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[Korrespondent] 22:01 The Russians attacked the Kherson region from five SU aircraft - according to preliminary information, they fired nine guided bombs at four settlements in the Berislavsky region. Information about casualties and damage is being established, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
21:52 The DPRK has established regular supplies of ammunition to Russia - experts from the British Royal Defense Studies Institute (RUSI) came to this conclusion after analyzing dozens of satellite images taken over the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet in Fokino (Primorsky Territory) and the North Korean port of Rason.
In August, satellites recorded two Russian bulk carriers, Angara and Maria, which in total at least five times delivered several hundred containers to the ports of the DPRK, and then removed others from there. During flights, they hid their geolocation by turning off their transponders. The final point of the containers' route was an ammunition depot in Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory, 200 km from the border with Ukraine. The territory of this warehouse has expanded significantly since August 2023.
21:40 Over the past week, the Russian army has not achieved a quick breakthrough in the Avdeevka area of the Donetsk region. The occupiers had a rather slow pace of advance, analysts say. However, the Russians will most likely continue offensive operations in this area, but after regrouping. More details can be found in the article Russian Losses near Avdeevka .
21:14 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - they discussed, in particular, the development of Ukrainian hydroelectric power generation, defense cooperation, and global security challenges. The President thanked Trudeau for his willingness to help with the evacuation of Ukrainians from the Gaza Strip and invited a Canadian representative to the next meeting of advisers, which “will take place soon.”
20:33 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of Finland Sauli Niinostyo, thanked for the 19th defense assistance package and effective participation in the implementation of the Peace Formula, in particular the clause on radiation and nuclear safety.
20:29 In the Donetsk region, the Defense Forces shot down the third enemy Su-25 attack aircraft in a week, said the commander of the Tavria group of troops, Alexander Tarnavsky.
19:55 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that he had a conversation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and emphasized the importance of supporting Ukraine: “I talked with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban about the situation in Ukraine and the importance of our support. At a time of increasing instability and global competition, we must continue to be strong together in NATO."
18:28 NSDC Secretary Alexey Danilov said that the FSB of the Russian Federation is now making active attempts to form a new intelligence network in Ukraine: “In the future, we are talking about the deployment of a political project focused on the remnants of the pro-Russian population, and in parallel with this, an information intervention is being carried out with attempts to undermine the process of internal Ukrainian destabilization."
According to Danilov, signs of such activity are “the sharp activation of various ‘experts’, ‘actor intelligence officers’ and other swindlers in promoting the Russian agenda in Russian.” They are the ones who talk about the “failure” of the counteroffensive, hint at the need to reconsider the goals of the war, give out advice on how to fight the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and give out false insights about “conflicts” among the military-political leadership. Danilov emphasized that Ukrainian law enforcement officers “carefully monitor manifestations of such hostile actions, identifying and suppressing them.”
17:36 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with the US Special Representative for the Economic Recovery of Ukraine Penny Pritzker. We discussed primarily the protection of energy infrastructure and the needs for the reconstruction of Ukraine, macro-financial support and the use of frozen Russian assets.
17:07 The Office of the President confirmed that Ukraine is returning home four children previously illegally deported by Russia. These are three boys - six, three and nine years old, as well as a 17-year-old girl.
16:59 In the port of Mariupol, Russians are unloading the first of three ships that recently arrived in the city. The video shows a large number of concrete reinforcements for dugouts, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko.
16:24 Almost all imported drones used by Russia were supplied from China, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said at a meeting of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes: “Today, drones are mostly from the People’s Republic of China. We are grateful to our partners. But we need to develop our own resource base, and the necessary money has been allocated... We are directing additional money to drones."
He clarified that the government has allocated more than 60 billion rubles for a new national project to develop its own unmanned base. “The goal is this: by 2025, 41% of all drones should be labeled “made in Russia,” Siluanov said.
16:07 US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, during a meeting with the heads of financial departments of EU countries, assured that support for Ukraine remains the “top priority” for Washington amid the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
15:19 Putin announced the completion of repairs to the bridge in occupied Mariupol, through which the road to Crimea passes: “The major repairs of the bridge in Mariupol have been completed, which will restore transport links between several districts of the city. What is especially important is that this will speed up movement along the federal highway towards Crimea, will increase its transport accessibility."
14:34 The number of female military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has increased by 40% compared to 2021, the Ministry of Defense reports. Over two years, the number of women in the army increased by 12 thousand, to almost 43 thousand. During this time, the Ministry of Defense lifted all restrictions on the access of female military personnel to all positions. So, if previously women could serve in positions primarily in medical professions, communications specialists, accountants, clerks and cooks, now a woman in the army can be a driver, grenade launcher, deputy reconnaissance group commander, infantry fighting vehicle commander, repairman, machine gunner, sniper, etc.
In addition, previously the contract for military service was concluded by women from 18 to 40 years old, while men had no such restriction. Now, from 18 to 60 years old, representatives of both sexes can become contract soldiers.
13:40 British intelligence believes that the Redoubt PMC, controlled and financed by the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, has actually replaced the Wagner group: it is recruiting mercenaries under the guise of “volunteers,” including former Wagnerites. The group probably numbers more than 7,000 people. According to analysts, this approach helps Russia avoid declaring mobilization.
13:27 During the attack on Avdeevka, Donetsk region, the Russian army has already lost more than 200 military personnel, as well as more than 60 tanks and armored personnel carriers, writes Bild military analyst Julian Repke. According to him, the Russian plan was to create a large cauldron by bypassing Avdeevka from the west. To do this, they wanted to capture the villages of Severnoye, Stepnoye and Berdychi. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to stop the advance of the Russian army near Severny and on the railway line in Stepnoy.
According to the analyst's forecasts, Russian troops, despite the losses, do not intend to abandon the offensive on Avdeevka. In this regard, he suggests that Avdeevka can repeat the fate of Bakhmut.
12:56 The Russian authorities, even without mobilization, recruit tens of thousands of people into the army per month, said Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate. At the same time, according to him, everything is organizationally ready in the Russian Federation for open mobilization: “The machine is being prepared for new waves of mobilization. Legally, legislation and the powers of repressive bodies are increasing in such a way that at any moment an unexpected announcement of a decision on a new wave of mobilization cannot meet tangible resistance."
12:23 The media showed a map of Russia’s night strikes on Ukraine:
Russian attack on Ukraine on the night of October 16
11:25 US Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine Penny Pritzker has arrived in Kiev, US Ambassador Bridget Brink said. This is Pritzker's first visit to Ukraine since her appointment to this post in September 2023.
