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[LB] by Ivanna Kapustyanska
The enemy does not stop trying to advance deep into the territory of Ukraine. So far, the enemy has attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 80 times. It is most active in the Kurakhiv and Pokrovsky directions.
This is stated in the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The border regions of Sumy Oblast and Chernihiv Oblast continue to suffer from Russian artillery shelling - the settlements of Luhivka, Khrinivka, Iskriskivshchyna, Yeline, Pokrovka, Mhy, Striletska Pushkarka, Semenivka, Vodolagi, Oleksandrivka were affected.
The enemy carried out airstrikes in the areas of settlements of the River River in the Sumy region; Katerynivka, Kharkiv region; Toretsk, Yablunivka, Kalinove, Vozdvizhenka, Myrolyubivka, Lysivka Oleksandro-Kalynovka and Chunyshyne of the Donetsk region.
It is known that today the Russian aviation carried out six air strikes, dropping 14 guided air bombs on the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
Today, in the Kharkiv direction, Russian terrorists dropped two guided aerial bombs near Tsupivka and Lyptsi, and also twice tried to dislodge our defenders from their positions near Vovchansk. The attacks have been repelled, the situation is under control.
Eleven times the enemy attacked our positions in the Kupyan direction . Ukrainian defenders repelled enemy assaults near Kucherivka, Petropavlivka, Novoselivka, Vyshnevo, and Kruglyakivka.
Enemy units do not stop attacking in the Lyman direction in the areas of Grekivka, Druzhelyubivka, Andriivka, Makiivka and Torske settlements. Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian soldiers have repelled five out of ten enemy attacks in this direction. The fighting continues.
The Kramatorsk direction was attacked five times near Minkivka, Chasovoy Yar, Aleksandro-Shultyny, Bila Hora and Stupochky.
Currently, there have been nine enemy attacks in the Toretsk direction . Actively using bomber aircraft, the enemy attacked near the settlements of Toretsk, Nelipivka, Shcherbynivka and Dilyivka, seven clashes continue until now.
With the support of aviation, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have carried out 13 attacks on the positions of our defenders in the areas of Sukhoi Balka, Novotoretskyi, Myrolyubivka, Promen, Lysivka, Sukhoi Yar, and Selidovoy in the Pokrovsky direction . The defense forces, restraining the enemy onslaught, have already repelled 12 enemy attacks, one battle is still ongoing.
21 skirmishes took place today in the Kurakhiv direction , where the invaders are most actively trying to advance in the districts of Hirnyk, Novoselidivka, Tsukuryny, Gostroy, Georgiyivka, Kostyantynivka, Katerynivka, and Antonivka. Five fights are still going on.
Near Bogoyavlenka in the direction of Vremivsk, the invaders attacked the positions of the Ukrainian troops five times, near which the fighting continues to this day.
In the Dnieper direction, the Russian invaders tried to dislodge our units from their positions four times, and the battle is currently ongoing.
At the moment, the enemy is not active in other directions.
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[Korrespondent] 22:19 Russians have used ballistic missiles on the port infrastructure of the Odessa region - five people were killed and nine were injured, said Community Development Minister Oleksiy Kuleba. As a result of the attack, a civilian vessel under the flag of Panama, the container ship Shui Spirit, was damaged. This is the third foreign vessel attacked by the Russian Federation in the last four days, Kuleba added.
21:38 Defense forces today attacked a Shahed UAV storage base near the village of Oktyabrsky in Krasnodar Krai, the General Staff reported. According to available information, about 400 attack drones were stored there. A precise hit on the target was recorded, a secondary detonation was observed on the territory of the facility.
21:16 Zelensky will hold talks with the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany in each of the countries. The president announced this during a conversation with media representatives in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
20:27 EU ambassadors have agreed to provide Ukraine with a loan of 35 billion euros, which will be repaid using frozen Russian assets, Radio Liberty editor in Brussels Rikard Jozwiak reported. At the same time, he added that the ambassadors were unable to agree on extending sanctions against the assets of the Russian Central Bank for 36 months instead of six months, since Hungary is against such a decision. Extending sanctions against the Russian Central Bank for 36 months is a condition for providing Ukraine with a loan of 50 billion dollars, which was put forward by the United States. Washington thus wants to be sure that the EU sanctions imposed on Russian assets will remain in effect until Russia pays reparations to Ukraine.
