[Newsweek] Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a game of survival as his forces suffer further defeats on the battlefields of Ukraine, Finland's foreign minister has said, while Kyiv's Western partners look to ramp up support in response to Moscow's annexation of occupied regions.
Speaking with Newsweek on the sidelines of the Helsinki Security Forum in the Finnish capital on Sunday, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said the Russian dictator is facing both dissent within Russia and uncertainty among neutral nations concerned by looming food and nuclear crises, plus the Kremlin's "sham" referendums on occupied Ukrainian land.
"Many countries who have maybe not been so concerned about the Russian attack on Ukraine, they are very concerned about this method that you can start to change the borders by voting," Haavisto said, reflecting on recent conversations with counterparts at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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Commentary from the Telegram channel of military correspondent "Voenkor Kotenok"
[ColonelCassad] Answers to questions for the channel "Voenkor Kotenok" on the topic of some aspects of the SVO.
1) At the level of rumors, information about Kyiv's plans to create a "dirty bomb" has reappeared. How long can it take to create this device and what is the purpose of the project - blackmail, provocation, or detonation of a bomb in one of the Russian cities?
This is a very realistic scenario, especially with the help of the US and Britain. Such a bomb can be used for provocation on the territory of Ukraine or for a strike on the border areas of Russia, as well as for blackmail by the threat of such a strike. It was the fact of such a threat that was one of the well-known reasons for the start of the NWO. And that threat still persists.
2) The fact that both threads of SP-1 were damaged, but only one branch of SP-2 - is this a flaw or a conscious step on the part of the enemy in order to preserve the field for negotiations?
The real extent of the damage is still unclear, as well as the nature of the explosion of the pipelines. It is obvious that the United States will seek to cut Europe off as much as possible from Russian energy sources in order to consolidate the economic enslavement of Europe. We can expect further steps in this direction.
3) On the eve of the referenda, many expected that it was during the referenda that Kyiv might attempt a breakthrough. That did not happen. APU exhausted? Or afraid of the answer?
As you can see, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO were focused on developing the success associated with the breakthrough near Balakleya. And this plan was quite successfully implemented in the Krasny Liman area, which the RF Armed Forces were forced to leave due to the threat of encirclement. Yes, they failed to disrupt the referendums, which, however, did not prevent them from achieving operational success.
4) Is it timely to join the territories, some of which are still occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine? Or is it more reasonable to wait for their release within the administrative boundaries?
Territories must be legally fixed for themselves, and the sooner the better. They form a political irreversibility, while the accession in no way interferes with the liberation of the remaining territories and other areas. Therefore, as it was said in the summer, the referendums were held in the second half of September.
5) In your opinion, will conclusions be drawn from the recent story of the exchange of "Azov" in the sense that even unpopular decisions need to be covered? Isn't it time to reverse the situation in which we learn about such events from the enemy, which enhances the negative effect?
There are no serious changes in the state approach to information coverage of the issues of exchanges of prisoners of war. For unknown reasons, the costs of the current approach are not considered critical. Accordingly, no major "changes" in this matter are expected.
6) When should the effect be expected from the arrival of mobilized people in the NMD zone? And in general, how adequate is the figure of 300,000 people for the current situation?
In a strategic sense, the attraction of the masses mobilized to the front will begin to tell on the nature of the hostilities in December-January. At the current stage, the role of the mobilized will be rather stabilizing - they will fill the voids at the front and replenish the existing units. As for the declared figures, everything depends on the tasks that will be set, because one group strength is needed for defensive operations, and another for offensive operations. However, I am sure that the issues of partial mobilization in Russia will not be limited to 300,000.
The partial mobilization itself is a recognition of the fact that the stake on the voluntary-contract principle of recruiting a grouping for Ukraine could not fully ensure a sufficient number of groups to solve the tasks of the NWO.
7) Why haven't we started knocking out bridges and critical infrastructure yet? Is this due to the fact that in this case the Armed Forces of Ukraine can destroy the oil and gas pipelines through which the transit of hydrocarbons takes place?
The reasons for the lack of strikes on some infrastructure facilities and "decision-making centers" are not clear to me. From the point of view of achieving the goals of the NWO, the destruction of critical infrastructure facilities is seen as necessary.
8) After the Pentagon announced the allocation of another 18 Hymars to Kyiv, it was clarified that they would arrive in Ukraine within 2 years. Are such terms associated with a decrease in the effectiveness of MLRS data?
No, the US is quite happy with the current results. Therefore, they will try to maintain the number of such MLRS in Ukraine, both as part of compensation for losses and to replace failing machines. Of course, the supply of missiles for them will continue.
9) How do you evaluate the effectiveness of Shahed-136 purchased from Iran? Are these devices a serious tool or a temporary solution?
The effectiveness of these drones was expectedly high, especially when assessing the price/ quality ratio. Like HIMARS, this is not a superweapon, but it successfully fulfills its tasks, which causes hysteria about "flying mopeds" in Ukraine. Given the length of the front, it is unlikely that the enemy will be able to do anything about this in the medium term, except for building up the protection of some objects of particular importance to him, pulling anti-aircraft guns and other means of combating UAVs there.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Krasny Liman.
The situation after the withdrawal of the RF Armed Forces from Krasny Liman remains difficult. Fighting continues in the area of Terna, Torskoye and in the forest near Kremennaya. The command of the grouping in this direction now needs to solve the problem of stabilizing the front on the Kremennaya-Svatovo line. The solution of this problem after the replenishment of the units and the saturation of the battle formations at the expense of the mobilized will make it possible to resume offensive operations in the winter, including with the aim of liberating Krasny Liman. But for the time being, tasks of a defensive nature are on the agenda and they must be solved.
The only positive around Krasny Liman against the backdrop of obvious negative, the troops were able to avoid encirclement. The mistakes of the enemy in holding Mariupol, which led to the destruction of the entire Mariupol grouping, are not in a hurry to repeat in our country, for obvious reasons. But the problem of securing the flanks is still very acute.
[Kremlin] Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia
A ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Lugansk People's Republic, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region to the Russian Federation took place in of the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation,
As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have made their unequivocal choice.
Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of millions of people. (Applause.)
And so forth, for many, many words. Enjoy reading them unfiltered by anyone else’s agenda, dear Reader.
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Russia will not be constrained by the West. OK, there goes the nuclear non-proliferation treaties. If countries are not scrambling looking for their own at this moment, they're not interested in self-preservation.
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Given the quality of the Russian military in Ukraine, I would think Russian deployment of tactical nukes in an actual battlefield situation could result in a disaster for Russia.
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Holds up finger to check wind direction -- are you sure about that?
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Kadyrov should be made Marshal of Russia and given command of the war.he's such a strategic genius on par with Suvrov I'm sure his tiktok soldiers will do an awesome job winning the war. Shooting empty buildings and posing for Instagram will reverse Russian fortunes
It is mind-boggling how on earth Russia failed so poorly, almost no defenses set up in occupied areas, what they were thinking about. https://t.co/Ah2k6UPTCw
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[Korrespondent] 23:22 Most of the invaders from Liman either surrendered to the Ukrainian military, or "relocated to body bags," the Defense Ministry said.
