Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 2. April 2022

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Im andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine scheinen die ukrainischen Streitkräfte zunehmend Geländegewinne rund um die Hauptstadt Kiew zu machen und zunehmend Orte zurück zu erobern. Neben dem Osten des Landes rückt für die Regierung in Kiew aber ein weiteres Problem in den Blick: Das von Russland unterstützte Transnistrien,  ein (abtrünniger) Teil der Republik Moldau. Der Sammler am 2. April 2022:

• Bei den Waffenlieferungen des Westens an die Ukraine scheint, wie es sich schon in den vergangenen Tagen abzeichnete, die Bereitschaft zur Lieferung auch von schweren Waffen zu steigen. Die USA würden die Übergabe von Panzern sowjetischer Bauart unterstützen, die in osteuropäischen NATO-Ländern vorhanden seien, berichtet die New York Times:

The Biden administration will work with allies to transfer Soviet-made tanks to bolster Ukrainian defenses in the country’s eastern Donbas region, a U.S. official said on Friday. …
The official said the transfers would begin soon, but declined to say how many tanks would be sent, or from which countries they would come. They will allow Ukraine to conduct long-range artillery strikes on Russian targets in Donbas, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

Das ist noch ein bisschen vage alles, vor allem der hier hergestellte Zusammenhang zwischen (Kampf)Panzern und weitreichenden Artillerieschlägen ist nicht wirklich verständlich. Evtl. gibt’s dazu ein Transkript, wird dann nachgetragen.

Ergänzung: Das Pentagon kündigte zudem weitere Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine an:

Through Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), DoD will provide up to $300 million in security assistance to bolster Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself. This decision underscores the United States‘ unwavering commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in support of its heroic efforts to repel Russia’s war of choice.
Capabilities in this package include:
• Laser-guided rocket systems;
• Switchblade Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Puma Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• Armored High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles;
• Small-to-large caliber nonstandard ammunition;
• Night vision devices, thermal imagery systems, and optics;
• Tactical secure communications systems;
• Non-standard machine guns;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Medical supplies, field equipment, and spare parts.
The United States has now committed more than $2.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration, including more than $1.6 billion in security assistance since Russia’s unprovoked, premeditated invasion.

• Das britische Intel Update:

Ukrainian forces continue to advance against withdrawing Russian forces in the vicinity of Kyiv. Along the north western axis, Ukrainian forces’ attempts to advance from Irpin towards Bucha and Hostomel are ongoing.
Russian forces are reported to have withdrawn from Hostomel airport, which has been subject to fighting since the first day of the conflict. Along the eastern axis, Ukraine has re-taken several villages.
In the east of Ukraine, Ukrainian forces have secured a key route in eastern Kharkhiv after heavy fighting. This follows the liberation of Trostyanets, in the vicinity of Sumy, earlier this week.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The thirty-eights day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military invasion begins.
The armed forces of a russian federation continue their armed aggression against Ukraine. They are withdrawing troops in certain areas, probably in order to strengthen the grouping of the occupying forces for further offensive operations in the Slobozhansky, Donetsk and Luhansk areas.
The enemy intensified work with the so-called „volunteers“.
On April 1 this year, the Ministry of Defense of a russian federation decided to hold a military meeting with reservists from April 4 to May 23, 2022.
At the same time, work has been intensified to involve units of russian troops based in the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova to carry out provocations and demonstrations on the border with Ukraine.
The redeployment of russian troops and units of the so-called Transnistrian-Moldavian Republic in order to prepare for a demonstration of readiness for the offensive and, possibly, hostilities against Ukraine was noted.
In the temporarily occupied territories, a russian enemy continues to commit illegal acts and, in violation of international humanitarian law, abducts locals, shells in residential areas, mines in civilian infrastructure, looting and looting.
The enemy continues to suffer significant losses in Luhansk region. Thus, in the city of Alchevsk, the local hospital from the area of hostilities near the village of Popasna received about 30 wounded occupiers-kadyrovs.
According to available information, the dead russian occupiers are left on the battlefield. At the same time, last week, the irreparable loss of personnel in the units of the so-called 2nd Army Corps amounted to about 800 people.
A group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed 9 enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions during the day. Our soldiers destroyed 8 tanks, 44 armoured fighting vehicles, 16 units of vehicles and 10 artillery systems.

