Top Putin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov called for total war against Ukraine following Crimea bridge blast
He also demanded a return to Stalinist-era counterintelligence operations to root out internal opposition
Crimea's governor spoke of a 'healthy desire for revenge' while another official warned of rocket attacks
The deputy governor of Stavropol told Ukrainians 'leave your cities' as he threatened Sarmat missile strikes
Russia's deputy PM meanwhile deployed divers to inspect bridge foundations and search for more evidence
Some Western intelligence officials fear Putin will raise new hell in neighbouring country amid humiliation
Rocket attacks killed more than a dozen people in the territory of Zaporizhzhia late last night and early today
Putin previously said that any attack on the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia would prompt 'judgment day'
Saturday's explosion on the bridge prompted gleeful messages from Ukrainian officials but no claim of responsibility, though it is widely thought to have been of Ukrainian origin.
The bridge is a major artery for the Russian forces that control most of southern Ukraine's Kherson region and for the Russian naval port of Sevastopol.
But Aksyonov claimed the peninsula had a month's worth of fuel and more than two months' worth of food, while Russia's defence ministry said its forces in southern Ukraine could be 'fully supplied' through existing land and sea routes.
Rail traffic was restored to the bridge late last night, meaning it is unlikely the destruction will dramatically hinder Russian supply routes.
And now, the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt:
A leading Ukrainian presidential aide claimed this morning the Kerch Strait crossing carnage may have been ordered by one of Vladimir Putin's warring commanders.
Mykhailo Podolyak alleged that Russia's FSB secret service and the defence ministry are at loggerheads in a bitter dogfight over the botched war and are trying to undermine one another's credibility.
'Isn't it obvious who made [the] explosion? Truck arrived from RF [Russian Federation],' he said.
Meanwhile, a Western diplomatic source said the bridge attack could have been commissioned from inside the Russian establishment to fatally weaken Putin and trigger his toppling.
'It might be the SBU [Ukrainian secret service] but it also could be the first major sign of a bid from within Russia to incapacitate the Kremlin tsar,' the source said.
Shelling that has cut the power line supplying cooling systems at the Russian-held #Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine is “tremendously irresponsible,” the #UN atomic watchdog says.https://t.co/kqjOvK5uxn
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The reactors have been shut down, and the latent heat removed. But the reactor still needs cooling water to be pumped in for years to deal with the heat of radioisotope decay.
[Korrespondent] 23:11 Maxar service published a picture of the fire on the Kerch bridge and its damage after the explosion:
23:05 The Russians hit an infrastructure facility in Zaporozhye with a rocket, a fire broke out, information about the victims is being specified, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
22:38 Germany announced additional deliveries of weapons to Ukraine, writes CNN. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht promised that Ukraine will receive, in addition to the IRIS-T air defense system, a total of 100 tanks from Greece and Slovakia.
22:34 In Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region, about 6,000 cars are waiting at the checkpoint to leave the territory controlled by Ukraine, people live in cars for more than ten days, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
22:27 Today, the Russians fired at the Sumy region from self-propelled guns, mortars, and also inflicted four air strikes from helicopters that did not cross the state border. The villages of the Krasnopol and Velikopisarevskaya communities were under enemy fire, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. As a result of an air strike on one of the villages of the Velikopisarevskaya community, one person was injured. The property of one of the agricultural enterprises was damaged, a corn field caught fire.
21:56 Zelensky, in an evening video message, announced a very difficult situation in the Bakhmut direction: "During these days, the movement of our military, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Guard and everyone who is involved in active operations continued - in operations in the east, in operations in the south of our "We hold positions in the Donbass, in particular in the Bakhmut direction, where it is very, very difficult now, very tough battles. Today I want to once again commend our soldiers from the 93rd separate mechanized brigade Kholodny Yar for courage, for their steadfastness in this particular direction" .
The President also said that the authorities are doing everything possible to protect the Ukrainian sky: "And this is one of the highest priorities for our diplomats - to accelerate the decision of partners regarding the provision of modern and effective air defense systems to Ukraine, a sufficient number of them. We will definitely come to this."
21:25 Zelensky said in an evening video message that Ukraine guarantees the Russians who surrender to the preservation of their lives and treatment in accordance with all international norms and conventions: "If the occupiers flee - while they have such an opportunity - this will be the best option for them "If they are forced to stay, any occupier can find a way to surrender to Ukrainian captivity. We guarantee that all Russian soldiers who voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender will save their lives. Ukraine always complies with all international norms and conventions. There are no other options for the occupiers could rely on them, we will not leave them."
