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[VESTI] Russia's gains have been modest over the past two weeks
The Russian Army has achieved certain territorial successes near Avdiivka, despite huge losses, which poses a real threat to the Ukrainian defenders of the city.
Source : Financial Times.
Details: “ Russia’s achievements have been modest over the past two weeks and with heavy losses, but the problem is that Russia controls the flanks of the city. Even further advance of one or two kilometers from the flanks could complicate the supply of the city,” a reputable military analyst explained to the publication, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA) Rob Lee.
Details: According to another well-known analyst, director of the Polish consulting company Rochan Consulting Konrad Muzyka, Russia’s main goal in Avdievka was to gain access to the M-04 highway and restore train traffic on the Yasinovataya-Donetsk railway line, which was interrupted in 2014. This could open up another way for Russia to supply its troops in the south.
Unnamed officers from the 59th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces told The New York Times that Ukraine could lose Avdiivka due to powerful fire pressure from Russia, as was the case with Bakhmut. “ This is possible if we run out of people and ammunition ,” said an officer with the call sign “Bardak.”
True, among the military defending Avdiivka there are many optimists. So, according to the commander with the call sign "Condor", the advance that the Russians have achieved in recent weeks has cost them very heavy losses. “ If these tactics they are using were successful, we would not be here talking to you right now,” he said.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:15 Zelensky in an evening video message called for a sober assessment of the Russian system: “They mobilized all forces to try not to lose what they captured in Ukraine, but they polluted their territory with such a level of hatred and degradation that for the second time this year Russia has lost control over the situation Either the rebels go to Moscow, and no one stops them, then the vertical of power in Dagestan evaporates, and a real pogrom occurs. These are all signals that Russia so far - for now - can withstand hostilities and sometimes increase pressure at the front, but is not capable withstand this confrontation strategically."
20:44 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced the detention of two suspects in the murder of a family of nine people in the occupied Volnovakha, Donetsk region: they are allegedly servicemen from the Far East serving under a contract.
19:35 Zelensky received a bipartisan delegation of the US House of Representatives consisting of James French Gill, Michael Quigley and Stephen Lynch, who are visiting Ukraine. The meeting participants discussed the key areas of further American assistance to Ukraine in the field of security and defense.
19:11 F-16 aircraft for Ukraine will arrive at the training center in Romania in two weeks, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a conversation with Zelensky. He also said that during the conversation they discussed the creation of an alternative corridor for grain exports through the Black Sea. The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with patrol boats to ensure its security.
17:54 Zelensky said that he had a video conversation with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte. Rutte assured that the Netherlands will continue to support Ukraine against Russian aggression for as long as necessary, and that the situation in the Middle East will not distract attention from Ukraine.
17:20 The German Air Force announced the start of training of another group of Ukrainian military on the Patriot air defense system. The exercises will last several weeks and involve 61 Ukrainian soldiers and ten interpreters.
16:17 The Russians fired at a cemetery in Kindiyka, Kherson region - one person was killed, another was wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
15:22 The Russian military fired at a route bus in Kherson, seven people are known to be wounded, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. As a result of the shelling, power went out in Novoberislav, Tomarino and Shlyakhovo. The damage is significant; it is currently unknown when power engineers will be able to restore power supply.
14:34 The Russians fired artillery at Belozerka, Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. In addition, as a result of enemy shelling, Berislav was left without power supply - the Russian army attacked a critical infrastructure facility.
14:25 Since October 10, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have shot down six Russian Su-25 attack aircraft in the Tauride direction, said Alexander Shtupun, spokesman for the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction. At the same time, he added that enemy Su-35s and SU-34s are relatively safe because they can drop bombs from afar. In addition, Russian troops have quite powerful logistics.
13:53 The situation in the East remains difficult, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky. According to him, the Russian army is particularly active in the Kupyansky district, where it is trying to move forward in several directions at once. In the Bakhmut area, the enemy significantly strengthened its group and moved from defense to active action. In this way, the Russians are trying to stop the movement of the Defense Forces. “The enemy is suffering heavy losses and cannot achieve their goals,” Syrsky assured.
