Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 20:23 Zelensky reported that he heard a report from the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleg Ivashchenko: "Key things - both regarding the strengthening of the Service and our work on extremely sensitive information that our Ukrainian intelligence officers receive."
19:16 The death toll from the Russian attack on Lviv on September 4 has risen to eight - Lviv Polytechnic teacher Bohdan Kril has died in hospital, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported.
18:58 Russians shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day, two people were wounded, reported the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
18:33 Croatian President Zoran Milanovic has not allowed his army to take part in the NATO mission to support Ukraine, his office said. According to Milanovic, "despite the huge military aid that Ukraine receives, there is no end in sight to the war, but there is a threat that the war is spreading beyond Ukraine."
17:27 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is allocating $825 million to support Ukraine's energy system this winter, twice as much as last year, the agency's administrator, Samantha Power, said during a visit to Kiev. She also announced the launch of a five-year rehabilitation program for Ukrainians, Rehab for You, for which the agency has allocated $13 million. In addition, USAID will provide $237 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
16:19 In occupied Berdyansk, the car of traitor judge Vitaliy Lomeiko was blown up, he died, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported. Lomeiko is a judge of the Chernigov District Court of the Zaporizhia Region, who remained in Berdyansk after the occupation, violated his oath in the conditions of war and consciously and voluntarily went to cooperate with the Russians.
15:14 There are not yet enough volunteers among Ukrainians abroad to form the Ukrainian Legion, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said: "We have prepared for this. We are not responsible for recruitment. However, the number of people who were supposed to volunteer from the Ukrainian side is too small. These declarations were very high at the beginning - that even one brigade could be formed, that is, several thousand people. However, this did not happen."
15:06 Vitaly Sarantsev, spokesman for the Kharkov operational-tactical group, denied information about the use of the OGAB-9000 aerial bomb by Russian troops in Volchansk: "The use of this munition requires an appropriate carrier, which could theoretically be, for example, a Tu-160 strategic bomber. However, no movement was recorded. A munition of less weight and power was used, the explosion of which was used by propagandists to create a spectacular image."
14:38 The Washington Post writes that Russian troops in the Donetsk region in August and September seized Ukrainian territory at a rate not seen since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. According to the newspaper, during this period, the Russian Armed Forces increased the occupied territory across Ukraine by 511 square kilometers, about 431 of which were declared along the front between Bakhmut and Ugledar.
The publication attributes such rates to the fact that the Russian Armed Forces "have the numbers to continue the pressure, and Western aid does not compensate for the equipment deficit." Thus, in the Ugledar area, the ratio of artillery salvos sometimes reaches 10:1 in favor of the Russian Federation. WP also notes that Pokrovsk is a key road and rail junction, and the destruction of railways and bridges means that it is effectively lost.
13:58 EU ambassadors have agreed on a new sanctions regime targeting Russian hybrid threats, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak reported. The mechanism will come into force next week.
13:19 At least 589 civilians have been killed and 2,685 injured in fighting in Ukraine over the summer, up 45% from the previous three months, according to the UN.
12:55 Ukraine is withdrawing troops from Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast due to the threat of encirclement of the city, the Operational-Strategic Group of Forces Khortytsia reported. They said that Russian troops sent reserves to carry out flank attacks, which exhausted the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units, resulting in the threat of encirclement of the city. "The Supreme Command has granted permission to carry out a maneuver to withdraw units from Vuhledar in order to preserve personnel and military equipment, and to take up a position for further action," the report says.
12:47 Russian troops used a drone to strike a bus in Antonovka, Kherson region - one person was killed, two were wounded, OVA reported.
12:41 In the Shostka community of Sumy Oblast, a number of critical infrastructure facilities were destroyed as a result of a Russian attack, Shostka Mayor Nikolai Noga reported. As a result of the attack, the city of Shostka and the entire community were left without electricity and water, and communications are intermittent.
12:34 Russian military publics write that in Volchansk, Kharkov region, the Russian army allegedly used the ODAB-9000 vacuum bomb for the first time, which the media calls one of the most powerful non-nuclear munitions in the world. The estimated mass of the explosive is 7,100 kg, there is practically no official data on this munition.
