Russo-Ukraine War - 04 October 2022 - Day 223
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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]
The UK Ministry of Defence reported that on 30 September 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order for the routine autumn conscription cycle, which aims to train 120,000 conscripts. These conscripts are legally not permitted to be deployed outside of Russia. This is separate from those individuals being mobilised as part of the 21 September 2022 partial mobilisation order.
The conscription cycle will begin on 01 November 2022, a month later than usual. The late start to the cycle is an indication of growing pressures on Russia’s ability to train and equip a large number of new conscripted personnel.
The challenges of accommodating, training, equipping and deploying mobilised and conscripted personnel are significant. Deficiencies within the Russian administrative and logistical systems will continue to undermine these efforts.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates its efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in certain areas. Russian forces are shelling the positions of Ukrainian 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 Russian forces launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.
Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, but, at the same time, conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions, carries out regrouping. Russian forces are shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the entire contact line, conducting aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. Thus, during the day, the occupiers launched 5 missile and 1 air strike, carried out more than 15 MLRS shellings. Objects and civilian population of more than 12 settlements were damaged by enemy strikes. Among them are Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Andriyivka (Dnipropetrovsk oblast), Bakhmut, Zaliznychne, Voznesensk and Prydniprovske. 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 area of the settlement of Pysarivka, Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction - in the areas of the settlements of Strilecha, Vovchansk, Varvarivka, Vilkhuvatka and Dvorichna.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy is regrouping its units.
In the direction of Bakhmut, Russian forces shelled the areas of more than ten settlements with mortars, barrel and rocket artillery. In particular, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Mayorsk, Zaytseve and Yakovlivka.
In the Avdiyivka direction, the infrastructure of the settlements of Avdiyivka, Opytne, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Kostyantynivka, and Novomykhailivka were damaged by enemy shelling.
Russian forces did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. Areas of twenty-five settlements were shelled. Among them are Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Hulyaipilske, Mala Tokmachka and Orihiv.
Areas of more than 20 settlements along the contact line were hit by artillery fire in the South Buh region.
The so-called "partial mobilization" measures are ongoing in the Russian Federation. According to available information, the Kazan manpower centre is forming and manning three motorized rifle and two artillery regiments on the funds of the Kazan Higher Tank Command School.
Despite ongoing mobilization measures, the Russian side does not stop the practice of using private military campaigns on the territory of Ukraine, staffed by persons recruited in places of deprivation of liberty. Thus, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region, in the so-called "training centres", the training of the specified category of persons continues for their further referral to the front line.
According to updated information, on October 3 of this year, up to thirty Russian targets were confirmed to have been hit by the Ukrainian Defence Forces in the south of Ukraine. Russian forces are demoralized, leaving positions, retreating to a safe distance, destroying ammunition stocks, trying to destroy bridges and crossings. All this - with the aim of slowing down the pace of the offensive of Ukrainian troops.
During the current day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Mayorsk, Vyimka, Spirne, Ozeryanivka, Zaytseve, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Vesele, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka. Aviation of the Ukrainian Defence Forces carried out 12 strikes during the day. It was confirmed that 2 strongholds, 8 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 2 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Russian forces were hit. In addition, Ukrainian air defence units shot down 2 enemy UAVs.
Missile forces and artillery during the current day hit the control post, as well as 2 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the Russian occupiers.
The Russian Federation Council unanimously approved the laws on the ratification of 4 international agreements on the admission of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian Federation. Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko reported that the documents would be immediately sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The heads of the LPR and DPR Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin signed laws on the ratification of agreements on joining the regions into the Russian Federation.
Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
During the briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during the day in Dnepropetrovsk, the headquarters of the Vostok Air Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit by a high-precision strike of the Aerospace Forces. In the Kupyansk direction, up to 100 military personnel, including foreign mercenaries, as well as 16 pieces of equipment, were destroyed by missile strikes on the areas of deployment of units of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Massive fire damage was inflicted on units of the 66th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 2 points of temporary deployment of national formations in the Limansk direction: more than 120 militants and 14 armored vehicles were destroyed.
In the Lisichansk direction, as a result of a missile attack on manpower and equipment of the 54th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to 90 militants, 3 tanks and 6 armored vehicles were destroyed. Missile strikes in the Zaporozhye region hit the ammunition depot of the 65th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the aircraft repair shop on the territory of the Motor Sich plant. More than 15 tons of ammunition were destroyed, including shells for the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), 2 combat helicopters Mi-24 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Krivorozhsky and Andreevsky directions, the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on units of the 24th mechanized, 17th tank and 128th mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 9 tanks, 12 infantry fighting vehicles, 20 vehicles and up to 250 military personnel.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit 5 command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv, the DPR, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Nikolaev regions, as well as 43 artillery units, manpower and military equipment in 157 districts. 5 warehouses of ammunition and rocket and artillery weapons were destroyed in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions.
In the area of the settlement of Chasov Yar (DNR), an anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) "Buk-M1" was destroyed. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the S-300 air defense radar was destroyed.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and a Su-24 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region. Air defense systems (air defense) destroyed 8 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the DPR, Kharkiv region, and Kherson regions. 2 Tochka-U ballistic missiles were shot down in the LPR. 9 shells of MLRS HIMARS and Alder were destroyed in the air in the Kherson region.
Kherson region
There are reports of a regrouping of Russian troops in the north-east of the Kherson region after the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Local sources reported on the operation of the air defense system in Kherson in the evening. It is known that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the Antonovsky bridge from HIMARS - 3 shells hit the structure, 3 more were shot down.
Russian security forces liquidated a group of Ukrainian saboteurs near Kherson. Two militants were killed, the explosive devices found on them were neutralized.
Zaporozhye region
The Armed Forces of Ukraine opened artillery fire on the coastline of Energodar in the evening. In addition, the area of the local thermal power plant came under fire.
The administration of Energodar imposed a curfew in the city on October 4 in order to ensure the safety of the population. Moving around the city from 20:00 to 06:00 will be prohibited.
In Melitopol, a terrorist attack was prevented near a playground. The press service of the Russian Guard reported that the military found and neutralized a remote-controlled grenade.
DPR
From the beginning of the day on October 4, Ukrainian troops opened fire in the direction of Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Makeevka, Gorlovka, Dokuchaevsk, Novobakhmutovka, Panteleymonovka, Novoselovka. As a result of shelling in Donetsk, 2 people were killed, one was injured. It is also reported about the victim in Makiivka.
There are clashes in the areas of Vesela Dolina and Zaitsevo. According to military expert Boris Rozhin, the advance of the allied forces on this sector of the front was recorded.
There are reports about the expansion of the zone of control of the allied forces around the village of Peski and Donetsk airport. The cleansing of Pervomaisky continues, its completion will cut off the local grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the supply coming from Nevelskoye.
A source in the power structures of the DPR told RIA Novosti that the allied forces used the latest counter-battery radar during the referendum on the republic's entry into the Russian Federation. The systems worked in conjunction with heavy howitzers "Malka" to destroy the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. The source stated that these bundles opened up the positions of the enemy practically from the first shot.
LC
A serious line of defense is being built in the Kremennaya area, as reported by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively using artillery in the area.
LPR Ambassador to the Russian Federation Rodion Miroshnik said that Kyiv is transferring mercenaries near Kremennaya, who passed through
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