19:01 The first point of the "victory plan" is focused on "whether the problem of the deficit of geopolitical certainty in Europe will be solved," Zelensky said at the Ukraine-Southeastern Europe summit. "Does Ukraine have a place in NATO? If so, and this is duly confirmed, Putin will lose geopolitically. Russia must recognize that Europe has borders, independent states, and each of them has the right to choose its own future. The truth is that Russia's acceptance of this reality can only begin with the understanding that Ukraine will never again be subjugated by Russia. Without geopolitical certainty, peace is impossible," the president emphasized.
18:49 Zelensky will visit Berlin on Friday, October 11, Bild reports, citing sources. During the visit, the Ukrainian president will present details of his "victory plan" to Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In addition, confidential talks are planned with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
18:05 Zelensky said during a visit to Croatia that he expects to end the war in 2025. "In October, November and December, we have a chance to move towards peace and lasting stability. The situation on the battlefield creates an opportunity to make this choice - the choice of decisive action to end the war no later than 2025," Reuters quotes the Ukrainian president as saying.
Zelensky also reiterated that in November Ukraine will complete work on the "peace formula", which will be put up for discussion at the second summit. "In November, everything will be ready, with all the conditions that spell out a fair end to the war. This will be done at the second Peace Summit," the head of state said. According to him, his "victory plan" should force Russia to implement this formula.
17:54 Macron showed footage of the training of the Ukrainian Anna Kievskaya Brigade, which is currently undergoing training in France, in the eastern region of Grand Est. "I have taken on this commitment: our military is currently training 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers in Grand Est with the equipment they will use during missions," the French president wrote.
17:03 Zelensky will meet with the Pope on Friday, October 11, Reuters reports. This will be their third meeting, the last one taking place during the G7 summit in Italy this summer. Zelensky is also expected to hold talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
16:35 Ukraine and Croatia have signed a long-term cooperation and support agreement, under which they pledged to establish joint defense production, strengthen cooperation in cybersecurity, and exchange intelligence. In addition, Croatia has allocated more than 10 million euros for humanitarian demining of Ukrainian territories. It is also assumed that Croatia will help bring the Russian Federation to justice, compensate for damage caused by aggression, and will exert sanctions pressure.
16:28 Ukraine has confiscated the dry cargo ship USKO MFU under the Cameroon flag for illegally entering Crimean ports, the State Border Service reported. The vessel was detained in Odessa Oblast in July of this year, and now, by a court decision, it has been transferred to the ownership of the state of Ukraine. The captain is accused of violating the procedure for entering the occupied territories with the aim of damaging state interests.
15:59 The Lithuanian government has approved an additional €13 million to finance Ukraine reconstruction projects. Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, Lithuania has already allocated €24 million through its Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Fund for Ukraine reconstruction projects.
15:15 Ukraine is considering lifting the ban on arms exports in order to make money from selling drones and scaling up their production, the Financial Times reports. According to the head of the economic subcommittee, Oleksandr Marikovsky, this could bring in up to $20 billion in revenue. Companies are to be allowed to export their surplus products. At the same time, the Ukrainian military says that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "are experiencing a colossal shortage of drones."
14:02 Over the past week, Germany has delivered two anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine - Iris-T SLM (medium-range) and Iris-T SLS (short-range air defense system). By the end of the year, Berlin will deliver two more anti-aircraft systems, said Christian Freiding, head of the special headquarters for Ukraine. He also noted that Germany plans to transfer 50 military aid packages to Ukraine this year for a total of 1.4 billion euros.
13:26 Ukraine's Western allies are recording Kiev's readiness to show "greater flexibility" on the issue of ending the war, Bloomberg writes. Although Zelensky publicly rules out the possibility of "bargaining" on the issue of Ukrainian sovereignty or territory, Ukrainian officials are ready to admit that the war must be ended, the agency notes.
12:48 Zelensky said that he arrived in Croatia to meet with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, representatives of other countries in the region and to participate in the third Ukraine - South-Eastern Europe summit. In particular, the Ukrainian president plans to discuss defense cooperation, rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and the restoration of Ukraine with the Croatian prime minister. The summit in the "Ukraine plus 12 countries" format is planned to discuss international efforts to bring peace closer and implement the "peace formula", as well as interaction on the path to the European Union and NATO.