12:29 In the morning, Russians struck Slavyansk in Donetsk Oblast, the head of the city's military administration Vadim Lyakh reported. A hit was recorded in a private hotel in the Molochar district, one person was injured. Private homes were also damaged.
11:58 Ukraine will receive demining equipment worth 22 million euros, the Defense Ministry reported. The coalition of demining capabilities agreed on the purchase of pickups and trucks for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the State Special Transport Service. Lithuania is allocating 15 million euros for this purpose, Sweden - 7 million. The decision was made at a meeting in Reykjavik (Iceland).
11:26 Ukraine will increase production of drones, long-range weapons and ballistics in 2025, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said during the second International Defense Industry Forum DFNC2: "We have already invested $4 billion in the development of Ukrainian industry, and next year we plan to increase funding. Our priority is the development of domestic drones and long-range weapons, including ballistic missiles."
More than 280 companies took part in the event and new defense agreements were signed. Zelensky said that within the framework of the forum he held a meeting with the heads and top managers of the world's leading defense companies, and discussed expanding cooperation to strengthen Ukraine's defense sector.
11:17 An air raid alarm was declared and aircraft were raised in the Romanian border area with Ukraine over the Danube on the night of October 2 due to a Russian drone attack in the south of Odessa Oblast, the Romanian Defense Ministry reported. Two Spanish F-18 fighters based at an air base in Romania and two Romanian F-16s were raised for surveillance.
10:59 The French-German defense concern KNDS, which produces Leopard tanks and Caesar howitzers, has opened a subsidiary in Kiev called KNDS Ukraine. The concern's press service reported that the company will service and repair KNDS systems, including Leopard tanks, Caesar and Gepard self-propelled guns, AMX10 RC armored vehicles, and PzH 2000 armored howitzers. In addition, KNDS and Ukroboronprom intend to jointly produce 155-mm artillery ammunition and spare parts in Ukraine.
10:03 At dawn, the enemy attacked the port and border infrastructure in the Izmail district of Odessa region with attack drones, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. As a result of the attack, two truck drivers were wounded, one of them is a Turkish citizen.
09:34 In the Kherson region, over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, six people were killed and 11 were injured, reported the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin.
09:25 In Donetsk region on October 1, five people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling: two in Chernigovka, two in Dolgaya Balka and one in Slavyansk, reported the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin.
09:16 Air defense destroyed 11 of 32 Shahed-type attack UAVs at night, the Air Force reported. Four enemy drones left Ukrainian airspace in the direction of Russia, and ten more were lost in the northern and central regions as a result of electronic warfare countermeasures. Air defense forces operated in the Kirovohrad, Odessa, and Sumy regions.
09:01 Officially, the Ukrainian side has neither confirmed nor denied the complete capture of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, but there is no mention of it in the General Staff's morning report. For more information on the situation and the consequences of the loss of the city, see the article Vuhledar Has Fallen.
08:50 At night, Russians attacked the city of Dergachi in the Kharkiv region, five people were injured, including a 14-year-old teenager, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Two more people were injured the previous evening as a result of shelling of Kupyansk. Also at night, the enemy attacked Kharkiv, no one was injured.
08:17 At the Orlovka checkpoint on the border with Romania, checkpoint operations have been temporarily suspended following the Russian attack overnight, the State Border Service reported. The checkpoint is expected to open at 11:00.
07:58 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 2:
personnel - about 655,560 (+1130) people,
tanks - 8887 (+4),
combat armored vehicles - 17,579 (+32),
artillery systems - 18,869 (+14),
MLRS - 1204 (+0),
air defense systems - 963 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,348 (+26),
cruise missiles - 2613 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 25,692 (+71),
special equipment - 3318 (+4).
07:09 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops likely captured Vuhledar on October 1. However, it is unclear whether the Russian army will achieve rapid advancement beyond the settlement in the near future, analysts note. In addition, according to ISW, Russian troops have advanced in two areas near Pokrovsk and slightly in Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region, southwest of Kremenna in the Luhansk region and in Toretsk in the Donetsk region.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in heavy fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.
The Kurakhovskoye direction became hotter - the enemy attacked 12 times near the settlements of Tsukurino, Georgievka, Kurakhovo, Konstantinovka and Yekaterinovka.
