Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:50 Washington has already familiarized itself with Zelensky's plan to end the war, US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said at a press conference on the occasion of the opening of the General Assembly: "We believe that he lays out a strategy and a plan that can work. And we need to see how we can facilitate this by communicating with all the heads of state who will be here in New York. We hope to achieve some progress. That's why we are here."
19:48 Zelensky reported that he held a meeting with the Air Force command today on the Ukrainian F-16 fleet: "There is a clear understanding of the steps to increase the number of combat aircraft in Ukraine and speed up the training of our pilots. All tasks for the Ukrainian Air Force and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine have been defined." In addition, the president said that he held a meeting on the military content of the Victory Plan for Ukraine: "I worked together with the military command. Good, strong content has been prepared for the military package - exactly what can significantly strengthen Ukraine in accordance with the Victory Plan."
18:26 The UN is ready to join the humanitarian aid to the Kursk region, but only on condition of the corresponding permission from the Russian Federation, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric in response to the call of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to the UN representatives and the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to him, the UN representatives are ready to arrive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, but to do this, the organization needs permission from Moscow.
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17:59 Bloomberg writes, citing sources, that the West is discussing the possibility of ending the war in Ukraine next year through negotiations. At the same time, according to the agency's sources, the allies are not putting pressure on Kiev, but are discussing the possibility of "leaving the track". Although neither Zelensky nor Russia have yet demonstrated readiness for this. The key problem is how to protect Ukraine from a future Russian attack without drawing the West into a direct conflict with the Kremlin.
Bloomberg also writes about a split in the West into two camps: the first is afraid of escalation and Putin's threats and is inclined towards negotiations, the second is against negotiations in the near future and wants to increase arms supplies to Ukraine.
17:03 The Ukrainian Navy reported that it destroyed Russian ammunition depots near Mariupol: "As a result of the strike, both the infrastructure of the depots and tons of ammunition that the invaders had been stockpiling for use on Ukrainian territory were destroyed."
16:21 Denmark has allocated a new aid package to the Nikolaev region in the amount of 44 million euros, said the head of the OVA, Vitaliy Kim. According to him, a program to support Ukraine in the total amount of 64 million euros was approved jointly with Denmark, of which 44 million is provided for the Nikolaev region. The funds are intended to meet the urgent needs of the region, in particular for energy.
16:14 Russians hit Kievsky district of Kharkov with KABs - six people are known to have been injured, including four rescuers, Mayor Igor Terekhov reported. OVA head Oleg Sinegubov specified that one of the hits was recorded in a forest belt near a shopping center. Rescuers who were extinguishing a fire nearby were injured.
16:06 Russia has already crossed all the red lines and there is no point in fearing escalation, said Estonian President Alar Karis: "NATO allies must do more to help protect Ukraine by crossing all the so-called red lines... Now we probably realize that we must cross all these red lines and then start pushing Russia out of Ukraine."
15:38 There is no plan to end the war that would involve freezing the conflict, ceasefire, or handing over territories to Russia, said adviser to the head of the President's Office Mykhailo Podolyak. He stressed that Kiev has only one official position: the war must end with Russia's defeat.
15:02 The Vekhovna Rada adopted as a basis the draft law No. 12023 on amendments to the procedure for military service under contract by foreigners and stateless persons. The document proposes the creation of a Foreigners Recruitment Center. The draft law proposes allowing foreigners and stateless persons to sign contracts and serve in military service as officers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, and the National Guard.
14:29 Russians dropped three guided aerial bombs on civilian infrastructure in the city of Glukhov in the Shostka district of the Sumy region - two people were injured, at least 20 private homes were damaged, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
14:07 CNN reports, citing anonymous US officials, that the Pentagon's stockpiles of weapons and other military equipment are shrinking, which is why military aid packages to Ukraine have become smaller in recent months. "The shortfall has left the Biden administration with $6 billion to spend on weapons and ammunition for Ukraine, but the Pentagon does not have the inventory it is willing to deliver," the officials said.
