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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief October 10th (updated)
2022-10-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:39 The Russian Armed Forces in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction repulsed a Ukrainian attack from three battalion tactical groups and units of foreign mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

23:21 The Russian Armed Forces repelled all attacks of Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 40 people - the Russian Defense Ministry.

23:11 Russian air defense systems over the past day shot down six Ukrainian drones, a Tochka-U missile, six HIMARS MLRS shells and three HARM anti-radar missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

23:07 Fighters of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the air in the Kherson region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

22:45 Strikes on the objects of the energy system of Ukraine on Monday were the largest since February, the entire supply chain was affected, Energy Minister Galushchenko said.

22:31 The goal of the massed strike with high-precision weapons against Ukraine, carried out on Monday, has been achieved, the RF Ministry of Defense reported on Monday.

22:19 A massive strike with long-range precision weapons was inflicted this morning on energy, military command and communications facilities in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

21:10 Only 35 percent of Lviv houses have electricity, half have water, reported mayor of the city Andrei Sadovy.

"As of now, electricity has been restored in 35% of the city… there is no water supply in 50 percent of the city," Sadovyi wrote on his Telegram channel.

21:08 Rolling blackouts in Ukraine may begin within a few days - head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky

20:01 Where and what flew:

Kiev (60 app.): Headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine, CHPP-5, CHPP-6, CHPP-3, Darnytska CHPP, 110 Vokzalnaya Substation, no connection.

Nikolaev region (47) National University of Shipbuilding, Warehouse 700 m2, for other inf. no.

Vinnitsa region (27) failure of the rods. substations. Other inf. no.

Kharkiv (20) De-energized! no connection, no water, the subway stopped. Kharkiv CHPP-5

Dnepropetrovsk (18): de-energized!

Lvov (15) Lvov thermal power plant, De-energized! No water, connection. other arrivals are not reported.

Odessa (15) De-energized, no damage reported.

Ivano-Frankivsk and the region: Burshtynska TPP, which exports electric power. to Europe.

Khmelnitsky: De-energized! Substation Khmelnitskaya 330/110 kV
Zhytomyr: De-energized! Substation Zhytomyr 330/110 kV, no connection!

Sumy: Substation 330kV Konotop De-energized region! There is no connection.

Ternopil: De-energized! Substation Ternopil 330/110/35 kV

Poltava: De-energized! No water, connection

Exactly: De-energized! Substation Rovno 330 kV

Krivoy Rog: Krivorozhskaya TPP, one of the largest. De-energized, no water.

Lutsk: De-energized!


19:10 Drone shot down in Dzhankoy (Crimea)

19:03 Explosions and air raids are reported in the Kursk region: they flew into a residential building and an alcohol factory in the village of Tyotkino

Two people seriously injured

18:47 The SBU search database includes:

▪️Director of the FSB Bortnikov
▪️Speaker of the State Duma Volodin
▪️Head of the National Guard Zolotov
▪️Speaker of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation Matvienko
▪️Head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu
▪️Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Naryshkin
▪️Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Patrushev
▪️Official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Konashenkov
▪️Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs M. Zakharova


17:40 EXPLOSIONS IN Kyiv

17:38 Explosions reported in Poltava

17:38 Explosions are also reported in Kremenchuk

17:38 Krivoy Rog was also hit.

17:12 A source in the OP said that Zelensky opposes any negotiations with the Kremlin, and even more so in a format without Ukraine. On Bankovaya, they will not allow the possibility of negotiations between Russia and the United States, France, Germany and Great Britain, as Erdogan suggested. Any agreements will not be legitimate, and Ukraine will continue its chosen course for the liberation of the entire territory of the country.

16:44 Air alert reported in Chernihiv

16:44 Ukrainian authorities began to turn off elevators in houses and street lighting to save electricity - Strana edition

16:44 During the morning attacks on Kyiv, the head of the department of the Cyber ​​Police Department, Colonel Yuriy Zaskoka, was destroyed. The information has already been officially confirmed.

15:26 An air raid alert has been announced again in the capital of Ukraine.

"An air alert has been declared in Kyiv. We ask everyone to urgently proceed to the shelters of civil protection," the message of the Kyiv City State Administration on the Telegram channel says.

15:26 Armed Forces of Ukraine shell Masychevo farm of Graivoron urban district

According to preliminary information, no dead or injured, two houses destroyed, 13 households hit by shrapnel

15:26 In total, 90 percent of Lviv is left without power supply - Lviv City Council

In addition, trams and trolleybuses do not run in the city, there is no hot water supply and there are communication problems.