13:14 The Russian Army launched a strike on the Zaporozhye region, first with a ballistic missile, said the head of the OVA Yuri Malashko. As a result of the hit, a social infrastructure facility was destroyed; no casualties were reported.
13:11 As a result of a Russian strike on a ship repair plant in the Odessa region, four employees of the enterprise were injured, the prosecutor’s office specified.
13:08 The Russians hit a village in the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region with two guided bombs. Houses were damaged and the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary was destroyed, the OVA reported. Two people were also wounded as a result of the shelling of Berislav.
13:02 According to the UN, 6.2 million refugees have left Ukraine as of October 2023 since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
12:59 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that Ukraine attacked targets in Crimea with eight Storm Shadow missiles, all of which were allegedly shot down.
12:55 Military exercises continue continuously in Belarus - in this way the country’s leadership is trying to legitimize the presence of the Belarusian Armed Forces in border areas and at training grounds, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Naev. According to him, the total number of troops of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus in the border areas with Ukraine - from the Volyn to Chernigov regions - is 1,800 people. These battalions are armed with armored vehicles, as well as some artillery units. Most of the troops are located in the interior of Belarus.
12:34 Crimean public pages report explosions in Sevastopol, after which the sounds of detonation are heard. Heavy smoke is also visible in the Streletskaya Bay area. In addition, the airfield in Novofedorovka was allegedly attacked. “Governor” Mikhail Razvozhaev announced that air defense was working; two air targets were allegedly shot down over the city.
12:02 In Ukraine they are planning to launch “smart mobilization” - people will be able to independently choose the specialization in which to mobilize into the army, head of the Ministry of Digital Development Mikhail Fedorov said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. According to him, a pilot project for drone operators will be launched in one to two months. To participate, you will need to submit an application online, undergo interviews with recruiters, tests and training.
11:48 Iran has improved its Shahed drones, in particular by reducing the noise level and increasing the ability to hide from air defense, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat: “Iran has improved its Shahed drones, but noise is not decisive here. Its radar signature is taken into account - "will our radar stations be able to detect it and transmit information in a timely manner for destruction. Therefore, composite materials are used to make the fuselage; it becomes less noticeable. This complicates the work of air defense." At the same time, he added that Ukraine receives certain equipment from the West, which makes it possible to more clearly identify such air targets.
11:00 StratCom of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that on the night of October 30, the Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully hit a “strategic air defense system facility” on the western coast of Crimea. In addition, the department confirmed that on October 25, the S-400 strategic air defense system near Lugansk was destroyed.
10:42 At night, Russian troops shelled Kherson with artillery - one person was killed, three were wounded, a fire broke out in a multi-storey building, the prosecutor's office reported. According to the OVA, over the past 24 hours, two people were killed and four were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:17 In the morning, the Russian Federation attacked a ship repair plant in the Odessa region with missiles, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. As a result of the attack, a fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished by rescuers. The administrative building and equipment of the enterprise were damaged, two people were injured.
09:51 The death toll as a result of the Russian strike on the Novaya Poshta terminal in the Kharkov region on the night of October 22 increased to seven - one of the wounded died in the hospital, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another 12 victims remain in hospitals, two of them in intensive care.
09:04 Russian public pages write that at night in Crimea the deployment point of the Russian Air Defense Missile Regiment was allegedly attacked, 17 servicemen were wounded.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of October 30:
personnel - about 299,940 (+860) people,
tanks - 5190 (+15),
armored combat vehicles - 9775 (+17),
artillery systems - 7202 (+14),
MLRS - 834 (+0),
air defense systems - 559 (+1),
aircraft - 321 (+1),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 5419 (+20),
cruise missiles - 1544 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 9555 (+23),
special equipment - 1014 (+2).