10:51 At night, the Russians attacked the Khmelnitsky region with attack drones, OVA reported. Air defense forces were working, there was no destruction or casualties.
10:18 Three Ukrainian children taken to the Russian Federation will be handed over to Qatari diplomats in Moscow this week. This is part of the mechanism created by Qatar to return children to Ukraine, writes Reuters. Recently, Qatar has already facilitated the return of one Ukrainian child who is traveling with his grandmother to Ukraine through Estonia. Qatari diplomats will accompany the children across the border into Estonia, Latvia or Belarus or into Qatar on a charter plane before returning to Ukraine.
Qatar's Minister of State for International Cooperation, Al Khater, said this is only the first step - the system created by Qatar after months of negotiations with Kiev and Moscow is now being tested. The Commissioner for Children's Rights of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, provided a team of Qatari diplomats with a short initial list of Ukrainian children who need to be returned. Diplomats checked each child.
09:46 The Russians attacked the Kirovograd region at night with missiles and drones, there were hits, said the head of the OVA Andrei Raikovich. One person was injured, but no civilian infrastructure was damaged.
09:10 In the Kharkov region, over the past 24 hours, the enemy has been shelling settlements in the Bogodukhovsky, Chuguevsky, Kupyansky and Izyumsky districts. One person was wounded in the village of Borovaya, Izyumsky district, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the local police department.
09:07 Over the past 24 hours, the Russians carried out 134 strikes on 23 settlements in the Zaporozhye region, one person was wounded in Malaya Tokmachka, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
09:00 From October 16, Ukrainian citizens, according to the decision of the Russian government, are allowed to enter Russia only through two border crossings: through the land crossing with Latvia Vientuli-Ludonka and through Sheremetyevo airport. However, from the same day Latvia closes the Vientuli-Ludonka border crossing. Thus, from today, Ukrainians will be able to enter Russia only through Sheremetyevo Airport. Citizens of Ukraine will be able to leave the Russian Federation through any border crossing.
08:37 At night, the Russians attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region with missiles: one was shot down, the second hit the territory of the Dnieper region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. In addition, the enemy hit the Nikopol region five times with heavy artillery and Grad MLRS. In Nikopol, two shops and two cafes, a private enterprise, a religious institution, a transport facility and a public garden, a five-story residential building, three private houses, a gas pipeline and four power lines were damaged. About 1,500 families were left without electricity. In the Marganets community, two houses, a religious site and electrical networks were damaged. No people were hurt.
08:29 Air defense at night destroyed two of the five Kh-59 guided missiles and 11 of the 12 Shahed-136/131 UAVs with which Russia attacked Ukraine, the Air Force command reported. In addition, the enemy used one Iskander M ballistic missile. The Russian Federation used aircraft missiles to attack the northern and eastern regions of Ukraine, and the enemy sent drones in different directions, in particular to the west.
08:25 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 16:
personnel - about 288,630 (+860) people,
tanks - 4965 (+17),
armored combat vehicles - 9385 (+23),
artillery systems - 6910 (+44),
MLRS - 814 (+1),
air defense systems - 547 (+0),
aircraft - 318 (+1),
helicopters - 317 (+1),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5280 (+11),
cruise missiles - 1531 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9271 (+22),
special equipment - 981 (+5).
07:51 At night, the Russians attacked the Poltava region with missiles and UAVs, and the sounds of explosions were heard in the Mirgorod region, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin. According to him, there were no hits on civilian or critical infrastructure, but several private homes were damaged by rocket debris. According to preliminary information, three people were injured, including one ten-year-old child.
07:28 Over the past 24 hours, about 70 military clashes took place, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, conducted unsuccessful assault operations in the areas of Avdeevka, Keramik, Stepnoy, Tonenkoye, and Northern Donetsk region. In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Bakhmutsky - in the area of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka area of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the area north of Priyutnoye, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Rabotino district of the Zaporozhye region.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol direction and are conducting assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
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[LB] Chernihiv, Poltava, Khmelnytsky, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy were attacked.
At night, the enemy attacked the Khmelnytskyi region with "shaheds". Air defense forces were working. There are no damages or casualties, the summary from OVA says as of this morning.
In Poltava , the enemy attacked Myrhorodskyi district with rockets and UAVs at night. There were no hits to civilian or critical infrastructure, but several private houses were damaged by the missile debris. According to preliminary information, three people were injured, including a ten-year-old child. All were taken to the hospital. There are no casualties.
In Kirovohradsk , the enemy attacked with rockets and drones at night. Air defense was working. There is a collision, the data on the hits is being clarified. There is no destruction of civil infrastructure.
There were two shellings (five explosions) in Chernihivska during the day. The enemy launched unguided aerial missiles twice - explosions were recorded in Semenivska and Novgorod-Siverska communities. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
In Luhansk, the number of enemy airstrikes on liberated villages increased. Nadiya, Bilogorivka, Novolyubivka, the territory of Serebryan Forestry were affected yesterday. During the day, the enemy fired 136 rounds (563 shells).
Udy, Vovchanski Khutory, Gatishche, Budarki were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks in the Kharkiv region last night in the Slobozhansk direction . In the Kupian direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled more than 15 enemy attacks in the Sinkivka and Ivanovka areas. About 10 settlements, in particular, Kamianka, Sinkivka, Kucherivka, Ivanivka, were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling. Pischane, Druzhelyubivka, Cherneshchyna were hit by airstrikes. Yesterday morning, a 65-year-old woman was hospitalized, who was injured as a result of shelling. Yesterday afternoon, the Rashtists shelled Hlushkivka. A private residential building and a garage were damaged. As a result of shelling in Vovchansk, an apartment building and a private building were damaged. In the evening, the enemy attacked Cherneshchyna with a guided aerial bomb. A private house was damaged. There are no casualties. In Kamianka, a 14-year-old boy stepped on a "Petal" mine. Hospitalized with a traumatic foot amputation.
In Zaporizhzhia, the occupiers struck 134 attacks on 23 settlements in the region. There were 111 shellings on the territory of Gulyaipol, Orikhov, Novoandriivka, Malynyvka, Biloghirya, Levadny, Robotyny, Kamiansky, Stepovoy, Plavny, Maly Shcherbaki and other frontline towns and villages. The enemy carried out missile strikes on Dniprovka and Prydolynivka, seven UAV attacks on Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Malynivka, Poltavaka, Chervony and Stepovoy, nine RSZV attacks on Orikhov, Novodanilivka, Robotyny, Biloghirya and Malaya Tokmachka, and also hit five bombed Orikhov, Novodarivka and Malia Tokmachka with airstrikes. A 76-year-old woman was injured as a result of artillery shelling by Russian servicemen in Malia Tokmachka. There were six reports of the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities.