21:19 Turkey plans to organize negotiations between Russia and the West on Ukraine, the proposal has already been submitted to Washington through diplomatic channels, Turkish Milliyet writes. In particular, according to the newspaper, Ankara intends to seat four major Western countries at the same table with Russia - the United States, France, Germany and Britain. The plan has not yet been brought to the attention of all Western capitals, but has been communicated to the US "through important and private channels."
21:13 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said that railway traffic on the Crimean bridge has been fully restored, car traffic has been organized along the undamaged part of the road, while one lane is in reverse mode. By morning, it is planned to launch it in two lanes.
The Kerch bridge? That seems fairly miraculous, based on yesterday’s conversation here.
20:47 Borrell said that "the decree on the seizure of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is illegal and void from a legal point of view." He added that the Russian Federation should withdraw its troops and equipment from the territory of the station and transfer control over it to Ukraine.
19:52 Putin signed a decree on strengthening the protection of the transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the power grid energy bridge Russia - the Crimean Peninsula and the main gas pipeline Krasnodar Territory - Crimea. The authority to organize and coordinate protection measures is vested in the FSB. Previously, the National Guard was engaged in this.
19:38 Over the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorivka, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Krasnogorovka and Terny. Local hospitals in the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region cannot cope with the flow of wounded invaders, the General Staff reports in an evening report .
18:51 According to the results of the first three quarters of 2022, the Ministry of Economy estimates the fall in Ukraine's GDP at 30%.
18:40 An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, reported explosions 50 km from the city - at the junction of the freight railway station Karan, Donetsk region.
18:14 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Shevchenkovka, Kherson region , said the head of the OVA Yaroslav Yanushevich: "There are no longer Russian invaders who terrorized and killed. The worst for these bright people is over."
18:07 Russians who fled from mobilization can become weapons in Russia's hybrid war, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said at an informal summit of EU leaders. According to her, Russians tend to arrive in countries where there is already a Russian minority: "If now these people are coming to Estonia and Latvia, then the Russian minority is growing, and Russia further says: we must 'liberate' them. This is all part of a wider imperialist picture, and we are very wary of this."
18:03 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on the creation of the federal state unitary enterprise Zaporozhye NPP, the Federal State Property Management Agency was instructed to appoint the general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.
17:56 The Russians launched a missile attack on Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region in the morning - three people were injured, six high-rise buildings were damaged, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
17:27 Arrests of the military began in Moscow, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, a set of measures against the military has begun in the Russian capital. Traffic in the center is blocked, units of the Dzerzhinsky operational division, the "elite" of the National Guard, have entered the city. They move to the center together with police units. It is known about numerous arrests, detentions and blocking of the military. Meanwhile, all military units along the perimeter of Moscow are on high alert.
16:30 The movement of vehicles on the Crimean bridge has been resumed, now it is open to cars and buses with a full inspection procedure, the "authorities" of Crimea said. For cargo trucks, later today, the ferry Kerch-2 will start sailing through the Kerch Strait.
15:53 Podolyak believes that the explosion on the Crimean bridge could have been arranged by the Russians themselves: "Now seriously. The FSB/PMCs are trying to eat the leadership of the Defense Ministry/General Staff. A moment before the change of personnel, the FSB goes into a knockdown: they watched the explosion on the Putin bridge. Now The Defense Ministry will be able to blame the FSB for future defeats in the south. It is not yet clear who blew up the bridge?
15:22 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that General of the Army Sergei Surovikin has been appointed commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area where the "SVO" is being held. At the end of June, Surovikin became the commander of the southern grouping of Russian troops in Ukraine, which led the offensive in the Zolote and Gorsky Luhansk regions. Before Ukraine, he was the commander of the Russian group in Syria, then in 2017 Putin appointed him head of the Aerospace Forces.
14:40 Russian media write that a printing house is on fire in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, allegedly because of Ukrainian shelling.
13:57 According to preliminary data, as a result of the explosion on the Crimean bridge, three people died - in addition to the driver of the blown up truck, the passengers of the passenger car driving nearby were killed, the RF IC reported. Also, the investigation allegedly established the data of a truck that was blown up on the Crimean bridge, and its owner is a resident of the Krasnodar Territory.
13:14 Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu congratulated Ukraine on the blowing up of the Crimean bridge: "Estonia certainly welcomes this and congratulates the Ukrainian special forces, which are probably behind this operation ... The positive moment is that the movement has stopped. The bridge was also important for Putin as a confirmation that Crimea will forever remain with Russia.
12:23 Propaganda media have already received a manual from the Kremlin regarding the Crimean bridge, writes Meduza. Thus, Putin's administration advises to emphasize that the bridge has not been destroyed, "there is only a damaged canvas on the road and railway parts." The media recommend repeating that preparations for restoration work have already begun, and reminding them of the launch of the Kerch ferry crossing.
