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Russo-Ukraine War - 26 September 2022 - Day 215

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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 the initial tranches of men called up under Russia’s partial mobilisation have started arriving at military bases. Many tens of thousands of call-up papers have already been issued. Russia will now face an administrative and logistical challenge to provide training for the troops. Unlike most Western armies, the Russian military provides low-level, initial training to soldiers within their designated operational units, rather than in dedicated training establishments. Typically, one battalion within each Russian brigade will remain in garrison if the other two deploy and can provide a cadre of instructors to train new recruits or augmentees. However, Russia has deployed many of these third battalions to Ukraine. Many of the drafted troops will not have had any military experience for some years. The lack of military trainers, and the haste with which Russia has started the mobilisation, suggests that many of the drafted troops will deploy to the front line with minimal relevant preparation. They are likely to suffer a high attrition rate.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to focus its efforts on holding the captured territories, attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast, as well as disrupting the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain areas. Russian forces are trying to restore lost positions in certain directions, conducts aerial reconnaissance and attacks on civilian infrastructure, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, laws and customs of war.

There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. Thus, during the current day, Russian forces launched 2 missile and 4 air strikes, carried out more than 7 shellings with anti-aircraft missiles. Also, the enemy used strike UAVs in the area of ​​Bilenke settlement of Odesa oblast.

12 settlements were damaged by the fire of the occupiers. In particular, Zaporizhzhya, Marhanets, Musiivka, Nikopol, Potemkine, Osokorivka, Mykolayiv and Ochakiv. The situation has not changed significantly in the Volyn, Polissya and Siversky directions.

In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery:
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - in the areas of Odnorobivka, Veterynarne, Strelecha, Hlyboke, Hatyshche, Kucherivka, Petropavlivka, Kupyansk-Vuzlovy, Senkove, Kamianka and Holubivka settlements;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Novoselivka, Shchurove, Dibrova, Ozerne, Zakytne, Siversk, Verkhnokamianske, Viymka, Spirne, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Bilohorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Hryhorivka, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Klishchivka, Odradivka, Zaitseve and Mayorsk;
in the Avdiyivka direction – Pervomaiske, Avdiyivka, Vodyane, Opytne, Maryinka, Paraskoviivka and Novomykhailivka;
in the Novopavlivsk direction – Vremivka, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Mykilske and Yehorivka.
in the Zaporizhzhiy direction – Zelene Pole, Novosilka, Uspenivka, Novopil, Olhivske, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Chervone, Hulyaipilske and Novoandriivka.

More than 35 settlements near the contact line were hit by artillery fire in the South Buh direction.

Russian occupiers continue to hold so-called "referendums" in the temporarily occupied and occupied territories of Ukraine.

Russian forces are strengthening filtering and counter-sabotage measures. Considerable attention is paid to checking the personal mobile phones of local residents for cooperation with the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, Ukrainian soldiers repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Spirne, Soledar, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Kamianka, Pobyeda and Pavlivka settlements. Aviation of the Defense Forces made about 20 strikes. It was confirmed that 13 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, the position of armored vehicles and 5 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were hit. Russian losses are being refined.

During the current day, missile forces and artillery, in particular, hit 3 command and control points, 5 areas of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Russian occupiers, 1 position of anti-aircraft missile systems, 2 units of missile forces and artillery, 3 warehouses with ammunition, as well as 12 separate important targets.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, during a daily briefing, announced the elimination of up to 100 militants as a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on temporary deployment points of the "Foreign Legion" and units of nationalist formations in the area of ​​​​the village of Svyatogorsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

As reported by the official representative of the department, Igor Konashenkov, in the areas of the settlements of Senkovo ​​and Chervoniy Oskol (Kharkiv region), as a result of a massive fire strike on the points of deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 120 servicemen killed and wounded.

In addition, in the area of ​​Chasov Yar (DPR), up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and more than 40 were injured by a missile attack on the forward command post of the 10th mountain assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a meeting of the command of the unit. Eight units of special military equipment were put out of action.

Up to 50 Ukrainian militants were destroyed by a precision strike in the Ochakov area (Mykolaiv region). The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 10 units of military equipment and more than two thousand artillery shells. In addition, fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

The Russian Defense Ministry also informed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 25 shells at the Volna holiday village, located next to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The enemy firepower in Nikopol and Marganets (Nikolaev region) was suppressed by return fire from Russian artillery. The radiation situation at the station is normal.

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 110 ammunition from multiple launch rocket systems BM-27 "Hurricane", barreled artillery with a caliber of 155 and 152 mm across the territory of the republic. Shelling was carried out in areas of nine settlements. Four people were injured in the attacks. 21 housing construction and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.

According to the Rybar Telegram channel, in the Bakhmut direction, Wagner PMCs entered Otradovka from the east and cut off the southern side of the settlement from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In Zaitsevo, detachments of "Wagnerites" took up positions along the entire southern outskirts and advanced deep into the private sector in the southeastern part of the village.

The representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) recorded shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the current day, militants have fired at Rubizhne, Mostki and Starobelsk using HIMARS MLRS, firing a total of 14 shells. As a result of the strikes on Rubizhne, a secondary school was destroyed, in the building of which the polling station was located, and four apartment buildings were damaged. As a result of the shelling of Starobilsk, two civilians were injured, 16 houses and power lines were damaged.

In addition, the head of the administration of the city of Pervomaisk, Sergei Kolyagin, reported on the shelling of the area of ​​​​the settlement of Kalinovo (LPR) from Ukraine. The projectile fell into the river not far from infrastructure facilities and a residential area.

A RIA Novosti source said that a spotter for strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detained in the LPR. It turned out that the man was transmitting data and directing fire at civilian facilities in the Novoaydar settlement.

In the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, referendums on joining Russia continue. At the end of the fourth day of voting, the turnout in the LPR was 83.61%.