• Verspätet nachgetragen: Das Morgenbriefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Units of the armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic have captured most of Novobakhmutovka and are fighting retreating units of the Ukrainian 25th Separate Airborne Brigade. During the night, up to 40 Nationalists, a tank platoon and 2 motorised infantry platoons, as well as a mortar battery, were destroyed in this area.
This morning, high-precision long-range air-based and sea-based weapons destroyed gasoline and diesel fuel storages at the Kremenchuk oil refinery, from which Ukrainian troops in central and eastern parts of the country had been supplied.
High-precision air-based missiles have disabled military airfields in Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk.
Russian air defence means have shot down two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters near Sumy and Urozhainoe. 24 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have also been destroyed in the air.
During the night, operational-tactical and missile troops hit 67 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 2 depots of missile and artillery weapons and ammunition, 9 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 54 areas of concentration of Ukrainian weapons and military equipment.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 84 helicopters, 381 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,882 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 203 multiple launch rocket systems, 786 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,764 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums (die englische Fassung liegt noch nicht vor; deshalb die Übersetzung aus dem Russischen). Auffällig dabei: Der Einsatz von Iskander-Mittelstreckenraketen gegen, wie es heißt, eine ukrainische Kommandozentrale in Charkiv, bei dem es bereits am Donnerstag 100 Tote gegeben haben soll:

Briefing durch das russische Verteidigungsministerium
Einheiten der Volksrepublik Luhansk entwickeln eine Offensive gegen Stellungen der ukrainischen 57. motorisierten Infanteriebrigade und blockieren das Dorf Borowskoje von Osten und Süden. Bis zu 30 ukrainische Nationalisten und fünf gepanzerte Fahrzeuge wurden zerstört.
Am 2. April zerstörten hochpräzise Flugkörper in der Nähe der Bahnhöfe Lozova und Pavlograd gepanzerte Fahrzeuge, Munition und Treibstofftanks, die zur Verstärkung der ukrainischen Truppen im Donbass geschickt wurden. Der Militärflugplatz Mirgorod in der Region Poltawa wurde ebenfalls außer Gefecht gesetzt, und mehrere ukrainische Kampfhubschrauber und Flugzeuge, die sich auf den getarnten Parkplätzen befanden, wurden zerstört, ebenso wie Lagertanks mit Treibstoff und Bordwaffen.
Bei einem Präzisionsschlag des taktischen Einsatzkomplexes Iskander gegen das Verteidigungshauptquartier in der Stadt Charkiw am Donnerstag, dem 31. März, wurden nachweislich mehr als 100 Nationalisten und Söldner aus westlichen Ländern vernichtet. Im Laufe des Tages trafen die operativen und taktischen Flugzeuge der russischen Luftwaffe 28 militärische Einrichtungen in der Ukraine.
Darunter: zwei Depots mit Raketen- und Artilleriewaffen und Munition sowie 23 Gebiete, in denen die ukrainischen Streitkräfte über Munition verfügen. Seit Beginn der militärischen Sonderoperation wurden insgesamt 125 Flugzeuge und 88 Hubschrauber, 381 unbemannte Luftfahrzeuge, 1.888 Panzer und andere gepanzerte Kampffahrzeuge, 205 Mehrfachraketenwerfer, 793 Stück Feldartillerie und Mörser sowie 1.771 Stück militärische Spezialfahrzeuge zerstört.
(Übersetzt mit deepl.com)

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

In the Siversky direction, units of the occupying russian forces are moving from the state border of Ukraine into the territory of the republic of belarus. Much of the military equipment is damaged and towed.
Panic is spreading among the servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation due to the radiation exposure of the personnel of the units based in the Chornobyl zone. The population of the belarusian urban-type settlement of Bragin is advised to avoid contact with the russian occupiers who withdrew from the contaminated area.
The so-called „evacuation“ of civilian vehicles stolen by the russians in Hostomel, Irpin, Bucha and Ivankiv continues. In addition, looters of the russian occupation forces are trying to send the looted property from the territory of belarus to the SDEK express delivery service before being transferred to other directions.
In Slobozhanshchyna, the russian occupiers blocked the exit from the town of Buryn, and a large concentration of military equipment was recorded in the settlement. The blockade of Putivl continues, the city is surrounded by enemy checkpoints. In the village of Yuryeve, Sumy region, the russian occupiers are conducting raids to conduct a census and search for weapons.
Attempts by the russian enemy to seize Mariupol, block Rubizhne, Siverodonetsk, Popasna, Troitske, Avdiivka, Marinka and Krasnohorivka continue in the Donetsk direction. The occupiers have no success, they suffer losses.
The situation in the South Buh area has not changed significantly. There are rumors among the local population of unrecognized Transnistria about forcing the personnel of the so-called „Transnistrian region“ to take part in the war against Ukraine.
In the Prymorsky direction, the occupying forces continue filtering measures in the temporarily occupied settlements.