[Korrespondent] 23:37 Odessa was again attacked by three kamikaze drones, all of them were destroyed by air defense forces, OK Pivden reported.
23:05 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation is now especially acute in the Donetsk region: "We are doing everything to contain hostile activity. It is there that our number one goal is now, since Donbass is still the number one goal for the occupiers ... Permanent Russian offensive attempts in Donbass will surely go down in history as one of the most cynical killings of their own soldiers.When we see this, when we see these offensives, we are once again convinced that Russian mobilization is a frank attempt to give commanders on the ground a constant stream of cannon fodder. There is simply no other point in Russian mobilization. They felt that they would lose, and they are simply trying to delay this moment, to ensure at least some activity at the front, to put at least someone with a weapon in their hands instead of the dead."
22:58 Podolyak said in a commentary to the UP that the issue of additional mobilization in Ukraine will depend on the situation at the front and on what effect the mobilization will have in Russia.
22:41 Today, a project to create a special international tribunal to punish Russia for the crime of aggression against Ukraine was presented to the ambassadors of 30 states, Zelensky said in an evening address: "The difficulty of attracting Russia for this crime is that the existing international legal instruments are not enough. We need it special international tribunal. And we are working on this project in great detail, very carefully. I have no doubt that there will be a tribunal. There will be responsibility for everyone who unleashed this criminal war against Ukraine and freedom in Europe."
22:34 The Russians attacked Krivoy Rog - they hit the airport with an X-59 missile. Its infrastructure has been destroyed, further use of the airfield and equipment is impossible. People were not injured, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. Earlier today, Ukrainian air defense shot down an enemy missile over the region.
22:13 The Ukrainian army is provided with winter uniforms, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: “Now the topic of providing winter clothing is developing very similarly in social networks, as it was with bulletproof vests at one time. There are already 135,000 of them in stock. and stock. The situation is the same with winter clothing."
21:56 The United States is ready to give Russia "serious economic costs" in the event of the annexation of Ukrainian territories, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. According to her, Washington will never recognize the territory annexed by Russia as "anything but part of Ukraine," and the "referendums" themselves are "a flagrant violation of international law."
“We will continue to work with our allies and partners to hold Russia accountable and support Ukraine for as long as it takes... We are ready to impose additional, rapid and severe economic costs on Russia, together with our allies and partners, in response to these actions, which we we are currently seeing if they move towards annexation," Jean-Pierre assured.
21:38 The United States at this stage does not see signs of the preparation of the Russian Federation for the use of nuclear weapons, said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
20:47 The Russians fired at Marganets of the Dnepropetrovsk region today, as a result of which three people received shrapnel wounds, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. Nikopol, Zelenodolsk and Apostolovsk communities were also shelled, no one was injured.
20:34 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh reported on the shelling of the city: Botanicheskaya, Shevchenko and Barvenkovskaya streets were damaged.
20:22 The United States has previously agreed on the allocation of a new financial assistance package to Ukraine in the amount of $ 12 billion, writes Reuters.
19:45 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Disputed, Soledar, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Kamenka, Pobeda, Pavlovka, the General Staff said in the evening report .
19:30 In Italy, the pro-Ukrainian government of technocrat Mario Draghi is being replaced by far-right Putin fans. About what to expect for Ukraine - in the material Old Russophiles .
19:22 After Putin announced the mobilization, military commissariats and administration buildings began to be set on fire throughout Russia, and there were big protests in Dagestan. Read more in the material Fires and Murders .
19:14 Podolyak, in an interview with the German ARD TV channel, said that Ukraine does not plan to announce additional mobilization: "We have already created reserves through the territorial defense system and will actively use these reserves. We do not plan to announce additional mobilization today. We have everything, and we ready for more Russian military."
19:10 The Russians fired at the center of Kramatorsk today: four people were injured, high-rise buildings and a square were damaged, the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko said.
19:08 "The head of the administration" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, announced the formation of a "battalion named after Pavel Sudoplatov" from the inhabitants of the region. According to him, the "battalion" is formed from volunteers and after the "entry" of the region into the Russian Federation will go to the front as a division of the Russian army.
19:06 Viktor Sobolev, a member of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense, said that the mobilization will soon be completed and all regions will announce "the successful completion of these events." According to him, after the mobilization stage, the training of those who were called up will begin, depending on the specialization, it will take from 20 to 30 days.