Since the beginning of the day, 57 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The Russians are most actively attacking in the Kurakhovsky direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report as of 16:00 on Wednesday, October 2.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, one enemy attack was repelled in the Volchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Russians carried out five assaults near Sinkovka and Andreyevka. Four combat clashes have ended, another one is ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invaders attacked six times near Grekovka, Nevsky, Novosadovy and Torsky. All assaults were repelled.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the invaders carried out assault actions twice. The Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped one attack by the Russians near Ivanovskoye, another battle continues in the area of Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked nine times near the settlements of Dilievka, Toretsk, Nelipovka, Shcherbinovka. Three battles ended without success for the occupiers, another six are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 11 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Novotoretskoye, Nikolaevka, Kruty Yar, Novogrodovka, Selidovo. The defense forces repelled eight attacks, three clashes are still ongoing.
The hottest today is the Kurakhovskoye direction - the enemy attacked 12 times near the settlements of Tsukurino, Georgievka, Kurakhovo, Konstantinovka and Yekaterinovka. Eight battles have been completed, four are ongoing.
In the Vremivsky direction, the occupiers twice unsuccessfully attacked the positions of our troops near Bogoyavlenka.
In the Orekhovo direction, one armed clash continues in the Kamenskoye area.
Earlier on Wednesday, it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had withdrawn from Ugledar after fierce battles that lasted more than two years. The command made this decision due to the threat of encirclement of the city.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Liptsy and Volchansk directions, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of the 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 80th Air Assault Brigade, and 5th Border Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine near Liptsy, Volchansk, and Volchanskiye Khutora (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, five motor vehicles, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.
The Zapad Group's units have taken more advantageous lines and positions. Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the AFU 28th, 30th, 116th Mechanised brigades, and 4th Tank Brigade near Petropavlovka, Kupyansk, Kruglyakovka, and Boguslavka (Kharkov region). One counterattack launched by an AFU assault detachment was repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 385 troops, two motor vehicles, one 105mm M-119 gun and one 155mm M-198 howitzer made by the USA, one 105mm L-119 gun and one 155mm FH-70 howitzer made by the UK, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, as well as an Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
Seven ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of successful actions, the Yug Group of Forces liberated Verkhnekamenskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops inflicted damage on the AFU 24th Mechanised Brigade and 5th Assault Brigade near Konstantinovka and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU sustained losses amounting to up to 855 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and two UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzers. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
The Tsentr Group of Forces has improved the tactical situation. The Group's forces inflicted damage on manpower and materiel of the 32nd Mechanised Brigade, 68th Infantry Brigade, 12th and 109th National Guard brigades, 112th and 119th Territorial Defence brigades have been hit near Shcherbinovka, Svetloye, Aleksandropol, and Kurakhovo (Donetsk People's Republic). Three counterattacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 630 troops, one armoured personnel carrier, one armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
The Vostok Group's units have taken more favourable lines and positions. Strikes were delivered against manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade close to Dobrovolye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by AFU assault groups were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 troops, eight motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
The Dnepr Group of Forces hit units of the AFU 31st Mechanised Brigade, 35th Naval Infantry Brigade near Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region) and the city of Kherson.
The enemy lost up to 65 troops, five motor vehicles, as well as one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the energy infrastructure supporting the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Lugansk Task Force command post, clusters of manpower and military hardware of the enemy in 135 areas.
Air defence units shot down a French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb and 32 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 32,590 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,471 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,469 MLRS combat vehicles, 15,463 field artillery guns and mortars, and 26,794 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
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What's Moscow's perspective on this? A nation with 1/2 the population of Moscow just destroyed Russia's mid east base. Putin is gonna drive Russia into the ground bad if the siloviki don't act asap.
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Look guys - these dirty jews have to be stopped, they just attacked Russia. We cant live in a world that allows these people to keep pulling their dirty jew tricks. Russia must act now. Kill the Jews!!!
A source I read and my sources are usually solid:
Videos online appear to show Israel striking Russia's Hmeimim Air Base... but the targets seen being struck... Iranian munitions using the perceived safety of the Russian base as they were being transported to the Iranian proxy, Hezbollah.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/02/2024 to 00:00 10/03/2024.
