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Russo-Ukraine War - 19 September 2022 - Day 208

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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 highly likely lost at least four combat jets in Ukraine within the last 10 days, taking its attrition to approximately 55 since the start of the invasion.

There is a realistic possibility that this uptick in losses is partially a result of the Russian Air Force accepting greater risk as it attempts to provide close air support to Russian ground forces under pressure from Ukrainian advances. Russian pilots’ situational awareness is often poor; there is a realistic possibility that some aircraft have strayed over enemy territory and into denser air defence zones as the front lines have moved rapidly.

Russia’s continued lack of air superiority remains one of the most important factors underpinning the fragility of its operational design in Ukraine.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to focus its efforts on the organization of defense and holding the captured territories, attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast, as well as disruption of the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain areas. It fires at the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, takes measures to regroup his units in certain areas, introduces reserves and does not stop aerial reconnaissance.

There remains the threat of air and missile strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine. During the day, Russian forces launched 4 missile and 9 air strikes, carried out more than 11 MLRS attacks on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, laws and customs of warfare.

The infrastructure of more than 24 settlements was damaged. In particular, these are Siversk, Kramatorsk, Serebryanka, Bilohorivka, Spirne, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Novomykhailivka, Stepove, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolayiv, Oleksandrivka, Olhivske, Sukhyi Stavok, Myrolyubivka and Petrivka. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In other directions, the enemy inflicts fire from tanks, mortars and artillery, namely:
in the Siversky direction - in the area of Mykolaivka settlement of Chernihiv oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - in the areas of the settlements of Ivashki, Hoptivka, Huryiv, Kozachok, Kozacha Lopan, Kudiyivka, Kamyanka, Strelecha, Hlyboke, Kupyansk and Holubivka;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Sviatohirsk, Raihorodok, Serebryanka, Bilohorivka, Sosnove, Mykolaivka, Bohorodychne, Pryshyb and Hryhorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction - Siversk, Verkhnyokamianske, Rozdolivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Odradivka, Vesele, Viyimka, Mykolaivka Druha, New York, Oleksandropil, Yuryivka, Rozhivka, Zaitseve and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiyivka direction - Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Kostyantynivka, Avdiyvka, Semenivka, Opytne, Karlivka and Pervomaiske;
on the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions - Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, Bilohirya, Novoandriyivka, Mali Shcherbaky, Prechistivka, Novomayorske, Myrne, Dorozhnyanka, Nove, Vilne Pole, Stepove, Mala Tokmachka, Novoyakovlivka, Chersovne, Zaliznychne, Malynivka, Pavlivka, Hulyaipilske, Hulyaipole, Novopil and Vremivka.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy was shelling along the entire contact line. More than 30 settlements were damaged by fire. Among them are Snihurivka, Shyroke, Blahodativka, Novovoznesensk, Suhyi Stavok, Myrolyubivka and Olgyne.

Russian forces continue to take drastic measures to keep the situation under its control. The command of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the russian occupation troops held a meeting with the commanders of units and units operating in the Zaporizhzhya direction. According to the available information, at the specified event, attention was emphasized to maintaining the occupied positions and preventing the breakthrough of the Defense Forces deep into the occupied territory.

At the training field near the city of Torez, Russian forces set up a training camp for the training of personnel who arrived from prisons to supplement the units of the 1st Army Corps that suffered losses during the hostilities.

In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast, collaborators and local residents of the Bilokurakinskyi and Troyitskyi districts loyal to the Russian occupiers, who actively cooperated with the occupation authorities, are moving to the territory of the Russian Federation. They are trying to take with them documents confirming their illegal activities as members of self-proclaimed authorities.

During the current day, the units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Mykolayivka Druha, Kurdyumivka and Zaitseve settlements. During the day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces hit 11 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and military equipment, one position of an anti-aircraft missile system and one ammunition depot. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units destroyed the Su-25 aircraft, a guided air missile and three enemy UAVs in various directions.

Rocket troops and artillery inflicted fire damage on 5 strongholds and areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment, as well as 3 ammunition warehouses of the occupiers. The total losses of the enemy are being clarified.