18:53 Turkey is in favor of organizing a meeting between Putin and Zelensky in the very near future, Erdogan said. According to him, Ankara continues the dialogue with both Moscow and Kyiv, and has achieved significant success in the diplomatic sphere. As an example, the Turkish president cited the grain deal and the exchange of prisoners.
18:49 Russian media write that Ukrainian troops allegedly launched a missile attack on a "civil ferry berth" across the Dnieper in the center of Kherson, killing at least one person.
18:25 Great Britain has expanded sanctions against the Russian Federation. The new sanctions list includes collaborators from the Zaporozhye region and Mariupol, as well as the Russian State Sign, top managers of Sberbank, Gazprombank, Sovcombank and others.
18:19 Russian propagandists were given a manual on how to explain mobilization to Russians. Propaganda should convey to people that the invasion of Ukraine is a "people's war with NATO," writes Meduza, which has read the "document." The training manual states that NATO intends to "dismember and rob" Russia, and "Russian people are being killed with NATO weapons by NATO mercenaries and terrorists of the Kyiv regime."
"The West forbade Kyiv to negotiate with Russia. NATO intelligence collects data on the territory of Russia in order to order Ukraine to transfer hostilities to Russia," the methodology states.
17:51 Aksyonov said that after the "entry" of the occupied territories of Ukraine into the Russian Federation, Russia will no longer conduct a "special military operation", but a "counter-terrorist operation" on "its" territories.
17:32 The invaders fired at Kupyansk today, the building of the church school and the store were damaged, one person was injured, the State Emergency Service of the Kharkiv region reports.
17:00 In Crimea, more than 2,000 former Ukrainian soldiers who live on the territory of the peninsula were mobilized into the Russian army, said Vyacheslav Rodionov, deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
16:58 Zaluzhny told Time magazine that the current war with Russia is not the last: "Knowing what I know firsthand about the Russians, our victory will not be final ... Our victory will allow us to take a breath and prepare for the next war."
16:51 Zaluzhny told Time magazine that on the eve of February 24, troops with equipment were withdrawn from their permanent deployment points, where the enemy then launched the first missile and bomb strikes on the morning of a full-scale invasion: “You can’t confuse the smell of war, and it was already in the air. I I was afraid that we would lose the element of surprise. We needed the enemy to think that we were all stationed in our usual bases, smoking weed, watching TV and pissing on Facebook."
16:39 Poland will call for exclusion of Russia from the IAEA if it does not withdraw its troops from the territory of the ZNPP, Anna Moscow, Minister of Climate and Environment, said.
16:28 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Putin, at talks with Erdogan, "declared the possibility of returning to negotiations with Kiev, but on new conditions that have appeared."
16:23 Lithuania has delivered 50 M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, and when considering further military support, it is necessary to consult with NATO allies, Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said: "Just three days ago, our armored vehicles that we sent reached Ukraine, and now this country has received 50 armored personnel carriers M113".
Lithuania is considering further possible support for Ukraine in consultation with NATO partners, as the country is also concerned with the security of military personnel stationed in Lithuania.
16:12 The United States is allocating $457.5 million in new aid to Ukraine for the work of law enforcement agencies, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.
15:41 Iranian kamikaze drones Shahed-131 contain processors manufactured by the American company Texas Instruments. The corresponding study was published by the Office of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Shahed-131 drones are a previous version of the Shahed-136, the drones that the Russians have been using to attack Odessa and Mykolaiv in recent days. Both versions have a similar principle of operation. Most likely, they are also maximally unified in terms of the main components, primarily electronics.
15:12 A 15-year-old girl died as a result of a missile strike in Pervomaisky, Kharkiv region. Critical infrastructure was damaged, two private houses were completely destroyed, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
14:59 In the village of Cossack Lopan in the Kharkiv region, the invaders fired on people who were waiting for the issuance of humanitarian aid, two people were injured, the National Guard reported.
14:44 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that there are no changes in Russia's approach to the issue of the possibility of using nuclear weapons, and the United States, according to him, should "cool down" and stop "pumping up the situation, bringing it closer to a dangerous line." He also stressed that Russia is counting on continuing dialogue with the United States on the START treaty and hopes that in contacts with Washington it will be possible to maintain at least some elements of the arms control architecture.
14:17 In the Kharkiv region, a missile attack was carried out on Pervomaisky, Mayor Nikolai Baksheev said. Civilian infrastructure suffered.