08:11 At night, air defense destroyed all 14 enemy targets: 12 Shahed attack UAVs and two X-59 guided missiles , the Air Force command reported. The KAR X-59 launches were carried out from aircraft from the airspace of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, the “martyrs” flew from the south-eastern direction - Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF). Enemy air targets were destroyed in Nikolaev, Kherson, Kirovograd, Cherkassy, Zhitomir, Khmelnytsky and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
07:58 In the Avdeevka direction, the enemy is not abandoning attempts to encircle Avdeevka. The defense forces repelled more than ten attacks in the Novokalinovo, Avdeevka, Opytny, Pervomaisky districts of the Donetsk region, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
In total, about 60 military clashes took place at the front over the past 24 hours. In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian army tried five times to restore the lost position in the Rabotino area, but was unsuccessful.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - southeast of Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutsky 0 near Andreevka; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - south of Ugledar, Donetsk region. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol direction and assault operations south of Bakhmut.
07:37 At night, air defense shot down two enemy missiles over the Dnepropetrovsk region. Debris fell in the Dnieper district - a five-story building, a private house and a car were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak. In addition, the enemy fired heavy artillery at Nikopol twice, but no people were injured.
05:12 Shoigu, during his speech at the Xiangshan Security Forum in Beijing, said that Russia “remains ready for discussions on the post-conflict resolution of the Ukrainian crisis and further coexistence with the West.” At the same time, according to him, in order to form a “fair and multipolar world order,” it is necessary to “update the architecture of international security.”
04:35 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that two Ukrainian unmanned boats were allegedly discovered in the Black Sea, “fire damage was inflicted on the detection area, and a set of anti-mine and anti-sabotage measures is being carried out in the outer roadstead of Sevastopol Bay.”
Article linked to is available only via VPN [EngMilRu] In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled nine attacks by assault groups of 54th mechanised and 57th motorised infantry brigades of the AFU close to Sinkovka and Timkovka (Kharkov region).
The enemy losses were up to 90 servicemen, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of concerted actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, Army Aviation and artillery, two attacks by assault groups of the 24th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU and the 5th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard have been repelled near Grigorovka and Kirovo (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 70 servicemen and three pickup trucks.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, have struck AFU 22nd Mechanised, 79th Air Assault, and 4th Tank Brigades near Maryinka, Andreevka, and Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 285 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare, two U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems and one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been hit.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, in cooperation with Army Aviation and artillery, have inflicted a fire attack on manpower and hardware concentration areas of 72nd Mechanised and 79th Air Assault Brigades of the AFU, and 105th and 118th Territorial Defence Brigades close to Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region), Novomikhailovka, Nikolskoye, and Ugledar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were over 100 servicemen, two armoured personnel carriers, two pickup trucks, and one 152mm Giatsint-B gun.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces, supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled one attack by an assault group of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 220 soldiers killed and wounded, two tanks, including one German-manufactured Leopard tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, two U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery systems, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, as well as one 152mm Msta-B howitzer have been destroyed.
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 70 servicemen and three motor vehicles.
152mm Msta-B and152mm D-20 howitzers, as well as one 152mm Giatsint-B gun have been destroyed.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised manpower and military hardware in 128 areas.
In addition, one arsenal of AFU aviation weapons has been destroyed near Dubiyevka (Cherkassy region).
Command posts of 43rd and 67th Mechanised Brigades, the 35th Naval Infantry Brigade, and the 31st Operational Brigade have been hit close to Stepovaya Novosyolovka (Kharkov region), Serebryanka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Lepetikha (Nikolayev region).
Air defence facilities have intercepted two HIMARS projectiles.
In addition, 39 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been shot down near Olshana (Kharkov region), Kremennaya, Zolotaryovka, Nyrkovo, Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Staromlynovka, Novoluganskoye, Verkhnetoretskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Chapaevka, Ocheretovatoye (Zaporozhye region), Krynki, Proletarka (Kherson region).
In total, 517 airplanes and 253 helicopters, 8,431 unmanned aerial vehicles, 441 air defence missile systems, 13,019 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,170 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,913 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 14,776 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 10/30/2023 to 00:00 10/31/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 29 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a man, in Vladimirovka.