12:20 Zakharova after the emergency on the Crimean bridge said that "the reaction of the Kiev regime to the destruction of civilian infrastructure testifies to its terrorist nature."
11:41 The death toll in Zaporozhye as a result of shelling on October 6 increased to 17, the State Emergency Service reports. Work continues on the removal of the rubble of two destroyed residential buildings - a five-story and a four-story building.
11:23 Ukrposhta will issue a new stamp in honor of the explosion on the Crimean bridge, General Director Igor Smelyansky said: "As you understand, they have been preparing it for a long time together with the artist Yuri Shapoval. There is a washing machine, and enemy equipment, and handcuffs that Crimea is tearing apart with Russia "The exact date of issue will be announced later. The face value of the stamp is M (because it's a bridge), the cost is 18 hryvnia, the circulation is 7 million."
10:42 The All-Russian Union of Insurers estimated the damage from the emergency on the Crimean bridge at 200-500 million rubles.
10:19 Departure through the Crimean bridge to the mainland is impossible. The "authorities" of Sevastopol assure that there will be enough gasoline and food supplies in the city for 40 days, there will be no shortage. Meanwhile, local publics write that queues are lining up at Crimean gas stations. The sale of railway tickets from and to Crimea has been suspended, bus services to the peninsula have been cancelled.
10:08 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of October 8. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Donetsk, Bakhmut and Kramatorsk directions.
personnel - about 62,060 (+380) people liquidated,
tanks - 2472 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 5111 (+18),
artillery systems - 1459 (+4),
MLRS - 345 (+1),
air defense systems - 180 (+3),
aircraft - 266 (+0),
helicopters - 234 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1079 (+12),
cruise missiles - 246 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3875 (+13),
special equipment - 136 (+1).
10:01 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, six civilians were killed - two in Zarechny, two in Ocheretino, one each in Bakhmut and Pavlovka, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said. In addition, the bodies of nine more civilians killed by the Russians during the occupation were found in the liberated communities: six in Liman, two in Svyatogorsk and one in Yarovaya. Another 17 people were injured yesterday.
09:52 As a result of night rocket strikes on the Saltovsky and Osnovyansky districts of Kharkiv, one person was wounded. The sports complex, non-residential premises, cars, garages were damaged. The State Emergency Service liquidated several fires, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
In the region, the enemy attacked the Kupyansky, Bogodukhovsky, Kharkov and Izyumsky districts. During the day, six people were hospitalized, including four in the Izyum region as a result of mine explosions.
09:40 Peskov said that there are no forecasts for the timing of the restoration of the Crimean bridge yet, Putin instructed to create a government commission in connection with the emergency.
09:34 Podolyak, in the context of the fire on the Crimean bridge, said that everything stolen would be returned: "Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything Russian occupation must be expelled."
09:27 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Kadyrov and Prigozhin will try to achieve minor military successes in the Donetsk region in order to maintain their popularity and reputation in the Russian information space. According to analysts, on October 6-7, Russian forces gradually advanced in the area of Bakhmut and Avdiivka, probably with the support of Wagner PMCs and the Kadyrovites. Prigozhin also sent 1,000 soldiers to strengthen positions in Lisichansk after the failure in Liman.
Meanwhile, reports of a split in the Kremlin are gaining momentum in the Russian media space, undermining the appearance of stability in the Putin regime.
09:05 The National Anti-Terrorism Committee of the Russian Federation announced that a truck was blown up on the Crimean bridge. As a result, there was a partial collapse of two automobile spans of the Crimean bridge, the arch over the navigable part of the bridge was not damaged.
The head of the "parliament" of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, said that "Ukrainian vandals" damaged the roadway on the Crimean bridge. At the same time, he assured that the damage will be promptly restored, they are not of a severe nature.
The "authorities" of Crimea also reported that after the emergency on the bridge, the launch of a ferry crossing to Kerch is being worked out. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties as a result of the incident.
08:24 In the Luhansk region, about 300 wounded Russian prisoners who agreed to fight on the territory of Ukraine were delivered to the local hospital in Novosvetlovka, the General Staff said.
08:02 There was a strong fire on the railway line of the Crimean bridge - a fuel tank is burning, the shipping arches are not damaged. According to the Taman Road Administration, traffic on the bridge has been suspended. Photos and videos of the fire are published online .
07:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders near 16 settlements. The enemy is advancing in the Avdeevsky and Bakhmut directions, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
06:51 At the Zaporizhzhya NPP tonight, due to another shelling by Russian troops, the last line of communication with the 750kV ZNPP energy system - Dneprovskaya was damaged and disconnected. As a result , there was a complete blackout of the Zaporozhye NPP. The diesel generators were switched on automatically. The available stocks of diesel fuel for their operation in this mode will be enough for ten days, Energoatom said. It is necessary to repair and resume the operation of ZNPP communication lines with the power system. Plans to turn on power units in the face of shelling and damage to all lines are unrealistic, the company notes.
Meanwhile, the local occupation "authorities" confirmed the de-energization of the nuclear power plant and accused the Ukrainian side of the shelling.
01:22 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov announced the shelling of the central part of the city. After the missile strikes, fires began, according to preliminary information, one of the medical institutions is on fire, as well as a non-residential building.
00:57 The "DPR" stated that Ukrainian troops fired at Ilovaisk.
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Ukrainian army is within 15km of Svatovoe. That means the town and main supply route leading to Keminna and Severo-Donetsk is within range of every Ukrainian artillery piece.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... got an unusual gift for his 70th birthday on Friday: a tractor.
As the leaders of several ex-Soviet nations met at the Czarist-era Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus presented Putin with a gift certificate for the vehicle. Tractors have been the pride of Belarusian industry since Soviet times.
Lukashenko, an autocratic leader who has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron hand for nearly three decades while cultivating a man of the people image, told news hounds he used a model in his garden similar to the one he gifted Putin.
It wasn’t clear how the Russian leader responded to the gift, which Lukashenko’s office revealed.
Putin didn’t mention the gift in televised remarks at the start of the meeting when he talked about the need to discuss ways of settling conflicts between ex-Soviet nations.
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They say that thoughtless people give the gifts they want to receive. Sasha would love nothing more than a nice, fully-activated S790 to repaint and rebadge as an MTZ.
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"That's nice. It's a well-built tractor. Very... solid."
Why? Why? All I want is a fully-equipped tank division! I'd take a mechanized brigade! The 19th Guards Mechanized Brigade isn't doing anything, they're just sitting around looking fierce. Give me a brigade! What I could do with another brigade right now...
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And now western media spin devoid of reality. Every cracker jack will air their thoughts especially pro western. Pro Russian only the sound of crickets.
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He assumed it was a practical gift. After seeing so many clips of Ukrainians towing home Russian vehicles with their tractors, he thought, well, ...
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The Republican Party is fracturing on Ukraine. Sen. Josh Hawley recently shifted to the opposition, saying that throwing more money down the Ukraine rathole would deprive our military of money it needs to face real threats, especially from China.
Other senators also oppose any more aid on grounds that much or most of it has simply been stolen or wasted. A lot of the weapons are being sold on the black market, including to ISIS and other terror groups.
The pro-Trump wing of the GOP is dead-set against more aid. This includes most of the new candidates like JD Vance. When they come into office next year, the gravy train will come to a halt.
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If you think that Russia hasn't seriously engaged left, there's no hope for you. You're completely bought into your own bollocks, and are sucking the bottom of your own balls.
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[NYPOST] A 25-year-old Russian man owns the truck that Russian authorities say blew up its crucial Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea — but he was not in the driver’s seat. Not if he's still talking.
Russian law enforcement named Samir Yusubov, a resident of the Russian city of Krasnodar — about an hour’s drive from the span that supplies Vladimir Putin’s troops in southern Ukraine — as the registered owner of the red International Prostar truck that was enveloped in a massive fireball early Saturday morning. "Yeah, but I wasn't driving it!"
"Can you prove it wass nut you, comrade?"
In a video filmed for Baza Media and posted to social media, the seemingly stunned young man said that an older relative, Makhir Yusubov, 52, was using the vehicle. "Da, da. He wass driver, not me."
“I’ve got nothing to do with what happened on the Crimean bridge,” he said in the 28-second clip. "Youse got nuttin' on me, comrade coppers! Nuttin!"
“It was my uncle working with it, my father’s cousin, Makhir Yusubov. He has been into cargo transportation all life long.” "Up until yesterday, anyway."
His uncle usually arranged his work orders through a website, Samir Yusubov said — and has not been heard from since the blast ripped through the roadway, collapsing part of the span. "And chto wass he transportink, comrade?"
"Ummm... Explosives?"
[NYPOST] A stunning series of photos and videos shows the violent mostly peaceful impact of the earth-shattering kaboom that tore through Russia’s prized Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea early Saturday morning.
A monstrous fireball bloomed over all four of the bridge’s vehicle lanes at 6:07 a.m. as a passenger car and a freight truck drove side by side up the incline to its towering arch.
The flames appeared to reach across the water, enveloping the twin railroad bridge about 100 feet away.