13:48 No mobilization is planned in Belarus like the one announced in Russia, Lukashenka said. Back in mid-September, the Kremlin also assured that there would be no mobilization, and Lukashenka himself repeatedly promised that nothing threatened Ukraine from his side. At the same time, he ordered to start preparing the defense of Belarus according to wartime norms, and on September 26 he met with Putin in Sochi to "discuss a large number of problems." About what to expect from Minsk - in the material Will Lukashenka Enter the War .
13:01 In Ryazan, at the central bus station, one of the mobilized people set himself on fire, local media write. Eyewitnesses of the incident told reporters that the man did not want to go to war in Ukraine.
12:52 After the liberation of the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region, almost 10,000 people were evacuated from the region, Vereshchuk said: "If we talk about the number of those who are evacuated from the Kharkiv region, it has increased over the past week, that is, from the beginning, when the lands of the Kharkiv region were liberated, "Almost 10,000 people were evacuated, including almost a thousand children. Now people should not return, especially in the Chkalovskaya and Malinovskaya communities. Don't rush, it's still dangerous there."
12:43 About 1.5 million citizens cannot return to Ukraine from Russia, most of them women and children, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. According to her, relatives cannot establish contact with them.
12:30 Moldova plans to revoke the citizenship of the inhabitants of the country who will participate in the war against Ukraine, President Maia Sandu said: "There is a risk of mobilization of Moldovan citizens in the eastern regions of Moldova [Transnistria]. We are considering the possibility of revoking citizenship from citizens who have only citizenship Moldova and will act in the military conflict on the side of the aggressor."
12:24 Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander. Among other things, the state of providing the troops with weapons and ammunition was analyzed. The President stressed the importance of promptly providing precision weapons and all the necessary forces that are actively moving forward, the OP said.
12:18 The speaker of the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Ignat said that the Russians have reduced the number of missile attacks on Ukraine in recent days, but have begun to attack more often with Iranian kamikaze drones. Drones have already attacked Kharkiv region, Odessa region and Mykolaiv region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot them down with all available methods, but study the most effective one. The enemy took into account the shortcomings and uses new tactics.
12:13 The Kremlin plans to carry out massive cyber attacks on critical infrastructure facilities of Ukrainian enterprises and critical infrastructure institutions of Ukraine's allies. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, first of all, the blow will be aimed at enterprises in the energy industry. By doing this, the enemy will try to increase the effect of missile strikes on power supply facilities, primarily in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. The occupying command is convinced that this will slow down the offensive actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. The Kremlin also intends to increase the intensity of DDoS attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine's closest allies, primarily Poland and the Baltic countries.
11:49 The head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that negotiations have started on the creation of a security zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, they will continue this week.
11:43 Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Erdogan plans to hold talks with Putin and Zelensky. He also stated that Turkey does not recognize the results of "referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
11:37 Oppositional Russian media write, citing a number of sources, that on Friday, September 30, Putin will deliver a message to the federal assembly, during which he will announce the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian territories. MPs and senators have already been required to take tests for coronavirus.
11:34 Zelensky yesterday in an interview with CBS said that Ukraine received NASAMS air defense systems, but today Presidential Speaker Sergei Nikiforov clarified that the head of state said that we have so far received only consent to supply these air defense systems.
11:16 The SBU discovered another torture chamber - this time in the recently liberated village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region. The torture room, which the invaders called the "basement", was equipped in the room where the so-called "people's militia of the LPR" was located. According to the SBU, the invaders used severe torture on the prisoners, after which they were forcibly taken to the territory of the Russian Federation.
11:09 The occupiers staged a "performance" near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, passing off the invited mass activists as the personnel of the nuclear power plant. According to Energoatom, a large group of men in civilian clothes waited for the end of the shift at the station and mingled with its personnel leaving after work. On the way, the mummers handed out "interviews" to the pro-Russian propaganda media and proclaimed words of support for Russia and the "referendum", after which they went to the bus in which the "vote" was held and filled out the ballots indicatively.
10:36 Belarus should participate in the final agreements between Russia and Ukraine, said Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. According to him, Minsk needs its own security guarantees after the end of the conflict: “It’s not that we want to bargain for something. We want to understand that if some agreements are made, we would like to understand what is at stake what guarantees each of the parties receives, and we would like to have some kind of guarantees for Belarus as well, this is absolutely natural."
10:01 This morning Russians fired at Nikolaev. According to preliminary information, rocket strikes were carried out on an industrial zone in the vicinity of the city, the premises were damaged, Mayor Alexander Senkevich said.