Four residential buildings were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. No damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded.
The areas of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Aleksandrovka, Vladimirovka.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 12 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
At Gorlivske there were 16 artillery attacks from MLRS and 152mm artillery.
At Volnovakha one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
A total of 106 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 64 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
21:10 Job "Grad" through the eyes of the crew commander
Ugledar direction
19:27 Result of fire defeats artillery of the Russian Armed Forces positions of Ukrainian formations in one of the directions of the Northern Military District
19:26 Prisoner serviceman Ukrainian Armed Forces: officers do not know the situation and do not care about the lives of soldiers
Artem Artemenko is a reconnaissance shooter who was mobilized in June of this year. He and his colleagues were sent to carry out a rotation of military personnel on the front line, but everything did not go according to plan.
“We brought guys into positions, changed people. When they arrived, everyone there was already dead. On the way back we were captured by Russians,” said a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman.
19:25 An air raid alert has been declared in the Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Kharkov regions of Ukraine, as well as in the part of the Kherson region controlled by Kyiv
18:29 503rd MSP works according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the night in the vastness of Zaporozhye.
18:29 Personnel work of anti-tank crew in the Krasnolimansk direction
18:28 The Russian army is advancing again near Bakhmut - Syrsky
According to the General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian troops are trying to “restore the lost position” using airborne units. Assault groups are working in certain areas.
17:47 “Lancets” hunt for enemy air defense
The latest target of kamikaze drones was the British-made Stormer anti-aircraft complex.
17:46 Drones attack Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry in positions
Aeronautical reconnaissance is constantly present in the sky above enemy positions, tracking the movements of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
Soldiers from the 36th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 43rd Separate Special Forces Company are working on identified targets.
16:31 Combat Job engineering and sapper units of the Airborne Forces north of Artemovsk
16:30 The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Shebekinsky District, a shell hit a residential building was recorded - Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov
According to him, there were no casualties.
15:07 Information on Avdeevsky direction
In Avdievka, the Russian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours have seen the dynamics of assault groups advancing south of the waste heap and have caught on to the first houses of the settlement. Northern. Thus ensuring a narrowing of the “throat” around the city.
There are no assault operations on the southern outskirts of Avdievka. There is a counterbattery fight going on.
At the same time, according to intelligence data, the enemy left four large formations in Avdievka to hold the city.
14:22 The Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Kupyansk
By data “Come and See”, a series of attacks were carried out on military facilities and infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region.
“In particular, the crossing over Oskol was destroyed. Warehouses in Kupyansk were hit,” the channel’s source said.
According to him, there are also losses among the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:21 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
-- Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces repelled nine attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction;
-- The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 220 military personnel and two tanks, including one Leopard, in the Zaporizhzhya direction in one day;
-- The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to up to 285 military killed and wounded per day in the Donetsk direction;
-- Russian air defense systems destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones in one day;
-- The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction per day amounted to over 100 military personnel;
-- The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an arsenal of aviation weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Dubievka, Cherkasy region;
-- The Russian Armed Forces hit control centers of four Ukrainian brigades in the DPR, Kharkov and Nikolaev regions.
13:16 Job of tankers of the 291st Regiment of the “Volka” company at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rabotino-Kopani area.
13:15 The air defense system is working in Sevastopol, said Governor Razvozhaev, noting that all services are on alert
13:12 Situation in the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 12:30
At the Rabotino-Verbovoye line, the enemy made a number of unsuccessful attempts to break through the defense line of the Russian Armed Forces. After the regrouping, additional formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were sent to the line of combat contact.
With fire support from the 118th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, assault groups with armored vehicles from the 33rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were sent west of Rabotino.
In the same direction, movements of the 3rd “Spartan” Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine were discovered, which had previously unsuccessfully tried to attack in the direction of Kopani.
The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is replenishing the 82nd Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and is also forming the Topaz tactical group consisting of the 78th Separate Assault Regiment and the 3rd battalion of the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Orekhovsky direction in the Malaya Tokmachka area, reconnaissance stations were set up to identify the positions of our fighters.
