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Russo-Ukraine War - 03 October 2022 - Day 222

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A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While GlobalSecurity.org takes utmost care to accurately report this news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.

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 29 September 2022, President Putin addressed his National Security Council on the ‘partial mobilisation’ he had announced on 21 September. He said, ‘a lot of questions are being raised during this mobilisation campaign, and we must promptly correct our mistakes and not repeat them.’

Putin’s unusually rapid acknowledgement of problems highlights the dysfunction of the mobilisation over its first week. Local officials are likely unclear on the exact scope and legal rationale of the campaign. They have almost certainly drafted some personnel who are outside the definitions claimed by Putin and the Ministry of Defence.

As drafted reservists continue to assemble at tented transit camps, Russian officials are likely struggling to provide training and in finding officers to lead new units.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to focus its efforts on attempts to occupy the Donetsk oblast, hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in certain directions. Russia is shelling the positions of our troops along the 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 the Russian forces launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.

Over the past day, the Russian forces have launched 11 missile and 10 air strikes, carried out more than 65 MLRS shellings. More than 35 settlements were affected by enemy strikes. Among them are Ridkodub, Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Bilohorivka, Bakhmut, Netaylovye, Vodyane, Maryinka, Vremivka, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhya, Zaliznychne, and Mykolayiv. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes.

In other directions, the enemy fired from tanks and artillery of various types:
in the Siverskyi direction - in the areas of Ukrainske settlements of Chernihiv oblast and Basivka, Pysarivka and Kyyanytsia of Sumy oblast;
in the Kramatorsk direction - in the areas of Novosadove, Terny, Yampil, Siversk, Verkhnokamianske and Spirne settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction - in the areas of the settlements of Fedorivka, Rozdolivka, Vesele, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Odradivka, Zaitseve, Toretsk, Mayorsk, Nelipivka and Yuryivka;
in the Avdiyivka oblast - Avdiyivka, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka.

In the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy shelled the areas of Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Mykilske, Rivnopillia, Olhivske, Zaliznychne, and Mala Tokmachka settlements with mortars, tanks, and rocket artillery. More than 45 settlements along the contact line were shelled in the South Buh direction.

According to the updated information, it was confirmed that Russian personnel and military equipment were damaged in the Zaporizhzhya region in the previous days. This is one personnel concentration area, three warehouses with ammunition, more than twenty pieces of weapons and military equipment, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile complex. In total, more than two hundred and fifty occupiers were injured. Information about liquidated ones is being clarified.

Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Zaitseve, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Odradivka, Vyimka, Spirne, Nevelske and Pervomaiske settlements.

Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out seven strikes during the past 24 hours. It was confirmed that the command post, five locations of weapons and military equipment, as well as the Russian forces' anti-aircraft missile complex were hit. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down one Ka-52 helicopter, one Su-25 attack aircraft and eight unmanned aerial vehicles.

Over the past day, missile forces and artillery, in particular, hit two command posts, fourteen areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, three warehouses with ammunition and fuel and oil, as well as eight other important Russian facilities.

During the daytime briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry, it was stated that more than 500 Ukrainian servicemen and about 60 pieces of equipment were destroyed in three days of fighting in the Kupyansk direction. At the same time, up to 60 militants and seven units of military equipment were liquidated in the area of Davydov Brod in the Kherson region.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were able to penetrate the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Zolotaya Balka - Aleksandrovka, but were stopped at the line prepared by the allies, losing about 130 people and 23 pieces of equipment.

Also during the day, five warehouses with shells, 146 areas where enemy troops were concentrated, 47 artillery units were hit, including three batteries of Grad rocket launchers in Tsvetkovo, Svyatopetrovka, Yablokovo.

Air defense troops shot down three drones and 15 projectiles over the liberated territories.

LDNR

Allied forces are organizing a line of defense in the area of the settlement of Kremennaya. Reinforcements are drawn here, artillery is continuously firing towards the enemy. This area is dominated by fields and pine forests, which is taken into account when preparing firing positions.

Meanwhile, the FAN war correspondent reports a tense situation in Rubizhne, which is associated with constant shelling from Ukraine. Enemy sabotage groups operate in the area, fortifications are organized on the outskirts of the city, equipment is not withdrawn from there.