12:20 NATO Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli has compiled for Congress a list of American weapons that the US has not yet transferred to Ukraine and that could help the Ukrainian Armed Forces, CNN reports. In particular, the list includes JASSM air-to-surface missiles, as well as a communications system known as Link 16 - a data exchange network used by the US and NATO.
12:03 The Rammstein format meeting, which was supposed to take place on October 12 with the participation of the leaders of the countries, has been decided to be postponed to another date, Radio Liberty reports, citing sources at NATO headquarters. The new date has not yet been determined.
11:59 Zelensky will visit Croatia today, where he will take part in the Ukraine - South-Eastern Europe summit, N1 reports, citing sources in the Croatian government. The purpose of the meeting in Dubrovnik is to demonstrate solidarity and support for Ukraine.
11:53 The General Staff confirmed that the Defense Forces struck the 67th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry in the Bryansk region at night. The warehouse contained ammunition for missile and artillery weapons, including those from the DPRK, as well as guided aerial bombs. A significant portion of them were stored in the open air. Explosions were recorded on the territory of the arsenal, and local authorities blocked the road in the area.
11:25 In mid-October, the book War by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward will be published in the United States . In it, he, citing his own sources, talks about what was happening in American political life during two wars - in Ukraine and the Middle East. The book, in particular, says that Putin panicked because of losses at the front and could resort to tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the likelihood of such a development in the fall of 2022 increased from 5% to 50%. Read more in the article Nuclear Strike and Zelensky's Successor .
11:16 The Verkhovna Rada adopted bill No. 11379-d, which provides for exemption from mobilization for men under the age of 25.
10:12 In the Karachevsky district of the Bryansk region, a municipal emergency situation has been recorded "due to the detonation of explosive objects", a state of emergency has not been declared, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported.
09:44 In the Bryansk region, drones attacked the 67th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) in Karachev, after the attack a fire broke out in the ammunition depot, publics write. The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Kovalenko also claims that near the city of Karachev, the 67th arsenal of the GRAU closest to the front line was hit. It is located 114 km from the border with Ukraine. According to Kovalenko, the depot stored ammunition, including from the DPRK, as well as KABs.
Residents of Yeisk in Krasnodar Krai also reported explosions at night. Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that in the village of Shabelskoye in Shcherbinovsky District, a private home and a gas pipe were damaged as a result of falling UAV debris.
The Russian Defense Ministry stated that on the night of October 9, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 47 drones: 24 over the Bryansk region, five over the Belgorod region, two each in the Kursk and Rostov regions, one in the Krasnodar region, and 13 over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
09:39 At night, Russian troops attacked a medical and social institution in Stepanivka, Kherson region, two nurses were injured, OVA reported. Also in the morning, as a result of Russian shelling of the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, one person was injured. Over the previous day, as a result of Russian shelling in the region, one person was killed and 16 were injured.
09:10 In Poltava Oblast, as a result of a Russian strike with three ballistic missiles, an industrial facility was damaged; according to preliminary information, no one was hurt, reported the head of the OVA, Filipp Pronin.
08:46 Russians attacked Odessa region with drones at night. As a result of the attack, a nine-story residential building in Odessa district was damaged, five people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Kiper. There was also a fire in the attic floor of the unfinished building on an area of 400 sq. m, it was quickly extinguished.
08:37 In Donetsk Oblast, on October 8, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed - in Konstantinovka. Another 11 people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours, reported OVA head Vadim Filashkin.
08:28 On the evening of October 8, Russians struck the village of Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region with a KAB, one person was killed, reported the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
08:19 Air defense destroyed 21 of 22 attack UAVs at night, another drone turned in the direction of Russia, the Air Force reported. Air targets were shot down in the Odessa, Vinnytsia and Kiev regions. In addition, at night the enemy struck the Poltava region with three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.