23:20 Soldiers of the 81st airmobile brigade and the National Guard stated that the city of Lyman is controlled by Ukrainian servicemen.
23:00 IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi will visit Moscow and Kiev next week, Reuters reports.
22:12 German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht arrived on Saturday on an unannounced visit to Odessa, where she met with Reznikov. Lambrecht promised that IRIS-T air defense systems would be delivered to Ukraine "in the coming days," writes Die Welt.
21:45 Zelensky in the evening video message specifically noted the statement of UN Secretary General António Guterres: "He directly said that Russia violates the goals and principles of the UN, the UN Charter and that pseudo-referendums and an attempt at annexation will have no legal force. When at the highest level in the UN such words are heard, everyone in the world understands everything. And Russia does not have such a veto right that can stop or cancel this understanding of the world."
"Russia is losing the fight for the international community. The world will not allow the return of the times of colonial conquests, criminal annexations and total arbitrariness instead of international law. And the main thing is our resistance, our defense, our movement towards the liberation of the entire Ukrainian territory. Precisely our movement puts everything in its place," the president stressed.
21:26 Zelensky said in an evening video message that this week there have been more Ukrainian flags in Donbas, and in another week there will be even more: "The Ukrainian movement will continue. The Ukrainian flag is already in Liman, Donetsk region. There are still ongoing hostilities. But there there is no longer a trace of some kind of pseudo-referendum. For Ukraine, this is logical. But for the enemy, there will be more and more such "inconsistencies". Ukraine will return its own. Both in the east and in the south. And what they tried to annex now, and Crimea , which has been called annexed since 2014. Our flag will be everywhere."
20:55 Kuleba said that he called NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to inform him in detail about Ukraine's application for membership: "We agreed to maintain contact on this issue and discussed further practical NATO steps to support Ukraine in countering Russian aggression."
20:51 During the day, the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Kazachya Lopan, Bakhmut, Veselaia Dolina, Zaitsevo and Pervomayskoye, the General Staff said in an evening report .
20:33 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that fighting was going on in Liman: "There are fighting in Liman. It is much easier to restrain yourself and not write on social networks than ours are there now. Hold back. The General Staff will not forget to inform you when there is information for you."
20:22 The number of victims of the shelling of a convoy of civilian cars at the checkpoint in Zaporozhye has increased to 31 - another wounded woman died in the hospital, said the head of the Zaporozhye OVA Alexander Starukh.
19:30 The IAEA has received information that Igor Murashov, the director general of the Zaporozhye NPP, who was kidnapped by the Russians, has been "temporarily detained." This information was obtained after the IAEA contacted the "relevant authorities". The head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, stressed that the organization is actively seeking clarification and hopes for a speedy and satisfactory resolution of this issue.
19:23 In Nikolaev, under the rubble after a nighttime missile attack, they found the body of one dead person - this is a young woman, Anna Zamazeeva, head of the regional council, said.
18:32 Thick smoke is visible at the Belbek airfield in occupied Sevastopol. The “governor” of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced an “extraordinary situation”: allegedly, during landing, the plane rolled out of the runway and caught fire. Citizens in local publics discuss that they heard explosions, after which smoke appeared.
17:36 Negotiations with the Russian Federation can resume on the condition that the Russian army leaves the entire territory of Ukraine, including Crimea, Podolyak said in an interview with La Repubblica: "Russia does not want to negotiate - it only puts forward ultimatums. If the Russian army leaves the entire territory of Ukraine , including Crimea, negotiations could resume."
17:01 The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the withdrawal of troops from Liman "in connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement." Moscow assured that the troops were withdrawn "to more advantageous lines."
16:25 In the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, a shelled convoy with cars was found, where there were civilians. The occupiers attacked civilians who tried to escape from shelling, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the UVA, said. As a result of the shelling of a convoy of seven cars, 24 people were killed, including a pregnant woman and 13 children. The tragedy occurred on the morning of September 25 between the villages of Kurilovka and Peschanoe - this is the so-called gray zone. The Russians fired at the civilians almost point-blank.
15:46 On Saturday, October 1, the US Lend-Lease Act for Ukraine came into force, Yermak said.
13:33 The Ukrainian military set up the flag of Ukraine at the entrance to Liman - the video was posted by Andriy Yermak.
12:14 British intelligence reports that on September 30, the Russian army attacked a convoy at the exit from Zaporozhye, most likely with an air defense missile. Russia's stockpile of such missiles is likely limited and a valuable weapon designed to destroy advanced aircraft and missiles rather than for use against ground targets. The use of such missiles as strike missiles is almost certainly due to a shortage of ammunition, especially longer-range precision missiles. The Russian Federation is spending strategically valuable military resources in an attempt to achieve tactical superiority and in the process is killing civilians it now calls its citizens, analysts say.
11:51 The settlements of Yampol, Novoselovka, Shandrigolovo, Drobyshevo, Headquarters have been released, stabilization measures are underway there , said Sergei Cherevaty, a representative of the Eastern Group of Forces.
11:27 Kherson public reports about a serious hit in Tavriysk, Kakhovka district. According to preliminary information, the projectile flew into the territory of the chemical plant, where the Russian military was stationed, and damaged the ammunition depot. Local residents report loud sounds of detonation of ammunition, clouds of smoke rise from the city.
Explosions are also reported in Novaya Kakhovka, where the air defense system allegedly went off.
11:18 As of the morning of October 1, about 5,000 Russian soldiers are encircled in Liman, head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said: "The invaders asked their leadership for the opportunity to get out, which they were refused. Now they have three options: try to break through , or surrender, or all die together. There are about 5,000 of them, there is no exact figure yet."
Gaidai stressed that 5000 is a colossal group in the environment, this has never happened before in principle. All ways of bringing ammunition there or a quiet exit of this group from Liman have already been cut off.
10:02 At night, the Russians hit Nikolaev not only with S-300 missiles, but also with Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. Five people, including a three-month-old baby, were injured in the shelling, Vitaly Kim, head of the UVA, said.
09:59 Over the past day in the Kharkiv region, the areas of the settlements Strelechye, Redkodub, Kuchkovka, Okhrimovka, Olkhovatka, Dvurichnaya and others were fired upon. Due to the hit of ammunition, fires broke out at an agro-industrial facility and in an apartment building. Two people were hospitalized with wounds - in the Izyum and Kharkiv districts, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
09:54 No bogus referendum can justify a violation of the UN Charter, Borrell said. He stressed that the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine are not subject to discussion, and the support of the European Union remains unshakable.
09:35 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four civilians were killed - two in Maksimilianovka, one each in Bakhmut and Svyatogorsk. Another six people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko.
09:31 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) predicts that Ukrainian troops are likely to completely cordon off or capture the Liman of the Donetsk region within the next 72 hours. ISW also writes that on September 30, Ukrainian forces continued to strike at Russian military facilities in the Luhansk region. Geolocation footage shows the aftermath of Ukrainian HIMARS strikes on a television tower and radio repeater in Starobilsk, as well as an asphalt plant near Alchevsk, where Russian troops were reportedly stationed.