A total of 43 cases of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
There were reports of three civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
One official vehicle,
Nine residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 12 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 31 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 139 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:10 Russian Aerospace Forces strike Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Khar'kov, Dergachevsky district of Khar'kov region and Slavyansk.
21:00 The paratroopers-artillerymen of the Dnepr group of forces continue to fulfill fire missions to destroy artillery systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, destroy defensive structures, suppress command posts, destroy enemy fire weapons, weapons, military equipment and manpower.
19:05 Artillery of the Russian 2nd Separate Artillery Brigade of the Southern group of forces destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ communications center in the Seversky direction –video.
18:35 Crews of 152mm Giatsint-B towed guns of the Zapad group of forces during fire missions suppressed firing points, destroyed guns and inflicted losses on the Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area of the special military operation.
18:02 The 122mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzer Gvozdika of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed by a direct hit from artillerymen of the Sever group of forces. Objective control means recorded the target being hit –video.
17:40 In Maksimilyanovka in the Kurakhovsky direction, the Russian army has advanced almost to the center of the village.
17:07 The Russian Armed Forces have completed the mop up in Nelepovka and entered Leonidovka. The enemy was also driven out of a number of fortified areas west of Nelepovka.
16:46 Near Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk), Russian troops have practically taken control of the village of Leonidovka. At the moment, fighters of the Russian 9th Motorized Rifle Brigade are fighting for the Obzornaya railway station.
16:04 Footage of destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' VOP and Ukrainian Armed Forces' PVD in the settlement of Plekhovo in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' crossing in the settlement of Kurilovka
15:19 Russian troops were able to enter the village of Obukhovka in the Kursk region and force some of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units to retreat to the border to the village of Novy Put. In Obukhovka itself, battles are currently underway with the remaining enemy units. There are no Ukrainian Armed Forces in Veseloye.
15:01 Russian Armed Forces advance in Toretsk. In the central part of the city, Russian fighters, advancing along the highway to Konstantinovka, occupied a block of multi-story buildings along Mayakovsky Street. Russian Armed Forces continue fighting in the northwest direction with the goal of "cutting" the Ukrainian garrison into two parts and reaching the "Central" mine from the northwest and north.
14:02 Calculation of the Kornet ATGM of the Dnepr troop group destroyed a tower with Ukrainian Armed Forces repeaters in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region.
13:52 The Russian Armed Forces struck the Camelot Hotel in the Slavyansk region, which was previously used as a temporary deployment point for Nazis from Kraken militia unit.
13:07 The Armed Forces of Ukraine officially confirmed their withdrawal from Ugledar, the Ukrainian publication Strana reported.
Operational Command "Khortytsia" stated that after Russian attacks on the flanks, "which exhausted the defense" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, "there was a threat of the city being cordoned off."
12:20 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 2, 2024)
Units of the North group of forces in the Liptsy and Volchansk directions inflicted losses on formations of the 57th Motorized Infantry, 80th Airborne Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 5th Border Detachment of the border service of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Liptsy, Volchanskie Khutor and Volchansk in the Khar'kov region.
The fighters of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. The manpower and equipment of the 28th, 30th, 116th Mechanized and 4th Tank brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Petrovpavlovka, Kupyansk, Kruglyakovka and Boguslavka in the Khar'kov region. The counterattack of the assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repelled.
Servicemen of the "Southern" group of troops successfully liberated the settlement of Verkhnekamenskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic. Formations of the 24th Mechanized and 5th Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinovka and Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the Center group of forces improved their tactical position. Manpower and equipment of the 32nd Mechanized, 68th Infantry Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 12th, 109th National Guard Brigades, the 112th and 119th Territorial Defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Shcherbinovka, Svetloe, Aleksandropol and Kurakhovo of the Donetsk People's Republic. Three counterattacks by assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
The "East" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. The manpower and equipment of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were defeated in the area of the settlement of Dobrovolye in the Donetsk People's Republic. Two counterattacks of assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted losses on formations of the 31st Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade in the areas of the settlement of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhia region and the city of Kherson.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged energy infrastructure facilities supporting the operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the command post of the operational-tactical group "Lugansk", and concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment in 135 districts.
Air defense systems shot down a French-made Hammer guided aerial bomb and 32 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
12:04 The Russian flag has been installed at the Ugledar administration, but it is too early to talk about the capture of the city; a cleanup is underway, and scattered units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces remain there, said Pushilin's advisor Yan Gagin.