13:33 Brazil does not want to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and therefore will not take sides and will call for peace, said President Lula da Silva: "It is important for Brazil not to participate in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. That is why it is important for Brazil to say that we want peace."
12:56 Today in the afternoon, Russians again launched a massive missile attack on Sumy Oblast. Four explosions were recorded, the consequences are being clarified, said OVA head Volodymyr Artyukh.
12:45 The Prosecutor General's Office reported that it had launched an investigation into the probable execution of a Ukrainian serviceman by representatives of the Russian Armed Forces. The message about the execution of the Ukrainian defender in Novogrodovka, Pokrovsky district, Donetsk region, appeared in Telegram channels on September 17. The published photos show that the Russians plunged a sword into the body of the Defense Forces serviceman. In the photo, the dead man is missing his equipment and there is no adhesive tape on one of his hands. The sword has the inscription "For Kursk".
12:31 Germany will allocate an additional 100 million euros to help Ukraine's energy system in the winter, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said.
12:24 In August, Russians struck 46 times at railway infrastructure facilities, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. One railway worker was killed and three were wounded while on duty. Last month, the enemy struck both energy railway infrastructure and stations and rolling stock. The facilities located in the frontline zone in Donetsk, Kharkiv regions and in the south of the country suffered the most.
11:57 The Wall Street Journal writes, citing Ukrainian and Western sources, that since the beginning of the war, about a million people have been killed or wounded on both sides. According to Ukrainian sources, Ukraine has lost 80,000 soldiers killed and 400,000 wounded. And according to Western intelligence, Russia has lost almost 200,000 soldiers killed and 400,000 wounded. The newspaper believes that one of Putin's motivations for starting the war was to increase the population of the Russian Federation by absorbing Ukrainians.
10:42 The European Union is preparing to allocate up to 40 billion euros in new loans to Ukraine by the end of the year without the participation of the United States. Brussels was prompted to take this step by concerns that Hungary would disrupt the G7 plan to use frozen Russian assets to help Kiev, the Financial Times writes, citing sources.
According to the draft proposal, the EU would provide Ukraine with an unspecified number of billions of euros in loans until the end of 2024. Brussels would thus expand its existing aid program, which would require the support of a majority rather than a unanimous decision by all countries in the bloc. The final amount could be between 20 and 40 billion euros and would be set by the European Commission after consultations with EU member states.
09:38 Russians executed an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war with a sword, with his hands bandaged with tape, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reported, citing photos that appeared on social networks. He said that he had sent letters to international organizations, the ICRC and the UN, so that they would record another violation of human rights by the Russian Federation. According to Lubinets, such demonstrative executions are aimed at demoralizing Ukrainian society.
08:49 In Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, over the past day, two people were wounded as a result of shelling, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was injured as a result of enemy artillery shelling in the village of Podoli.
08:41 In Donetsk region on September 16, as a result of Russian shelling, three people were wounded - in Pokrovsk, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
08:37 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed, including one child, and three others were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
08:34 As a result of the Russian strike on Sumy at night, there is no electricity in the city, only buses will be running on the routes today, the city council reported. Also, all water utility facilities are without power, a transition to emergency backup power has been made. The drainage system is working, water is supplied to the city with reduced pressure.
The OVA specified that at night the enemy attacked energy system facilities with strike drones - settlements in the Konotop, Akhtyrka and Sumy districts were damaged. Critical infrastructure facilities - water utilities, hospitals and others - are connected to backup power systems.
08:29 Air defense destroyed 34 out of 51 attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. Another 12 enemy drones were lost in several regions of Ukraine (information about casualties and damage was not received). Two enemy attack drones returned to Russia. Air defense forces worked in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.