The facts of damage to Russian personnel and facilities for September 18 of the current year in the Zaporizhzhya region have been confirmed. 10 artillery systems, 5 units of military equipment and Russian personnel were destroyed in the specified direction. According to available information, more than one hundred servicemen were injured.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation during a daily briefing reported that the RF Armed Forces liquidated more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, Nikolaevka, Seversk and Toretsk (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR).

According to the agency, more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers and militants were killed by strikes on Zaporozhye at the base of the nationalist battalion "Carpathian Sich", as well as the shops of the Iskra plant, where HIMARS MLRS installations were serviced.

A high-precision strike on the accumulation of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​Belogorka (Kherson region) destroyed three units of armored vehicles and up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen. In addition, as a result of a massive fire strike by the RF Armed Forces on the point of temporary deployment of the Ukrainian army in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Pershotravneve (Dnipropetrovsk region), the enemy’s losses amounted to more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen killed and more than 50 wounded.

The defense department informed about the destruction of seven command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamenskoe, Vyemka, Zaitsevo (DPR), Poltavka, Charivnoe (Zaporozhye region), Kostomarovka (Kirovograd region), Barmashovo (Nikolaev region).

In the area of ​​​​the village of Aleksandrovka (Kherson region), Russian air defense systems shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force. Also during the day, 14 Ukrainian drones were shot down in the air in the DPR, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

In addition, a briefing was held today by the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the RF Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov. According to him, Kyiv tried to curtail the US bioprogram in 2013, but succumbed to pressure from Washington.

He recalled that from September 5 to 9, a meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons was held in Geneva in connection with the violation by the United States and Ukraine of Articles I and IV of the document. During the meeting, Washington and Kyiv did not answer the question about the reasons for the urgent destruction of documents on military biological activities in the "square", although the United States acknowledged the fact that samples of pathogenic strains and biomaterials of citizens were exported from the Eastern European state. At the same time, the American delegation in Geneva recognized the conduct of biological research in Ukraine on low-income citizens and patients in psychiatric hospitals, Kirillov added.

DPR

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 170 rounds of cannon artillery with a caliber of 155, 152 and 122 mm, as well as 120 mm mortars, across the territory of the republic.

Shelling was carried out in areas of 12 settlements. As a result of the attacks, 13 civilians were killed, 9 were injured, including three children. One housing construction was destroyed, 11 housing constructions and seven civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

The Public Chamber of the DPR turned to the head of the republic, Denis Pushilin, with a request to hold a referendum on the issue of joining the Russian Federation. The plebiscite is likely to be multi-day. The best date for holding a referendum on joining Russia would be November 4th. considers the chairman of the Public Chamber of the DPR.

Throughout the day, Donetsk was under intense shelling from the Ukrainian forces. In particular, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the square of the Baku Commissars in the Kuibyshev district of the city. According to preliminary data, 10 civilians, including children, were killed. During the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, eight people were also injured, but the number of victims is growing. In addition, according to the First Republican TV Channel, three sellers died at the Sokol market in the Kirovsky district, where a fire broke out due to the shelling of Ukrainian militants.

According to RIA Novosti, the DPR court allowed the father of a mercenary from Morocco, Saadoun Brahim, to defend his son at the trial. Recall that in Donetsk on June 9, three captured foreigners were sentenced to death. Defense Moroccan filed an appeal against the verdict.

LC

The Civic Chamber of the Luhansk People's Republic (LC LPR) appealed to the head of the republic, Leonid Pasechnik, with the initiative to immediately hold a referendum on recognizing it as a subject of the Russian Federation. At the same time, Aleksey Karyakin, chairman of the LPR OP, said that it was too early to talk about the date of the plebiscite.

Prosecutor General of the LPR Sergey Gorenko, who died on September 16 during the explosion, was posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage. He was also awarded the title of Hero of the LNR.

The Supreme Court of the LPR sentenced two former employees of the OSCE mission Maxim Petrov and Dmitry Shabanov to 13 years in prison for treason. The investigation established that the men passed on classified information in the military sphere to representatives of foreign intelligence services, acting to the detriment of the security of the LPR.

Military analyst Boris Rozhin reported on his Telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced into Belogorivka, occupying part of the village, and possibly the entire settlement. At the same time, the expert noted that the settlements of Yampol and Liman in the DPR remain under the control of the RF Armed Forces.