07:51 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 9. At the same time, the total number of UAVs and aircraft was adjusted, and the losses per day are reported as usual:
personnel - about 664,120 (+1150) people,
tanks - 8944 (+4),
combat armored vehicles - 17,751 (+11),
artillery systems - 19,222 (+19),
MLRS - 1223 (+0),
air defense systems - 973 (+0),
aircraft - 369 (+0),
helicopters - 328 (+0),
Operational-tactical level UAVs - 16,718 (+31),
cruise missiles - 2618 (+0),
ships/boats - 28 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 26,240 (+55),
special equipment - 3385 (+12).
07:17 On the evening of October 8, Russians struck a car with an FPV drone in the village of Primorskoye, Vasilievsky district, Zaporizhia region - one person died, one was injured, said the head of the OVA Ivan Fedorov.
02:08 The Pentagon is considering the possibility of postponing the Ramstein meeting, which is scheduled to take place in Germany on Saturday, October 12, said Deputy Spokesperson for the US Department of Defense Sabrina Singh. She recalled that due to Hurricane Milton Biden will not be able to travel to Germany to participate in the meeting of the contact group on the defense of Ukraine, so the possibility of postponing it and combining it with the meeting of NATO defense ministers on October 17-18 is being considered.
00:34 In the Belgorod region, two more settlements are being evacuated due to constant shelling - the villages of Solovyovka and Petrovka, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.
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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 defeated units of 57th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 92nd Air Assault Brigade, and the 13th National Guard Brigade near Volchansk, Maly Prokhody, and Liptsy (Kharkov region). The AFU losses are up to 50 men.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 30th, 44th, 53rd, 77th, 116th Mechanised brigades, 3rd Assault Brigade of the AFU, and 1st National Guard Brigade near Berestovoye, Vishnevoye, Kupyansk, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Nadiya (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
Six counterattacks of the AFU 14th and 66th mechanised brigades were repelled.
The enemy lost up to 370 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, four pickups, two U.S.-made 155mm M-198 howitzers, and three U.S.-made 105mm M-119 guns. Moreover, a Kvertus EW station and three field ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Yug Group's units defeated the 23rd, 24th, 30th, 54th, 93rd Mechanised brigades, 56th Motorised Infantry Brigade, 5th Assault Brigade, 4th and 18th National Guards brigades close to Stupochki, Druzhkovka, Fyodorovka, Konstantinovka, Katerinovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic). Three counter-attacks of the AFU 28th Mechanised Brigade, 79th Air Assault Brigade, and 81st Airmobile Brigade were repelled.
The enemy's losses are up to 650 troops, six motor vehicles, and a U.S.-made 155mm M198 howitzer.
Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were eliminated.
The units of the Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depths of enemy defence. The AFU 24th, 100th Mechanised brigades, 95th Air Assault Brigade, 101st, 109th Territorial Defence brigades, and 14th National Guard Brigade near Rozovka, Druzhba, Shcherbinovka, Dimitrov, Leonidovka, Dzerzhinsk, and Tsukurino (Donetsk People's Republic). Nine counter-attacks of 42nd, 53rd, 110th, 157th Mechanised brigades, 68th Jaeger Brigade of the AFU, and 38th Naval Infantry Brigade were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 525 troops, two tanks, including a French-made AMK-10 tank, a Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, a 122mm D-30 howitzer, a U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun, a 100mm Rapira anti-tank gun, and an Anklav-N electronic warfare station.
The Vostok Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of 72nd Mechanised Brigade, 58th Motorised Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and 127th Territorial Defence Brigade near Dobrovolye and Ravnopol (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks of the AFU 118th and 123rd Territorial Defence brigades were repelled.
The Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 90 troops, five motor vehicles, a French-made 155mm Caesar howitzer, a UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, and a U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery station.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged the formations of the AFU 141st Infantry Brigade, the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 35th, 37th Naval Infantry brigades, and the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade near Kamenskoye, Pyatikhatki, Zherebyanka (Zaporozhye region), Lvovo and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, three motor vehicles, a U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and a 152mm D-20 gun.
Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged Ukrainian energy facilities, providing the AFU with POLs, as well as enemy's manpower and materiel clusters in 141 areas.