07:58 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 17:
personnel - about 635,880 (+1020) people,
tanks - 8685 (+2),
combat armored vehicles - 17,077 (+6),
artillery systems - 18,129 (+6),
MLRS - 1188 (+1),
air defense systems - 947 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 15,329 (+66),
cruise missiles - 2592 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 24,739 (+27),
special equipment - 3091 (+1).
07:05 Britain will not allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory without the consent of the United States, The Times writes. The publication's sources explain that Britain will not act on its own, since American guidance systems are considered crucial for Storm Shadow missiles to hit their target.
00:37 Russians launched a massive drone strike on the city of Sumy, the consequences of the attack are being clarified, OVA reported. In addition, in the evening, the enemy struck Konotop with a Shahed UAV.
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[Korrespondent] 18:26 The UN is ready to join the humanitarian aid to the Kursk region, but only on condition of the corresponding permission from the Russian Federation, said UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric in response to the call of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to the UN representatives and the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to him, the UN representatives are ready to arrive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, but to do this, the organization needs permission from Moscow.
13:30 In the Kursk region, the Defense Forces captured another 13 Russian soldiers, four of whom were seriously wounded. After five days of fierce fighting, the Russians themselves raised the white flag, as they were left without water and ammunition, the command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Navy units have confirmed the destruction of enemy ammunition depots near Mariupol.
Satellite images have emerged showing the aftermath of missile strikes by the Ukrainian Navy on Russian ammunition depots near temporarily occupied Mariupol. The photographs were published by Radio Liberty's Russian service on Tuesday, September 17.
The images show the aftermath of fires and detonation of ammunition in three different locations around Mariupol.
One of the warehouses, like those recently hit by the Defense Forces in the Voronezh region of Russia, was located in a forest.
Some of the strikes, as can be seen from photographs and eyewitness accounts, were carried out on Friday, September 13. The rest - on the night from Sunday to Monday, September 16.
Photos of the consequences of one of them in the area of the village of Glubokoe, taken on the ground, were published by the advisor to the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko.
On Tuesday, September 17, the Ukrainian Navy claimed responsibility for these strikes.
Earlier we wrote that a missile depot for Russian air defense was attacked near temporarily occupied Mariupol . It is also possible that an air defense crew was hit.
It was also reported that the reconnaissance of the 28th separate mechanized brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign, together with the aviation of the Defense Forces, staged a real "explosive show", eliminating the field headquarters of the Russian occupiers.
Let us recall that the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed a Russian S-300 complex in the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk Oblast at night.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces Contain Russian Attacks in Southern and Eastern Ukraine.
The Kurakhovsky direction has seen the greatest number of clashes. The invaders have attempted to advance 22 times near five populated areas.
Since the beginning of the day, 88 combat clashes have occurred on the front in nine directions. Russian aggressors are most active in the Kurakhovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, September 17.
Thus, the enemy attacked positions in the Kupyansk direction near Sinkovka, Novoosinove and in the direction of Lozovaya six times . One combat clash continues in the area of Kruglyakovka.
In the Liman direction, the Russians organized eight assaults in the areas of Cherneshchyna, Druzhelyubovka, Makeyevka, and Torskoye. Two of them are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked near Verkhnekamenskoye and Vyemka. Both attacks were repelled.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders carried out five assaults near Chasy Yaru, Stupochki and Kleshchyivka. One combat clash is still ongoing in the area of Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, seven enemy attacks occurred near the settlements of Toretsk and Nelipovka. Five combat clashes have already been completed.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy carried out 19 assaults in the areas of Grodovka, Novotoretskoye, Orlovka, Nikolaevka, Ukrainsk and attacked in the direction of Zelenoye Pole. The defense forces repelled 14 attacks, five battles are still ongoing.
The Kurakhovsky direction has the largest number of clashes. The invaders tried to advance 22 times near Tsukurino, Zhelanny Pervy, Gornyak, Georgievka and Konstantinovka. Six clashes have not yet ended.