In Sumy at night, the Russians carried out two mortar attacks on the Krasnopil community. 13 explosions were recorded. No consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 11 shelling of the border. 85 explosions were recorded. The communities of Velikopysarivsk, Shalyginsk, Yunakivsk, Krasnopilsk came under fire. No consequences
The aggressor attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with rockets at night. One was shot down by military personnel from PvK "East". The other aimed at the territory of the Dnipro district. Five times the enemy hit the Nikopol district. He used heavy artillery and "Grad" salvo rocket systems. In Nikopol, two shops and a cafe, a private enterprise, a religious institution, a transport facility, and a public square were damaged. A five-story building, three private houses, an outbuilding, a car and a traffic stop were mutilated. A gas pipeline and four power lines were affected. Almost one and a half thousand families remained without electricity. Two houses, a religious object and power grids were damaged in the Marganets community.
Yesterday afternoon, the enemy directed heavy artillery on the Nikopol and Kryvorizky districts. In the first, he targeted the district center, Pokrovska and Marganetska communities. In total, 20 private houses, five farm buildings and a warehouse were damaged there. Power lines were also broken. Almost 1,900 families remained without electricity in three villages. They have already been partially healed. As a result of the shelling, some houses in the Hrushivska community of the Kryvorizka district were also without power, experts restored the networks.
In Donetsk last day, 18 settlements were under the fire of Rashists: Avdiyivka, Kostyantynivka, Kurakhove, Sloviansk, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Kurakhivka, Ocheretine, Arkhangelske, Verkhnyokamianske, Hannivka, Diliivka, Kolodyazi, Markove, Netaylove, Novoselivka Persha, Novoukrainka, Solovyove. 25 residential buildings were damaged (three of them multi-apartment buildings), a workshop of Universal Keram LLC, an outbuilding, a garage, three civilian cars, a transmission line, a transformer substation, a building of the Palace of Culture, a truck, a church, a boiler room, and a gas pipe. In Donetsk in a day: four wounded.
In Mykolaivska yesterday afternoon and tonight, the enemy fired artillery and anti-aircraft fire at Ochakov and its coast. There are no casualties. Also yesterday evening, enemy artillery shelling was recorded on the settlement of Kutsurubsk community. No casualties.
In Khersonska region, the enemy fired 97 rounds (514 shells) during the day, of which nine rounds (40 shells) were fired at Kherson. The rioters targeted the districts of 31 settlements of the region, the building of an educational institution in Beryslav district; enterprise in Kherson district, enterprise in Kherson. Last night, as a result of an attack on Kizomys, a 79-year-old local resident came under fire. He was hospitalized with serious injuries. Doctors performed an operation and continue to fight for his life. Yesterday morning, the occupiers fired again from the aircraft. Two guided aerial bombs were released on the outskirts of Kherson. Residential buildings and infrastructure were hit.
Another 21 KAB were issued in eight settlements of Beryslav and Kherson districts. The occupiers set fire to the Golden Beam. About 28 arrivals were recorded. A private house and farm buildings were hit. The kindergarten building was also damaged.
We will remind, during the past day, about 70 combat clashes took place. The enemy also launched another air and missile attack on Ukraine, using Kh-59 guided air missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Shahed-136/131 type UAVs. Information regarding the consequences of this terrorist attack is currently being clarified.
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[VESTI] The Russians plan to advance on Avdeevka, despite the losses. The city can repeat the fate of Bakhmut.
According to Ripke, columns of more than 100 units of equipment went to attack the Russian Federation, and more than 60 tanks and armored personnel carriers were lost, more than 200 soldiers were killed.
Quote from Bild military analyst Julian Ripke : “The initial plan of the Russian Federation was to bypass the garden from the west, capturing the villages of Severnoye, Stepnoye and Berdichi, and encircle them. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to stop the Russians near Severnoye and on the railway line in Stepnoye.”
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems repelled 10 attacks of assault detachments of the AFU 68th Jaeger, 32nd, 44th and 115th Mechanised Brigades near Sinkovka, Ivanovka, Novoyegorovka, (Kharkov region), and Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic).
In addition, Russian forces delivered strikes on manpower and hardware of AFU 112th Territorial Defence, 14th Mechanised, 95th Air Assault Brigades near Petropavlovka, Kupyansk, and Petrovskoye (Kharkov region).
Up to 85 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, and two 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems have been eliminated in this direction during the day.
In Krasny Liman direction, two attacks launched by assault detachments of the 67th Mechanised Brigade and the 12th Special Forces Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry were repelled by coordinated efforts of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopter strikes, and artillery fire.
In addition, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Torskoye, Serebryanka, and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one pickup truck, as well as two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled 10 attacks of AFU assault detachments near Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, and Mariynka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Ground-attack aircraft launched strikes at manpower and hardware of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade, 53rd, 93rd, and 110th Mechanised Brigades close to Belogorovka, Kurdyumovka, Belaya Gora, and Georgiyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's casualties were up to 460 Ukrainian personnel killed and wounded, three tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, and 12 motor vehicles.
In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit two U.S.-made M777 artillery systems, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer.
In addition, an ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU was destroyed near Slavyansk (Donetsk People's Republic).
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 58th ad 72nd Mechanised, and 128th Territorial Defence Brigades near Novomikhailovka, Ugledar, and Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
During the day, the enemy's losses in this direction have amounted to over 70 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer, and 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
Two ammunition depots have been annihilated close to Zelenyi Gai and Alekseyevka (Zaporozhye region).
In Zaporozhye direction, one AFU attack close to Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region) was repelled by actions of the Russian Group of Forces, air strikes and artillery fire.
In addition, AFU manpower and hardware have been hit close to Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 55 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and two pick-up trucks.
In counter-battery warfare, the Russian troops hit one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.
In Kherson direction, up to 65 Ukrainian troops, 12 motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, as well as an electronic warfare radar.
Two AFU ammunition depots were wiped out close to Nikolskoye and Kherson (Kherson region).
One AFU sabotage and reconnaissance group was disabled close on Korabelka Island.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 119 areas during the day.