14:34 The supply of electricity to Ukraine from Poland across the border has just been cut, a representative of the Polish border guard.

14:34 The mayor of the city of Galich in the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine announced the shelling of the Burshtyn TPP area.

13:41 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

▪️Russian troops repelled attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Kupyansk, killing more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen;

▪️Fighter aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kherson region shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force;

▪️Russian troops pushed back the Armed Forces of Ukraine to their original positions in the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy, using four company tactical groups, made unsuccessful offensive attempts;

▪️Russian rocket and artillerymen thwarted attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to build crossings across the Zherebets River in the Krasnolimansk direction.

▪️Russian troops destroyed five depots of ammunition and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR, Zaporozhye and Mykolaiv regions;

▪️Russian troops destroyed two bases for storing fuel for the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region.


13:41 Damage to Ukraine's critical infrastructure facilities led to the closure of 4 customs posts on the border with Moldova

13:41 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federationpublishesfootage of missile launches at Ukrainian facilities this morning

13:41 The result of missile strikes at 13:10

Cities were hit:
- Kiev
- Dnepropetrovsk
- Kharkov
- Zaporozhye
- Ternopil
- Odessa
- Krivoy Rog
- Lviv
- Zhytomyr
- Rivne
- Nikolaev
- Krapivnitsky
- Kremenchug
- Konotop


Strikes on important facilities:
- Headquarters of the Security Service of Ukraine (Kyiv)
- CHPP-5 (Kyiv)
- CHPP-6 (Kyiv)
- Lviv CHP (Lviv)
- Burshtynska TPP (Ivano-Frankivsk region)
- EU Advisory Mission (Kyiv)
- Department law enforcement agencies (Kyiv)


Metro in Kyiv and Kharkov stopped.

The lights went out:
- Lviv
- Zhytomyr
- Sumy
- Kharkiv
- Khmelnitsky
- Poltava
- Ternopl
- Lutsk
- Rivne
- Ivano-Frankivsk


In many cities of Ukraine, there are problems with water supply and the Internet.

12:43 Mapstrikes against Ukraine.

12:43 Effects of strike on the Kyiv thermal power plant, huge clouds of smoke rise from there.

12:43 Russian missile blows In Dnepropetrovsk.

11:58 Electricity cut off in part of the territory of the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine - RBC-Ukraine

11:58 In Ukraine, at the moment, 11 important infrastructure facilities in eight regions and in Kyiv have been damaged as a result of missile strikes - Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

11:40 Lviv was also left without electricity

11:39 Missile attack was carried out on Krivoy Rog - head of the military administration Oleksandr Vilkul

11:39 Governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced shelling from Ukraine

According to him, a woman died in Shebekino, three private houses were damaged. In the Valuisky urban district, the village of Konoplyanovka came under shelling, and one private residential building was damaged.

11:39 Kharkiv is completely de-energized after strikes on the city - authorities

10:55 Eyewitnesses report new explosions in the center of Kyiv near the SBU building

10:55 One of the attacks on Kyivfellon the tower of the 101 Tower business center in the city center - the department of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine was based in the building

Huge columns of smoke can be seen around the building. According to Readovka, it was here that the department of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine was based.

10:54 Massive missile strikes are inflicted on the Dnipropetrovsk region - the railway track is being actively shelled

At the moment, at least 6 explosions are reported.

10:54 In Kharkiv, a fire is reported in the subway - it is currently not working

In Kharkiv, in addition to hitting energy infrastructure facilities, the metro is on fire. The cause can be both a hit and a short circuit as a result of power outages - in some places, the wiring can be decades old.

10:53 Already, we can say that the response for the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge turned out to be more than worthy - Ukraine has suffered serious material and infrastructural damage. Moreover, it is important to remember that thermal power plants in Ukraine have not been built in principle since 1991. Each destroyed TPP is an irretrievable loss.

And it is also worth noting that some "arrivals" are in fact not strikes, but crookedly fired air defense missiles, which is a common thing for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, especially when using air defense systems in urban areas.

10:53 A blast wave damaged the Kyiv railway station, - UZ.

10:52 In Odessa, rockets are paired with Geraniums.

10:52 The mayor of Khmelnitsky announced a blow to the infrastructure of the city, there is no electricity and water in the regional center.

10:52 Due to lack of electricity, the operation of a thermal power plant in Lviv has been temporarily suspended, hot water is not supplied, part of the city is without electricity, a third of the traffic lights are not working - Lviv authorities

10:36 Power and water cuts in Poltava region - Lunin

10:36 Eyewitnesses report an attack on Konotop in the Sumy region

10:36 After the missile strike, the Kyiv Thermal Power Plant-6 is on fire.

