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Russo-Ukraine War - 06 October 2022 - Day 225

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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 Ukraine’s Armed Forces started a new phase of offensive operations in Kherson Oblast on 2 October 2022. Advancing south, Ukrainian units have pushed the front line forwards by up to an additional 20km, primarily making gains along the east bank of the Inhulets and west bank of the Dnipro, but not yet threatening the main Russian defensive positions.

Russian forces have typically broken contact and withdrawn. Russian commanders are likely to see the growing threat to the Nova Kakhovka sector as one of their most pressing concerns. The damaged river crossing over the Dnipro in this area remains one of the few routes available for them to resupply forces. Russia faces a dilemma: withdrawal of combat forces across the Dnipro makes defence of the rest of Kherson Oblast more tenable; but the political imperative will be to remain and defend.

Russia has committed the majority of its severely undermanned airborne forces, the VDV, to the defence of Kherson. Therefore, Russia currently has few additional, high quality rapidly deployable forces available to stabilise the front: it likely aims to deploy mobilised reservists to the sector.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain directions, does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. Russian forces are regrouping units in separate directions.

Russian forces fires at Ukrainian positions along the contact line, carries out engineering defense equipment in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential areas, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war. There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During this day, the occupiers launched 6 rocket and 7 air strikes, carried out more than 23 MLRS shellings.

Objects and civilian population of more than 25 settlements were damaged by enemy strikes. Among others, these are Zaporizhzhya, Shepetivka, Siversk, Bilohorivka, Olhivske and Hoptivka. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes.

The enemy fired in other directions:

in the Siversky direction - from barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Senkivka, Yasna Polyana and Bleshnya of the Chernihiv oblast and Seredyna Buda, Kiyanytsia and Fotovyzh of the Sumy oblast, and the Slobozhanskyi direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Uda, Strilcha, Neskuchne, Hatyshche and Vilkhuvatka;
in the Kramatorsk direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilohorivka, Siversk and Verkhnokamianske;
in the Bakhmut direction - from artillery of various types, in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Kurdyumivka, New York and Zaitseve settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske, Paraskoviivka, Pisky and Novomykhailivka settlements;
Russian forces did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions. The infrastructure of more than twenty settlements was damaged by Russian shelling. In particular, Novoukrainka, Vremivka, Poltavka and Novopolya.

In the Southern Buh region, more than thirty settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire. Among them are Pravdyne, Myrne, Kiselyvka, Kobzartsi and Velike Artakove.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmutske, Yakovlivka, Odradivka, Zaitseve, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda, Vodyane and Lyubomirivka settlements.

According to available information, the partial mobilization announced by the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation actually "absorbs" small settlements in remote regions of Russia. Conscription is carried out by the method of roundups, practically all male population of conscription age is forcibly taken to military commissariats. At the same time, in Moscow, the demobilization plan, which accounts for less than 0.2 percent of the population in districts, has not been fulfilled by half.

As before, the Russian invaders are using scorched earth tactics in Ukraine. Thus, during another chaotic retreat, Russian forces blew up the dam, which caused the settlement of Raihorodok to flood. There is a mass destruction of archives and copies of documents, especially those containing the history of the occupation, in Kadiivka. In Svatovo, the main infrastructure facilities, buildings and territories have already been mined.

Aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out 11 strikes during the day. The destruction of one stronghold, 5 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 5 anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy was confirmed. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down 5 enemy UAVs, including two Shahed-136 and one Mohajer-6. Missile troops and artillery during the current day hit 19 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 ammunition depots and 6 artillery means.

The Russian Ministry of Defence reported taht over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched attacks in the Kupyansk region, as well as in the Andreevo-Krivoy Rog direction. As a result, they were not successful, but lost more than 220 soldiers, 11 tanks, 20 armored cars and 23 vehicles.

At the same time, more than 280 people and nine pieces of equipment were destroyed during the strikes of the RF Armed Forces on the places of deployment of the 35th, 46th, 60th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Southern Front. In the Kharkiv region, two enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups were eliminated, in total numbering 25 militants and two pickup trucks with machine guns.

In addition, Ukrainian pontoon crossings across the Ingulets were destroyed in Veliky Artakovo, Novogrigorovka and Belaya Krinitsa.

During the day, aviation, artillery and missile forces hit eight command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four ammunition depots, 173 concentrations of enemy troops, 63 artillery units, including two batteries of Grad rocket launchers.

Fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defense forces also shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 and Su-24, as well as nine drones and three rockets.

LDNR

Fighters of the Lugansk People's Republic are waiting for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Kharkiv region, as well as from the Liman. The 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the LPR is constantly conducting fire work on identified targets in order to prevent the enemy from penetrating deep into the region again.

In the meantime, along with the removal of customs between the republics of Donbass and Russia, duties on imported goods also disappeared. In addition, written declaration is cancelled.