One P-18 air target detection and tracking radar station was destroyed near Sergeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Missile-artillery armament depots and aviation fuel storage facilities were hit close to Khmelnitsky and on the airfield of Starokonstantinov (Khmelnitsky region). One communication centre was destroyed on the Mirgorod airfield (Poltava region).
Russian air defence means have shot down two Su-25 airplanes and MiG-29 of Ukrainian Air Force near Arkhangelskoye (Kherson region), Dmitrovka and Zvonetskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region). In addition, two HIMARS MLRS projectiles have been intercepted.
Moreover, 31 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down near Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Vasilevka, Yelenovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Kamenskoye, Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region), and Aleshki and Krynki (Kherson region).
In total, 491 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,919 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 12,673 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,163 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,788 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 14,356 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:56 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/16/2023 to 00:00 10/17/2023
Over the past 24 hours Representative office reported about 19 facts of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a man, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
No damage to residential buildings and civil infrastructure was recorded.
The areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky, Kirovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 11 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlivske there were five artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
At Yasinovatsky there were three artillery attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
A total of 64 units of various ammunition were fired.
A previous15 artillery attacks were recorded from the VFU per day.
21:50 APU hit FPV drone on our pickup truck, which was transporting Ukrainian prisoners of war.
The drone flew straight to the prisoners of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
They had no chance to survive.
21:25 NGP exploration reports: news from the Kherson direction An enemy group of up to a platoon crossed the Dnieper and landed on the left bank, north of the village of Peschanovka.
Even with a strong desire, it would be difficult to choose a worse place for landing; these are already NATO standards or not yet.
The Russian Armed Forces are working on new arrivals.
21:00 Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman hit captured without even reaching the front line
Mobilized serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Vitaly Sidyukov said that he was initially declared unfit for service for health reasons, but this did not prevent him from conducting a second medical examination and still sending him to the front.
Vitaly, who did not even serve under conscription, was sent for training, then to an active unit and to the front.
On August 19, having reached the dismounting point in the Kupyansky district in an infantry fighting vehicle, his squad came under fire. Everyone ran away. “The escort may have heard or realized something, but he sharply ordered them to run in all directions, to the sides and through the bushes. The “arrivals” began. I lay down for about ten minutes, no more. It calmed down. I started to get out onto the road,” said prisoner of war Sidyukov.
Vitaly assures that after the strikes stopped, he could not find his colleagues. As a result, the serviceman had to wander around the plantings for several days. Having never reached the position and once again coming under fire, he was captured by Russian military personnel, who immediately helped him, fed him and evacuated him to a safe place.
20:25 NGP exploration reports: news from the Donetsk direction.
In the area of Novoselovka-1, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
19:32 Situation in the Kupyansky and Svatovo-Kreminny directions
In the Kupyansk direction, our army is supported by the Aerospace Forces, heavy artillery and MLRS. Promotion in the area of Sin'kovka, Petropavlovka and Ivanovka. Several strong points and fortifications were taken. Our army continued to strengthen its positions in previously occupied positions.
In the Svatovo-Kremenny direction, our army carried out a number of attacks in the area of the villages of Stelmakhovka and Nadezhda. During the offensive operations, our fighters advanced 600-700 meters in the direction of the river Oskol.
19:00 From the Avdeevsky direction, the Front Bird reports:
Our VKS continue to hit enemy rear positions, using various types of ammunition. In particular, FABs and air-to-ground missiles are used.
The enemy today is trying to actively snap back and throw DRGs at our various positions. AGS-17 copes well with such “heroes”.
18:45 On October 16, the operational lines of the DPR JCCC received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
– at 88 Journalists Ave., a man born in 1961 was injured as a result of an explosion on a PFM “Lepestok” mine.
As of October 16, 137 cases of bombing of civilians were registered, incl. 10 children, on PFM-1 Lepestok mines. Three of the victims died as a result of their injuries.
17:40 In the DPR from 10/09/23. – 10/15/23. Five civilians (including 1 child) were killed due to the aggression of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, another 13 people were injured. This was reported by the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic.
16:30 In none of the offensive campaigns - spring, summer or autumn - the Ukrainian Armed Forces achieved significant success at the front, Shoigu emphasized at the meeting with Putin.
The Minister of Defense noted that the enemy continues to attempt an offensive, but is faced with active defense in all directions: “In many areas we are able to improve the tactical situation.”
15:25 Kherson direction situation as of 15.00 October 16, 2023
Yesterday evening, a Ukrainian sabotage group landed on the left bank of the Dnieper. The DRG, operating from a bridgehead north-west of Podstepnoye, attacked positions near the Kazachi Lagery.
Another unit, which landed on Frolov Island the day before, began artillery attack the village of Krynki. As a result of the fighting, the attacks were repulsed. The group that operated on Aleshkinsky Island retreated to its western part, and the one that was on Frolov Island came under attack.
In anticipation of this, on October 13 and 14, the Ukrainian Armed Forces transferred up to 80 people on 16 boats to the islands of Aleshkinsky, Alekseevsky, Antonovsky, Melkiy and Frolova. Somewhere this was due to reinforcement, but somewhere to rotation and removal of the wounded and killed due to regular attacks by the Russian Army.
Now the situation on the Dnieper is relatively stable. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have noticeably increased the number of artillery attack of Russian positions on the left bank, using HIMARS MLRS and cluster munitions.
Mortar crews of the 35th Infantry Regiment are stationed in Ponyatovka, which indicates the transfer of forces of the Katran strike group to the front line. Along the Ingulets River, the movement of columns, probably of marine brigades, is noted.
This indicates the imminent activation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Kherson. Yesterday's foray and the appearance of bards in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, apparently, was a test of the state of defense along the Dnieper, and such attacks will become more frequent in the future.
14:00 Consequences of the artillery attack of the Kyiv region of Donetsk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck with 155mm cluster munitions -video.
13:48 Why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasingly losing Western artillery: analysis Military chronicle.
The main advantage of modern artillery systems supplied by the West to Ukraine was the ability to use high-precision and long-range ammunition. In combination with intelligence supplied by NATO, this made it possible to use a number of systems in the role of artillery long-range sniper rifles to engage high-value targets at long range.
However, precision-guided 155mm ammunition has always been produced and supplied by an order of magnitude less than conventional high-explosive fragmentation ammunition. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not have high-precision or long-range ammunition for Soviet-type artillery, with the exception of a limited amount of ammunition for Soviet guns, for example 203mm 2S7 "Pion".