10:03 A powerful explosion in Belgorod - Reuters, citing eyewitnesses.

09:57 Ukrainian media, citing the authorities, report attacks on energy infrastructure facilities in the Lviv region.

09:55 Explosions in the Poltava and Kirovograd regions - local authorities.

Also explosions in Rivne

09:54 The third series of arrivals on both sides of the Dnieper is recorded in Kyiv

09 47 Explosions are reported in Kharkov. Power went out in some areas of the city.

09:45 Ukrainian media report new explosions in Kyiv, Lvov and Dnepropetrovsk

09:44 Repeated strikes on Kremenchug.

09:40 Effects of missile attack on an administrative building in Dnepropetrovsk.

09:38 Explosions in Kremenchug.

09:34 New explosions in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk.

09:33 There are repeated explosions in Lviv.

09:31 Report on the beginning of the second wave of missile attacks on large cities of Ukraine.

09:27 Arrival in Vinnitsa.

09:26 They report interruptions with the Internet throughout Ukraine.

09:22 It is reported that electricity was lost in Lviv.

09:22 In Kyiv, the red metro line was stopped.

09:21 Electricity went out in Zhytomyr.

09:21 Explosions are heard again in Kyiv.

09:20 Explosions in Lviv.

09:18 The head of the Khmelnytsky Regional State Administration confirmed the arrivals.

09:17 Explosions are reported in Ternopil.

09:15 Kyiv Mayor Klitschko confirmed the explosions in the city center - in the Shevchenko district.

Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Gerashchenko said that the rocket fell on Volodymyrska Street, where the SBU building is located, and Zelensky's office is nearby.

09:10 Explosions are reported in Zhytomyr, Ternopil and Khmelnitsky.

A cloud of smoke rises over Dnepropetrovsk after the explosions.

08:55 Reported at least 4explosionsin the center of Kyiv.

They write that one of the rockets in Kyiv fell near the monument to Hrushevsky on the street. Vladimirskaya. This is the very center. Vladimirka is the SBU

06:55 Calculations of the MLRS "Hurricane" are burning Ukrainian militants.

Speed ​​and careful camouflage are the key to the successful operation of the Uragan MLRS. The enemy has no idea where the car is hiding. The next volley will be a surprise for the APU.

The calculation receives the coordinates of the targets, including from aerial reconnaissance. The arsenal of the division includes quadrocopters of various types and sizes. Video TK Zvezda.

06:31 Calculation of the 152mm howitzer "Msta-B" destroyed sabotage reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The saboteurs settled down in one of the houses in an abandoned garden cooperative. The coordinates of the target were transferred to the gunners. Drone operators monitored the combat mission in real time.

05:02 With the help of UAVs, the Airborne Forces discovered a column of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after which they struck with artillery and ATGMs. Six tanks were destroyed, as well as more than ten units of other armored and automotive vehicles. Video Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

0:35 Chronicle of a special military operation

for October 9, 2022

Border territories of the Russian Federation:

Ukrainian formations fired at the St. Nicholas Monastery in the village of Gornal, Kursk region.

Starobelsk direction:

In the Kupyansky sector, units of the 14th Separate Mechnaized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing on the defensive positions of the Russian forces at the Olshana-Pershotravneve line.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sinkovka, and the Russian DRG destroyed the enemy stronghold on the southern outskirts of Kupyansk-Uzlovy.

The Ukrainian command continues to concentrate forces on the front line for a further offensive on Svatovo and Kremennaya.

Soledar direction (map):

Detachments of "PMC Wagner" established full control over Zaitsevo. On the remaining sectors of the front, positional battles continue.

Lugansk region:

Ukrainian formations attacked from the HIMARS MLRS at the point of temporary accommodation of refugees in Starobilsk. Several civilians were wounded.

Donetsk direction:

Ukrainian formations again fired at Donetsk, Makeevka, Panteleymonovka, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Yakovlevka and Zaitsevo. There are casualties among civilians.

Zaporozhye direction:

The Ukrainian command continues to pull personnel and armored vehicles to Orekhov and Gulyaipol.

Russian rocket troops and artillery attacked enemy positions in Gulyaipolsky, Poltavka, Charivnoye and Svobodny.

Southern Front: Nikolaevsko-Berislavsky section (map)

The sabotage and reconnaissance group of the 63rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to penetrate the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Maksimovka, but came under fire and retreated to the starting lines.

Units of the 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade tried to storm Russian positions near the village of Sadok. Soldiers of the RF Armed Forces repulsed the attack.