In the Vremevsky direction, the invaders attacked six times in the direction of Ugledar and Yekaterinovka. Three attacks are still ongoing.
Two enemy attacks were repelled in the Dnieper direction .
Let us recall that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine estimates Russia's losses at almost 636,000 people since the beginning of the war. In just one day on September 16, more than a thousand Russians were killed and wounded at the front.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the AFU the 113th and 125th Territorial Defence brigades near Velikaya Pisarevka and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 troops, one 152mm D-20 gun, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the 14th, 44th, 67th, 115th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU, and 104th and 119th Territorial Defence brigades near Kupyansk, Kovsharovka, Glushkovka, Novoosinovo, Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region), Rozovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
Three counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 66th Mechanised Brigade were repelled.
The enemy sustained losses of up to 600 troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one 155mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers, U.S.-made 155mm M-777 and M-198 howitzers, one 152mm D-20 gun, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, two U.S.-made 105mm M-119 guns, one Anklav-N electronic warfare station, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar.
The Yug Group of Forces seized more favourable lines and engaged the 24th, 28th, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 46th Airmobile Brigade of the AFU and the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade near Chasov Yar, Grigorovka, Stupochki, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ostroye, Dyleyevka, Seversk, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Five counterattacks launched by the AFU 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade and 120th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 685 troops, one tank, seven motor vehicles, and a U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun.
The Tsentr Group of Forces goes on advancing into the depth of the enemy's defence. The Group's units inflicted fire damage on the 59th and 148th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 118th and 119th Territorial Defence brigades and the Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Nelepovka, Dimitrov, Kurakhovo, Tsukurino, Mikhaylovka, Grodovka, and Novoekonomicheskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Eight counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 150th Mechanised Brigade, 142nd Infantry Brigade, and 25th Airborne Brigade were repelled.
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 475 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers.
The Vostok Group of Forces seized more favourable lines and positions, and hit the 72nd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and 118th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Levadnoye (Zaporozhye region). Four counterattacks launched by assault groups of the 116th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 95 troops, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 gun, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 121st Territorial Defence Brigade near Novoaleksandrovka, Tokarevka, Vesyoloye (Kherson region) and Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 20 troops, six motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 gun. One AFU field ammunition depot was destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces delivered strikes at power facilities supporting the enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry, depots storing munitions, ammunition, and materiel; and engaged clusters of AFU manpower and hardware in 145 areas.
Air defence systems shot down one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile and 36 unmanned aerial vehicles during the day.
In total, 646 airplanes, 283 helicopters, 31,658 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,157 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,454 MLRS combat vehicles, 14,708 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,148 units of support motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces carrying on offensive actions inflicted damage on the 22nd, 41st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1st National Guard Brigade and 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Daryino, Nikolo-Daryino, Tolsty Lug, and Plekhovo.
Over the past 24 hours, the Sever Group foiled four enemy attempts to launch attacks in the direction of Lyubimovka, Malaya Loknya, Olgovka, and Cherkasskaya Konopelka.
As a result, the AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops killed and wounded, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
With support of army aviation and artillery, the Group's units repelled five AFU's attempts to break through the border of the Russian Federation in the direction of Vesyoloye and Medvezhye.
The enemy's losses included up to 40 troops killed and wounded; two tanks, a Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured fighting vehicles, and one counterobstacle vehicle were destroyed.
Air strikes, artillery fire, and actions of the troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware clusters of the 22nd, 41st, and 61st Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 80th, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 112th and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Daryino, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Kruglenkoye, Zazulevka, Lyubimovka, Mirny, Makhnovka, Mikhaylovka, Malaya Loknya, Nikolo-Daryino, Novy Put, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Orlovka, Pravda, Plekhovo, Russkoye Porechnoye and Tolsty Lug.
