

Missile forces and artillery fired at more than 20 enemy targets. In particular, at 7 command and control points and 9 support points and areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment. Ukrainian Air defense facilities and pontoon crossings of the Russian occupiers fell into the affected area.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during a daily briefing reported that the Russian Aerospace Forces hit the personnel of two brigades of Ukrainian troops in the Nikolaev region with high-precision weapons. Enemy losses amounted to over 180 servicemen.

The department also informed about the destruction of up to a hundred Ukrainian servicemen and over a dozen units of military equipment in the Zaporozhye region. In addition, as a result of attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Verkhnekamensky, Disputable, Berestovo, Bakhmut and Zaitsevo (DPR), the enemy lost more than 110 servicemen.

The Russian Aerospace Forces also attacked the places of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Kochetok, Rogan, Doroshenkovo, Velyka Babka and Chuguev (Kharkiv region), as well as Veremiyevka and Mirolyubovka (Kherson region). The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in these areas exceeded 150 servicemen.

The Russian Defense Ministry also stated that during the fighting in the area of the settlement of Zaitsevo (DPR), the 24th battalion of the Aidar national formation lost more than half of its personnel. As a result, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was forced to withdraw the remnants of the unit to Chasov Yar.

The Russian Armed Forces also hit three control and coordination points of missile strikes of the Primorye group in the Shurino area (Mykolaiv region), three command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chervoniy Oskol (Kharkiv region), Pershotravneve (Zaporozhye region) and Seversk (DPR) regions. In addition, the Russian Army destroyed the bases of foreign mercenaries of the American PMC Academi and the Kraken national formation in the regions of Kramatorsk and Nikolaevka in the DPR.

In the Kharkiv region, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which contained more than seven and a half thousand shells for Western artillery systems.

The Russian Defense Ministry also informed that Russian air defense systems shot down 8 drones in a day. In addition, 8 HIMARS MLRS shells were destroyed in the air in the area of Nova Kakhovka and Kherson.

LDNR

The people's militia of the DPR in the evening report reported that since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian formations have fired more than 180 ammunition from the MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane" and BM-21 "Grad", tanks, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155, 152 and 122 mm, as well as 120 mm mortars.

Shelling was carried out in areas of 11 settlements. As a result of the attacks, four civilians were killed and 14 were injured, including three children. Seven housing constructions and five civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

At the same time, according to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR, only as a result of the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Gorlovka, 5 people were killed, three more were injured. Ukrainian militants throughout the day shelled this settlement, as well as Donetsk.

In addition, in the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using the BM-27 Uragan MLRS, hit the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, where Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held. According to RT, the rocket was shot down outside the walls of the institution, but several cluster charges nevertheless fell on its territory. One person died, five were injured, four of them in serious condition. All the victims are fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Lubinets said that Ukraine turned to Russia with a request to provide information about the victims of the shelling of the correctional colony in Yelenovka.

In the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out massive shelling of the city of Svatovo in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR). RIA FAN journalist Sergey Vorobyov was wounded as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the rescuers pulled the man out from under. As a result of the hit of two missiles fired from the American HIMARS MLRS, a small hotel was completely destroyed. In addition, seven one-story residential buildings and a retail facility were damaged.