09:24 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of October 1. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 59,610 (+530) people liquidated,
tanks - 2354 (+16),
armored fighting vehicles - 4949 (+17),
artillery systems - 1397 (+6),
MLRS - 336 (+3),
air defense systems - 176 (+0),
aircraft - 264 (+0),
helicopters - 226 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1009 (+6),
cruise missiles - 246 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 3786 (+18),
special equipment - 131 (+0).
09:17 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks near New York, Zaitsevo and Soledar, the General Staff said in the morning summary. The General Staff also informs that Russia is preparing to send cadets to the war in Ukraine due to the lack of officer personnel.
09:13 Turkey does not accept the annexation of Ukrainian territories by Russia, the country's Foreign Ministry said: "Turkey did not recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia in an illegitimate referendum held in 2014, and each time emphasized its strong support for the territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty of Ukraine. In accordance with this With the position we took in 2014, we reject Russia's decision to annex the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine." The agency called the Kremlin's decision "a gross violation of established principles of international law."
That’s nice. Does anyone except Somalia care what Turkey thinks?
09:07 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on Nikolaev. The S-300 missile hit a residential building, apartments on the 5th and 4th floors were destroyed. Cars were also damaged, windows were blown out in neighboring houses. There were no casualties, some residents received minor injuries, said the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich.
08:29 Zelensky, by his decree, canceled the autumn conscription and postponed the demobilization. The draft campaign in Ukraine in October-December will not be held, and the transfer to the reserve of military personnel is postponed for a period "not earlier than the announcement of demobilization in the prescribed manner."
07:04 The Russians kidnapped the general director of the Zaporizhzhya NPP Igor Murashov , Energoatom President Petr Kotin said. He said that on Friday, September 30, at about 16:00, Murashov was detained by an occupant patrol on the road from the station to Energodar. The car was stopped, he himself was detained and taken away blindfolded in an unknown direction. Currently, there is no information about the whereabouts of Igor Murashov and his fate.
Kotin emphasizes that the Director General of ZNPP is a licensed person - he bears the main and exclusive responsibility for the nuclear and radiation safety of the Zaporizhzhya NPP. His detention poses a threat to the operation of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
06:43 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Odessa region in the early morning. Two rockets, presumably Iskander, hit an industrial infrastructure facility, damaged an electrical substation, and several neighboring buildings. A fire broke out in one of the private garages, which was quickly extinguished. People were not injured, OK Pivden reported.
00:51 Biden signed a law on temporary state financing, providing for the allocation of $ 12.3 billion in assistance to Ukraine.
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Kreminna is a major road and railhead with the supply routs leading to Russia. It is critical for the Russians to keep the forces in the "republics" supplied. Currently it is in range of every gun in Ukraine's arsenal.
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Ukrainians have penetrated at least 30km in Kherson oblast. Looks like another collapse. Remaining Russians in northwest Kherson will have a make a decision to bug out very soon.
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[RIA Novosti] After the referendums in the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, the Ukrainian military intensified shelling of peaceful cities. At the same time, Kyiv is actively transferring reinforcements to the front from the central and western parts of the country. Everything suggests that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, inspired by the successes in the Kharkov direction, are preparing a new counterattack. About where to wait for the strike - in the material RIA Novosti.
Get ahead of the reservists
The fact that Kyiv would launch a counteroffensive was clear even in the summer. For several months, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plugged holes on the front line with mobilized from hastily trained and poorly equipped territorial defense units. While the reservists were dying under artillery and air strikes, the personnel units were undergoing training and combat coordination far from the Donbass. In addition, the Ukrainian military was actively trained in a number of NATO countries. It was professional soldiers who attacked in early September in the Kharkov region.
Red Estuary remains under the control of the allied forces
As a result of the regrouping, the troops of the allied armies retreated to the DPR and took up defensive positions on the eastern bank of the Oskol River. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, having taken Raisins, continue to rush forward. The most difficult section of the front is near Krasny Liman in the north of the republic. The capture of this city on the important route Slavyansk-Seversk will allow Kyiv to transfer forces further east to advance to Lysichansk and Severodonetsk.
“The situation there is extremely difficult,” says an officer of the DPR army with the call sign Lyuty. “The city is practically surrounded. The enemy is from the north, west, south. "According to the latest information, the enemy managed to occupy Drobyshevo and Yampol. Cossacks, servicemen of the 2nd Corps of the LPR and Russian soldiers from the 20th Army are fighting in Krasny Liman."
Soldiers of the 208th Cossack Regiment of the People's Militia of the LPR near positions on the outskirts of Krasny Liman in the DPR
The recent assault of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, undertaken on this sector of the front, failed. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, "the losses of the 66th and 93rd mechanized brigades amounted to more than 70 people killed, four tanks, six infantry fighting vehicles and three armored vehicles."
According to the military, the Red Liman garrison is repelling attacks one after another. The density of defensive formations here is much higher than it was in the Kharkiv region - it is no longer so easy for mobile groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on light armored vehicles to break into gaps and seize bridgeheads for the main forces. But the enemy does not take into account the losses. Obviously, Kyiv is trying to build on its success and retake as much territory as possible before the autumn thaw and before the trained Russian reservists arrive at the front.
Traffic near Donetsk
The situation is also aggravated on the borders of the LPR. The official representative of the People's Militia of the Republic, Ivan Filiponenko, noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have stepped up along the entire front line. The cities of Alchevsk, Perevalsk, Kremennaya and Bryanka are regularly shelled. The fire is carried out from the American MLRS HIMARS and NATO artillery mounts of 155 millimeters.
Ukrainian troops again shelled Donetsk with NATO shells
To the south of Krasny Liman, the battles for Artemovsk continue. Allied troops advance on Zaitsevo and Otradovka. Earlier, the assault units of the Russian army entrenched themselves in the industrial area of Artemovsk and thus created a springboard for further operations in the city. The enemy gathered here an impressive grouping - about ten thousand bayonets.
However, these troops are on the defensive, there are no signs of preparing an offensive.
At the same time, in the central sector of the front in the DPR, in the area of Marinka, Svetlodarsk, Krasnogorovka and Opytny, intelligence captures the buildup of forces of the Kyiv regime. In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have repeatedly tried to recapture the village of Peski to the west of Donetsk - to no avail.
The DPR believes that the enemy can advance to Vuhledar. Fresh troops are constantly being transferred there. This threatens Volnovakha and the Donetsk-Mariupol highway.
Southern Front
Another direction of the likely counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is Zaporozhye. According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional administration, the Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly conduct exercises and trainings to capture the ZNPP. According to him, for this purpose, about 450 Special Operations Forces soldiers arrived in Ukraine, trained by instructors and advisers from NATO countries. A strike is also possible along the Stepnogorsk-Orekhov-Gulyaipole line in the eastern part of the region on the border with the DPR.
It has been relatively calm in the Kherson direction in recent days, the front has not moved. In early September, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack, but they hit the fire bags and retreated, having suffered heavy losses. After that, Kyiv temporarily abandoned the crossing of the Ingulets River and switched to the tactics of shelling with long-range artillery.