The Air Defence downed a surface-to-air S-200 missile redesigned to hit surface targets and 68 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 646 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 33,130 unmanned aerial vehicles, 580 anti-aircraft missile systems, 18,559 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,469 MLRS combat vehicles, 15,858 field artillery guns and mortars, and 27,074 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces continued offensive actions, liberated Novoya Sorochina and Pokrovsky, hit formations of 22nd, 41st, 47th, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 17th Tank Brigade, 82nd, and 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 103rd and 129th Territorial Defence brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Daryino, Lyubimovka, Novy Put, and Plekhovo.
Over the past 24 hours, the Group's units repelled two enemy's attacks in the direction of Lubimovka and Plekhovo. As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost up to 20 troops killed and wounded.
Army Aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of 22nd, 41st, 61st, and 115th Mechanised brigades, 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 103rd and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Bondarevka, Daryino, Kolmakov, Kruglenkoye, Lyubimovka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Melovy, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novy Put, Plekhovo, Tolsty Lug, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye.
Operational-Tactical and Missile Troops hit assembly areas in the Sumy region and reserves of the 21st, 47th, and 115th Mechanised brigades, the 95th Air Assault Brigade, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, the 1st National Guard Brigade, as well as the 103rd and 119th Territorial Defence brigades of the AFU near Belovody, Bunyakino, Katerinovka, Zhuravka, Makeyevka, Mirlogi, Novonikolayevka, Rechki, Starikovo, and Stepanovka. The AFU losses amounted to about 100 troops during the day.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 21,350 troops, 136 tanks, 66 infantry fighting vehicles, 98 armoured personnel carriers, 891 armoured fighting vehicles, 589 motor vehicles, 177 artillery guns, 33 MLRS launchers, including eight of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the U.S., nine SAM launchers, five transport-loading vehicles, 45 electronic warfare stations and nine counter-battery radars, three air defence radars, 22 engineering and other vehicles, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, and three armoured recovery vehicles.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Chasov Yar – Grigorovka.
Positional military actions in the Artemovsk direction. The Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone south of Grigorovka and advanced up to 300 meters to the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass canal. The forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the stronghold south of Grigorovka are under fire from a Ukrainian drone.
20:22 In the Odessa region in the port of Ilyichevsk there are two missilearrival.
20:04 Selidovo.
Positional military actions in the Selidovo area. A Ukrainian drone shelled the forward position of the Russian Armed Forces in the southern outreach of Selidovo. The Russian Armed Forces were able to advance along the railway from Kurakhovo one km south of Selidovo and take up new positions.
19:22 Odessa region.
At least three powerful explosions were heard in different areas of Odessa and the region. The port area and Ilyichevsk - the arrival of ballistics.
18:58 Defeat of Patriot air defense missile systems in Dnipropetrovsk region –video.
18:31 A 152mm D-20 howitzer crew from the Dnipro group of forces destroyed an enemy UAV control point in the Kakhovka direction in the Kherson region –video.
Artillerymen carry out fire missions to destroy armored vehicles, fire weapons, ammunition depots, fortified positions, and Ukrainian Armed Forces boats on the right bank of the Dnieper.
17:49 Crews of the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun systems control airspace over the positions of Russian troops in the border areas of the Kursk region.
The armament of the Pantsir-S air defense missile and gun system allows it to destroy any air attack weapons within the established operating range.
17:21 Statements by representatives of the North, West, South, Center, East and Dnepr groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of October 9, 2024) –video.
16:56 In the Khar'kov region, an ODAB-1500 strike was carried out on a temporary deployment point of the military administration and the TCC department –video.
The PVD was located in an administrative building in the city of Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region. At the time of the strike, representatives of the command of the Ukrainian group in the direction, as well as high-ranking employees of the TCC of the Khar'kov region were in the building.
16:18 Arrival of two FAB-500s from the UMPK to the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant in Kramatorsk –video.
15:46 Scouts of the North group of troops revealed the movement of two Ukrainian Armed Forces combat armored vehicles, whose crews attempted to hide them in forest belts in the Khar'kov region.
After analyzing the intelligence data, a decision was made to fire at both enemy armored fighting vehicles. The targets were destroyed using FPV drones.
15:05 Khar'kov and Khar'kov region.
The most powerful explosions!It is reportedon the destruction of enemy radar and auxiliary equipment.
14:47 Dnepropetrovsk region.
It is reported about a powerful explosion at the Ukrainian Armed Forces position. The strike was initially carried out by our missilemen with a 9M723 missile from the Iskander OTRK.