12:01 Artillerymen of the Sever-V brigade of the volunteer corps, operating as part of the Southern Group of Forces,destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot near Chasovy Yar.
11:57 The Russian Armed Forces continue to cover Tsukurino from the south. The waste heap dominating the area southeast of the settlement was taken.
11:40 Novoselovka has been liberated in Kursk Oblast. Fighting continues for the settlement of Plekhovo and other areas of the Kursk front.
11:06 The Ukrainian Armed Forces group in Ugledar has been virtually cleared, the security forces reported. Kyiv suffered "enormous losses" due to its refusal to withdraw its forces from the city while it was possible.
11:04 Russian Army Launches Missile Attack on Targets in Kramatorsk
11:02 The Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone in the central part of Dzerzhinsk in the area of Mayakovsky, Torgovaya and Tsentralnaya streets.
10:51 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "South" struck an area of concentration of manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kurakhovsky direction of the special operation.
10:07 Airborne artillerymen from the Dnepr group destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces command post. Footage of combat work by the crew of the 152mm artillery gun "Msta-B" in the Kherson direction.
10:01 Another Russian flag is raised over one of the multi-story buildings in Ugledar, the city continues to be cleared –video.
09:44 Mine No. 40 between the villages of Gornyak and Tsukurino has come under the control of the Russian army. This location is an important height of great operational significance.
09:04 Su-34 crew at night inflicted strike on a concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area of the Kursk region
Having received confirmation from intelligence about the destruction of the personnel and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the crew safely returned to the departure airfield.
08:50 Kornet calculation destroyed a tower with Ukrainian Armed Forces repeaters in Zaporozhye at a distance of almost eight kilometers.
08:34 DPR special services discovered a large cache of explosives in the southeast of the region, the regional FSB department reported.
In particular, two hand-held grenade launchers and more than 160 rounds for them, 140 hand grenades, 92 fragmentation grenade launcher rounds and more than 35,000 rounds of small arms ammunition were seized.
08:09 In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the direction of three settlements, reported military expert, retired LPR People's Militia Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko.
"Over the past 24 hours, our troops have been actively engaged in liberation operations. During intensive combat operations, we managed to advance in the direction of the settlements of Kurilovka, Novoosinovo, and Glushkovka. In some areas, the enemy has been pushed back more than one km.
The Russian Armed Forces have managed to reduce the distance in the Glushkovka area the most. The distance between the settlement and the advanced units of the Russian troops has been reduced to about 3 km," Marochko wrote on his Telegram channel.
08:04 Russian forces have struck an ammunition depot in the suburbs of Khar'kov, said Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev pro-Russian resistance.
08:00 The 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the North Forces Group continue to fulfill combat missions to destroy military equipment and concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the border area of the Kursk region.
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[ColonelCassad] There are reports about cutting off the so-called "Ugledar balcony" and establishing control over Ugledar.
Also transliterated as Vuhledar, it’s a coal-mining city in the Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine.
The significance of cutting off this salient with the powerful fortified area of Ugledar is operational, if not operational-strategic. The fact is that this "balcony" was located at the junction of the Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk fronts and posed a constant threat to the group covering the approaches to Mariupol. Moreover, this salient did not allow the use of a powerful two-track road to Mariupol, which was in the near rear of our troops. It was only 15-16 km from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is why they tried to take Ugledar many times, starting with a major offensive in January-February 2023, which then ended in failure.
For the railway connection with Mariupol, a more distant rocade was built from the Donbas agglomeration through Kuteynikovo - Kichiksa (judging by satellite photos, it is still unfinished). The danger of the "balcony" was clearly high, and therefore the so-called "tsar-train" 32 km long was placed on the Volnovakha section of the railway, which additionally covered this threatened direction. Now, finally, there is an opportunity to unblock the line and use it for its intended purpose, after moving the front away from Ugledar. A powerful rocade = strengthening the stability of the front and confident communication with Mariupol.
For clarity, I put a map with the front line on 7.4.2024 - it clearly shows how dangerous the Ugledar balcony was in operational terms. The second map shows how this ledge prevented the use of a powerful Soviet double-track railway. The map can be found at the link and is marked as described.