However, this does not mean at all that the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is impossible here - the Ukrainian army has proved that it is capable of quickly transferring large groups over long distances. According to experts, Kyiv will give the order to attack in the near future. The exhaustion of NATO's arsenals is also pushing for this.
“The American media rightly note that the annual production of shells in the United States by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is fired in two weeks,” says military expert Ilya Kramnik. “In our summer peak, this volume was fired in 12 hours on other days. NATO is faced with a dilemma: either really spin the machine to the fullest, or Ukraine will soon face a shortage of equipment and ammunition. This is fraught, given that Russian warehouses were kept precisely for the worst. ammunition and artillery materiel, we, thank God, do not depend on imports in any way."
Western countries are verbally ready to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine. In fact, not everything is so smooth. Thus, the United States, as part of the next package of military assistance, promised to transfer an additional 18 units of the HIMARS MLRS to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But they decided to buy them from the manufacturer, and not withdraw them from stocks, as before. This means that the process will take several years. And it is far from a fact that hostilities will not end by that time.
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A situation in Kherson worsened for RU.
They were not able to stabilize the defense line after loss of Zolota Balka and Shevchenkivka.
The front continues collapsing and UA forces are already reported in Dudchany.
RU claim that they cannot consolidate, so we might expect further advancements.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:11 In Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, an air raid siren sounds, the air defense system is working, two explosions have thundered. This is reported in Telegram channel city administration.
“05.22. Under the continuous operation of the siren, air defense works in Novaya Kakhovka: two air explosions, ”the message says.
There are no reports of civilian casualties or damage to infrastructure yet.
21:07 One of the shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the shelling of the city of Energodar hit the outlet pipe of the thermal power plant, located about a kilometer from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the city, Alexander Volga.
20:04 Battle for Kherson: the situation in the Andreevsky sector as of 19.00 October 1, 2022
▪️After yesterday's unsuccessful attempt to storm the village of Davydov Brod, Ukrainian formations launched a new offensive against the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the village. In total, the enemy involved more than 20 vehicles and armored vehicles, including tanks.
▪️Russian artillery began to work on the combat formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and destroyed several Kozak armored vehicles, which the Ukrainian formations managed to pull to the rear. The remaining equipment began to cross the Ingulets on a pontoon built in the area of Belaya Krinitsa.
▪️Fighting in the area continues. The immediate goal of the Ukrainian formations is to reach Davydov Brod from the west and cut off the road to Belogorka.
▪️The enemy is trying to gain a foothold in the forest plantations on the left bank of the Ingulets, the RF Armed Forces inflict fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:53 In Moscow created 20 reserve collection points for mobilized, said Sergei Sobyanin. In them, in particular, complaints will be considered.
17:51 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 of the Ukrainian Air Force in the Mykolaiv region;
▪️The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian military personnel in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;
▪️Russian troops destroyed more than 270 Ukrainian servicemen and five tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction;
▪️More than 50 militants were liquidated by a missile attack on the deployment point of the Armed Forces brigade in the Kupyansk region;
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces with a high-precision strike in the Zaporozhye region destroyed up to 60 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 10 units of military equipment, including two HIMARS systems;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 100 soldiers killed and wounded in the Novopol region in the DPR as a result of fire damage from the Russian Armed Forces;
▪️Aviation and artillery of the RF Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian depots of missile and artillery weapons in the Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions and the DPR;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region destroyed the launcher of the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:00 The intensity of today's shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Energodar has increased, local authorities report
At the moment, there are already more than 20 "arrivals" of the coastline and territory in the district of the city, in which the Zaporozhye NPP is located. There are also several arrivals in the TPP area.
17:00 RF Armed Forces in Krasnolimansky direction destroyed more than 200 military in a day - Russian Defense Ministry
More than 200 Ukrainian soldiers, five tanks and nine infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed by massive fire strikes on the positions of the 66th and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction in a day, the department specified.
Despite the losses suffered, having a significant superiority in forces and means, the Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced reserves and continued the offensive in this direction.
16:35 In the Liman direction, the enemy forced parts of the allied forces to leave Krasny Liman, military commander Yevgeny Poddubny reports.
"The soldiers and commanders of the Russian Army fought their way out of encirclement and retreated to defensive lines. An alternative to retreat is a boiler. Now the Kremennaya district is the cutting edge," Poddubny reports.
15:27 AFU fired at the coastal line of the Russian city of Energodar, 13 explosions are reported, city authorities report.
15:25 Students of commercial universities with state accreditation will not be called up during partial mobilization, Shoigu said.
According to him, the preparation of additions to the decree on behalf of the president is being completed, and everything will be introduced today.
15:25 Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu together with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov checked conditions for the placement of mobilized citizens and the course of preparation.
Shoigu personally inspected the places of accommodation of citizens called up from the reserve and volunteers, which are located on the basis of the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center and the Avangard educational and methodological center for military-patriotic education of youth in Kubinka.
15:05 The situation in the Limansky direction as of 14.00 October 1, 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated their main efforts on three sections of the roads: Liman - Zarechnoye, Torskoye - Kremennaya, Torskoye - Svatovo. Properly distributing forces, the Ukrainian formations focused on cutting the lines of communication of the Russian troops.
At the same time, the pushing through of Russian defensive orders continued in Liman itself, Stavki, the northern environs of Yampol and along the “road of life”.
▪️By noon on October 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to physically cut off the Torskoye-Svatovo road and pin down the forces of the RF Armed Forces in a battle in the Ternov area.
▪️The Ukrainian flag was raised at the western entrance (49.012093, 37.772098) to Liman: at least 20 percent of the city was controlled by the enemy by that time. This is evidenced by the absence of sounds of small arms combat and artillery strikes at the western entrance to the city.
The fighting shifted to the center and eastern part of Liman, the southern outskirts of Stavki, and the northern outskirts of Yampol. Communication between Torsky and the Liman garrison is blocked by fire.
▪️The RF Armed Forces strike at Zarechny (Kirovsk), which includes Ukrainian formations. It is through Zarechnoye that the Liman-Torskoye road passes.
▪️The Torskoye-Kremennaya road is under constant fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian maneuver groups are trying to tie up Russian units in battle.
14:19 Personnel combat work of the crews of the Uragan MLRS of the Western Military District in the zone of the special military operation
"A hurricane needs space, a big place to move around. For example, I worked out one goal, rolled over to another place, and quickly worked out there. Everything depends, of course, to a greater extent on the coherence of calculations, speed," said the commander of the combat vehicle Vasily.
In the course of a special military operation, the artillery units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation day and night continue to carry out fire missions to destroy artillery batteries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroy defensive structures, suppress command posts and strong points, and destroy enemy weapons, weapons and military equipment.
13:34 The death toll as a result of the shelling near Zaporozhye of a motorcade with civilians heading for the liberated territories has increased to 30, 88 people were injured, Rogov said
12:37 The situation around Liman at 12:00.
Judging by the fire damage inflicted by our artillerymen, the enemy is rushing to control Torsky. For Torskoye, according to fragmentary data, a battle is going on. Enemy scouts jump out onto the Kremennaai-Torskoye road, the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically strikes.