14:10 Seversk – Grigorovka.
Consequences of military operations in the Seversk direction. Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces demonstrate the flag of the Russian Federation in the eastern part of the settlement of Grigorovka, confirming the confident control of this part of the settlement by the RF Armed Forces. The advance of the RF Armed Forces is more than 3 km in the direction of Seversk.
13:18 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Ukrainian UAVs raid Russian regions
Last night, Ukrainian forces once again launched drones at Russian regions. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, about 47 Ukrainian drones were intercepted.
- This time the most massive attack was in the Bryansk region, where the enemy launched at least 24 devices. However, it was not without consequences - near Karachayev, the attack hit the territory of the 67th GRAU arsenal.
– Footage of explosions at the facility and fires that broke out there were published online. Local authorities declared a municipal emergency due to the detonation of explosive objects.
– The southern regions of Russia were also attacked. In the Rostov region, Russian anti-aircraft gunners intercepted targets in the Novoshakhtinsk area, as well as in the southwest of the region. As a result of falling debris, a fire broke out in a vacant lot in the Kagalnitsky district.
– In the neighboring Krasnodar region, a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the village of Shabelskoye on the coast of the Sea of ??Azov. In the village, a residential building and a gas pipe were damaged.
- Also, air defense systems worked in the Kursk and Belgorod regions - in total, seven drones were intercepted over these regions. According to preliminary information, there were no consequences.
12:47 NBC protection units of the Southern group of troops provide fire support to assault units, ensuring their advancement in various areas of the front –video.
A reconnaissance group using a UAV discovered a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the outskirts of one of the settlements in the Seversky direction.
The TOS-1A "Solntsepek" crew secretly moved into position, deployed and launched a strike with 220mm ammunition containing a thermobaric mixture. As a result of the strike, the identified firing points were destroyed.
12:02 Powerful fire after the night strike by the Russian Armed Forces on Chornomorsk in the Odessa region.
11:55 Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) –map.
11:11 Dzerzhinsk – Zabalka.
Positional military actions in the Gorlovka area. artillery attack of the forward position of the Russian Armed Forces in the residential sector of Dzerzhinsk. The Russian Armed Forces advanced more than one km in the Zabalka microdistrict and took up new positions south of the Tsentralnaya mine.
10:58 The Mi-28NM crew carried out a strike on armored vehicles and a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the border area of ??the Kursk region –video.
10:24 Tsukurino.
Stormtroopers of the Russian army conducted several successful attacks in the area of Zelenaya Street. The enemy has 200s and 300s. Chapaeva Street is effectively under fire control. The task is to hold it and develop additional attacks from other areas.
09:50 Important changes on the front –map.
– The Russian Armed Forces have increased the pace of their advance in Dzerzhinsk.
- The Russian Armed Forces entered Grigorovka, creating a threat to enemy forces in the Belogorovka area. The loss of Grigorovka will force the enemy to retreat from Belogorovka.
09:14 Frontline summary as of the morning of 09.10.2024.
- Zaporizhzhya Front. Fighting continues in the Kamenskoye area, where Russian troops, apparently, have managed to gain a foothold.
- Donetsk Front. The Russian Armed Forces have consolidated their positions in Zolotaya Niva and will most likely continue to develop their offensive in the near future. The movement toward Bogoyavlenovka from Ugledar and Vodyanoye continues. There are also reports of our troops advancing in the Nevelskoye area.
Heavy urban fighting is underway in Dzerzhinsk; according to some reports, almost the entire southern part of the city is under the control of Russian troops.
- Chasovoyarsk direction. No significant changes. Fighting continues in the eastern part of the city and on the flanks, where Russian troops are trying to improve their positions.
- Kursk region. The activity of military actions in this direction is not decreasing. And although there are no significant changes on the ground, but counter battles continue in almost all areas. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have increased the pressure in the Glushkovsky district, trying to advance deeper into our territory
. 08:09 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Chronicle of the special military operation for October 8, 2024
– Russian troops launched a missile attack on the enemy’s port infrastructure in Odessa and Ilyichevsk.
– In the Kursk direction, positional clashes continue in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts.
