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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief October 20th (updated)
2022-10-21
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[Rusvesna] The Russian army continues to conduct a special military operation.

During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to deliver strikes with high-precision long-range air-launched weapons against the military command and energy systems of Ukraine. All assigned objects are hit.

The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery hit three command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Dvurechnoye, Glushkovka, Kharkiv region, Lyubimovka, Kherson region, as well as 72 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 179 districts.

In addition, five points of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the village were hit. Kramatorsk, Seversk, Kirovsk (DPR), Novaya Kamenka and Pyatikhatki, Kherson region.

Destroyed four ammunition depots in the areas of n. Figolevka, Kharkov region, Artyomovsk, Petrivske, Donetsk People's Republic, and Matveevka, Zaporozhye region. In the area of ​​n. Ingulets village, Dnepropetrovsk region, fuel storage facilities for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

In the area of ​​n. the village of Berkhovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, an AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar, made in the USA, was destroyed. In the area of ​​n. Nikanorovka settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic, a ST-68UM radar station for detecting low-altitude targets was destroyed.

During the conduct of counter-battery combat, the Ukrainian battery of the Alder multiple launch rocket system was defeated near the village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region.

A Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by means of air defense in the area of ​​the Terny settlement of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Also, 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down in the air in the areas of the settlements of Vysokoye, Sukhanovo, Sadok, Tomarino of the Kherson region, Zeleny Gay, Skelki and Burchak of the Zaporozhye region.

In the area of ​​​​the settlement of Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, three shells of the Alder multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 324 aircraft, 162 helicopters, 2,296 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 anti-aircraft missile systems, 5,926 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 874 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,511 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 6,665 units of special military vehicles.

Situation in the Bakhmut direction is known

[NewsFrontInfo] The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to counterattack the positions of the PMC "Wagner" almost along the entire front line - from Disputed to Nikolayevka-2, but to no avail.

"Musicians" not only successfully hold the defense, but also move forward.
Musicians as in musicians of Mars, the God of War. Also a term of endearment for Warner PMC units
PMC "Wagner" is advancing from Nikolaevka-2 to the south along the Bakhmut-Gorlovka highway, approaching two large strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After they are eliminated, the section of the road from Otradovka to Mayorskaya station will come under the full control of Russian forces.

At the same time, there is an advance from Otradovka and Zaitsevo towards three more Ukrainian strongholds south of Opytny. Fierce battles are going on in the region of Experienced.

On the eastern outskirts of Bakhmut, PMC Wagner continues to control the intersection on Patrice Lumumba Street and part of the territory of the gardening association.

To the west of the Soledar-Pokrovskoye highway, detachments of "musicians" liquidated two strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and advanced along the western outskirts of the settlement. Bakhmutskoye in the direction of the Bakhmut village council.

Fighting continues in the area of ​​Spornovo.

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