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2023-09-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: September 21st, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:29 By using drones and missiles of its own production to attack Russian ships, Ukraine has largely undermined Russia's military superiority in the Black Sea. This allows, among other things, to resume the work of Odessa ports, where commercial ships have begun to call. Read more in the material Breaking the blockade .
22:24 The statement by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to stop arms supplies to Ukraine was taken incorrectly amid growing tensions between the two countries, said President Andrzej Duda. According to him, Morawiecki meant that “we will not transfer to Ukraine the new weapons that we are now buying, since we are modernizing the Polish army.” After the Prime Minister’s statement, the government clarified that Warsaw will continue to transfer weapons and ammunition to Kyiv under existing contracts.
22:10 The Pentagon has concluded a contract with Starlink in the interests of Ukraine, said US Department of Defense spokesman Patrick Ryder. However, he refused to clarify the details.
22:03 The Russians shelled Zelenovka, Kherson region, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
21:41 Zelensky held a meeting with the leader of the Democratic Party in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, and senators - they discussed the situation at the front, the priority defense needs of Ukraine, the need to strengthen Ukrainian air defense, especially in connection with the approaching winter.
The Ukrainian president also met with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and discussed the supply of artillery systems and long-range weapons, strengthening Ukrainian air defense and the timely supply of necessary weapons and ammunition from partners.
21:16 In the evening, Russia attacked the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district of the Odessa region with missiles, said the head of the OBA Oleg Kiper. There was a hit to the recreational infrastructure; a fire started at the site, which was quickly extinguished. No people were hurt.
20:52 Biden decided not to provide Ukraine with long-range ATACMS missiles in the next aid package, but does not rule out such a possibility in the future, said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
20:23 The first ship with Ukrainian grain arrived in Turkey along a temporary corridor, Reuters reports. The cargo ship Resilient Africa left the Ukrainian port of Chernomorsk with 3,000 tons of grain this week.
20:19 The Russians shelled Kazatske, Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported.
20:14 In the Donetsk region, five people were wounded today as a result of Russian shelling, the prosecutor’s office reported. In particular, the Russian military attacked the village. Petropavlovka Volnovakha district, Toretsk and village. Molodenkoe, Pokrovsky district.
19:09 During a meeting with American congressmen in the Capitol, Zelensky urged them to approve additional aid funding for Ukraine. “If we don’t get help, we will lose the war,” Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer quoted the Ukrainian president as saying.
In turn, the head of the House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, said that he has not changed his position and will not support the approval of a $24 billion aid package to Ukraine. At the same time, he added that he asked Zelensky a number of questions, and the conversation with him was “good and productive.”
The Guardian also reports that Zelensky was not allowed to speak at a joint meeting of the upper and lower houses of the US Congress. Kevin McCarthy rejected the corresponding request from the Ukrainian side this morning. He referred to the fact that congressmen allegedly “did not have enough time due to a busy legislative week.”
18:21 The Russians suffer 7-8 times more losses in defense than Ukraine in the offensive, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Ilya Yevlash. “We continue to knock out and inflict fire damage where the enemy least expects it. I want to emphasize that with much smaller forces we continue to move forward,” he added.
18:12 In Yelenovka near Donetsk, a communications center has been neutralized - including mobile communications of the occupiers. After this, serious problems arose with the mobile Internet, which will complicate the adjustment of fire along the front line, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko.
17:54 The Russian Army dropped four guided bombs on Lvovo, Kherson region, killing one person. Also, two air bombs were dropped on Tyaginka, Otradokamenka and Nikolaevka were shelled, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
17:40 Germany transferred another batch of military aid to Ukraine. The package included, in particular, four HX81 tractors and trailers for them, 12 Mercedes-Benz Zetros trucks, spare parts, 17 satellite communication terminals, and an antenna amplifier.
17:13 After the strike on the Russian secret base near the Motor Plant in Melitopol, the occupiers are still clearing out the rubble, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. He also said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a concentration of equipment and ammunition depots in the Vasilyevsky district near the front line, after which the detonation continued for several hours. And in the Prishib area there were attacks on the Russian base.
16:59 The number of victims as a result of the night Russian attack on Cherkassy has increased to 11 people, another 13 people were evacuated, the State Emergency Service reports. Rescuers continue to clear the rubble.
16:15 Sweden transferred ten Stridsvagn 122 tanks (Swedish version of Leopard 2) to Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
16:08 An official ceremony to present Zelensky with the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards took place in New York. The President said that he dedicates the award to “all Ukrainians and Ukrainian women in uniform, all our children killed by Russian terrorists, all parents, mothers who raised such brave Ukrainian soldiers, as well as all teachers, all doctors who did not leave Ukraine with the beginning of a full-scale war ".
