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Russo-Ukraine War - 01 October 2022 - Day 220

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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 30 September 2022, Russian forces almost certainly struck a convoy south-east of the town of Zaporizhzhia. Local authorities report 25 civilians killed. The munition involved was likely a Russian long-range air defence missile being used in a ground attack role.

Russia’s stock of such missiles is highly likely limited and is a high-value resource designed to shoot down modern aircraft and incoming missiles, rather than for use against ground targets. Its use in ground attack role has almost certainly been driven by overall munitions shortages, particularly longer-range precision missiles.

On the same day, President Putin signed annexation agreements for Zaporizhzhia and other parts of occupied Ukraine. Russia is expending strategically valuable military assets in attempts to achieve tactical advantage and in the process is killing civilians it now claims are its own citizens.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast, to hold the captured territories, as well as to disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in certain directions. Russian forces are shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the entire contact line, conducting aerial reconnaissance. Attacks civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. There remains the threat of Russian forces launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.

Russian forces launched 3 missile and 5 air strikes, carried out more than 16 MLRS attacks. In addition, Russian forces used unmanned aerial vehicles to launch strikes on infrastructure facilities.

More than 11 settlements were affected by Russian strikes. These are, in particular, Bakhmut, Trudove, Bohoyavlenka, Novoukrainka, Zaliznychne, Illinka, Nikopol, Blahodativka, Mykolayiv, Ochakiv and Odesa. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery:

in the Siversky direction - in the area of the settlement of Fotovyzh, Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - in the areas of Ohirtseve, Okhrimivka and Budarka settlements of the Kharkiv oblast;
in the Kramatorsk direction - in the areas of Blakytni Ozera, Hryhorivka, Bilohorivka, Ivano-Daryivka, Zakitne, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Spirne settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction - in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Odradivka, Opytne, Zaitseve, Yakovlivka, Yuryivka, Mayorsk and New York;
in the Avdiyivka direction - Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Opytne, Pervomaiske, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka;
in the Novopavlivskyi direction - in the areas of Novoukrayinka, Paraskoviyivka, Prechystivka, Pavlivka and Neskuchne settlements.

Russian forces did not conduct active offensive operations in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Fire damage was inflicted by the Russian in the areas of sixteen settlements. Among them are Orihiv, Hulyaipole, Zaporizhzhya and Matviyivka.

Areas of more than twenty-five settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery in the South Buh direction.

Russian occupation forces continue to suffer losses in manpower, weapons and military equipment. Only as a result of fire damage to an enemy object in the Zolote district of Luhansk oblast, Russian forces lost about sixty people killed and wounded, as well as four units of military equipment.

Russian military leadership carefully tries to hide the loss of personnel in this war. At the same time, the political leadership of the Russian Federation continues to search for ways to replenish losses in manpower. In particular, due to the legalization of the participation of prisoners in the war. According to available information, a draft law on changes in the criminal code of the Russian Federation, which provides for the serving of punishment in the area of hostilities, has been submitted to the State Duma of Russia.

In the temporarily captured territory of Ukraine, the Russian occupation authorities, grossly violating the rules of warfare and human rights, intensified measures for the forced mobilization of the male population of conscription age to replenish the losses of russian military units. For the timely implementation of mobilization measures and suppression of the resistance of the local population, additional units of the Russian guard arrived in the cities of Berdyansk and Melitopol.

During the day, the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kozacha Lopan, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve and Pervomaiske settlements.

To support the actions of the land groups, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out 21 strikes during the day. It was confirmed that Russian forces' stronghold, 17 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 3 Russian anti-aircraft missile systems were hit. In addition, our air defence units shot down one UAV. Rocket forces and artillery hit 4 command posts, 4 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment. Also, 2 warehouses with ammunition fell into the affected area.

During the briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during the day in the Kupyansk region (Kharkiv region), a missile strike destroyed the deployment point of a unit of the 14th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, more than 50 militants and 12 units of military equipment were eliminated.

In the Limansky direction, more than 200 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 5 tanks and 9 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) were destroyed per day. It is noted that, despite the losses, the enemy introduced reserves and continued the offensive on this sector of the front. In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement, the allied troops were withdrawn from Liman to more advantageous lines.

In the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, an attempt to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repelled, more than 270 militants, 5 tanks, 6 infantry fighting vehicles, 23 armored vehicles and 11 vehicles were destroyed. In the area of ​​Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic, DPR), as a result of fire damage by units of the 110th brigade of the territorial defense, more than 100 nationalists were killed or injured, 2 tanks and 6 vehicles were destroyed.

Up to 60 servicemen and 10 units of military equipment, as well as 2 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) HIMARS, were destroyed by high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the points of deployment of the 2nd battalion and the rocket-artillery battalion of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.

Aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 6 command posts and 4 warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions, as well as 68 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 153 districts. A launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system was hit near Hryhorivka (Zaporozhye region).

Fighter aircraft in the area of ​​​​Pavlovka (Nikolaev region) shot down the MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force. Air defense systems shot down 14 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 7 HIMARS shells and 2 HARM anti-radar missiles in the air, shot down a Tochka-U tactical missile.

Events in Ukraine by 21:00 on October 1: the withdrawal of allied forces from Liman, the Armed Forces of Ukraine increased the shelling of Energodar

Russia

Zaporozhye region

A terrorist attack was prevented on the line supplying electricity to the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. Police officers of Genichesk (Kherson region), with the support of the National Guard, recorded the explosion of two power transmission towers Dzhankoy - Melitopol, and also discovered and defused several more explosive devices in the specified area. Violations of the power supply of the liberated territory of the neighboring region were not allowed.

Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have increased the intensity of shelling of Energodar. Over the past hours, at least 20 arrivals along the coastline and territory in the city district have been recorded. Ukrainian troops inflicted several more blows on the TPP area

Kherson region

Russian troops stop attempts to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region. As the Rybar Telegram channel notes, the Ukrainian military are trying to reach Davydov Brod and cut off the road to Belogorka, as well as gain a foothold in the forest belt on the left bank of the Ingulets River.

The administration of Nova Kakhovka reported in the evening about another shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The air defense system went off in the city.

DNR

From the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops opened fire in the direction of Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Makeevka, Gorlovka, Ozeryanovka, Zaitsevo, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka, Mineralnoe, Staromikhaylovka.

As a result of attacks on Donetsk, 3 civilians were killed, 3 more civilians were injured. It is reported that 2 residents of Makiivka and a resident of Staromikhaylovka were also injured. In addition, damage to residential buildings and civil infrastructure facilities was recorded in a number of settlements.

The suppression of artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Maryinsky direction continues. The people's militia of the DPR reported that the allied forces were actively counter-battery fighting, striking at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from which Ukrainian militants fired at the civilian population of the republic.

Andrey Voroshilov, deputy of the People's Council of the DPR, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would not stop attacks on the territory of the republic after the region became part of Russia. According to him, in order to stop the strikes, it is necessary to move the enemy as far as possible from the borders.

LC

The People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) reported that during the day the village of Nizhnyaya Duvanka was shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the attack, Ukrainian troops used the HIMARS MLRS.

A humanitarian cargo from the Komi Republic arrived in Rovenki. The leadership of the region transferred 155 tons of building materials and school supplies to the sponsored settlement.

Another cargo was transferred to the LPR by the Russian Boxing Federation. The organization delivered sports equipment for young athletes to the republic.