– In the Slobozhansky direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces have restored previously lost positions on the territory of the aggregate plant in Volchansk.
– In the Seversky direction, the configuration of the front in the Vyemka area has been clarified, and fighting continues on the approaches to Verkhnekamenskoye.
– In the Zaporizhzhya direction, Russian troops are gaining a foothold in the center of Kamenskoye after several days of fighting in the settlement.
08:01 During the past night stopped attempts by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 47 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. 24 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Bryansk region, 5 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, two UAVs in the Kursk and Rostov regions, one in the Krasnodar region and 13 over the waters of the Sea of ??Azov.
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[REGNUM] The meeting of the Contact Group for Military Assistance to Ukraine in Ramstein, Germany, may have been postponed, but there is increasing talk about whether some “peace settlement plans” for Ukraine will be discussed there.
Hinting at a second “peace summit” with the participation of the Russian Federation in December, public officials from the Ukrainian side categorically deny any options that provide for the renunciation of the territory that became part of Russia, freezing the conflict and ceasefire. Signals about a “victory plan” containing “real content of all points: military, political, diplomatic, economic” are spreading from the office of Volodymyr Zelensky in all directions.
He himself said that an important aspect of the plan is “securing Ukraine in a strategic place in the world’s security infrastructure.”
There is no need to be a fortune teller here, since it is clear that we are talking about joining NATO, a coveted goal that was forcibly included in the preamble of the Constitution of Ukraine. And by an amazing coincidence, over the past week several publications have appeared in the Western media offering some “plans” in which, one way or another, membership in the Alliance is touched upon as a condition for peace.
The same problem is voiced by European leaders who are skeptical about Ukraine – in particular, the head of the Slovak government, Robert Fico, stated at an intergovernmental meeting with the Ukrainian prime minister on October 7 that “we are cold on the issue of Ukraine’s membership in NATO, but we support you 100% on the EU.”
Thus, it is not at all difficult to identify the existence of two projects dancing from the NATO stove. One of them has already been written about twice by the British publication Financial Times, and the second, as a plan of the Republican vice-presidential candidate J. D. Vance, was written about by the influential American publication The American Conservative.
So we can compare them and draw a conclusion about how realistic the proposals are, based on the interests of Russia, without which no “peace plan” will work anyway.
So, the conditional British project, presented by the Financial Times, contains proposals to freeze the war along the front line, provided that the territories occupied by the Russian Federation are not legally recognized and remain part of Ukraine. Ukraine itself, in its current form, joins NATO, that is, remains in the sphere of geopolitical influence of the West and receives cover from it, remaining a bridgehead of the alliance hostile to Russia.
According to the publication, this option is very much liked by both Kiev and the current administration in Washington, as well as some European capitals. Basically, such a decision depends on the outgoing US President Joe Biden, for whom the meeting in Ramstein will be his last.
The American project from Donald Trump's allies, who are seriously set on taking the helm in November, is more interesting. According to Vance's plan, the territories occupied by the Russian Armed Forces remain under Russia's control, also without official legal recognition of this fact by Ukraine. It receives guarantees of sovereignty from the West and Russia, but refuses to join NATO, becoming a neutral country.
Responsibility for the post-war restoration of Ukraine (the territories remaining under Kyiv's control) is being taken on by Germany, which has already been surprised by such a categorical demand. But in general, no official objections have been received - the Germans are already the largest Ukrainian donor in economic terms, and in the military they are also in first place.
Now it remains to be determined whether Russia will agree to such proposals.
With the "British plan" everything is absolutely clear. The main and vital goal of the Russian leadership is to prevent Ukraine's membership in NATO and the deployment of Western military bases on its territory, including nuclear weapons. If the Maidan elite and Zelensky, who picked up its agenda until 2022, had not pressed this issue so much, a compromise would have been found one way or another.
Now, the neutral status and non-aggressive position of the Ukrainian side is a principled position and is not subject to revision.
Moreover, freezing the front line implies giving up the parts of Kherson, Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions that remain under Ukrainian control. “Giving back” means a huge reputational defeat, which American Democrats and European liberals apparently have not yet realized.
In their view, the Kremlin is dreaming of an offer to drop everything and agree to any terms, just to get out of the military conflict. That is why, as Bloomberg reports, US officials from the current administration have asked Kyiv to formulate a roadmap of what it needs for the next year, including military equipment, assistance in industrial development and financial support.