1 - approximate LBS "Ugledar balcony" at the stage of its holding by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
2 - Yasinovatsko-Donetsk railway gap east of Avdiivka (still not restored)
3 - placement of the Tsar-train on the Volnovakha section
4 - construction of a straightening through Kuteynikovo - Kichiksu (partially ready)
Related from regnum.ru Ugledar disappears from the reports of the General Staff of the Ukrainian troops
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) has stopped mentioning Ugledar in the Donetsk People's Republic in its reports from the front. This was reported on Wednesday, October 2, by the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua.
“The last time Ugledar was mentioned was in the morning report on October 1, where it was said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled attacks on the city,” the message on the Telegram channel says.
Previously, this settlement appeared in reports of battles in the Vremya direction.
After this, the General Staff reported that Russian troops were "unsuccessfully" attacking Bogoyavlenka. Ugledar was no longer mentioned.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian formations also acknowledged that the situation on the line of combat contact is difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and that the Russian military is superior in manpower and equipment.
Even more from regnum.ru Armed Forces of Ukraine officially confirm their withdrawal from Ugledar
The Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has granted permission to withdraw Ukrainian units from Ugledar, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) due to problems with preserving personnel and military equipment. This was reported on October 2 by the official Telegram channel of the Ukrainian operational-strategic group of forces "Khortytsia".
The Ukrainian military admitted that the Russian Armed Forces sent troops to carry out flanking attacks that exhausted the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units. As a result, the city was threatened with being cordoned off.
Earlier, on October 2, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped mentioning Ugledar in their reports from the front. They also acknowledged that the situation on the combat contact line is difficult for the Ukrainian military, while the Russian Armed Forces outnumber the Armed Forces of Ukraine in manpower and equipment.
On the same day, the adviser to the head of the DPR, Yan Gagin, stated that at the moment it is too early to talk about the complete liberation of Ugledar from the Ukrainian Armed Forces; the Russian military is continuing the process of clearing the city.
The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated a day earlier, on October 1, that the current situation on the front for the Ukrainian Armed Forces remains very, very difficult.
Chairman of the Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects and Veterans Support of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation Vladimir Rogov said on the same day that the Russian army had liberated the southern, western and eastern parts of Ugledar. According to him, the enemy is in the north of the settlement and continues to be pushed out.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @project_nd
[ColonelCassad] Kursk region: changing nature of military operations in the direction and enemy tactics
For two weeks now, the nature of military actions in the Kursk tactical direction has been moving significantly towards the "SVO", namely, trench warfare and local offensives in areas. The enemy command, having joined this adventure, quickly understood what and how, and after the attack on the Kursk NPP turned out to be unsuccessful, decided to build defensive structures in the territories under its control.
If at first we encountered the "old" format of war, where there were small arms battles, ambushes and artillery exchanges, now the general picture of military actions is moving into the channel we are accustomed to - the enemy digs in, and we pick at him. Perhaps I will write about this below.
So, what we have at this stage: the groups of the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries have been mostly withdrawn from combat missions, where they were rotated by regular units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, consisting of whoever came along. But "anybody" has a completely different combat tactic - if you can conduct a small-arms fight with special forces almost in the open, then the victims of the TCC and other Ukrainian Armed Forces tend to quickly dig in upon arrival at the position, as a result of which you have to literally pick at their positions, which from a military point of view is serious work.
The enemy also actively changes logistics routes, preferring hastily created crossings and fields to main roads. This increases the time of delivery/evacuation, but allows the enemy to more or less preserve the personnel involved in the above-mentioned activities.
Together with regular units, the enemy pulls in UAV specialists - sometimes they work almost from the front line, brazenly, hoping that they will catch our units by surprise, but we have found a countermeasure to these "jokes". Active use of not only FPV, but also Baba Yaga agrodrones is recorded, with the help of which the enemy is trying to burn down civilian houses and conduct remote mining of the area.
The strategic initiative of the enemy after the failure of the "counteroffensive" in the Kursk region is generally clear: having an endless human resource (TCK will catch more), the Armed Forces of Ukraine are going to tie down units of the Russian Armed Forces in battles in the Kursk region, in order to subsequently strike in another direction.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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