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2023-09-30 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: September 29th, 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] 22:28 Kiev sent an official invitation to US presidential candidates to visit Ukraine, Ermak said. According to him, the Office of the President is in constant contact with both parties of the American Congress, and support for Ukraine is an “absolute priority” in the United States. “We have once again seen how the Americans support us. And it is societies that shape, in particular, the positions of politicians,” Yermak added.
21:39 Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak held the ninth meeting with representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Ukraine on the implementation of the Peace Formula. The event was dedicated to the implementation of the seventh point of the Formula - “Restoration of Justice”. The meeting, which took place on the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve of Babi Yar, was attended live and online by representatives of 76 states.
20:43 Seven EU countries have ordered 155-mm artillery shells for Ukraine, Reuters reports. The order has been placed under contracts awarded by the European Defense Agency (EDA). However, the EDA refused to name countries or the size of orders, saying that much of the information is confidential. At the same time, in response to a Reuters query, Lithuania and Luxembourg stated that they are among these seven countries.
19:14 There is a planned rotation in the US military leadership. The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, whom the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny called his friend, is leaving his post. Read about what Ukraine can expect from such changes in the article New Chief US Military Officer .
18:32 Zelensky announced important news in an evening video message: “This week has significantly strengthened our state and our people. Tomorrow there will be important news for Ukraine: for our soldiers, for our entire state. We are working to ensure that the next weeks will add more to Ukraine fortress - inner fortress and necessary cooperation with the world."
18:28 Relevant specialists will soon arrive in Ukraine to organize the production of air defense systems, said the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak: “There is a very fundamental solution that we will begin to implement very soon. Soon specialists will arrive to us who will develop a plan for our own production of everything, what we need, first of all, air defense systems."
18:20 Representatives of French defense enterprises, who visited Kiev the day before, signed about 20 contracts, letters of intent or memoranda of understanding with Ukrainian industrialists, the French Ministry of Defense reported. Their trip became part of the first Defense Industry Forum, which is taking place today in Kyiv.
18:01 Mercenaries of PMC Wagner left the territory of Belarus and began to return to Ukraine. As Ukrainian intelligence officers say, relatively few Wagnerites have recently arrived in the Donetsk region - about half a thousand, but soon their number may increase significantly. Read more in the article Return of Wagner to Donbass .
17:27 Switzerland has allocated $109 million for mine clearance in Ukraine. The funds will be provided during 2024-2027. In 2022 and 2023, the country provided about $16 million for mine clearance in Ukraine.
16:43 In Slovakia, volunteers collected 650 thousand euros for a Bozena-5 mine clearance machine for Ukraine. Manufacturer The Way Industries promises to deliver it by the end of the year. He will also send additional equipment and train sappers to operate the machine.
16:06 Romania began to move air defense systems closer to the border with Ukraine after debris from Russian drones fell on its territory. These systems should strengthen the area close to the Danube. The number of patrols and observation posts will also be increased there, Reuters writes, citing sources in the Romanian Ministry of Defense.
15:38 Putin signed a decree according to which Ukrainian citizens will be able to continue to enter and leave the Russian Federation without visas and using internal Ukrainian passports, including expired ones.
15:25 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso, and discussed, in particular, cooperation in the field of energy security, trade financing, support for critical infrastructure and municipalities, food security, etc.
14:07 Great Britain imposed sanctions against officials of Russian “administrations” in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea. Their assets will be frozen and entry prohibited. Also included in the list of sanctions are the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Alexander Kurenkov and the Secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Natalya Budarina.
13:56 Orban called Ukraine’s entry into the EU unrealistic: “Is it possible to start negotiations with a country that is at war? We do not understand what the territory of this country is, because it is still at war, and we do not know what its population is, because "that this population is leaving. Taking in a country without knowing its parameters would be unprecedented."
13:43 Russia is jamming GPS communications in Romanian territorial waters, which, in particular, threatens shipping, said Daniel Petrescu, Chief of the Defense Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces. According to him, limited communications could lead to collisions between ships and incidents on the NATO border - military missiles or drones could miss and strike objects in Romania or in its waters. Petrescu also said that drifting sea mines have more than once ended up on the shores of countries in the Black Sea region and exploded there.
12:59 Russian air defense shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter near Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, reported journalist Yuri Butusov. According to him, the fact of the destruction of the enemy aircraft is confirmed by monitoring channels. Also today, one of the Z-bloggers published a photo of the Su-35 with wishes to the pilot for “eternal flight,” thereby confirming the death of the crew.