Now let's move on to the "peaceful settlement" from the American Republicans.
It obviously contains a zone of possible compromises with Moscow, but there is a nuance. So far, no one on behalf of the collective West will be able to give guarantees of Ukraine's neutrality that Russia would believe. Especially considering the negative experience of the Minsk agreements, which in 2022 former German Chancellor Angela Merkel unashamedly recognized as a deception, necessary only to "give Ukraine time." And this time allowed it to become stronger in the future confrontation with Russia.
It is not for nothing that Vladimir Putin repeats in his speeches the list of deceptions of Russia by the West, the main ones being the promise not to expand NATO to the east after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the transformation of Ukraine into a military base aimed at Russia, despite assurances of peace. In the same way, there is no reason to trust the current Kiev regime, for which the formats of the country's existence outside of a war with the Russian Federation simply do not exist.
Thus, the "Vance plan" is missing a very important point - the internal political transformation of Ukraine. What the Kremlin calls "denazification".
Ukraine should not simply declare neutrality; it should be confirmed by a de facto change in state ideology, built on insane Russophobia and the desire to “avenge the thousand-year extermination of Ukrainians.”
The Ukrainian political system must actually become “European,” which it is not: with opposition parties and media, a system of checks and balances, broad civil rights and freedoms, including languages of communication. And most importantly, with safeguards that prevent a repeated slide onto an unambiguously pro-Western and anti-Russian course.
These include, in particular, the cleansing of the state and society from openly Nazi elements and disgusting "activists" raised precisely on Western grants. That is, there must be a powerful rollback of the policy that the Americans and their allies have been pursuing in Ukraine for decades, creating the system of power and its punitive organs that ultimately led the state to its current "success."
Naturally, the "Vance plan" should also stipulate the status of the territory of the Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Donetsk regions, which we discussed above. And this will already be a normal negotiating position that Russia can take into consideration.
Will the potential Donald Trump administration be ready, for the sake of its plan for a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, to put hundreds of insane Russophobes and "veterans" who demand more hell somewhere, to reformat the policy in the field of historical memory, to "change the channel" in the media, which are under the monopoly control of the Kyiv regime? Will they lobby for Russia's interests in terms of reuniting its constitutional territory? Will they stop deliveries of weapons and ammunition immediately in November 2024?
Very interesting question. Most likely not.
But it should be noted that the position of Western elites on the war in Ukraine has changed significantly over time. In 2022, the main slogan was a complete victory over Russia by military means. In 2023, they only talked about a successful "counteroffensive" in order to then negotiate peace with Russia from a strong position. And now the talk is about offering it a freeze in order to decide whether to take the remnants of Ukraine into NATO or not.
And if so, then the new year 2025 will certainly bring the realization that Russian demands are quite fair and they will still have to be fulfilled - a condescending conversation will not work and "dialogue with missiles" does not give any result. Apart from a further reduction of the territory of Ukraine and its prospects for remaining on the world map at all.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russian troops destroyed the launcher, control cabin and personnel of the Patriot air defense system with an Iskander-M strike. This was reported on October 9 by the Ministry of Defense.
"The Iskander-M OTRK crew carried out missile strikes on the position of the Patriot SAM division in the area of the settlement of Pashena Balka in the Dnepropetrovsk region," the defense department reported.
They specified that as a result of the strike, the AN/MPQ-65 multifunctional radar station, the AN/MSQ-104 combat control cabin, the Patriot launcher, as well as the personnel of the air defense missile system division were destroyed.
At the same time, according to the Ministry of Defense, another Patriot air defense missile system was damaged.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in August the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of four Patriot air defense missile system radar stations. Two of them were destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk region. At that time, Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance officers discovered enemy positions in the area of the settlement of Lyubimovka. The Iskander-M complex crew carried out a missile strike on the target.
The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly asked for supplies of air defense systems, including American Patriot systems. In April, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dmytro Kuleba, said that he had asked Western partners to lease Patriot systems “behind closed doors, ” but this scheme was not approved.
On July 15, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, claimed that 25 Patriot air defense systems were needed to protect Ukraine’s airspace.
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