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Russo-Ukraine War - 26 October 2022 - Day 245

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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 24 October 2022, the governor of Russia's Belgorod region announced that an explosive device had damaged the railway near the village of Novozybkovo, approximately 15km from the Russia-Belarus border. The line is the main rail link between Russia and southern Belarus.

The Russian anti-war group 'Stop the Wagons' (STW) claimed responsibility for the incident. This is at least the sixth incident of sabotage against Russian railway infrastructure claimed by STW since June, and part of a wider trend of dissident attacks against railways in both Russian and Belarus. The Russian authorities have previously clamped down on STW's online presence.

The Russia military primarily relies on rail transport for deploying forces to Ukraine, but with a network extending to over 33,000km, largely transiting isolated areas, the system is extremely challenging to secure against physical threats. The Russian leadership will be increasingly concerned that even a small group of citizens has been sufficiently opposed to the conflict to resort to physical sabotage.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported Russia is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions. At the same time, he does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas.

During the day, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ivanhrad, Andriyivka, Soledar, Kurdyumivka, Krasnohorivka, Novomykhailivka, Nevelske, Maryinka, and Kamianka of the Donetsk oblast.

Russia is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, carrying out fortification equipment of positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population. During the day, Russian forces launched a rocket attack and launched 11 MLRS attacks.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the Republic of Belarus remains.

Russian forces shelled in other directions:

in the Slobozhanskyi direction - with the use of mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bochkove, Vilkhuvatka, Budarki, Chugunivka, Shevchenkove, Strilecha and Dvorichna;
in the Kupyansk direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Berestovka, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Pishchane, Pershotravneve, Fiholivka and Krokhmalne;
in the Lyman direction - from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Vyshneve, Hrekivka, Hryhorivka, Nevske, Serhiivka and Zarichne settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Soledar, Ivanhrad, Toretsk, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk and Ozaryanivka;
in the Avdiivka direction, enemy shelling was recorded in the areas of Maryinka, Vodyane, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske, Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske and Novokalynivka settlements.

On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions, Russian forces carried out artillery fire in the areas of the settlements of Orihiv, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Novopil, Neskuchne, and Poltavka.

Areas of settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire in the South Buh direction. The city of Nikopol was directly affected by the fire of Russian jet artillery. Russia continues to equip defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

Russian invaders are restricting the right of free movement of civilians in the temporarily occupied territories. So, local residents of Pershotravneve settlement of Kharkiv oblast are prohibited from leaving the village.

In the Russian Federation, work continues on replenishment of combat losses. The recruitment by representatives of private military campaigns of prisoners in prisons in the city of Bryansk and Bryansk region was noted.

According to the updated information, the results of fire damage to the enemy during the last days have been confirmed. Thus, in the districts of Korzhov and Mykolaivka settlements of the Luhansk region, Russian forces lost up to 60 people, including at least 10 officers.

During the day, the aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the area where the enemy's manpower, weapons and military equipment were concentrated. During the day, units of missile troops and artillery struck 3 control points, 6 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 warehouses with ammunition and 5 other important Rusian military objects.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Ukrainian nationalists do not stop trying to commit sabotage in the regions previously liberated by the Russian army. Volodymyr Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that a cache with weapons was found in a garage near the regional television and radio company ZaTV. It was found during an investigation into a recent terrorist attack in front of a company building that injured 12 people. The garage contained six TNT sticks, five grenades, a plastid-based explosive device, a large number of detonators and fuses, and a grenade launcher.

Acting Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo said that the ongoing attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station are in most cases repelled by Russian air defense systems. According to him, only a small part of the shells reaches the target, the rest are knocked down in the air.

At the same time, the Russian military strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine, destroying enemy concentrations and infrastructure facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The situation in the LDNR

Also, the militants continue shelling the territory of Donbass. In the afternoon, Donetsk, Mikhailovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Shirokaya Balka and Golmovsky were attacked several times.

According to military expert Boris Rozhin on his Telegram channel, the Russian Armed Forces, after repulsing the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Limansk direction, launched a counteroffensive and drove the enemy out of Makiivka and Novosadovoe, and also defeated the bridgehead of Ukrainian troops on the eastern bank of the Zherebets River, fighting continues in Terny, Yampolovka and Torsk. Also, Russian units repelled another attack on their positions in the Kuzemovka area in the Svatovsky direction.