In addition, the use of high-precision rounds by artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was influenced by two key events.
Firstly, the Russian Armed Forces intensified attacks on the rear, as a result of which the already depleted supply of 155mm rounds, including long-range and high-precision rounds, was reduced to critical levels.
Secondly, in addition to the critical decline in ammunition levels, there was a shortage of combat-ready artillery systems.
What consequences did this lead to: firstly, artillery, including “sniper rifles”, have to be pulled closer to the front line, where they quickly fall into the field of view of reconnaissance assets of the Russian Armed Forces and the engagement zone of a whole range of weapons - cannon artillery, aviation , UAV and so on.
Thus, the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is deprived of the main advantage that Western artillery systems gave them - the advantage in range.
Secondly, to hit a target, self-propelled guns need to stay in one place longer in order to fire a sufficient number of conventional high-explosive fragmentation rounds. For example, if, according to US Army standards, only three 155mm Excalibur rounds were required to defeat an infantry platoon, then to solve the same fire task it is necessary to fire 43 conventional M795 OFS. Taking into account the fact that the response time of counterbattery units of the RF Armed Forces has been reduced to a minimum, and separate artillery units are allocated to hunt Western howitzers, the chances of quickly detecting and defeating a Western self-propelled gun increase significantly.
The shortage of precision-guided ammunition and equipment is not the only problem of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian artillery in the Northern Military District zone cannot afford to concentrate forces and practically does not fire in platoons, batteries, and especially divisions, but often uses individual self-propelled guns. With this scheme for using artillery, a dependence begins to work: the fewer barrels fire at one target, the more rounds each barrel must fire. The longer each gun will spend in the firing position.
Even the latest systems, such as the French CAESAR wheeled self-propelled guns, are forced to remain in a firing position until they are completely fired, losing another key advantage - mobility. The longer they are in a firing position, the greater the chance that they will be discovered and destroyed.
13:36 Zaporozhye Front, Verbovoy area, reports the Diary of the Paratrooper:
Right now the enemy launched a strong assault. There are battles on the western and northwestern outskirts of Verbovoye. The artillery does not stop for a second.
13:24 Kupyansky section situation as of 13.00 October 16, 2023
Near Kupyansk, units of the “West” group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive. Russian troops, with the support of artillery and aviation, are gradually advancing in the direction of Sin'kovka, where the defense is held by the forces of the 105th Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Due to the rather difficult situation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces transferred tank units of the 40th Rifle Battalion of the 41st Infantry Brigade to Dvurechnaya. From there, enemy tanks fire at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces on the opposite bank of Oskol, as well as near Novomlynsk.
In addition, mechanized detachments of the 3rd battalion of the 54th Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces arrived in the vicinity of Dvurechnaya. According to some reports, the command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces intends to conduct a counterattack to regain lost positions.
A similar transfer is noted in the southeast of Kupyansk. Up to 150 people from the so-called “Ukrainian Volunteer Army” arrived at Novoosinovo, Petropavlovka and Peschany. And for the continuous supply of the group, pontoon crossings have been restored in Kupyansk and Kupyansk-Uzlovoy.
13:10 Statement Head of the press center of the "South" group:
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled an attack by the assault group of the 2nd battalion of the 56th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhovo-Vasilevka area.
An attack by the 112th Territorial Defense Brigade and two attacks by units of the 5th Assault Brigade in the Kleshcheevka area were also repelled.
In the Dubovo-Vasilievka area, units of the 1st AK repelled an attack by the assault group of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Artillery inflicted fire on a strong point of enemy units in the area of the village of Vyemka, Donetsk People's Republic.
During the counterbattery fight, a 152mm D-20 gun was destroyed in the area of the village of Dyleyevka, 152mm self-propelled guns "Akatsiya" and 152mm "Msta-B" in the areas of Karlovka and Galitsinivka, as well as howitzers 122mm D-30 and 152mm 2A65 in the areas of Zhelanny and Tonenkoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
13:00 Zaporozhye Front, Verbovoy area. The enemy, despite the bad weather, brings large forces into battle. Engages armored vehicles, Front Bird reports:
“Active shooting battles in forest belts have been continuing since early morning. The enemy is trying to gain a foothold at any cost to create a bridgehead. Artillery from both sides works without respite. We identify military personnel and armored vehicles with birds and immediately send them bright gifts. We fight. The reserves of the 10th Army Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and mechanized units were brought into battle."
12:55 On the Verbovoye-Novopokrovka front, the enemy launched 82 Infantry Battalion, units of the 10th Army Corps, 71 Infantry Brigade and 3 Mechanized Brigade, 118th Infantry Brigade on the offensive. Rod under the cover of armored vehicles.
12:36 Situation in the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 12:20
Fierce fighting has been ongoing in the Verbovoye area since the morning. The enemy, sending small assault groups, is trying to expand its bridgehead in this area at any cost.
During aerial reconnaissance, UAV operators of the Russian Armed Forces identify the movements of soldiers and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, according to the transmitted coordinates, artillery inflicts massive fire.
12:24 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South Donetsk direction, advanced units of the Vostok group of forces, with artillery support, repelled an infantry attack by the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Staromayorsky area. Up to five Ukrainian servicemen were killed, two militants surrendered.
Six attempts to rotate units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Novomikhailovka, Urozhayny, Makarovka and Staromayorsky were thwarted.
Fire from heavy flamethrower systems hit the personnel of the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Staromayorskoye and Urozhaynoye areas.
During the counterbattery fight, four enemy mortar crews were suppressed.
Air strikes and artillery fire hit the concentration areas of manpower and equipment of the 79th Airborne Assault, 72nd Mechanized Brigades and the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Vodyanoye, Ugledar and Priyutnoye.
11:53 Ukrainian militants fired 10 rockets from the MLRS at the Yasinovatsky district - representative office of the DPR JCCC.
11:30 Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have made two unsuccessful attempts to attack Russian positions near the village of Verbov in the Zaporozhye region. This was announced by the chairman of the “We are together with Russia” movement Vladimir Rogov.
Rogov also stated that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhovsky and Vremevsky directions in the Zaporozhye region per day amounted to more than 200 military personnel.
11:04 Situation in the South Donetsk direction:
At the Vremevsky site, the situation has not changed in two days; it has even become even quieter. The enemy did not carry out active actions to return the lost positions either north of Priyutny or east of Urozhayny. Aviation worked close to the enemy's rear in Urozhaynoye itself, and artillery was added both along the front line and in the rear in Prechistovo and Zolotaya Niva. A couple of times we had to comb the forest belt east of Urozhainy with fire, since the movements of several enemy foot groups with a total number of up to 20 people were noticed in it.