Operational-Tactical Aviation and Missile Troops launched strikes against concentration areas and reserves in Sumy region of the 22nd, 41st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 1st National Guard Brigade, and 101st, 103rd, 106th, and 119th Territorial Defence brigades near Belovody, Gurinovka, Kruzhok, Katerinovka, Mazevka, Novaya Sloboda, Obody, Revyakino, Rechki, Rudnevo, Rossoshi, Pavlovka, Shalygino, Khoten, Esman, and Yunakovka.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy sustained losses of up to 400 troops and 19 armoured vehicles, including four tanks, a Swedish-made CV-90 infantry fighting vehicle, 14 armoured fighting vehicles, as well as five artillery guns, five mortars, six motor vehicles, and a counterobstacle vehicle.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 14,200 troops, 119 tanks, 45 infantry fighting vehicles, 91 armoured personnel carriers, 743 armoured fighting vehicles, 445 motor vehicles, 103 artillery guns, 28 MLRS launchers, including seven of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, eight SAM launchers, four transport-loading vehicles, 26 electronic warfare stations, seven counter-battery radars, two air defence radars, 14 engineering vehicles, including eight counterobstacle vehicles, and one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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Torovets is now not off limits and these are Ukraine weapons. Putin needs to be executed and the siloviki replace him with a guy who cares a little about Russia, IMO.
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[NewsFront] 21:01 Ukrainian troops fired five 155mm rounds at the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Gorlovka, theTelegram channel DPR representation in the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC). 21:00 Engineering and sapper units of the "Center" group of troops remotelyinstalled"smart" minefields in the direction of a possible breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using the ISDM "Zemledeliye".
19:58 Russian troops have made significant advances in the South Donetsk direction –map.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are retreating from their positions behind the Maryinka-Konstantinovka highway.
19:40 Explosions thundered in Kyiv-controlled Kherson - Strana publication.
18:52 Soldiers of the 18th Army in the Kherson direction shot down another enemy drone.
18:30 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Dnepr force group inflicted fire damage on an enemy stronghold on the Right Bank of the Dnieper –video.
17:56 Footage of raising the tricolor in Ukrainsk in the Pokrovsk direction.
17:47 The settlement of Ukrainsk in the DPR has come under the control of Russian military, the security forces reported.
On photo- a ventilation shaft of one of the mines, on which Russian soldiers raised a flag.
17:45 The Ukrainian Armed Forces hastily left the settlements near Kurakhovo. Namely: Berestki, Ilyinka, Novoselidovka.
16:51 Naval infantry of the Pacific Fleet of the "East" group of forces told how they put the enemy to flight during the liberation of Prechistovka –video.
15:57 Russian troops have taken control of the western part of the urban-type settlement of Grodovka. Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retain a partial presence only on the northwestern outskirts between the Zhuravka River and Donetska Street.
15:48 Combat "birds" destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the Kursk border area.
Servicemen of the reconnaissance unit of the North group of forces detected the movement of combat armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants to the temporary deployment point of the enemy unit in the border area of the Kursk region.
The detected targets were quickly destroyed using FPV drones.
14:57 Support to the crews of attack and army aviation.
A search and rescue team on a Mi-8PSG helicopter carries out combat missions in the border areas of the Kursk region.
This unit includes a fire support group and a medical worker. Its main tasks are continuous monitoring of the situation, evacuation and rescue of pilots, their transportation to military medical institutions.
14:35 Rocket artillerymen operators of the Dnepr group of forces destroyed enemy stronghold on the right bank of the Kherson region.
The fire damage was inflicted by the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews. The fire was adjusted in real time by the operators of unmanned aerial vehicles. The precise salvo completely destroyed the stronghold, leaving the enemy no chance.
13:54 Situation in the Chasovoyarsk direction:
The road from Ivanovskoye (Krasny) to Kleshcheyevka was taken under control, reported Dnevnik Desantnik.
In the forest area southwest of the Stupki tract, our forces defeated an enemy group in armored vehicles and took control of the forest area, planting a banner as confirmation.