12:40 A loud explosion was heard in Zaporozhye
Local residents reported that explosions were heard in the city temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Their consequences have not yet been reported.
12:39 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Gorlovka and the village of Aleksandrovka near Donetsk, firing 18 rounds in two hours, they reportedrepresentative office of the DPRat the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
12:36 Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian military fired more than 40 rounds from artillery, mortars, MLRS and a tank into the territory of the Belgorod region, and there were also attacks from drones, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said inTelegram channel.
12:35 A fire occurred at a ship repair plant in Odessa, said the head of the regional administration Oleg Kiper. In the morning, a series of explosions occurred in the city.
According to him, the fire has now been extinguished. Keeper also stated that equipment was damaged.
11:24 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed Ukrainian DRGs in the Kherson direction
Bydata“Come and see,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces again tried to penetrate and gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
“Several enemy DRGs were destroyed. One is in the Antonovsky Bridge area,” a channel source said.
According to him, Russian artillery is now firing at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the right bank of the Dnieper.
11:22 Destroyed in the area of the Northern Military District there is an M113 armored personnel carrier, Oshkosh M-ATV and Kozak 2 armored vehicles, as well as a German Bergepanzer 3 “Büffel” ARV
10:32 Avdeevskoe direction:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to occupy the waste heap, but it didn’t work out and they retreated.
Also, during the evacuation of the wounded, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost M113-2 units on their own mines.
The enemy is using foreign equipment on this sector of the front.
10:31 Smoke at the arrival site in the Odessa region..
09:41 According to Ukrainian sources, ours took another tactically important position near Avdievka, namely a quarry northwest of Opytne.
Previously, our sources stated that they controlled half of the quarry and continued fighting for it.
This is an important milestone in the battle for Avdievka.
09:40 Ours advanced to the North, taking old positions
08:11 Summary on the morning of October 30, 2023
At night, Geranium UAVs and aircraft operated against enemy targets in the rear. Explosions occurred in Dnepropetrovsk, Summy, in the Kupyansk region, in Vinnitsa and Khmelnytsky regions. There is a report of a power outage in the Darnitsky district of Kyiv after arrival.
In the Kherson direction, the commander of the Airborne Forces Teplinsky will lead the Dnepr group of troops. Colonel General Makarevich was removed from his post. At night, TOS covered the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the railway bridge on our bank of the Dnieper. The enemy retains control of part of the settlement. Krynki.
On the Zaporozhye front near Verbovoy there are shooting battles, the enemy is actively using cluster munitions and drones. Near Rabotino, the enemy is placing smoke screens and using helicopters to attack our positions.
South of Artemovsk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to break through our defenses at Kleshcheevka, sending infantry groups of up to 15 people forward.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces are expanding the zone of control near the railway towards Berdychi, and our artillery is operating in this settlement. Among the reinforcements that arrived, the Ukrainian Armed Forces spotted Leopard tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
At night, the enemy again attacked the western coast of Crimea. Two MBECs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed near Sevastopol. Arrivals were reported in the area of Cape Tarkhankut. In the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the village of Gorodishche, Rylsky district. In the DPR there are four wounded civilians from artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
08:04 Frontline summary for the morning of 10/30/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian troops continued attacks at Kopani, Novoprokopivka and Verbovoy. No promotion.
On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, carried out assault operations in Marinka, near Pervomaisky, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka), on the southern approaches to Avdeevka, near Stepnoy (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledarsky directions) and Novokalinova. Ukrainian positions in Novomikhailovka, Yekaterinivka, Pobeda, Georgievka and the city of Krasnohorivka are under fire. Russian ones - in Staromikhailovka, Donetsk, Opytny and the village of Krasnogorovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to advance behind the railway line from Andreevka and Kleshcheevka. The Russian Armed Forces are holding their positions. Meeting battles in the Berkhovka area. Ukrainian units in Andreevka and Kleshcheevka are under attack. The artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces worked against the Russian Armed Forces in Ozaryanovka, Kurdyumovka, Bakhmut and Yagodny.