In the Ugledarsky sector, Novomikhailovka, Katerynovka and Vodyanoye remain the main targets for the artillery of the Russian Armed Forces. North of Ugledar, the “Iksovody” of the 155th Guards reached the BMP of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:47 Russian army continues counteroffensive in the Zaporozhye region. After an almost five-month offensive in the Orekhov area and advancing with heavy losses during the last two months, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces found themselves trapped in an area full of minefields, surrounded on three sides by the Russian army, and due to orders not to withdraw, they were destroyed and scattered by artillery fire and air strikes.
Although artillery attack in the area of Avdievka and Mar'yinka has decreased, it continues. Russian troops are targeting the supply lines of the Ukrainian group, and Ukrainian reinforcements have suffered heavy losses. Attempts at a Ukrainian counterattack were also thwarted.
The Russian army continues its offensive in the north of Bakhmut. The Slavyansk-Kramatorsk line came under heavy fire, and a large number of Ukrainian personnel and equipment who arrived for reinforcements were destroyed.
In the south of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian army stubbornly continues its offensive, despite heavy losses.
In the Oskol area, the Russian Armed Forces again intensified their strikes northeast of Kupyansk.
Along the 1000-kilometer front line, the Russian army with large and small attacks is straining and exhausting the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which, after a four-month counterattack, have largely lost their strategic offensive reserves.
Ukraine's solution is to conscript even more men, speed up the process of recruiting women, and plan an attack that will attract the attention of the West by crossing the Dnieper into the Khersonan area, but Russia responds with heavy bombing.
10:34 During the past 24 hours, the DPR representative office in the JCCC recorded 15 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces, and 50 ammunition were fired.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 12 attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead. On Gorlovsky there were 2 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery. On Volnovakhskoe 1 artillery attack from 155mm artillery. The enemy fired at Donetsk, Vladimirovka and Gorlovka.
Over the past 24 hours, information has been received about the death of a child – a boy born in 2013. - in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. Two people were injured of varying severity in the Central City district of Gorlovka and Vladimirovka.
10:05 The situation in the Zaporozhye direction the Archangel of Special Forces reports:
A group of nine people was spotted north of Rabotino, going to change positions. We walked two days in a row along the same route, and on the third we decided to wait for them. They covered them with thermal bars from the ATGM.
Artillery works in both directions.
The Russian Armed Forces advanced in landings at the Rabotino-Verbovoe line.
10:00 Information is received that militants of the 106th TrO Brigade (88th battalion) were withdrawn from Makeyevka and returned to the Khmelnitsky region.
After the intensification of hostilities in this area, relatives demanded that the soldiers be replaced and urgently sent to recover.
The public outcry on social networks and threats of protests achieved their results within a few days.
09:50 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Knyaze-Grigorovka 6 rounds;
-- n.p. Malaya Lepetikha 9 rounds;
-- n.p. Velikaya Lepetikha 8 rounds;
-- n.p. Radensk 7 rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery 8 rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka 9 rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan 7 rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha 8 rounds.
As a result of the artillery attack of the settlement. Aleshki and Cossack Camps, two civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Solontsy, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Gornostaevka, firing a total of 31 rounds from cannon artillery. Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
08:22 Commander of the 2nd battalion of the 1430th Motorized Rifle Regiment with the call sign Samson told RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa about the unsuccessful attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
“We tried to go to Verbovoye - our troops burned 30 pieces of German equipment. They also attacked Orekhovo, they set up some kind of tent city there. An incomprehensible preparation is already underway there - they have placed about ten brigades in this small area.”
The tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ assaults are so failed that sometimes they don’t even have time to dismount from the equipment due to the lightning-fast reaction of the Russian Armed Forces, adds a sniper with the call sign Puma. He serves in the 2nd SME of the 1430th Motorized Rifle Regiment in the Orekhovsky direction:
“Where they [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] are trying to go, our people are sitting there. Our people react instantly to what is happening.”
In recent days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have also been trying to attack in the areas of the villages of Rabotino and Novoprokopovka, but they are unable to break through.
09:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the “West” group:
In the Kupyansky direction, crews of Su-34 fighter-bombers of the West group of forces carried out air strikes on temporary deployment points and strongholds of units of the 40th, 43rd, 115th Mechanized Brigades and the 95th Air Assault Brigade in the Golubovka areas, Kulagovka, Petropavlovka and Kupyansk-Uzlovoy.
The crews of attack helicopters Ka-52, Mi-28 and tactical aviation aircraft carried out missile and bomb attacks on concentrations of manpower, weapons and military equipment, the 14th, 32nd Mechanized Brigades and territorial defense units in the areas of Sin'kovka, Ivanovka, Leonovki.
During the counterbattery fight, the group’s artillery destroyed a 152mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 “Gvozdika” in the area of the Zayachiy Yar ravine.
The enemy's total losses amounted to two companies of manpower, one tank, two armored combat vehicles, two unmanned aerial vehicles, and two pickup trucks.
08:19 Frontline summary on the morning of October 16, 2023:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, tried to break through to Kopany. No success. Russian troops counterattacked at Novoprokopovka with the same result. Also, after the shelling, Ukrainian units carried out offensive operations near Verbovoy. No promotion. Their positions in the settlements of Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Rabotino, Malaya Tokmachka, Gulyaipole, Malinovka and Poltavka are under attack. Russian - in Nesteryanka, Rovny, Sladkaya Balka, Il'chenkovo, Ocheretovaty, Novopokrovka, Novofedorovka, Dorozhnyanka, Marfopol and Novozlatopol.
In the Ugledarsky sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with artillery support, resumed offensive operations near Priyutnoye. LBS has not changed. Ukrainian troops are under fire in Olgovsky, Novodarovka, Rivnopol, Staromayorsky, Makarovka, Blagodatny, Urozhayn, Prechistovka, Ugledar and Vodyan (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk).
The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked against Russian units in Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Donetsk directions), Volodin, Zavetny Zhelaniya, Staromlynovka, Novodonetsky, Novomayorsky, Pavlovka and Nikolsky.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, carried out assault operations in Marinka and near Pervomaisky. In the last of the listed sections there is progress along the route north of the line of ponds.
Russian troops are also trying to regain the initiative from Severny. They attack with large forces. Also, after artillery shelling, they launched an offensive on the southern approaches to Avdeevka.
