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Russo-Ukraine War - 09 October 2022 - Day 228

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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 early on 08 October 2022, an explosion damaged the Kerch Strait Bridge, the road and rail crossing which links Russian-occupied Crimea and the Krasnodar region of Russia.

Two of the four carriageways of the roadway have collapsed in several places over a length of approximately 250m. It is almost certain that some vehicle transits via the other two carriageways have resumed, but capacity will be seriously degraded.

The extent of damage to the rail crossing is uncertain, but any serious disruption to its capacity will highly likely have a significant impact on Russia’s already strained ability to sustain its forces in southern Ukraine. The rail crossing was only opened to freight in June 2020, but the line has played a key role in moving heavy military vehicles to the southern front during the invasion.

This incident will likely touch President Putin closely; it came hours after his 70th birthday, he personally sponsored and opened the bridge, and its construction contractor was his childhood friend, Arkady Rotenberg. In recent months, Putin’s former bodyguard, now commander of the Russian National Guard, Viktor Zolatov, has provided public assurances about the security of the bridge.

 

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions. Russia is shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering defense equipment in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of warfare, Russian forces strike critical infrastructure and residential areas of populated areas.

There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During the day, Russian occupiers launched 5 rocket and 12 air strikes, launched more than 30 MLRS attacks. The population and facilities of more than 30 settlements were affected by Russian strikes. In particular, Bereznehuvate, Makiyivka, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Zelenopillia, Vremivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Davydiv Brid, Nova Kamianka, Trifonivka.

Russian forces used twenty cruise, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles to strike Zaporizhzhya. In addition, Russian forces continue to use Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles. One of them was destroyed by air defense forces and means in the Black Sea.

In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. On the Siverskyi direction, shelling from mortars and barrel artillery was recorded in the areas of Myropillya, Mezenivka, Vorozhba, Slavhorod, Seredyna Buda and Starykovo settlements of the Sumy oblast. Without crossing the state border, Russian forces launched airstrikes, using army aircraft.

Areas of 30 settlements were shelled with mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the Slobozhansk direction. Among them - White Well, High Ravine, Raisin, Neskuchne, Ridkodub, Red Dawn. Russian forces also used attack UAVs.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the Russian occupiers fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Hrekivka, Ivanivka, Nevske, Pershotravneve, Serebryanka and Terny. Mass mining of bridge crossings, crossings and suburbs of settlements is carried out.

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian forces fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the areas of Andriyivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Zaytseve, Zelenopilya, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Mayorsk and New York. In the Avdiyivsk direction, the areas of Avdiyivka, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pervomaiske, and Novomykhailivka were damaged by fire.

Russian forces did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. More than 30 settlements were subjected to enemy shelling from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery. Among them are Hulyaipilske, Vilne Pole, Vugledar, Vremivka, Novosilka, Poltavka and Charivne.

Areas of more than 35 towns and villages along the entire line of contact were affected by fire in the South Buh region. So, in the Mykolayiv oblast 38 objects were hit, none of them military. These include, in particular, 24 residential buildings, 3 critical infrastructure and life support facilities, and 7 industrial facilities.

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Budarky, Terny, Soledar, New York, Pervomaiske, Nevelske and Pobyeda settlements.

The leadership of the Russian Federation is taking measures to find additional resources for waging war. At this time, negotiations are underway with third countries regarding the procurement of artillery shells, mortar mines and components for rocket launcher systems. Military warehouses and arsenals of the Republic of Belarus remain another source of supplies. In the near future, it is planned to move 13 more echelons with ammunition and material and technical means to the territory of Russia.

During the current day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces made 9 strikes. It has been confirmed that 7 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 3 Russian anti-aircraft missile systems, have been destroyed. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down 2 UAVs, one enemy aircraft and one X-59 guided air missile. Missile troops and artillery hit 3 control points, 2 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment. Radio-electronic warfare complexes and self-propelled artillery positions also fell into the zone of fire damage.

Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

During the briefing, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during the day in the Kupyansk direction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the forces of two battalions of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades, reinforced by foreign mercenaries, attempted to break through the defense of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Kislovka (Kharkiv region) and Kuzemovka (Lugansk region). People's Republic, LPR). All attacks were repulsed, more than 50 militants, a tank and 9 combat armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed. The reserves of the 92nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​Zagoruykovka (Kharkiv region) were also hit, about 60 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks and 3 armored vehicles were destroyed.

In the areas of settlements Novovodyanoye, Karmazinovka and Makeevka (LPR) 4 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were found and destroyed. 17 militants, 2 pickup trucks with heavy machine guns and a car were liquidated.

Attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Verkhnekamenka and Belogorovka (LPR), Disputed, Berestovoye, Yakovlevka (Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR) were repulsed in the Luhansk direction. More than 120 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 tanks, 7 combat armored vehicles and 11 vehicles were destroyed.

In the Zaporizhzhya direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts to attack in the areas of Oktyabrsky, Neskuchny and Yegorovka (DPR). All attacks were repulsed, about 100 militants, 2 tanks, 5 armored vehicles and 6 vehicles were destroyed.

The Russian Aerospace Forces delivered high-precision strikes on the points of deployment of the Foreign Legion units on the island of Khortytsya and the Bars special forces brigade of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Zaporozhye region.

In the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, 5 columns, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of Chervony, Novovoskresensky and Petropavlovka (Kherson region). Attacks of motorized infantry companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the areas of the settlements of Belogorka and Davydov Brod (Kherson region) were repelled in the Andreevsky direction. As a result of a high-precision strike in the area of ​​​​Bereznegovatoy (Nikolaev region), an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed, where more than 200 missiles for HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) were stored. In just one day in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to over 200 servicemen, 2 tanks, 41 armored vehicles, 3 guns and 7 vehicles.

Aviation, missile forces and artillery hit the command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of Redkodub (Kharkiv region), Drobyshevo (DPR) and Zaliznychny (Zaporozhye region), as well as 47 artillery units, manpower and equipment in 163 districts. 4 warehouses were destroyed in the districts of Novoaleksandrovka (Kherson region), Volnoye Pole (DPR), Zaliznychny (Zaporozhye region) and in Zaporozhye. In Kirovo and Drobyshevo (DPR), 2 counter-battery radar stations (AN / TPQ-37) were destroyed.

Fighter aircraft shot down a Su-24 aircraft in the Mykolaiv region and a Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Kherson region. Air defense systems (air defense) destroyed 6 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the DPR, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions. 4 shells of MLRS HIMARS and 5 shells of MLRS "Hurricane" and "Alder" were shot down in the DPR, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.

Crimea

After the incident on October 8, a 2-lane car traffic was launched along the Crimean bridge. Until further notice, only passenger cars are allowed to move around the facility.

In the evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, who reported that the incident on the Crimean bridge was prepared by the Ukrainian special services. Putin, in turn, stressed that this attack was aimed at destroying Russia's critical civilian infrastructure.

Zaporozhye region

Energodar and its suburbs have been de-energized since Saturday after shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, there is no water and communications in the city.

Rogov also spoke about the activity of Kyiv mercenaries near the line of contact in the region. According to the official, the Ukrainian authorities have attracted "soldiers of fortune" from more than 30 countries to the fighting in the specified zone, and the number of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and mercenaries has become even. The number of militants from Poland alone in the territory of the region controlled by Kyiv, Rogov noted, reaches 5 thousand people.

An explosive device went off on the side of a bypass road near Melitopol. The incident occurred near the village of Sadovoe, there were no reports of casualties.

Kherson region

At least 4 explosions thundered in Kherson in the evening. Local sources reported the operation of the air defense system.

Ukrainian units attempted an offensive in the area of ​​the settlement of Sadok. According to the Rybar Telegram channel, the Russian Armed Forces repulsed the attack, destroying 3 enemy tanks and 2 infantry fighting vehicles. The clearing of the forest belt south of Davydov Brod is also underway.

DNR

From the beginning of the day on October 9, Ukrainian formations opened fire in the direction of Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Makeevka, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Zaitsevo, Yakovlevka, Staromikhaylovka. As a result of the shelling of Donetsk, 2 civilians were injured, the school building and residential buildings were damaged.

After fierce fighting, the settlement of Zaitsevo, southeast of Bakhmut, was liberated. Military expert Boris Rozhin said that the village was taken and cleared by Wagner PMC fighters. The situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area continues to deteriorate.

LC

On Sunday night, Ukrainian formations attacked Starobilsk using HIMARS MLRS. As the representative of the LPR in Moscow, Rodion Miroshnik, said, the rocket fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was stuffed with shrapnel. The blow fell on the point of temporary accommodation of citizens on the outskirts of the city.

“It saved me that no one spent the night there that night. People were met, issued and taken to other places of accommodation. And it flew there, ”said Miroshnik.

Ukrainian troops continue to build up forces in the Svatov direction. According to the Rybar Telegram channel, Russian artillery and aviation are firing at the areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, forcing them to change positions.