In the Lugansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattacked near Raigorodka and managed to occupy a number of new positions. After artillery shelling, Russian troops attacked Stepnaya Novoselovka, Petropavlovka and Sinkovka. LBS has not changed.
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] After Russia launched a military offensive in Ukraine, many Western politicians and major media outlets declared that Ukraine was allegedly winning the information war. However, the reality may be more complex, according to analysts at the private intelligence company, a simulacrum of a thought factory - RAND. To do this, they examined content in Ukrainian, Russian and English created and distributed by official Ukrainian and Russian authorities and associated institutions in the days leading up to and following two incidents: the initial Russian offensive and the Battle of Kiev in February-March 2022 and announcement of partial Russian mobilization in September 2022.
The study showed that the popular discourse about Russia's alleged loss of the information war oversimplifies the problem. According to RAND "experts," the answer to the question of whether Ukraine's information campaigns were more persuasive than Russia's is nuanced: It depends on the audience targeted by specific messages and the broader context in which the audience is situated.
Russia and Ukraine take different approaches to their influence campaigns. “In general, Ukrainian leaders have been outspoken, communicating frequently with their target audiences, using every available tool—from social media to radio—and relying on informal and conversational communication. Russian officials have become more restrained. State television was the central channel of Russian influence campaigns, aimed primarily at the Russian public and military personnel,” the study notes.
At the beginning of the SVO, Russian leaders misunderstood their Ukrainian audience. “Both Ukrainian and Russian influence campaigns may have had difficulty overcoming the deeply held beliefs of adversary audiences, which research shows are resilient and often impervious to new, contradictory information. It was difficult for actors in the Russian information campaign to overcome the entrenched negative perception of the Kremlin among the Ukrainian public,” the study says.
Official communications from the Russian government were "low-key events in the form of press conferences and pre-recorded statements by Putin." “However, this approach stands in stark contrast to the hyperbolic, repetitive and emotionally charged nature of the Russian television programs we examined. While both states used fear appeals, which research shows are generally unconvincing, Ukraine also relied heavily on humor appeals and, to a lesser extent, anger—an approach that research has shown to be effective", the report notes.
It is worth remembering that RAND does not produce “formative analytics” in accordance with the parameters of the government order. In this case, the zakah comes from the US government.
It is also worth noting that Russia is waging an information war in Ukraine not with Ukraine, but with the information machine of the United States and NATO; the Ukrainian system itself is only a small appendage of the system that Russia opposes.
In a bizarre incident in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, a mouse climbed onto a first-person view (FPV) drone and stayed on it until it struck a Ukrainian target.
[EURASIANTIMES] With the camera footage capturing the entire duration from the rodent climbing onto the drone right up to the strike, Russian fighters also erected a small monument to commemorate the animal, personifying its death as a service in the war.
While it is not known when exactly the incident took place, the place has been determined to be south Donetsk, based on various posts on Russian Telegram channels. Interestingly, it was later revealed that the rodents had become a menace in Russian soldiers’ bunkers. Remember feeding the cute little hopping mice in your foxholes?
That's what brought the cobras.
The amusing episode is an exciting moment in the saga of FPV loitering munitions, where an accidental wildlife casualty has been given soldierly folklore.
Interestingly, animals had become a part of the larger narrative when many Russian and Ukrainian soldiers were photographed with cats, either being adopted by frontline units or being rescued from rubble and debris. The general Slavic cultural affinity towards felines explained these warm moments. When rodents are a problem, cats are your friends.
The drone camera footage that first originated on the FTD666 Telegram group shows a mouse on the nose of what appears to be a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) round. Based on the shape and the rotation patterns of the propellers, the drone can be assumed to be a quadcopter, strapped with the explosive to ram into enemy positions.