09:47 Kazakhstan does not recognize the results of "referenda" in the occupied Ukrainian territories. The official representative of the country's Foreign Ministry, Aibek Smadiyarov, said that his country proceeds from the principles of the territorial integrity of states, "and their global coexistence." He also stated that Kazakhstan shows "an active desire to establish a dialogue between the parties to the conflict, Russia and Ukraine."
09:25 British intelligence reports that the Russian armed forces conduct initial training of soldiers at a low level and immediately within the units, and not in special educational institutions, and many of those called up had no combat experience for several years. The lack of military instructors and the haste with which Russia began mobilizing suggests that many of the drafted troops will go to the front lines with minimal appropriate training. They are likely to suffer from high levels of attrition, analysts say.
It is also common for one battalion within each RF brigade to remain garrisoned while the other two are deployed. But the Russian Federation now often sends reserve battalions also to Ukraine. Intelligence predicts administrative and logistical problems in the Russian Federation related to the training of troops.
09:22 Japan has banned the import of goods related to chemical weapons to Russia, said Cabinet Secretary General Hirokazu Matsuno. Japan has also added 21 Russian entities, such as a scientific laboratory, to the list of export bans.
09:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 26th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Donetsk directions.
- personnel - about 57,200 (+500) people liquidated,
- tanks - 2290 (+15),
- armored combat vehicles - 4857 (+25),
- artillery systems - 1369 (+1),
- MLRS - 330 (+2),
- air defense systems - 172 (+1),
- aircraft - 260 (+1),
- helicopters - 224 (+4),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 970 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 241 (+0),
- ships/boats - 15 (+0) units,
- automotive equipment and tankers - 3711 (+10),
- special equipment - 131 (+1).
08:59 In Russian Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk region, a mobilized man born in 1998 fired several shots at the military commissar. Previously, the head of the draft board was killed, there are wounded, the shooter was detained, local publics write.
08:52 The Russians fired at the Nikopol region from MLRS and heavy artillery all night, the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Military District, Valentin Reznichenko, said. Previously, no people were hurt.
08:38 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, three civilians were killed - two in Avdiivka and one in Bakhmut. Another 11 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:01 Today, the enemy launched a missile attack on Zaporozhye and on a village in the Zaporozhye region. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. Infrastructure facilities were damaged, fires broke out, said Alexander Starukh, head of the OVA.
07:40 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Disputed, Soledar, Mayorsk, Bakhmut, Podgorodnoye, Vyemka, Kurdyumovka, Zaitsevo, Novomikhailovka, Pervomayskoye, Kamenka, Pobeda and Pavlovka, the General Staff said in the morning report .
07:16 At night, the enemy attacked the Odessa region with kamikaze drones, OK Pivden reported. One drone was destroyed by air defense forces, two hit a military infrastructure facility. As a result of a large-scale fire and detonation of ammunition, the evacuation of the civilian population was organized. There are no casualties, rescuers are on the job.
04:53 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that Putin has made no effort to prepare the Russian population for war and mobilization. Thus, Russian officials and Kremlin spokesmen ridiculed the idea of ​​invading Ukraine until the very beginning of the invasion. Putin stubbornly continued to call the invasion a "special military operation" rather than a war, and did not create information conditions in Russia to prepare the population for mobilization.
Putin's information blunders in this matter are especially important, since there are no Ukrainian or NATO troops on Russian soil, and there is no threat of an invasion of the Russian hinterland. It is not 1812, 1914 or 1941, and the factors that helped mobilize the population in previous Russian wars are simply not present in this war of aggression, no matter how Putin presents it to his people, analysts say.
In addition, the Russian armed forces have not created the conditions for effective large-scale mobilization since at least 2008 and have not created the reserve forces necessary for instant mobilization. There are no quick fixes for these problems. The mobilization process will be ugly, the quality of the reservists will be low, and their motivation to fight will probably be even worse. At the same time, ISW acknowledges that the system is well-established so that military commissars and other Russian officials can find people and send them to training units and then to war.
The problems undermining Putin's efforts to mobilize Russians are so deep and fundamental that he will not be able to solve them in the coming months, and possibly years. This mobilization will not affect the course of the war in 2022 and likely will not affect Russia's ability to maintain the current level of effort in 2023.
02:22 The United States has a plan in case Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Blinken said. According to him, Washington has come into direct contact with Moscow about the Kremlin's nuclear threats. The US Secretary of State also said that the world will never recognize the "LPR", "DPR", Kherson and Zaporozhye regions as part of Russia, and Ukraine has the right to return them.