A moment later, flaming shrapnel and sparks could be seen raining down onto the roadway and into the water below.
The mysteriously powerful blast killed three people on the 12-mile bridge and caused a partial roadway collapse.
Russian authorities said a truck bomb caused the extensive damage — but Western demolitions experts cast doubt on the claim, speculating instead that a missile or water-borne explosives had been used against the span.
"You can’t get that much stuff in a vehicle going over a bridge," security analyst Michael Clarke told Sky News. "Bridges are designed to withstand accidents of that sort."
The massive blast targeted a major military supply route to Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s forces in southern Ukraine, just one day day after the Russian president’s 70th birthday.
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The Russians destroyed a critical piece of their own infrastructure again?
Because if you can't believe the experts that tell you truck bombs don't work to demolish structures (*cough* Oklahoma City federal building that commanded the FBI assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco *cough*) then what else is there? The US media-government complex is totally trustworthy, what are you a Putler stooge or something? Because that's what Putler tells his stooges to say.
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From Skid's link: "But Rail traffic was restored to the bridge late last night, meaning it is unlikely the destruction will dramatically hinder Russian supply routes."
I find that hard to believe. Wouldn't wanna be the first train engineer across.
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Frank, ever see "The Bridge on the River Kwai"?
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Yep: "What have I done?"
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#7 It buffed right out.
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Bridge at Remagen took days to collapse as ongoing heavy traffic may have slowly finished the damage.
Somehow trusting the Russian Army damage assessment team and their Command Structure to focus on safety seems a tad perilous!
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The rail bridge has two tracks. This was the best pic of the bridge box structure I could find.
Frank said yesterday that the side to the road had more fire damage as that was the side facing the wind. So it may be possible that the box structure toward the road bridge may be fatally heat damaged while the far side box structure may still be usable. Guess we'll find out when the Russians try to roll a loaded freight train over it, not the light passenger test train so far.
Also, read that the Russians are not allowing heavy vehicles over the remaining (and damaged) road bridge span.
Supply into Crimea and southern Ukraine will problematic for a while. Good time for the Ukrainians to press the offensive.
No sooner does Surovikin takes over that we get the Cliff Notes briefing version from the Russian ministry of defense.
[RIA] Since February 24, 2022, Russia has been conducting a special operation in Ukraine. See on the RIA Novosti map where hostilities are currently taking place, which cities are suffering from shelling, and also how the units of the parties are advancing. ON THE SPECIAL OPERATION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES IN UKRAINE
The Russian army has been conducting a special military operation in Ukraine since February 24, 2022. Its main goal is to help the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, on whose territory shelling has not stopped for the past eight years. Our military has been tasked with minimizing the loss of personnel and civilians in the performance of combat missions.
DATA FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, DPR AND LPR AS OF OCTOBER 8, 2022
Over the past 24 hours, Russian units have successfully repulsed all enemy attacks in the Kupyansky, Krasnolimansky, South-Donetsk and Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog directions.
More than 300 Ukrainian servicemen were killed. The 11th Regiment and the "Somalia" battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR are cleaning up Pervomaisky in the suburbs of Donetsk. In addition, fighting continues for the liberation of Avdiivka, Artemovsk, Maryinka and Soledar.
In parallel, the destruction of military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being carried out. A total of 174 areas of accumulation of manpower and equipment, 54 artillery crews, four ammunition depots, one communication center were liquidated. Fighter aircraft and air defense systems shot down a MiG-29 aircraft, 12 drones, 21 HIMARS MLRS shells and one Tochka-U ballistic missile.
THE RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL OPERATION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES IN UKRAINE Destroyed:
379 anti-aircraft missile systems
5,494 + 46 tanks and other armored vehicles
3,457 + four field artillery pieces
866 + four multiple launch rocket systems
316 + one aircraft
158 helicopters
2,176 +12 drones
6,395 + 35 units of vehicles
Source: Russian Ministry of Defense
Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian Armed Forces have disabled 316 aircraft, 158 helicopters, 2,176 drones, 379 anti-aircraft missile systems, 866 multiple launch rocket systems, 5,494 tanks and other armored vehicles, 3,457 field artillery pieces and 6,395 vehicles.
[Rusvesna] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation.
By decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation , General of the Army Sergei Surovikin was appointed commander of the Joint Group of Troops (Forces) in the area of the special military operation .
► In the Kupyansky direction, the enemy, with the help of two reinforced battalions, attempted an offensive in the direction of the settlements of Pershotravneve and Yagodnoye in the Kharkov region. All attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the units of the Russian troops were successfully repelled. More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles and four vehicles were destroyed.
