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Russo-Ukraine War - 25 September 2022 - Day 214

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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, on 21 September 2022, high-profile Russian nationalist Duma member Aleksandr Khinstein called for the partial mobilisation of Russia’s military to be extended to the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia).

Rosgvardia units have played an important role in both combat and rear-area security in Ukraine and are currently facilitating accession referendums in occupied areas. The force is intended for use in domestic security roles, to ensure the continuity of Putin’s regime. It was particularly ill-prepared for the intense fighting it has experienced in Ukraine.

With a requirement to quell growing domestic dissent in Russia, as well as operational taskings in Ukraine, Rosgvardia is highly likely under particular strain. There is a realistic possibility that mobilisation will be used to reinforce Rosgvardia units with additional manpower.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast and hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain areas. Fires at the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, conducts aerial reconnaissance and tries to restore lost positions in certain directions.

Russian forces continue to cynically attack civilian infrastructure and civilian homes. There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. Over the course of a day, Russian forces launched 4 missile and 7 air strikes, fired more than 24 MLRS rstrikes at military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine, violating the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of warfare.

More than 35 settlements were affected by enemy fire. Among them are Kupyansk, Bilohorivka, Spirne, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, New York, Krasnohorivka, Kurakhove, Novomykhailivka, Pavlivka, Zaporizhzhya, Volodymyrivske, Ochakiv, Mykolaiv, Myrolyubivka, Novovoznesensk, Sukhy Stavok and Odesa. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery:
in the Siversky direction - in the areas of the settlements of Huta-Studenetska and Bleshnya of the Chernihiv oblast and Bachivsk, Shalyhine and Seredyna Buda of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansk direction - in the areas of the settlements of Strilecha, Huryiv Kozachok, Stohniyi, Udy, Veterynarne and Kupyansk;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Slovyiansk, Koroviy Yar, Bohorodychne, Yarova, Pryshyb and Ozerne;
in the Bakhmut direction - Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Odradivka, Zaytseve, Opytne, Yakovlivka, New York, Mayorsk, Nelipovka, Yuryivka, Vyimka, Bilohorivka, Rozdolivka, Spirne, Vesele and Verkhnyokamianske;
in the Avdiyivka region - Avdiyivka, Opytne, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Maryinka and Paraskoviyivka.
18 settlements were shelled in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. In particular, Mykilske, Vuhledar, Prechystivka, Zolota Nyva, Velyka Novosilka, Novomayorske, Vremivka, Pavlivka, Zaliznychne, Shevchenko, Bilohirya, Poltavka, Novosilka, Novopil, Temyrivka, Vremivka, Chervone and Olhivske.
In the South Buh region, more than 38 settlements near the contact line were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling. In particular, Novovoznesensk, Arkhangelsk, Sukhy Stavok, Pervomaiske, Marganets and Nikopol.

For the purpose of conducting reconnaissance, adjusting fire and launching strikes against civilian infrastructure objects, Russian forces made up to 60 flies of UAVs.

In connection with the partial mobilization announced by the Russian military-political leadership, the military commissariats of the Russian Federation have been working around the clock since September 22. Persons who try to evade mobilization are threatened with criminal liability.

In the city of Sevastopol of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea, about one thousand summonses were handed out to men of draft age. Representatives of the Russian occupying forces assure the mobilized personnel that their service will take place in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region until the end of the term of the so-called "special operation".

The command of the Russian occupying forces directs the new arrivals for the mobilization of servicemen without training to the replenishment of units that have suffered losses, directly to the front line. This significantly affects the decrease in the level of morale and psychological state of enemy servicemen and the quality of their performance of duties.

The skill of Ukrainian artillerymen was once again confirmed. During September 24 of this year, as a result of the fire impact on enemy facilities in the temporarily captured territory of Zaporizhzhya oblast, about 10 units of enemy weapons and military equipment were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Hulyaipole, as well as one S-300 air defense system with ammunition storage near the city of Tokmak .

During the day, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Soledar, Vyimka, Kurdyumivka, Zaitseve, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske and Pavlivka.

To support the actions of ground groups, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 21 strikes. It was confirmed that 14 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy and 7 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were damaged. In addition, air defense units destroyed 2 UAVs of the occupiers in different directions.

During the current day, missile forces and artillery, in particular, hit 6 command and control points, 11 areas of concentration of Russian manpower and equipment, 2 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 units of missile forces and artillery, 6 warehouses with ammunition, as well as 8 separate important targets.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as a result of strikes on the deployment point of foreign mercenaries, as well as on the positions of the 72nd, 79th, 46th, 60th, 80th, 10th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Donetsk , Kherson, Zaporozhye and Mykolaiv regions, at least 310 militants and 55 pieces of military equipment were killed.

Aviation and artillery hit the enemy command post in Nikolaev, two ammunition depots, a HIMARS rocket launcher in Yavkino, an Osa-AKM anti-aircraft system in Novoselovka, a radar station in Krasnoarmeysk, a Gyurza-type boat in the port of Ochakov, and seven artillery platoons.

Attacks were made on 33 artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as on 178 areas of accumulation of manpower and equipment. Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two Ukrainian MiG-29s over Novoukrainsky and Bashtanka. The aircraft were equipped with American HARM anti-radar missiles.

Air defense troops intercepted 12 drones and 21 rockets.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired again at Energodar, using 59 rounds of ammunition. At the same time, eight Ukrainian “kamikaze drones” were shot down on approach to the ZNPP, the radiation situation at which remains normal.

LDNR

According to information from the army of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled ten settlements in the region during September 25, using more than 200 ammunition. As a result, one civilian was wounded, seven houses and five civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.

Liman, which has been under constant attack by Ukrainian militants over the past weeks, has received new reinforcements, including armored ones. The residents who remained in the city also take part in the referendum on self-determination of the republic.