The Ukrainian command is transferring armored vehicles of the 17th tank brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the Belyaevka area. The forces of the 60th Infantry Brigade are on full alert before a possible attack on Pyatikhatki. Reported by telegram - Rybar channel.

Posted by:badanov

#6   Another set of Badanov visitors at the judgment seat of Christ and his Russian or wannabe Russian American supporters:

https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1579849665226629121

Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-11 13:54  

#5   Or Ukraine is destroying the Russian Army and Putin will be executed cause Russian leaders can't lose wars they start and here's another lady Bandonov and his American fascist friends get to face when judgment day comes:

https://twitter.com/NikaMelkozerova/status/1579811339547324417
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-11 13:03  

#4  Shock’ & Awe will likely progress in three stages.

First: Overload of the Ukrainian air defense system (already on).

Second: Plunging Ukraine into the Dark Ages (already in progress).

Third: Destruction of all major military installations (the next wave).


Ukraine is about to embrace nearly total darkness in the next few days. Politically, that opens a completely new ball game.

Considering Moscow’s trademark “strategic ambiguity,” this could be a sort of Desert Storm remixed (massive air strikes preparing a ground offensive); or, more likely, an ‘incentive’ to force NATO to negotiate; or just a relentless, systematic missile offensive mixed with Electronic Warfare (EW) to shatter for good Kiev’s capacity to wage war.

Or it could be all of the above.
Posted by: Palermo   2022-10-11 10:12  

#3  A detailed summary that includes precise operational details of the Krymsky Most operation that began with Mi6 operatives in Bulgaria is here. This is based on Russian intel that was deliberately leaked to Russian journalist Alexander Kots. An excerpt:

The perfect red line trifecta

Already, over the weekend, it was clear the ultimate red line had been crossed. Russian public opinion and media were furious. For all its status as an engineering marvel, Krymsky Most represents not only critical infrastructure; it is the visual symbol of the return of Crimea to Russia.

Moreover, this was a personal terror attack on Putin and the whole Russian security apparatus.

So we had, in sequence, Ukrainian terrorists blowing up Darya Dugina’s car in a Moscow suburb (they admitted it); US/UK special forces (partially) blowing Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 (they admitted and then retracted); and the terror attack on Krymsky Most (once again: admitted then retracted).

Not to mention the shelling of Russian villages in Belgorod, NATO supplying long-range weapons to Kiev, and the routine execution of Russian soldiers.

Enter ‘Commander Armageddon’

The face of Russian Shock’n Awe is Russian Commander of the Aerospace Forces, Army General Sergey Surovikin: the new commander-in-chief of the now totally centralized SMO/CTO.

Questions were being asked non-stop: why didn’t Moscow take this decision way back in February? Well, better late than never. Kiev is now learning they messed with the wrong guy. Surovikin is widely respected – and feared: his nickname is “General Armageddon.” Others call him “Cannibal.” Legendary Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov – also a colonel general in the Russian military – lavishly praises Surovikin as “a real general and warrior, an experienced, strong-willed and far-sighted commander.”

Surovikin has been commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces since 2017; was awarded the title of Hero of Russia for his no-nonsense leadership of the military operation in Syria; and had on the ground experience in Chechnya in the 1990s.

Surovikin is Dr. Shock’n Awe with full carte blanche. That even rendered idle speculations that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov were removed or forced to resign, as speculated by the Wagner group Telegram channel Grey Zone.

It is still possible that Shoigu – widely criticized for recent Russian military setbacks – could be eventually replaced by Tula Governor Alexei Dyumin, and Gerasimov by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Matovnikov.

That’s almost irrevelant: all eyes are on Surovikin.
Posted by: Palermo   2022-10-11 10:04  

#2  Now this shit’s getting real. The West has staged three terrorist acts in a row, and Russia has responded by designating this as a War on Terror — no different from attacking ISIS.

Shock & Awe has begun. The Russian people are outraged by the Mi6-directed terror attacks and are demanding that Russia take the gloves off.

Tellingly, the new commander of the Russian forces is the universally-admired hardass who led Russian troops in the successful campaigns in Syria and Chechnya. The deadwood and corrupt hacks have been cleared out. Now Russia will get serious and flatten Ukraine the way it flattened the terrorizes in Syria and Grozny.
Posted by: Palermo   2022-10-11 09:56  

#1   I think Putin has made many errors in judgment and the biggest one was it is his culture that is similar to Hitler's Germany, not open and free Ukraine. Russia is the state of slaves, not Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1579820810751324160
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-11 09:23  

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