In addition, more than 110 Ukrainian servicemen of the 14th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 19th Terodefense Battalion were killed as a result of massive strikes against the advancing enemy reserves in the area of the settlement of Petropavlovka in the Kharkiv region.
► In the Krasnolimansky direction, during another unsuccessful attempt to cross the Zherebets River by two reinforced companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops destroyed more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles and five pickup trucks.
As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the points of temporary deployment of the 17th tank and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Novoye and Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 pieces of military equipment were destroyed.
► In the South-Donetsk direction, an attempt to counterattack units of the 115th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1st brigade of the President of Ukraine was repelled. More than 90 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, eight armored fighting vehicles and six vehicles were destroyed.
► In the Zaporizhzhia direction, a high-precision weapon of the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the city of Zaporozhye. More than 160 militants were destroyed.
► In the Nikolaev-Kryvyi Rih direction, the enemy made attempts to conduct offensive operations with the forces of three battalion tactical groups, a tank battalion and a battalion of the National Guard, which arrived from Western Ukraine, in the directions of the settlements of Sukhanovo, Pyatikhatki, Sadok, Ishchenka, Bruskinskoe, Karlo-Marksovskoye and Malaya Seydeminukha Khersonskaya areas. All attacks by Ukrainian forces are repelled.
More than 240 Ukrainian servicemen, 12 tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles and four artillery pieces were destroyed as a result of the infliction of fire damage on the enemy by Russian units.
The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 54 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 174 districts. Four ammunition depots were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Uspenovka in the Zaporozhye region, Novaya Kamenka in the Kherson region and the city of Nikolaev. A communication center of the Ukrainian group of troops was destroyed in the area of the settlement of Vysheshe Solenoye in the Kharkiv region.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft near the village of Chapaevka, Zaporozhye region.
Also, over the past day, 12 unmanned aerial vehicles, including one "Bayraktar-TB2", were destroyed by air defense means in the areas of the settlements of Novy Bug of the Nikolaev region, Bruskinskoye, Vysokoye, Karlo-Marksovskoye, Charivnoye of the Kherson region, Ivanovka, Yasnoye, Zeleny Gay and Evgenovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, Berestovoye in the Kharkiv region, and Novoegorivka in the Luhansk People's Republic.
In addition, 21 shells of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the air in the areas of the settlements of Ilovaisk of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novaya Kakhovka, Nikolskoye and Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power stations, as well as a Tochka-U ballistic missile near the settlement of Chervony Mayak, Kherson region .
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 316 aircraft, 158 helicopters, 2,176 unmanned aerial vehicles, 379 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,494 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 866 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,457 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 6395 units of special military vehicles.
Despite the presence of representatives of the IAEA at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Kyiv regime continues provocations in order to create a threat of a man-made disaster.
During the day, the city of Energodar and the territory adjacent to the nuclear power plant were shelled twice by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
In total, 15 rockets were fired by Ukrainian troops from the controlled settlement of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region.
As a result of the hit of Ukrainian rockets in the area of the industrial zone, the power line was disabled, which provides the station's own needs and power supply to the city of Energodar.
The enemy firepower was suppressed by Russian artillery return fire. Backup diesel generators are used to ensure the operation of the nuclear power plant.
Currently, repair work is being completed to restore the power supply to the nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar. The radiation situation at the Zaporozhye NPP is normal.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:04 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on October 8, additional information was received about the damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Ivanova, 7, 9, 10 - private residential buildings, damaged: gas pipeline, car.
As of 21:30, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks for October 8, 2022 is sevn people (three dead, four injured). The information continues to flow.
As of today, as of 21:30, the enemy fired 235 different types of ammunition, including 155mm, 152mm and 122mm artillery, as well as 122mm BM-21 Grad
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
19:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Zaitsevo: four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
19:33 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky regions): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
19:30 In the Kirovsky district on the street. Biryuzov, a guy born in 2005 was injured due to the detonation of the “Petal” mine.
19:05 Explosions at the Karan railway station in Andreevka, DPR.
18:47 A group of Ukrainian saboteurs who planned terrorist attacks in the north of the republic, including blowing up kindergartens, was detained in the LPR, a source told RIA Novosti.
18:44 Yasinovataya under fire from VFU. Several apartment buildings were damaged. Fires have been recorded in the city.
18:42 Three people were urgently evacuated from Kremennaya:
“Children were under fire three times. There are no windows left in the house, there is no connection, and there is cold ahead ... ”, - says the mother of two children.
18:31 Appeared in telegram channels video explosions at the Karan railway station in Andreevka (DPR), 50 km from Mariupol.
17:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
16:00 Elimination of the fire in the printing house continues. There are four fire departments on site. additional special equipment follows. According to operational information, there were no dead or injured.