Our fire defeat on concentrations of personnel in Yampolevka, Zarechny, our forces are cutting off enemy reserves with fire, we are hitting Belogorovka, as well as attacks on the forest near Yampol, where the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated.
11:26 Artillery inflicts strikes against the enemy near the Red Liman.
11:26 Under Liman, ours are counterattacking. Bars and volunteers waited for help!
11:26 Russian "Grads" work according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Krasny Liman.
10:20 Russian Armed Forces stopped the advance of the enemy in the Liman direction due to the approach of reserves from the units of the Southern Military District
The settlements were returned under our control by nightfall. Headquarters (nine km north of Liman), fighting took place in the area of the settlement. Yampol (southeast of the city).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine use armored vehicles for attacking operations in several directions, in some areas they are thrown back by our reserves. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have more forces in the direction, despite their losses.
Also, it is reported that the front was also stabilized in the Kupyansk direction.
10:20 AFU to build up forces in the Liman direction AFU transfer units from near Seversk, Soledar, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk
10:05 Russian air defense system worked for the fourth time over Nova Kakhovka, seven explosions thundered - media
09:23 Ambush on the column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Davydov Brod in the Kherson region
Ukrainian troops made another attempt to storm Russian positions in the village of Davydov Brod from Belogorka. A total of 14 armored vehicles took part in the attack.
On video the convoy of equipment approaches Davydov Ford, the lead vehicle is blown up by a mine, and then the Russian infantry of group V from RSHG and RPG begins to work along the convoy.
During the battle, Russian fighters from the Far East managed to destroy four tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle and one Kozak armored car.
The Russian command decided to build on the success and launch an artillery strike on the retreating units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Under heavy fire, the Ukrainian formations were forced to retreat back to Belogorka in the area of the crossing over the Ingulets River.
09:21 Ukraine has fallen to fourth place in terms of area among countries in the post-Soviet space and third in Europe.
In the post-Soviet space, Ukraine is now located after Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in terms of area.
And in Europe, it lost first place and let France and Spain go ahead.
Now the area of Ukraine is 479,700 km²
A number that may well continue changing ...
08:34 Residential areas of Nova Kakhovka continue to be under shelling by APU.
Information about the victims is being specified.
07:30 Ukrainian troops in the southern direction are suffering heavy losses, there is not enough ammunition, reinforcements are not coming, the fighters blame the authorities for the situation, RIA Novosti, who was at the disposal, testifies record radio interception of conversations between military personnel of the 5th mechanized company of the 53rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which participated in an attempted offensive in the Kherson direction in September.
Negotiations were intercepted near the village of Pravdino, Kherson region, near the border with Nikolayevskaya. "RIA News"
07:20 At least four rocket strikes were carried out in Odessa.
The operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that strikes were carried out on industrial infrastructure facilities, and an electrical substation was damaged.
07:15 Four Geraniums arrived in Nikolaev at night
Ukrainian air defense did not shoot down any of the four drones, they all reached their targets.
04:27 Rocket strikes: two powerful explosions thundered in Odessa, the city smells of burning, and a conflagration is visible outside the city.
01:45 Zelensky signed an application for the country's accession to NATO in an expedited manner. However, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg made it clear that there are no plans to admit Ukraine to NATO under special conditions.
0:39 It is reported about attacks on enemy targets in Nikolaev, at the site of impacts a powerful fire.
0:16 The death toll as a result of the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the convoy of refugees in Zaporozhye has increased to 30 - the representative of the administration Vladimir Rogov.
Among the dead were two children - an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. He also said that the number of wounded had increased to 88 people.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:16 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 1, receivedadditional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
Wounded:
- man born in 1975;
- woman born in 1958
Thus, as of 22:00, the total number of civilian casualties from the AFU attacks on October 1, 2022 is 12 people four4 killed, eight injured). The information continues to flow.
Received additional information on damage as a result of shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- st. Tretyakova, 1 "a" - an apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive. 21:48 A civilian died as a result of the shelling of Gorlovka by Ukrainian troops,reported mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko.
"As a result of the Ukrainian armed aggression, a civilian resident of the village of Bakhmutka, Nikitovsky district, of the city of Gorlovka, died. The woman received injuries incompatible with life and died in the hospital," Prikhodko wrote in his Telegram channel.
20:29 A column of civilians shot in the Kupyansky district was heading to Svatovo, in the LPR. People who did not want to stay in Ukrainian Kupyansk were evacuated, they preferred to leave their native places occupied by Ukrainian troops.
And they were shot by Ukrainian troops. This became known not now, when Ukrainian propaganda arranged the usual hypocritical, ostentatious suffering everywhere. It was known about it the day before yesterday.
And they shot the column not by chance, but purposefully. That rare case when there is no doubt about this, and there is no need to assume anything and make reservations. They were shot precisely because people were going to "enemy" territories. They showed unequivocally: they will kill for it.
Everything is very simple: the Ukrainian counter-offensive is the return of territories, not the liberation of people. They do not hide this: in every settlement of the Kharkiv region, from which the Russians left, the SBU officers and “Krakenovites” who came with the Ukrainian troops directly told those surviving local residents who did not meet Ukraine with flags and pancakes: you, separatists, cannot live here will, get ready.
People naively thought that if so, they would be released, but no: any deviation from the general line of the ruling Ukrainian nationalism is punishable by death.
19:14 The militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their chaoticshellingDonetsk.
On Saturday, October 1, as a result of artillery strikes by Ukrainian militants on the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, three civilians were killed and two more were injured.
19:06 NATO howitzers continue shelling Russian Donetsk. rounds of 155mm caliber of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in the Kirovsky district, in one of the yards where local residents collect water. Read more inreportsmilitary commissar Dmitry Astrakhan.
18:23 Russian troops left Liman. What's next.
In connection with the creation of a threat of encirclement of the RF Armed Forces and the forces of the DPR, they were withdrawn from the city of Liman (until 2016 Krasny Liman).
The settlement of Kremennaya, 35 km from Liman, became the new line of defense, where the Russian forces advanced, bypassing the settlement. Zarechnoe and Torskoe. The withdrawal of the main forces was covered by the people's militia of the DPR, the volunteer battalions Bars-16 (Kuban) and Bars-13 (Russian Legion), as well as artillery battalions of the Russian army.
The occupation of Liman, as well as Drobyshevo and Yampol, creates risks for Lisichansk and Severodonetsk (60 km east of Liman) and for Svatovo (80 km northeast of Liman). Nevertheless, after the withdrawal from the Liman region, it is easier for our military to accept the reserves of the 20th Army of the RF Armed Forces: the front line will be leveled.
Our forces did not leave the city until the very last moment and left only when the encirclement of the group became inevitable.
The occupation of Liman was hard for the Ukrainian army. The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including those killed and seriously wounded, on this sector of the front for the entire time of the assault on the city, according to the Military Chronicle, reach 1,000 people.
17:55 Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a woman died with a direct hit on the house.
17:23 As a result of the shelling of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka on the street. Uborevich, a man born in 1963 was wounded. and a woman born in 1965
17:17 VFU continues shelling the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka.