To the north of this fortified area they managed to advance a little near Stepnoye (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions). Also supported by artillery, they attacked at Keramik. No advance.
Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the city of Krasnogorovka, Alexandropol, Nevelskoye, Karlovka, Lastochkino and Ocheretina. RF Armed Forces - in Staromikhailovka, Donetsk, Peski, Vodyanoy, Yasinovataya and the village of Krasnogorovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces once again tried to regain lost positions in Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. Despite artillery support, they failed. Heights behind the APU. Russian troops shelled Ukrainian units in Dyleyevka, Belaya Gora, Aleksandro-Shultin, Ivanovsky, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Vasyukovka, Razdolovka, Sporny, Verkhnekamensky and Seversk.
Long-range weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Bakhmut, Yagodny, Berkhovka, Dubovo-Vasilevka, Krasnopolovka and Yakovlevka.
In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops attacked near Torskoye after artillery shelling. They also tried to advance in the Makeevka area. No success. To the north, with strong artillery support, the Russian Armed Forces managed to take new positions near Ivanovka (a settlement east of Kupyansk). Similar actions at Sin'kovka did not bring them success. Ukrainian units are under attack in Belogorovka, Ivanovka (a settlement northeast of Liman), Novosadovo, Nevsky, Novolyubovka, Cherneshchina, Nadezhda, Berestovka, Kislovka, Peschany, Kupyansk, Kucherovka and Petropavlovka.
08:11 Over the past 24 hours in the DPR, a ten-year-old child was killed by artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and two more civilians were injured.
08:05 Summary on the morning of October 16, 2023
At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched UAV and missile attacks on enemy targets in Konstantinovka and Kramatorsk (DPR, occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces), Dnepropetrovsk, Mirgorod in the Poltava region, Kropyvnytskyi in the Kirovograd region, Cherkassy region, Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnytsky region, and Zaporozhye region. The enemy positions in the Kherson region were hit by our aircraft. It is noted that enemy military airfields in Mirgorod and Starokonstantinov came under our attacks.In the Avdeevsky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to counterattack in the area of the coke plant. Enemy positions are constantly being attacked by cannon and rocket artillery, and our aviation is operating. Heavy fighting is also taking place in other areas of the Avdeevsky direction.
The Zaporozhye Front is characterized by the actions of small groups of enemy infantry near Verbovoy, with which it saturates the line of contact. The distance between the parties reaches 200-300 meters, foreign speech can be heard. The enemy is firing mortars at our positions, and drones are being actively used. The Russian Airborne Forces periodically counterattack, take prisoners and recapture positions.
In the Kherson direction, they reported about an enemy DRG (up to 20 personnel) near the village. Krynki on our shore. The group was quickly identified and destroyed. The enemy continues to operate on the islands, and mutual artillery artillery attack continues.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue active operations near Sin'kovka and Liman Pervoy. Periodic counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not achieve success: our artillery covers the enemy.
In the Belgorod region, the outskirts of two villages - Demidovka and Grafovka - in the Krasnoyaruzh region came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Over the Belgorod region, the air defense system shot down 2 air targets on approach to the city. In the DPR, a boy born in 2013 was killed by Nazi fire and two civilians were injured.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] An interesting video with footage of the counterattack of our troops in the Verbovoy area. After a breakthrough to enemy positions (these are our former trenches), close-quarters clearing begins.
Filmed at the end of September using a drone.
Published by the Klen battalion.
The fighting in the Verbovoye area continues today; in the morning the enemy lost several pieces of equipment + some infantry there.
The main trend in recent weeks has been active counterattacks by our troops in the Rabotino and Verbovoy areas.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hammer at Verbovoye, and also attack in the direction of Kopani to try to take control of Rabotino, since now up to half of the village is in the gray zone.
There is no longer talk of any “breakthroughs to Tokmak”, especially since part of the forces were removed from Zaporozhye and transferred to Avdeevka to stop our offensive.
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[REGNUM] Every time humanity has entered into another crisis over the past hundred years, the question has arisen about the adequacy of democracy, about how capable this system is of coping with truly serious challenges. Democracy became a generally accepted norm even less than a hundred years ago. In fact, only after the Second World War. But democracy is not the norm at all. Democracy is a choice. Not only because its main attribute is voting, but because it is not at all the pinnacle of the evolution of “universal” political thought. On the contrary, democracy is a unique phenomenon. It was born and developed exclusively on European soil. And it was not born and developed anywhere else.
They all work in some form or another, until the folks on the very top get greedy and start exploiting and repressing the folks lower down the rungs.
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All they had to do was leave us alone on this side of the ponds. We were dragged into WW1 and while FDR was pushing, we weren't moving till someone dragged us into another world war. Of course, now everyone bitches because the pre-Beltway gang decided that they'd try a hand in keeping the lid on everyone to avoid the first and second mistake.
[RT] The office of Russia’s prosecutor-general on Monday designated as unwelcome the Central European University (CEU), an Austrian-based entity founded by the Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.
The CEU’s official goals are to promote the values of "open society and democracy" in the countries of central and eastern Europe — as well as in the republics of the former Soviet Union — but its efforts are currently focused on "discrediting" the Russian political leadership and the military operation in Ukraine, the Prosecutor-General’s Office said.
The "so-called educational international non-governmental organization" conducts a number of programs that "deliberately devalue and distort the history of the Russian state, downplay the merits of prominent Russian scientists, writers, and cultural figures, and promote pseudo-scientific claims that Russia is to blame for all the world cataclysms, which is clearly not true."
These CEU programs are designed with an emphasis on Russia’s alleged "war crimes" in Ukraine and "Russian propaganda," the prosecutors added, and endeavor to create "an anti-Russian agenda in the global media, imbued with hatred of Russia and its multinational people."
Founded by Soros in 1991 and financed by his network of NGOs, the CEU was originally located in Budapest and offered US-accredited degrees. In October 2018, the school announced it would be relocating to Vienna, after the Hungarian authorities refused to extend its accreditation. Earlier that year, Soros’s Open Society Foundations ended their operations in Hungary, citing an "increasingly repressive political and legal environment."
For an organization to be declared undesirable in Russia amounts to a ban on its activities. Any offices it may have in the country must shut down, while doing business with it is punishable with a fine — or jail, in the case of repeat offenders. The first organization to be so labeled was the US Congress-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in 2015.