15:47 The Russians shelled Belozerka, Kherson region: according to preliminary information, one person was killed, two were wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. According to him, the enemy has been attacking populated areas in the region all day. Since the beginning of the day, five people have been killed and ten more injured as a result of Russian shelling.
15:20 The Security Service and the Armed Forces recently attacked a secret Russian base in Melitopol, located at a motor plant, a number of Ukrainian media reported, citing sources in the SBU. As a result of the attack, the commander of the 58th Army of the Russian Federation, which is fighting in the Zaporozhye direction, and the chief of staff were wounded. Several dozen more Russian officers were injured, and about ten died.
14:59 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Russian air defense systems allegedly shot down 75 Ukrainian drones over the past 24 hours - the maximum since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Five Storm Shadow missiles, four HIMARS missiles and a HARM anti-radar missile were also allegedly shot down.
14:14 Zelensky announced important negotiations in Washington today: “Air defense for Ukraine is among the top issues. This night, Russian terrorists launched another massive strike. In particular, on infrastructure. Most of the missiles were shot down. But only the majority. Not all. We are working, to completely deprive Russia of its terrorist potential. More air defense. More sanctions. More support for Ukrainian soldiers on the front line."
13:55 On the night of September 21, the defense forces launched a combined attack on a military airfield near the city of Saki in Crimea , the Strategic Communications Department of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (StratCom) reported.
13:18 In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to force out the enemy, they already have fire control over the Bakhmut-Gorlovka highway, which has significantly complicated logistics for the Russian army, said Ilya Yevlash, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces.
12:39 The state budget received $1.25 billion in grant funds from the United States through the World Bank Donor Trust Fund, the Ministry of Finance reported. The funds will be used for pension payments, payments to employees of the State Emergency Service, salaries of health workers providing services under the medical guarantee program, civil servants and teachers.
11:50 The Rada appealed to international organizations to condemn Russia’s holding of illegal “elections” in the temporarily occupied territories. The parliamentarians also called for recognizing as illegitimate all government bodies of the Russian Federation at all levels, whose members were “elected” during the pseudo-elections, to avoid official contacts with so-called “officials”, to increase sanctions pressure on the Russian Federation and directly on those involved in organizing the “elections”.
11:46 Over the past 24 hours, the Russians shelled 13 settlements in the Donetsk region, the National Police reported. Two people died in Toretsk, two more in Severny, one in Ugledar.
11:38 Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said that his country is considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with its F-16 fighters. The Belgian Air Force has 45 of these aircraft in service, and within the next 5-6 years all of them will reach the end of their operational life. Starting next year, the Belgian Air Force will begin receiving four to five new F-35 fighters per year, which will gradually replace the F-16.
11:25 On Thursday, September 21, Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities for the first time in six months. Individual facilities in the western and central regions were damaged, Ukrenergo reported. In particular, as a result of the attack, there were partial blackouts in the Rivne, Zhitomir, Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov regions.
10:37 On the night of September 21, the SBU and the Navy carried out a special operation in Crimea, inflicting a powerful drone strike on the Saki airfield, a number of Ukrainian media outlets report, citing sources in the Security Service. According to them, the intelligence services used drones that overloaded Russian air defenses and then launched Neptune missiles.
At the airfield there were at least 12 combat aircraft, in particular Su-24 and Su-30, as well as Pantsir MANPADS. The training base for Mojaher UAV operators is also located there. According to sources, the strikes hit the target and caused serious damage to Russian equipment.
10:19 Mariupol hospitals received a large number of wounded Russian military personnel, which is why hospitals stopped accepting sick civilians, said advisor to the city mayor Pyotr Andryushchenko. According to him, people are “pumped full of pills, painkillers and sent home.” Therefore, the mortality rate in Mariupol remains very high: every week from 300 to 400 Mariupol residents die due to such “treatment”.
10:08 The Belarusian armed forces will conduct exercises from September 22 to 26 in the Brest, Grodno and Minsk regions, taking into account “modern approaches to the use of troops” and “based on the experience of modern armed conflicts,” the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
The commander of the Joint Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sergei Naev, said that these exercises do not create a military threat, “but there is a certain danger, so we are increasing our vigilance and preparing our forces for an adequate response - this is normal military practice.”
10:04 In the Kiev region, three people were injured as a result of falling debris during a night attack, OVA reported. Fires broke out on the territory of several enterprises, and the building of a vocational educational institution was damaged. A fall of debris was also recorded on the territory of a medical facility, without injuries or damage. Private homes and vehicles were damaged in several communities.
09:59 In the morning, the Russians fired at Kherson again, hit one of the apartment buildings, one person was killed, OVA reported.