Ukrainian militants from positions in Orlovka continue shelling residential areas of Makiivka. In the direction of the civilian population, NATO artillery with a caliber of 155mm is working.
16:40 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, on October 1, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- a man born in 1989 was wounded.
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardei district):
Wounded:
- man born in 1963
- woman born in 1965
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- a man born in 1978 was wounded.
Additional information has been received about the damage caused by the shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- st. Dagestanskaya, 5 - Kindergarten No. 279;
- st. Dagestanskaya, 53 - Kindergarten No. 220;
- st. Tretyakova, 3 - a private residential building, a garage was destroyed, a gas pipeline was damaged.
n.p. Staromikhaylovka:
- st. Kalinina, 5 "a" - Kindergarten No. 48;
- st. Chapaeva, 78 - Staromikhaylovskaya secondary school;
- st. Severnaya, 77 - a private residential building;
- st. October, 75 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Oktyabrskaya, 77 "b" - a private residential building.
n.p. Makeevka:
Chervonogvardei district:
- he is. Magistralnaya, 2 "a" — OAO "Omega";
- st. Uborevicha, 7, 9 - gas pipelines are damaged.
Gornyatsky district:
- st. Oktyabrskaya, 5 - the gas pipeline was damaged.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
16:02 Fixing the consequences of shelling of Kirovsky district of Donetsk 01.10.2022
Military experts of the DPR JCCC confirmed the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, using artillery of 155mm caliber, and also specified the direction of firing. Thus, the VFU fired from the direction of their positions located in the area of ??the settlement. Kurakhovo.
As a result of the shelling, a man born in 1948 died, two women born in 1955 received injuries of varying severity
Damage was recorded at three addresses:
- st. Pintera, 48, 58 - apartment building;
- st. Pintera, 60 - an apartment building, the gas pipeline was damaged.
15:43 Yesterday afternoon, a corps of the LNR military was taken out of Liman to a safe location. Two days ago, BARS-16 changed their location, leaving Liman. Allied troops also changed their position. The fighting for Liman continued all night.
This afternoon, reinforcements were sent from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The battles for the Liman turned into battles under n. p. Torskoe. The road from Liman to Lisichansk and Svatov is blocked. Fighting continues in the Torskoy area.
There is also a shooting battle going on in Liman itself. The preparation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the offensive went on for several days, at night separate groups entered and occupied abandoned houses.
Information about whether any units of the allied forces were surrounded is being specified. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have quite large losses both in equipment and in manpower, since assault tactics are used on their part.
In the Svatovsky direction, the settlements of Novoselovskoye and Kuzemovka are under the control of the LPR.
15:25 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: -13.30 a.m. Lower Duvanka with HIMARS MLRS (four missiles).
Information about the victims and damage is being specified. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
15:23 Barsy and the 208th commandant of the DPR retreated to the outskirts of Liman to the area of ??positions of Penkovsky Yar. The already reinforced reserve 58A is concentrated there.
15:13 The situation in the Liman direction as of 15:00 October 1, 2022.
By the middle of the day, it became obvious: a decision had been made to withdraw troops and leave Liman.
After the appearance of a video from the eastern outskirts of Zarechny with a blown up bridge (49.021573, 37.952583), which was occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it became clear that the entire “road of life” was already under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian artillery continues to work on suitable units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but if earlier attention was focused on the Liman, now the goal of the Ukrainian formations is to block Kremennaya and take control of the reservoirs on the Zherebets River.
Most likely, the active phase of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Kupyansk and Redkodub to Svatovo, through which the supply routes of the RF Armed Forces pass, will soon resume.
15:12 Ukrainian militants fired at the residential quarters of Staromikhaylovka in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. On st. Oktyabrskaya, a man born in 1978 was wounded.
14:04 In order to avoid encirclement, our troops retreated in an organized manner from Krasny Liman to pre-prepared reserve positions, reinforced by the approaching reinforcements
Thanks to yesterday's counterattack, the wounded were evacuated from the city yesterday.
14:00 APU enter and secure in Krasny Liman.
Dramatic news from the city. Neo-Nazis are already moving along the central streets of Krasny Liman. They check the documents and start to nightmare the locals. Information is confirmed from several sources. If there is a chance to defend and recapture the city, then they are incredibly small. Wargonzo reports.
13:57 The situation in the Liman direction as of 14.00 October 1, 2022
The Armed Forces of Ukraine concentrated their main efforts on three sections of the roads: Liman - Zarechnoye, Torskoye - Kremennaya, Torskoye - Svatovo. Properly distributing forces, the Ukrainian formations focused on crossing the lines of communication of the Russian troops.
At the same time, the pushing through of Russian defensive orders continued in Liman itself, Stavki, the northern environs of Yampol and along the “road of life”.
By noon on October 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to physically cut off the Torskoye-Svatovo road and pin down the forces of the RF Armed Forces in a battle in the Ternov area.
The Ukrainian flag was raised at the western entrance (49.012093, 37.772098) to Liman: at least 20 percent of the city was controlled by the enemy by that time. This is evidenced by the absence of sounds of small arms combat and artillery strikes at the western entrance to the city.
The fighting shifted to the center and eastern part of Liman, the southern outskirts of Stavki, and the northern outskirts of Yampol. Communication between Torsky and the Liman garrison is blocked by fire.
The RF Armed Forces strike at Zarechny (Kirovsk), which includes Ukrainian formations. It is through Zarechnoye that the Liman-Torskoye road passes.
The Torskoye-Kremennaya road is under constant fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian maneuver groups are trying to tie up Russian units in battle.
Despite the measures taken by the Russian command, it turned out, at best, to slow down the advance of the Ukrainian troops. It is not possible to turn the tide of the battles for Liman at this stage.
13:50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a residential building on the street. Air in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, a woman born in 1934 died.
12:51 The road to Svatovo from Krasny Liman is actually blocked at this moment. Fighting in Terny, our artillery is working out in that area. The road to Kremennaya still remains, but DRGs are approaching it. Also, the enemy is trying to impose battles in the Torsky area, there is a risk of physical blocking of the road.
Artillery of the 2nd corps is hitting the columns that go from Seversk towards Torskoye, and equipment has also been seen that from under Belogorovka can go to Kremennaya to cut off both Liman and Torskoye.
12:45 APU shelled the village. A miner in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. School No. 67 was damaged on Ugolnaya Street.
12:41 As a result of the shelling of the village. Miner on the street. School No. 67 received coal damage.
12:40 During the shelling of residential areas of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk on the street. Pinter, two women born in 1955 were injured.
12:31 Last minutes of life - due to shelling in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, an elderly man died, he lost a lot of blood and died on the way to the hospital
The Armed Forces of Ukraine again fired at a residential area of ??Donetsk - a shell fell next to a house in the Kirovsky district of the city. A local resident of retirement age died, a fragment hit him in the abdominal cavity. Taking him away from the scene when he was still alive, the doctors said that it was too early to talk about his chances of recovery - the man had lost a lot of blood. As became knownReadovkaThe man died on the way to the hospital.