One's compelled to ask: How much of USA conservatives enmity to Godless, Commie (where were you the last 30 years?) Russia is pure envy?
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[REGNUM] A “legitimate target” for Russia’s retaliatory strike could be foreign dual-use artificial earth satellites—formally civilian devices that are used by the West in armed conflicts.
This was stated on October 16 by the director of the department for nonproliferation and arms control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Ermakov.
Back in April last year, the United States recognized the fact of full-scale provision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with information from American space reconnaissance. Cooperation was established even before the start of the Russian special operation.
Spacecraft are, by default, dual-use products. “On the one hand, the satellite can distribute the Internet, on the other hand, the military can receive a report on the enemy’s locations. There is a technology for reprogramming, redirection to different orbits and much more,” explained the head of the Space Technologies consortium, Yulia Arkhipova, to IA Regnum.
There are enough examples of “constructive interaction” between American space “satellites” and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For example, in June last year, the Worldview-1 commercial satellite from Maxar Technologies photographed the Novoshakhtinsky Oil Refinery. Three days later, the enterprise, the largest supplier of petroleum products in southern Russia, was attacked by Ukrainian drones.
A little later, at the beginning of July, information appeared that the GeoEye-1 commercial satellite of the same company could take pictures of Belgorod three days before the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the city.
A more recent example: in September, satellites of the same Maxar Technologies photographed Sevastopol twice . On September 19, the city was photographed by WorldView-3, and on September 20 by WorldView-2. “At the time of launch, the satellites had the highest spatial resolution of any commercial satellite, allowing for highly detailed images,” the company assured.
On September 22, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Sevastopol . Air defense systems shot down five missiles, the historical headquarters building of the Black Sea Fleet was damaged, and one serviceman went missing.
Finally, let us mention the widespread use - until very recently - of the Starlink satellite system in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yes, Elon Musk made several “peace-loving” statements in response to accusations of “treason” - deliberately shutting down the Starlink network near Crimea, which made Ukrainian attacks more difficult. But nevertheless, on September 13, the same Musk announced his readiness to transfer to the Pentagon full control over part of the Starlink networks, which could be involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
Casus belli limited validity
Without the support of GPS satellite communications, American high-precision weapons, which are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russian troops, will not be able to work, Alexey Podberezkin, director of the Center for Military-Political Studies at MGIMO, told IA Regnum . For example, JDAM smart bombs are guided using satellite GPS.
The same applies to the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. The Russian permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya , drew the attention of the whole world back in December 2022 to the fact that the guidance of the Haymars missiles to the target is “ carried out with the help of American military satellites, and US military personnel on the ground coordinate satellite and intelligence information.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry indicated earlier, last summer , that “the United States, as part of military assistance, provides Ukraine ... with data not only from military, but also from civilian and private satellites.”
The United States is openly ignoring the provisions of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, Vladimir Ermakov, director of the Foreign Ministry’s department for nonproliferation issues, has now emphasized.
But it is one thing to state a fact and another thing to point to American and other Western “satellites” as legitimate targets for Russian weapons.
An attack in the space sphere may well become a casus belli, that is, a reason to declare war, Dmitry Kornev , an expert on weapons and military equipment and founder of the Military Russia portal, told IA Regnum . And even in the absence of direct evidence indicating the fact of a “Russian attack,” this will not remove the threat of US retaliatory actions.
The fact that the United States is already actually “waging war” against Russia, including by supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with data from satellites, was stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov .
The West is waging an escalating “proxy war,” and further developments may make military operations in low-Earth orbit inevitable, notes Yulia Arkhipova. The presence of nuclear weapons on both sides - despite all the “accidents belli” - still protects against a frontal collision between Russia and the United States. But targeted liquidations of Russian or American satellites themselves are quite possible.
"Petrel" spreads its wings
“Technologies today make it possible to identify exactly the satellite that can be used for military purposes,” notes Arkhipova. “It is technically possible to shoot down any artificial Earth satellite,” agrees Kornev. “This is a problem that was solved in the early 1960s.”
Moreover, the previously adopted declarations, which until now regulated the use of space, including low-Earth orbit, do not actually work these days, adds Arkhipova.
Earlier , Regnum news agency reported in detail that the United States is developing modern weapons designed to destroy Russian and Chinese satellites.
Russia also theoretically has the ability to minimize the American satellite threat. True, as Kornev believes, large-scale “elimination of the threat” is a rather expensive project.
“To completely disrupt the GPS navigation system, we will have to spend another defense budget on an anti-satellite program ,” the expert believes.
Kornev, at the same time, recalled the promising program to develop the Nudol ground-based anti-satellite system . “We are talking about a missile launched from a ground launcher,” explained the military analyst.
“There is a sensational program “Burevestnik”, about the details of which very little is actually known, since the work on it is strictly classified. All these are fire destruction complexes. Research and development are underway on these programs,” the expert said.
The Burevestnik aviation missile system, prosaically called “product 293,” has been under development for at least the last ten years. Then the Air Force command announced that work had resumed on an anti-satellite system based on the MiG-31 interceptor. Actually, the “product” itself is a solid-fuel rocket for space purposes, which is launched from an airplane.
These programs will most likely soon enter a new stage of their life cycle, admits Kornev. “At the same time, we must understand that to deploy such systems and use them, it is not enough to create this complex,” he says. — It is necessary to create a complex of space control means in the interests of anti-satellite defense. These should be special radars, special optical stations, special laser locators. They must be located on the territory of the country. And they don't just have to be created. They must be located, connected to a single network, and brought to the command post. A special command must be created within the aerospace forces.”
At the same time, the anti-satellite system being created in Russia will have a variety of destruction systems - not only fire, but also functional. “Functional means that we don’t have to shoot down the satellite, we need it to stop working, ” explains Kornev. - It can be “blinded” or “stunned”, eliminating fire damage. For example, the Peresvet laser functional destruction complex, which is already undergoing trial operation in the Strategic Missile Forces, does not shoot down satellites with a laser; it is not yet possible to shoot down an object from the ground with a laser.” But Peresvet blinds optical surveillance systems, the expert explained.
“This is the most “living” complex - it was created, deployed for trial operation at several bases of the strategic missile forces, but has not yet been fully adopted,” the expert said.
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So they're catching up to the old ASM-135 that the US air force retired in 1988. They actually used it once, on a defunct solar winds satellite. Worked. Made a huge debris field, though.
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IIRC, the ASM-135 made an appearance in Red Storm Rising. Pulled out of mothballs I think the story went.
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