Some of the enemy were taken prisoner. The Russian Armed Forces are gradually advancing to the south of Chasov Yar.
13:02 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported about a powerful ballistic artillery attack of the Sumy region.
12:51 Explosions in the area of the city of Sumy.
12:50 Kupyansk direction – advance of the Russian Armed Forces along the Peschanaya River bed, in the direction of the villages of Kolesnikovka and Kruglyagovka, behind them – Oskol.
12:27 Russian Aerospace Forces struck a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Zvanovka in the territory of the DPR temporarily occupied by Ukrainian nationalists.
12:11 Destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in Petropavlovka –video.
12:07 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of September 17, 2024):
Units of the North group of forces in the Liptsov and Volchansk directions inflicted defeat on formations of the 113th and 125th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Verkhnyaya Pisarevka in the Khar'kov region.
The fighters of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated the manpower and equipment of the 14th, 44th, 67th, 115th Mechanized, 3rd Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 104th and 119th Territorial Defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Petrovpavlovka, Kovsharovka, Glushkovka, Novoosinovo, Kruglyakovka in the Khar'kov region, Rozovka in the Luhansk People's Republic and Terny in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Three counterattacks of the assault groups of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
The servicemen of the "Yuzhnaya" troop group took more advantageous positions and defeated the formations of the 24th, 28th, 93rd Mechanized, 46th Airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 116th Territorial Defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Chasov Yar, Grigorovka, Stupochki, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ostroye, Dyleevka, Seversk and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Five counterattacks of the assault groups of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 120th Territorial Defense brigade were repelled.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defense, defeated the formations of the 59th, 148th Mechanized, 95th Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 118th, 119th Territorial Defense brigades and the "Lyut" Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nelepovka, Dimitrov, Kurakhovo, Tsukurino, Mykhailivka, Grodovka and Novoekonomicheskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic. Eight counterattacks of assault groups of the 150th Mechanized, 142nd Infantry and 25th Airborne brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
The "East" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeated the formations of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 118th Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the settlement of Levadnoye in the Zaporizhia region. Four counterattacks of the assault groups of the 116th Territorial Defense Brigade were repelled.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 37th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 121st Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novooleksandrivka, Tokarevka, Veseloye in the Kherson region and Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have damaged energy facilities that support the activities of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, storage sites for weapons, ammunition and material and technical resources, as well as concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 145 districts.
Over the course of a day, air defense systems shot down a US-made HIMARS rocket and 36 unmanned aerial vehicles.
11:49 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Nevsky –map.
11:09 Russian troops continue to break through directly to the center of the city of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk). The territory of the children's hospital on Tsentralnaya Street has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Thus, Russian fighters reached the place where Shakhtyorov Avenue transitions into Central Street.
11:05 Explosions are heard in the Sumy region.
10:55 Donbas Partizan analyzes night combined strikes on enemy infrastructure in the southern regions of Ukraine:
Odessa region: The Russian Armed Forces, using Iskander OTRKs, struck the territory of the marshalling yard of the Chernomorsk-Port railway station, located in the settlement of Aleksandrovka. Considering the proximity of the station to the port, the enemy organized a hub here for the transfer of military equipment, ammunition and other equipment arriving by rail.
As a result of the attack, the railway track was seriously damaged and the cars that the enemy had prepared for the camouflaged transfer of weapons and ammunition were destroyed.
Nikolaev region: the strike was carried out using the Geran-2 UAV on the territory of the Olvia Wine and Cognac Factory, located in the village of Parutino. It is known that the enemy used the warehouses of the factory to store ammunition and weapons (intended for the GUR) for the purpose of conducting military operations aimed at Crimea.
The strike targets railway junctions and ammunition depots. The focus on these targets may be linked to preventing possible attacks on Crimea, which underlines the importance of these strikes.
10:27 Pilots of a Ka-52 hit a Ukrainian transport in a forest belt –video.