15:26 The 11th Regiment and the Somalia battalion are cleaning up Pervomaisky. The legendary units of the NM DPR, which liberated Sands - the 11th Regiment and the battalion "Somalia", continue to build on their success and are cleaning up the Pervomaisky chalk. The actions of the assault groups are supported by artillery, the fire of which is corrected with the help of UAVs.
15:24 Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at Energodar and Zaporizhzhya NPP twice in a day from BM-21 122mm rocket artillery Grad systems - RF Ministry of Defense.
15:24 In the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, all attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled. More than 240 Ukrainian servicemen, 12 tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles and 4 artillery pieces were destroyed - Russian Defense Ministry.
15:22 In the Krasnolimansky direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine again tried to force the Zherebets river, more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, three infantry fighting vehicles and five pickup trucks were destroyed - Russian Defense Ministry
15:20 All attacks in the Kupyansk direction were successfully repelled, more than 100 Ukrainian military were destroyed - the Russian Defense Ministry.
15:08 RIA Novosti. In Novaya Kakhovka, an air raid alarm sounds, air defense is working, three explosions sounded in the sky - the authorities of the city.
14:10 “Windows immediately flew out”: a printing house is on fire in Donetsk due to another shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Huge columns of smoke cover almost the entire territory. According to an eyewitness, he failed to save his property, the fire spread at high speed. The building burns mainly paper and paint for it. There is no information about the victims yet.
13:48 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:47 The provision of the Russian group of troops involved in the special military operation in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and Zaporozhye operational directions is carried out continuously in full along the land corridor and partially by sea transport.
13:10 At the moment, open burning on the Crimean bridge has been eliminated. There is a pouring of structures from helicopters.
13:08 “Work on the restoration of the Crimean bridge will be carried out without any bureaucracy, respectively, we will start almost today, as soon as the work of the Investigative Committee and the FSB is completed,” said the head of the region, Sergei Aksenov.
13:02 There is a strong fire in the Donetsk microdistrict Mirny after the Ukrainian shelling.
12:56 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 8, received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
- st. Zhmury, 3/1, 3/2 - private residential buildings;
- st. Zhmury, 3/3, 4/4 - apartment buildings.
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district):
De-energized eight transformer substations, without electricity 2056 household subscribers of the Chervonogvardeisky Distribution Zone.
11:50 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation on 08.10.2022
Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-- up to 50 personnel;
-- one tank;
-- two armored personnel carriers;
-- eight units of special automotive equipment.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists:
Engineer and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining.
During October 7, they cleared more than eigt hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of LITVINOVKA and SYCHANSKOE.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.
With the support of the NM of the LPR, volunteers of the Popular Front delivered humanitarian aid to the residents of Severodonetsk.
In addition, humanitarian aid from caring residents of Yekaterinburg was delivered by the Union of Afghan Veterans of the LPR with the support of the People's Militia to the residents of Lisichansk.
11:36 As a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district, there was a direct hit on a private house, in which the roof and glazing were damaged. Fences were shattered near two private houses.
11:13 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov and Kuibyshevsky districts): six missiles were fired from the 122mm MLRS BM-21 "Grad".
10:47 Up to 40,000 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated along the LPR border, said the LPR Ambassador to the Russian Federation Miroshnik.
10:39 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber.
08:40 At night, Ilovaisk was attacked, presumably hit by HIMARS missiles that fly up to 300 km. Hits were in the area of storage of tanks with gasoline.
08:30 Humanitarian aid has arrived for the fighters of the NM DPR from social activists of the Ulyanovsk region. The cargo includes tactical equipment and equipment, quadrocopters, medicines, as well as armored vehicles. All the delivered cargo was distributed among the NM of the DPR, which perform combat missions in the NVO zone.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
-- n.p. Umanskoye - n.p. Ilovaisk: six missiles were fired from the M142 Himars launcher.
-- n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovsky, Petrovsky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
-- n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Army General Sergei Surovikin became commander-in-chief of the special military operation.
In the 8th month of the special operation, something like Headquarters was created - a single one, headed by a person who is not only treated with respect, but feared. Because the head can fly off the shoulders instantly: Surovikin does not stand on ceremony with stupid commanders.
Yes, there are many questions as to why this has not been done before. There are many questions as to why we do not hear about high-profile landings, deprivation of titles and investigations yet.
But finally, something started to happen. And this is exactly what is needed in today's conditions. It is necessary to put things in order and cut the Gordian knot in problems with the interaction between parts and connections that do one thing.
Commanders began to change and remove. On September 29, the commander of the 4th Kantemirovskaya division was removed from his post. Once again, the command of the Western Military District has changed.