Readovka military officer Karina Basok filmed the last minutes of the deceased's life when he was taken away in an ambulance. Now city services are working on the spot - they are eliminating the consequences. Windows were shattered near a residential building, a gas pipeline was broken, and there was a pool of blood on the pavement.
"All the glass flew out! The gas is blowing with might and main!" said a resident of the house, noting a strong smell due to a broken pipe.
12:25 In the coming days, while maintaining the combat dynamics, it will be possible to talk about a turning point in the situation around Krasny Liman with the transition of the Russian army and Allied forces to the counteroffensive.
Which promptly threatens the bloodless group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with several boilers in the area of ????Seversk and Redkodub, with the further development of the counteroffensive towards Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Izyum.
Once again - while maintaining the combat dynamics. The troops have high hopes for General Surovikin and his tactical talent.
12:17 Over the past half hour, four more artillery attacksof the DPR.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovsky, Petrovsky district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky district); fired five rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Zaitsevo; fired eight rounds with a caliber of 122mm;
— n.p. Orlovka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
12:09 Ukrainian militants organized 10 artillery attacks and fired about 40 rounds of ammunition across the already Russian city of Donetsk. Mostly rounds 155mm and 152mm. There are casualties and destruction.
12:00 Kirovsky district of Donetsk under fire from Ukrainian militants
VFU from positions in Krasnohorivka use artillery of 152mm caliber in residential areas of Donetsk. From positions in Netaylovo, the enemy is firing at civilians from NATO artillery with a caliber of 155mm.
11:24 Sappers of the 11th Regiment of the DPR Army liquidate anti-tank mines DM1399.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, using MARS 2 multiple launch rocket systems, carried out remote mining of a private sector in the north of Donetsk with German DM1399 anti-tank mines with a magnetic fuse. These mines are dangerous for civilians, as they can work even with a small amount of metal.
11:15 As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian fighters of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk the civilian was lost.
11:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for October 1, information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- st. Lvovskaya, 19 - a private residential building;
- st. Shuiskaya, 4 - multi-apartment residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
10:40 AFU shelled the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka.
Ukrainian militants from positions in Orlovka are shelling residential areas of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. 155mm artillery is used against the population.
10:33 a.m. statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on the situation as of 10.30 01.10.2022
The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.
Over the past day, according to the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired 118 units of ammunition from the Grad MLRS, tanks, cannon artillery with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as tanks and mortars with a caliber of 120mm.
The fire was fired at the areas of seven settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed and four were injured. Five houses were damaged.
Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: one tank, two positions of mortar crews, two armored combat vehicles and two unmanned aerial vehicles. The loss of enemy personnel amounted to 40 personnel.
Currently, a set of works is underway to clear anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok" (PFM-1C).
10:12 Red Liman. Only facts.
Red Estuary under the control of the allied forces. The commandant units of the LPR and the Bars detachments continue to serve inside the city.
The reserve units of the Southern Military District at night from the march attacked the areas of Drobyshev and Seversk in order to unblock the emerging encirclement of Krasny Liman.
The road Krasny Lyman - Torskoye - Kremennaya is under the full control of the Allied Forces. The forest areas between Belogorovka, Kremennaya and Yampol are now a gray zone. There are constant clashes.
AFU carry out a regrouping of forces after the received blow. Allied troops are pulling up additional reserves of the Southern Military District, Rodion Miroshnik reports.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 01.10.2022
Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
- up to 70 personnel;
- four tanks;
- one armored personnel carrier;
- four unmanned aerial vehicles;
- three units of special automotive equipment.
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements.
Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Severodonetsk using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing three missiles.
As a result of the shelling, the building, which previously housed the office of the UN mission, was destroyed.
Peaceful life is being restored in the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian nationalists: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining.
During September 30, they cleared more than five hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Bobrovo and Muratovo.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, are delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of these areas.
With the support of the NM of the LPR, representatives of the All-Great Don Army delivered humanitarian aid for refugees and needy residents of the city of Starobelsk.
09:21 Petrovsky district of Donetsk.Effects of shelling of the Tihiy microdistrict.
09:00 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 06:00 September 30 to 06:00 October 1
Over the past day, the Representation reported 28 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used 155 and 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky - 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky - MLRS "Grad", artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, tanks.
Having fired 118 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of seven settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kirov, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts), Zaitsevo, Novoselovka, Gorlovka, Mikhailovka, Yasinovataya, Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Four civilians received injuries of varying severity in the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Yakovlevka.
Five housing constructions were damaged in the Kirovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, as well as the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
In the previous day, 44 artillery strikes were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:52 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, on October 1, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Petrovsky district):
- a man born in 1956 died.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
08:00 During the day, two people were killed on the territory of the DPR, 4 more were injured
Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on September 30 to 08:00 on October 1, as a result of shelling of the AFU on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, two people were killed and four more civilians were injured.
07:59 VFU killed a civilian in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of the city. On st. Lvovskaya, a man born in 1966 died.
07:00 Summary of the LPR Representation in the JCCC for the past 24 hours, September 30. From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling was recorded on the settlement. Severodonetsk using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (three missiles of the M31 GMLRS type). As a result of the shelling, the building, which previously housed the office of the UN mission, was destroyed. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
02:50 A column of the latest K-4386 4x4 Typhoon-VDV armored vehicles spotted in Donbas
Personnelthe arrival of reinforcements is published by local residents.
K-4386 is distinguished by a load-bearing armored hull, which allows you to parachute the armored car.
The armament consists of a remote-controlled combat module with a 30mm 2A42 automatic cannon and a 7.62mm 6P7K tank machine gun.
The fire control system and optical instruments make it possible to detect and engage various types of targets at any time of the day and in any weather conditions.
The Russian armored car is equipped with energy-absorbing seats for the crew and troops.
The hull protects the crew and troops inside the vehicle from explosive devices, shell fragments and small arms.
The development and mass production of Russian armored vehicles K-4386 4x4 Typhoon-VDV is carried out by the Remdizel enterprise.
0:02 Siege of Liman:
Chronicle of battles to the end of September 30, 2022
By the end of September 30, the Armed Forces of Ukraine failed to complete the operation on the physical encirclement of Liman.
After the withdrawal from Drobyshevo and Yampol, the defense of the RF Armed Forces is lined up along the outskirts of the Liman and the buffer zone around the Liman-Zarechnoye-Torskoye road. Despite the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to physically block the corridor, the Russian troops repelled the blows.
The number of the advancing grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine totals at least six thousand people: armored groups are trying to advance from Drobyshevo, Stavko, Dibrovo and Yampol to Liman itself.
At the same time, from the direction of Kolodezey, a breakthrough was made to Terny along the dam through the reservoir: the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to enter the settlement for a while, but then they were thrown back.
In this sector of the front, the defense goes along the eastern shore of the reservoir, but given the bridgehead created by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ozernoye and the tactics of using small mobile groups, there is still a danger of the Armed Forces of Ukraine going to the rear.
After the arrival of reinforcements, the RF Armed Forces launched a counteroffensive towards Headquarters, trying to expand the zone of control north of the Liman. By the end of September 30, Russian troops recaptured the settlement.