10:19 Ukrainian Telegram channels reported on the artillery attack of Sumy Oblast by KABs.
09:52 Footage of the storming of Obukhovka by Russian troops in the Kursk direction.
09:05 "Lancet" "dealt with" the Ukrainian self-propelled gun in the Seversky direction. The camouflaged gun and crew were destroyed by direct hit from a loitering munition.
08:17 Air defense calculations of the Center group of forces destroyed Hexacopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, type "Baba Yaga", in the Avdeevka direction.
08:14 Su-34are appliedbombing strike.
The bomber pilots, acting on a tip, dropped FABs from the UMPK onto enemy positions.
08:10 The Russian Armed Forces advanced near Kolesnikovka, Nevsky, Novosadovy, Novogrodovka, in Grodovka and Zhelany Pervy.
08:06 BMP-3 crews of the "West" group of forces destroyed enemy manpower.
The scouts, using UAVs, calculated where the enemy was firing from and transmitted the coordinates of its location. The BMP-3 crews, in turn, quickly went to their positions and inflicted fire damage on the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants.
08:00 Footage of liberation of the village of Snagost in the Kursk region. The paratroopers brought down a hurricane of fire on the militants and cleared the streets of the village in a matter of hours.
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link Russia: At least 2 earthquakes recorded by NORSAR as a result of hundreds of thousands of tons of munitions detonating due to Ukrainian drone strikes in Tver region.
2.8 magnitude 5 hours ago.
2.5 magnitude 4 hours ago.
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Munition types warehoused at the Russian military base in Tver region that continue to detonate after more than 5 hours:
- Iskander ballistic missiles
- North Korean KN-23 ballistic missiles
- S-300/S-400 air defense / quasi-ballistic missiles
- Grad MLRS rockets
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Vladislav Sovin
[REGNUM] Volodymyr Zelensky's "peace formula", which Ukrainian propaganda has been banking on for almost a year and a half, no longer works. Neither the West nor the remaining viewers of the single telethon in Ukraine believe in it. This means that the time has come for new verbal constructions.
In the last week, Zelensky's office began to promote its new initiative under the pompous name of "victory plan." At the same time, any more or less serious decisions on Ukraine are approved in Washington - which is what Zelensky intends to do, promising to take his "plan" to a meeting with Joe Biden. It is significant that the document itself was born as a response to the West's demand that Kiev present its "realistic military plan" for next year. The existence of such a request was written about in early September in The Wall Street Journal.
What is known about the content of the Ukrainian "victory plan"? Zelensky said in his recent interview with CNN that it contains five points: "Four of them are the main ones, plus one that we will need after the war."
According to him, the plan concerns "security, the geopolitical position of Ukraine, very strong military support that should be available to us, and so that we have freedom in how to use certain resources. It also concerns economic support."
In addition, Zelensky said that part of the plan is to worsen life inside Russia.
"When the other side knows that you are very strong and able to influence their society, which will not be happy with this war... If Russian society is in danger, if they live without comfort, without energy, like our people, they will understand the price of this war, they will not be happy and will start putting pressure on Putin. That is why I say: make Ukraine strong, and you will see that he will sit down at the negotiating table," Zelensky said.
He did not reveal any more details. However, the German publication Bild recently wrote about some details of the plan. It is reported that the document includes a requirement to allow the use of Western long-range weapons for strikes deep into Russian territory, as well as "Ukraine's readiness to accept a local ceasefire in certain areas of the front - and thus a temporary freeze of the situation."
Kiev immediately rushed to indignantly refute Bild's information about its readiness for a partial ceasefire, calling it a fake. Zelensky's communications adviser Dmitry Litvin said that no one from Bild had spoken with the team developing the "victory plan," and "Ukraine is categorically against freezing the conflict. It is important that the United States support the victory plan, not capitulation."