The system, pah-pah-pah, so as not to jinx it, began to heal.
Following commentary from Wagner founder Evginiy Prigozhin:
“Of course I know him. Surovikin is the most competent commander in the Russian army. But he can act in the current situation on the basis of the opportunities that he has and relying on the situation that was handed to him by his predecessors, and it was handed over, to put it mildly, not in the best possible way. As for his personal qualities, I can say one thing that Surovikin is a legendary person, he was born to faithfully serve the Motherland.
Faithfully serving the Motherland is not beautiful uniforms and tsatski to fasten. We all remember the events at the White House in August 1991,
...that’s the Russian White House in Moscow, formally known as The House of the Government of the Russian Federation, previously the House of Soviets of Russia. In August 1991 Russian President Boris Yeltsin did his thing outside it, and the Soviet Union fell...
and so Surovikin is the officer who, without hesitation, having received an order, got into a tank and rushed to save his country.
By the way, in August 1991 I also participated in those events, however, then I was on the side of the protesters - the liberal forces. We were then in the deepest delusion, and instead of directing the fundamental assembled country, called the USSR, into a new direction, giving the idea of private property, a new vector of economic development and working on mistakes, we all together destroyed it to the ground.
We carried out a command from the United States and destroyed the greatest empire of our time for the sake of a bunch of greedy, treacherous creatures who plundered factories, plants, steamships on the sly.
By the way, most of them are still sitting on the money stolen from the people and rubbing their hands. Historically, this is a global unique error. China followed a similar path, with one difference - they did not plunder anything, and now has an outstanding economy. The first in the world, if you put aside the murky criminal schemes of the United States. And we are still paying for this mistake.
Surovikin in August 1991 did not have time to load full ammunition into his tank. And if we had time, then we would live in a completely different country, dozens of times more powerful.
What we got as a result: Khodorkovsky, Berezovsky and others - a pack of dogs attacked the property of the Soviet Union and pulled it in different directions. I, along with the protesters that day, went to the square and overturned trolleybuses so as not to return the USSR. For what? For the sake of an extra piece of sausage or boiled jeans. The results of today's problems were laid down in that distant 1991.
By the way, those who destroyed the USSR are still alive and well, they manage factories and plants, and steamboats, they are called by one name - Russian oligarchs. And the fuck they saw the entire military industry and the struggle for the interests of Russia. So Surovikin is the best, and he tried to save his Motherland, but his success depends, among other things, on his tank shells.
The head of Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan, Sergei Melikov, wrote on Telegram on October 7 that North Caucasus native Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov had been appointed to lead the Eastern Military District.
The district is based in Russia's Far East, but much of its personnel is currently taking part in Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Muradov, who among other Russian officials has been slapped with Western sanctions, led troops in Ukraine's eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, parts of which have been under Moscow-backed separatists' control since 2014.
He also commanded Russian peacekeepers in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
RBK news agency reported on October 7, citing sources close to the Russian military, that Muradov replaced Colonel General Aleksandr Chaiko, without giving any details.
There has been no official confirmation of the report.
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#1
I expected this. They have portable handheld eauipment that can neutralize drones now. Biggest impact is western communications with Ukrainian logistics. Going blind. Our troops on the ground there will be impaired as well. Then for the west the war must go on. Those who talk of peace media blitzed. EU will suffer more from this derangement syndrome as Biden hides in his basement.
#2
Or Russia has attempted to subjugate a nation of 40 million people and they are resisting against the Russian Army and people like you who are not into freedom as a thing, don't care if Russia succeeds OR you want Russia to succeed, whichever the case is.
#3
It could also be Solar Flares knocking small sats. out.
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I wouldn't want to be in one of these units in a Peer vs. Peer conflict. They necessarily have to emit a constant electromagnetic signature that would be trivial to locate and launch a missile at.
TL/DR: Be effective and be a target.
#5
Starlink did not go out above Ukraine. This article is 2 years old and discusses Russian jamming capabilities. Starlink was not even active over Ukraine at that time.
It was resolved that the recent failure of Starlink during the recent Kherson offensive was due to the speed of the advance, the Ukrainians were overrunning Russians controlled areas where Starlink was disabled so the Russians could not make use of it.
Also the Russians have been trying to jam Starlink for months without success.
#7
This is a constant battle between Musk and Russia.I would suggest much of our information available to us is filtered thru filtered classified actions. I would suggest a healthy avoidance of speculations. Russian media sings a different tune.'On the other hand, while Elon Musk’s business acknowledges that the Starlink satellite Internet has been disrupted, they offer no answers for why this has happened". So the race is on. Disrupted perhaps to prevent Russia using the system.
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