Despite the fact that at the moment a certain status quo has developed in the Liman direction, the outcome of the battle for Liman is not yet clear. Not so many reinforcements have been deployed from the RF Armed Forces, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine retain a multiple superiority in manpower and equipment.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
In principle, we were preparing for this. The RF Armed Forces abandoned the town of 20,000 people. Rosvoenkors that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already in the center of the city. There was a video from their Banderofascists from the entrance to the city. Moreover, cannonade, shooting and other signs of battle are not heard on the video. The city itself appears to have been abandoned at night.
The reserves of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which approached the city, it should be assumed that they were intended to delay the advance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and give time for the garrisons to quietly exit the city. Now the personnel units of the RF Armed Forces are strengthening the Kremennaya-Torskoye road. The advancing enemy grouping has very serious losses from Russian aviation and artillery.
The defense of the Red Liman was not in vain. The garrison won a lot of time to stabilize the front. As Alexander Khodakovsky writes, after the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Balakleya, there was a pace that they disrupted:
"They (the Armed Forces of Ukraine) needed a pace, they had to seize the moment after the Kharkov offensive, and put pressure on us in all directions. They were on the courage, they had a resource, quite realistic plans, initiative, in the end .... They were going to to move in the Mariupol direction, for which forces and means were transferred near Vgledar, but they ran into resistance in Krasny Liman and got stuck ... If it were not for the Krasny Liman factor, besides the Kharkov fiasco, many more problems awaited us. ". (c) Khodakovsky
Now about the results and conclusions
I must say right away that I take out for separate large brackets the purge, repression and terror against the local population, which, undoubtedly, Bandera-fascists, due to their deep-rooted habit, will arrange. This is a separate big topic. I'll review the situation for now.
From a military point of view, not the loss of a small town is important. Significantly different. The qualifications of the generals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Western direction bear a very depressing impression. As early as early August, Ukrainian and Russian resources began to report about the impending strike in the Kharkov direction.
"Guardians" in the media declared with pathos: "Do not meddle with the generals, they know and see everything." In fact, the commanders in this direction turned out to be blind and deaf. For them, the impact of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned out to be absolutely "unexpected". The direction turned out to be practically uncovered by troops, reserves, even the most elementary measures were not carried out, such as mining dangerous directions, which is mandatory even in calm sectors of the front. How to call it? This is not even negligence and not unprofessional ...
And just two weeks later, the same "rake" - it turns out to be an "unexpected" strike on the Krasny Liman, although all the resources reported that on Russian and Ukrainian, the strike was expected exactly here. This was known. But for some reason not to the generals who command here.
Now the MAIN task is to draw the RIGHT conclusions. And the GDP, apparently, has a lot of work to do to clean up the generals from uninitiated, sleepy, untrained, parquet figures and to promote real combat officers with positive combat experience to command units and directions. There is time. The main thing is not to miss this time mediocre.
[RIA Novosti] Due to the threat of encirclement, the Allied forces left Krasny Liman and retreated to more advantageous lines, the Defense Ministry said .
The department noted that over the past day, strikes on the positions of the 66th and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed more than 200 military personnel, five tanks and nine infantry fighting vehicles.
"Despite the losses incurred, having a significant superiority in forces and means, the enemy brought in reserves and continued the offensive in this direction," the Defense Ministry added.
Krasny Liman is a major railway junction that is part of the Kramatorsk agglomeration. Russian troops, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, took control of it at the end of May. In recent weeks, fierce battles have been going on in the city area, the DPR authorities called this direction the most difficult section of the front.
"Just don't give us back to Ukraine": what's going on in Krasny Liman
Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine . Vladimir Putin called its task "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years." According to the president, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself.
From 23 to 27 September in the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, in Kherson and in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region, referendums were held on joining Russia. The vast majority of those who voted were in favour. On September 30, Putin and the heads of regions signed agreements on the admission of new territories into Russia.
[INews] Ukrainian troops entered Lyman in the eastern Donetsk region on Saturday — a day after Vladamir Putin declared it part of Russia — and said it had encircled thousands of Russian soldiers inside the city.
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[Dawn] The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is no longer leaking under the Baltic Sea because an equilibrium has been reached between the gas and water pressure, a front man said.
"The water pressure has more or less closed the pipeline so that the gas which is inside can’t go out," Nord Stream 2 front man Ulrich Lissek said. "The conclusion is that there is still gas in the pipeline," he added.
Asked how much gas was believed to be in the pipeline, Lissek said: "That is the one-million-dollar question." Information on the status of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline leak, which was significantly larger, was not immediately available.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany, have been at the centre of geopolitical tensions as Russia cut gas supplies to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in suspected retaliation against Western sanctions following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
While the pipelines are not currently in operation, they both still contained gas before they fell victim to apparent sabotage, producing four leaks.
GAS NEARLY EXHAUSTED
A Danish-Swedish report released on Friday concluded the leaks were caused by underwater explosions corresponding to hundreds of kilogrammes of explosives.
"All available information indicates that those explosions are the result of a deliberate act," the countries said.
The source of the earth-shattering kabooms has remained a mystery, however, with both Moscow and Washington denying responsibility.
All the leaks, which were discovered on Monday, are in the Baltic Sea off the Danish island of Bornholm. Two of the leaks are located in the Swedish exclusive economic zone, and the two others in the Danish one.
Lissek said Nord Stream 2 had informed the Danish energy regulator earlier on Saturday that the pipeline had stopped leaking gas.
Danish authorities had said the leaks would continue until the gas in the pipelines is exhausted, which is expected to occur on Sunday.
The Swedish coastguard said that the leaks on Nord Stream 2 showed signs of weakening due to the exhaustion of the gas contained in the pipes.
The diameter of the sea surface "boiling" caused by the leak in the Swedish exclusive economic zone was now only 20 metres (66 feet) wide, 10 times smaller than at the start.
The leak on Nord Stream 1 had also started to weaken on Friday, with surface diameter down to 600 metres in diameter, down from between 900 and 1,000 metres on Monday.
INTERNATIONAL PROBE
Germany will form a joint investigation unit with Denmark and Sweden to probe the apparent "sabotage" against the underwater Nord Stream pipelines from Russia, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Saturday.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had said that Berlin would "support the joint investigation" of the incident with Denmark and Sweden, in a video call with counterparts from both countries.
Faeser told the weekly Bild am Sonntag newspaper that she had agreed with her fellow interior ministers that the work would be conducted by a "joint investigation team under EU law" with staff from the three countries. "All indications point to an act of sabotage against the North Stream pipelines," she was quoted as saying.
She added the team would bring in expertise from "the navy, police and intelligence services".
Authorities are practicising "increased vigilance" to protect Germany’s energy infrastructure but said there were "no concrete threat indications for German sites — as of now".
Faeser had told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung Friday that German police were patrolling the North and Baltic Seas with "all available forces" following the earth-shattering kabooms, in cooperation with neighbouring countries.
The Nord Stream pipelines, where flows have been halted since the end of August, were key arteries for the delivery of natural gas directly from Russia to Germany.
The source of the earth-shattering kabooms has remained a mystery, however, with both Moscow and Washington denying responsibility.
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