At the same time, Zelensky's office chief adviser Serhiy Leshchenko, on air at the telethon, essentially confirmed other information from German journalists - that part of Zelensky's "victory plan" is obtaining permission to strike Russia with long-range missiles.
"He (Zelensky. - Ed.) said that the victory plan depends on President Biden. That is, obviously, the victory plan implies a plan where Ukraine will receive new opportunities, will be able to strike at airfields, military bases and storage facilities," Leshchenko said.
At first glance, the combination of increasing attacks on Russia with the readiness to freeze military actions (even in certain sections of the front) in the same document looks extremely strange and implausible. As strange, by the way, is the idea that it is possible, without stopping military actions as a whole, to “freeze” them in a part of the front line.
However, we are not yet talking about whether the “plan” is realistic and whether it can be implemented in practice, but about whether a document with such content can actually be drawn up in Kyiv as a “victory plan.”
To answer this question, we need to understand the main goal of the current Ukrainian regime. The main goal is to stay in power as long as possible, since losing it for Zelensky and company after everything they have done could mean losing not only power. In turn, everyone understands that they can rule the country only as long as military actions and martial law continue, which does not allow elections to be held.
And things at the front, as we know, are getting worse for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Kursk adventure did not help, but only worsened the situation: it increased the already huge front line, absorbing considerable reserves of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but did not stop the advance of the Russian army in Donbass.
In this situation, Kyiv, which in many ways follows the Third Reich (which, by the way, Ukraine itself does not particularly hide), is rushing to the usual idea of another wonder weapon. Following the "Bayraktars", "Javelins", "Hymars", "Leopards" with "Abrams" and F-16, now NATO long-range missiles have been assigned the role of wonder weapon.
It is assumed that massive shelling of deep Russian rear areas and significant damage to military facilities, enterprises, energy, etc. will not only weaken Russia's military potential, but will also cause mass discontent within the country - the same thing that Zelensky spoke about in an interview with CNN. And in order to solve the problem of the extended front line, for which the Ukrainian Armed Forces no longer have enough people and weapons to provide troops in normal numbers, a "freeze" of military actions in some areas would really help Kyiv now.
Ukraine's victory, which they still mean reaching the 1991 borders with reparations from Russia and other fantastic "wants," will still not be achieved in this way. No previous wunderwaffe has changed the course of military operations, and the new one will not change it either, and the hypothetical reduction of the front line will lead to its saturation not only with Ukrainian, but also with Russian troops.
But under such conditions, military actions can be dragged out for an indefinite period of time, which is what Zelensky needs.
Therefore, the Bild publication really does look like the truth. In turn, opposition Ukrainian political scientist Kost Bondarenko recalled on social networks that “in November 2021, Bild published a map of the Russian troops’ advance with approximate dates of the invasion of Ukraine. It later turned out that the directions of the strikes almost exactly coincided with the data presented in the Bild material. But then the president’s office also stated that it was fake and that the “yellow” press should not be trusted.”
Obviously, the "victory plan", which, however, would be more correctly called a "plan to prolong the war", is indeed very advantageous to official Kyiv. However, there are two big "buts" on the way to its implementation.
Firstly, the US has not yet given permission to strike “deep into” Russia. On September 16, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the US was not ready to announce the lifting of restrictions following Biden’s talks with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Zelensky will probably convince Biden to “give the go-ahead” when he personally goes overseas.
Secondly, the “plan” says nothing about Russia’s position. It turns out that Moscow should refrain from harsh responses to strikes by long-range Western missiles and agree to “freezing” part of the front line. A reasonable question arises: why should Russia take such actions that are absolutely contrary to its interests? Moreover, neither the West nor its Kyiv puppets demonstrate any desire to negotiate peace that takes into account Russia’s interests.
Therefore, Zelensky can show his “victory plan” to Biden, Harris and Trump, or even to the entire NATO at once: the document with the loud title will in any case go after his “peace formula” – into the trash.
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