12:17 Near the village of Giryi, Belovsky district, Kursk region, an SBU drone discovered and eliminated the Russian Kasta radar station, Ukrainian media report citing sources in the Security Service. A special feature of this radar was its ability to detect air targets at extremely low altitudes.
11:44 The West wants to increase weapons production in Ukraine, writes The New York Times. According to the newspaper, this was the reason for the unexpected visit to Kyiv of the NATO Secretary General and the defense ministers of Great Britain and France on September 28.
10:56 British intelligence writes that in recent weeks hundreds of former mercenaries of the Wagner PMC began to redeploy to Ukraine individually and in small groups. The exact status of the redeployed fighters is unclear, but it is likely that at least some of them were transferred to official Russian units.
10:49 Putin instructed the former chief of staff of PMC Wagner Andrei Troshev to form volunteer units for the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service reported. The issues of combat training of “volunteers” will be supervised by Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.
According to media reports, Troshev was the chief of staff of the Wagner PMC in Syria, participated in the war in Afghanistan and the Second Chechen War. Ukraine imposed sanctions against Troshev in February 2023 for his active participation in the war.
10:38 The Russians shelled the center of Kherson, two workers of the utility company were wounded. As a result of the shelling, the utility workers' car was damaged, and windows in neighboring houses were broken, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Over the past 24 hours, three people were killed and five more were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:16 Ukrainian media report, citing sources in the SBU, that a drone attack on a substation in the Kursk region was carried out by the Security Service. Important military facilities of the Russian Federation were connected to the affected substation, among other things. The moment the drones hit the substation was caught on video .
09:57 The morning missile strike on Nikolaev hit a transport infrastructure facility, which Russia has been attacking for the second day in a row, said city mayor Alexander Senkevich. “The attack occurred before the siren went off. This week there have already been three such attacks - first there were explosions, and then the sirens sounded. The type of missiles used to attack is not yet known, but it is known that after them great destruction occurs and a fire starts ", he said.
09:34 The IAEA General Conference approved a resolution on the immediate return of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the full control of Ukraine. The resolution on nuclear safety in Ukraine was supported by 69 countries. Among other things, the document calls on Russia to immediately withdraw all military and other unauthorized personnel from the Zaporizhia NPP and return the plant to the full control of the competent authorities of Ukraine.
08:48 The US House of Representatives voted to allocate $300 million to support Ukraine. The money was removed from the US defense budget proposal and was voted on separately. In addition, the House of Representatives passed an $826 billion defense spending bill.
08:15 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 29:
- personnel - about 277,660 (+340) people,
- tanks - 4687 (+8),
- armored combat vehicles - 8972 (+10),
- artillery systems - 6409 (+34),
- MLRS - 794 (+1),
- air defense systems - 536 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 4991 (+34),
- cruise missiles - 1529 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8836 (+21),
- special equipment - 930 (+1).
07:46 In the morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on Nikolaev, hitting an infrastructure facility on the outskirts of the city, said the head of the OBA Vitaly Kim.
07:29 Over the past 24 hours, 21 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled an enemy attack in the Belogorivka area of the Lugansk region; on Avdeevsky - in the area south of Avdeevka and in the Nevelsky area of the Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - in the Urozhainy district of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Chervonoye district of the Zaporozhye region. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions.
06:58 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense allegedly destroyed 11 Ukrainian UAVs at night, one of them over the territory of the Kaluga region and ten over the Kursk region.
05:12 Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt said that a “Ukrainian drone” dropped two explosive devices on a substation, cutting off power to five settlements and a hospital.
02:10 From October 1, a shutdown may occur in the United States - a temporary cessation of government work due to the fact that Congress was unable to pass budget bills for the next fiscal year. If this happens, such a pause in work will negatively affect the training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16, said Pentagon spokesman Sabrina Singh.
“There will be uniformed military personnel who will come to perform their duties, but in the event of a shutdown, most of the civilian personnel will be on leave. For example, civilian personnel involved in training Ukrainian pilots for English language training. This may affect training,” she explained.
Singh noted that the language courses "started today, but no one can say how long they will last." Basic pilot training will begin upon completion of the language courses.
00:17 The weapons that Ukraine receives from Western partners are used properly, and not a single case of them falling into the wrong hands has been recorded, said US State Department Speaker Matthew Miller. He assured that the United States has introduced strict control mechanisms not only over military, but also financial and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
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