The mouse remains seated on the nose when the quadcopter takes off and, realizing it can’t get down, remains on the RPG round. The drone climbs to an altitude of roughly 50 meters and flies a distance of around seven to ten kilometers over plain fields to hit a bunker finally. There is no overhead footage to show the actual strike and explosion.
It can be inferred that the strike was part of a planned series of attacks, where the FPV loitering UAV was stationary and remained positioned on the ground for a while before commencing the attack.
The operators would not have had time to drive the mouse away to prevent its death. However, the entire footage did create the impression that the mouse heroically participated in the strike in its fight against Ukraine.
Donetsk has been the center of emotional anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian accession movements since the late 2000s. Along with the Lugansk military, Donetsk rebelled against Kyiv’s rule, leading to the 2014 Donbas war, earning the mouse’s drone riding a Russian nationalist color.
The two regions, along with Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, voted in a September 2022 referendum to be part of the Russian Federation. The video at the link is from X/Twitter and I don't know how to copy it. But the mouse gets quite a ride before his demise.
The Telegram channel first posted the video on October 23, joking that the mouse has been awarded the ’Order of Courage’ posthumously. Two days later, FTD666 posted another message, saying, "Mice are very actively destroying our equipment."
"They chew literally everything from socks (to) thermal imagers," revealing the actual role of the animals on the battlefield.
Think how much worse it would be if they were rats.
This, however, did not stop comic takes on the incident, with a caricature specially created to honor the mouse’s contribution. It showed it standing atop the nose or the RPG round, with the post accompanying the cartoon saying, "Even mice beat Bandera’s supporters!!!"
Stephan Bandera was a controversial leader during World War Two in Ukraine, involved in an anti-Polish genocide that killed 100,000 ethnic Poles. Russia points to periodic rallies in support of him and other far-Right leaders in Ukraine to prove the existence of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine.
A small monument to commemorate the mouse on a roadside curb in south Donetsk
Most ultra-nationalist Russian Telegram channels are rooted in a solid Soviet-era political philosophy. This makes "Banderites" an adversarial capturing the bitter ideological rivalry and the human casualty Russia sustained when Germany invaded. Almost all Ukrainian losses and defeats captured on cameras are celebrated as "Banderite" defeats.
...except the ones blaimed on Ukro-Nazis, but do go on:
But subsequent developments about the mouse’s battlefield death are even funnier when other channels claimed that a small monument was erected to commemorate its sacrifice.
il libanese (@Ramy_Sawma) claimed in a post on X that "a monument was erected in Donetsk to a nameless mouse who died on the battlefield after climbing on a kamikaze drone during an attack on AFU positions." A picture showed a small statue of the mouse on a roadside curb, standing on its hind legs and looking up.
There were few details on this element, but there is also no reason to doubt the claim owing to the absence of counterfacts or corrections on social media.
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[Regnum] Dozens of Ukrainian residents have turned to Russia with a request to help return children taken away by the West, the head of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grigory Lukyantsev , said on October 30.
Huh? When did that happen?
“Since April 2023, several dozen Ukrainian mothers and families have contacted the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York with a request to provide them with assistance in returning their children,” Lukyantsev said.
In Ukraine, these people were hinted that they had problems of “some political dimension.” They spoke about this when turning to the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN for help.
Appeals to the Russian side continue to arrive, and Moscow, Lukyantsev explained, is trying to understand each specific case.
Referring to the Ministry of Reintegration of Ukraine, the local publication “Strana․ua” reported on October 23 about the forced removal of children from the areas of the DPR and the Kherson region controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is planned to evacuate 250 children.
On August 9 , Regnum news agency cited data disclosed by former SBU employee Vasily Prozorov . According to his information, children taken from the territory of Ukraine turn out to be victims of shadow business. In Ukraine, under the auspices of officials, including the United States, the EU, and the United Kingdom, there is a multi-level organization engaged in the search and selection of children, as well as the preparation of documents for their removal to Britain.
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[EngMilRu] In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled nine attacks by assault groups of 54th mechanised and 57th motorised infantry brigades of the AFU close to Sinkovka and Timkovka (Kharkov region).