09:48 Air defense during a night attack destroyed 36 of 43 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 air-launched cruise missiles , the Air Force reported. The launches were carried out from ten T-95ms strategic aircraft from the area west of Engels. The missiles were launched in several waves; they entered Ukrainian airspace from different directions, constantly changing course along the route. In addition, in the morning the Russian Federation launched an attack on Kharkov with S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
09:26 At night, the Russians fired from Grad and heavy artillery at Nikopol and the Mirovskaya community of the Dnepropetrovsk region, three people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. 11 private houses, outbuildings, cars, gas pipelines and power lines were damaged.
09:14 The Russians launched several missile attacks in the Rivne region at night. There are hits to the energy and civil infrastructure in the regional center. In particular, a service station and five cars were damaged. Part of the Rivne district was left without electricity, said Vitaliy Koval, head of the Regional Public Administration.
08:58 In Cherkassy, the number of people injured as a result of a night rocket attack has increased to ten people, the rescue operation continues, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
08:42 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 21:
- personnel - about 274,470 (+490) people,
- tanks - 4638 (+3),
- armored combat vehicles - 8883 (+15),
- artillery systems - 6137 (+41),
- MLRS - 781 (+2),
- air defense systems - 528 (+2),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 4850 (+29),
- cruise missiles - 1479 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8670 (+37),
- special equipment - 911 (+5).
08:21 Over the past 24 hours, 23 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in areas west of Zaitsevo, northeast and east of Andreevka, Donetsk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to storm the area south of Bakhmut and are consolidating their position on the achieved lines.
In the Maryinsky direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to advance in the Maryinka area of the Donetsk region. In the Avdeevsky and Shakhtarsky directions, the Defense Forces hold the defense on occupied lines and have the initiative. In the Melitopol direction, Ukrainian forces continue their offensive and also repelled enemy attacks in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region.
08:07 At night, the Russians fired at residential areas of Kherson and hit the hostel building. As of now, two people are known to have died, and five more people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Over the past 24 hours, two people were wounded in the region as a result of Russian shelling.
07:53 At night, Russia attacked different regions of Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a hotel building in Cherkassy was destroyed as a result of a missile attack. A fire broke out, as well as a fire in the trading pavilions at the market. Seven people were injured and ten were evacuated; one person was rescued from the rubble.
In Kharkov, a warehouse building was destroyed as a result of an attack, two people were injured. The head of the OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, clarified that six strikes were carried out in the city, including in the Slobodsky district. There is damage to civilian infrastructure.
There are hits and damage in the Rivne region.
In the Kyiv region, fires broke out on the territory of enterprises as a result of falling debris. There was also damage to the private sector, two people were injured.
In the Lviv region, the enemy struck an industrial zone, causing destruction and fire. The head of the OBA, Maxim Kozitsky, clarified that the Russian Federation launched three missile strikes on the territory of Drohobych, two of them on an industrial facility. The workshop caught fire, a three-story warehouse building was destroyed, and there was a fire on an area of about 30 square meters. m. Another missile strike - on a private two-story warehouse, there is a fire on an area of 20 square meters. m. The fires are still being extinguished; there have been no reports of casualties.
07:12 At night, Russia attacked Kiev with missiles, initially of the X-101/555/55 type. Air defense forces destroyed more than 20 enemy targets, said the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko. As a result of falling debris in the Shevchenko district of the capital, a gas pipe was damaged, but there was no fire. In the Darnytskyi district, non-residential premises and parked cars were damaged by debris, and there was a fire.
According to the mayor's office, in the center of the capital, in the Goloseevsky district, windows in a five-story building were damaged, there was no damage or casualties. There were power outages in the Svyatoshinsky district; power engineers have already restored power supply. In the Darnytskyi district, seven people were injured, three of them were hospitalized. The debris fell on the territory of the infrastructure facility, as well as on the territory of the service station and the dormitory of the vocational education institution.
03:04 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced a massive attack on Crimea; air defense systems allegedly destroyed 19 drones over the peninsula. In addition, air defense systems allegedly destroyed one UAV each over the Kursk and Belgorod regions, and two more over the Oryol region, where they tried to attack facilities of the fuel and energy complex.
01:40 Zelensky in New York held talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Maria Gabriel on the issue of access of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU market.
The Ukrainian president also held talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz - they discussed the situation on the front line and the priority needs of the Ukrainian defense forces. We paid special attention to preparations for the International Conference on the Restoration of Ukraine, which will be held in Germany.
Another meeting was with Brazilian President Lula da Silva. “Frank and constructive conversation. We instructed diplomatic teams to work on the next steps in bilateral relations and efforts to restore peace. The representative of Brazil will continue to work in the Peace Formula meetings,” Zelensky said.
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