Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 29. April 2022 (Updates)

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Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine tobt inzwischen sehr gezielt im Osten des Landes: Die russische Angriffswelle stützt sich vor allem auf Artillerieangriffe gegen ukrainische Stellungen.  Der Sammler am 29. April 2022:

• Das britische Intel Update:

The Battle of Donbas remains Russia’s main strategic focus, in order to achieve its stated aim of securing control over the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
In these oblasts fighting has been particularly heavy around Lysychansk and Severodonetsk, with an attempted advance south from Izium towards Slovyansk.
Due to strong Ukrainian resistance, Russian territorial gains have been limited and achieved at significant cost to Russian forces.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The sixty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, russian enemy did not take active action, no signs of the formation of offensive groups were found. Certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to perform tasks to strengthen the protection of the state border with Ukraine.
No changes in the activities and composition of russian enemy group were detected in the Seversky direction.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy continues to focus its efforts on maintaining its positions near the city of Kharkiv and is trying to carry out fire damage to units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in certain areas.
russian enemy did not conduct active offensive operations in the Izyum direction. its main efforts were focused on conducting reconnaissance, identifying the defensive positions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and their destruction by artillery fire.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, in order to prevent the regrouping of Ukrainian troops, russian enemy fires at positions from artillery, mortars and rocket-propelled grenade launchers along the entire line of contact.
russian occupiers continue to blockade Ukrainian units in Mariupol, near the Azovstal plant.
In the temporarily occupied territories, russian occupation authorities continue to take measures to restrict the movement and detention of local residents and block humanitarian goods from the territory of Ukraine. In addition, russian occupiers are robbing peasants. For example, more than 60 tons of wheat were stolen from an agricultural society in the town of Kamianka-Dniprovska together with a truck.
Fifteen air targets were hit by Ukrainian defenders the day before: one plane, five cruise missiles and nine operational-tactical drones.
Ukrainian defenders are actively manoeuvring defence, in some places counterattacks. In the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts alone, nine enemy attacks have been repulsed in the past 24 hours, six tanks, one artillery system, twelve armoured vehicles, one car and one anti-aircraft gun have been destroyed.

• Ein Vorfall am (gestrigen) Donnerstag wird in der internationalen Debatte eine Rolle spielen: Erstmals seit längerer Zeit haben russische Streitkräfte wieder mit Marschflugkörpern Ziele in der ukrainischen Hauptstadt Kiew angegriffen; offensichtlich galt dieser Angriff einer Firma/Werkstatt der Rüstungsindustrie. Was den Angriff heraushebt: er ereignete sich am Rande des Besuchs von UN-Generalsekretär António Guterres. Bislang hatte Russland nicht während der Besuche ausländischer Spitzenpolitiker Luftschläge auf Kiew ausgeführt.

• In seinem Morgenbriefing bestätigt das russische Verteidigungsministerium den Angriff auf Kiew, erwähnt den Besuch des UN-Generalsekretärs dabei jedoch nicht:

High-precision, long-range air-based weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed the production buildings of the Artyom missile and space enterprise in Kiev.
High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles have destroyed 3 traction power substations near Fastov, Krasnosyolka and Polonnoe railway hubs.
High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have have hit 10 Ukrainian military assets.
Among them: 9 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 1 ammunition depot near Illichovka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 112 military assets of Ukraine. These include 2 command posts, 11 strong points, 95 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 4 missile and artillery weapons depots in Pokrovskoe and Gorokhovskoe.
Missile troops have hit 13 strikes during the night.
1 Ukrainian Tochka-U missile launcher, from which a strike was launched yesterday against residential areas in Kherson city, has been identified and destroyed near Gorokhovskoe, Nikolaev Region.
In addition, 6 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration and 3 artillery batteries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and 1 division of the AFU multiple rocket launchers were destroyed.
Artillery units have carried out 975 firing missions during the night. The neutralised targets are 21 command posts, 69 strong points, 763 areas of manpower and military equipment, and 107 artillery positions.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 280 nationalists and up to 38 armoured and motor vehicles.
Russian air defence means have shot down 13 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Redkodub, Shiykovka, Nevskoe, Malaya Kamyshevakha, Stepnoy Yar, Petrovskoe, Zelenoe Pole, Bukovo, Panteleimonovka, Makeevka, Chernobaevka, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 at the Russian-Ukrainian border near Novovodyannoe.
Also, Ukrainian Smerch multiple-launch rocket system missile was shot down near Kamenka.
In total, 142 aircraft and 111 helicopters, 634 unmanned aerial vehicles, 278 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,638 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 304 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,175 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,467 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

• Das tägliche Hintergrundbriefing im Pentagon, von Jeff Seldin von der Voice of America – darin zwei wesentliche Aussagen: Die USA haben nach eigenen Angaben keine Soldaten in der Ukraine (da gab  es am heutigen Freitag entsprechende Meldungen), und sie sehen auch keine Anzeichen für eine Alarmierung der russischen Atomwaffen:

Day 64 – #Russia invasion of #Ukraine
Now +1,950 missile strikes since start of conflict – preponderance of strikes now concentrated vs #Mariupol, #Donbas w/“dumb“ bombs, per a senior US defense official
NEW: Indications #Russia trying to target #Ukraine’s ability to maintain/resupply Ukrainian forces across the country
„We’re seeing at least attempted attacks on electrical power facilities“ per a senior US defense official
US assesses missile strikes that hit residential areas near #Kyiv may have been intended for #Ukraine military production facilities
„We’re not 100% certain they meant to hit residential areas“ in #Kyiv, per a senior US defense official
NEW: #Russia appears to be preparing a „sustained, larger & longer offensive“ in eastern #Ukraine, per a senior US defense official
„Incremental, uneven“ advances to SE of #Izyum, per official but Russian „ground movements are fairly plodding“
#Russia – „They are behind schedule in what they were trying to accomplish in the #Donbas“ per a senior US defense official
re #Ukraine
„We would not assess that they have everything they need in place to be fully successful‘ in eastern #Ukraine, per a senior US defense official
Official says Ukrainian forces „putting up a stiff resistance“
More 155 mortar rounds getting into #Ukraine, with additional shipments on the way, per a senior US defense official
„More than a dozen flights“ set to leave US in next 24 hours w/#howitzers, mortars, drones, etc.
In past 24 hours, 20 security assistance deliveries to multiple locations in the region from 7 different nations, per a senior US defense official
US NOT getting #Ukraine forces out of Ukraine for training – only helping with transport once they are out of the country t facilitate training, per a senior US defense official
„That transportation starts and ends outside of Ukraine“
US training „really is driven by how many [troops] the Ukrainians want trained on a given system“ per a senior US defense official
„It will go on for as long as it needs to go“ official says of the training
The fight in the #Donbas – „We’ve already seen is deeply reliant on long-range fires“ per a senior US defense official, on need for US #howitzers to #Ukraine
„There are no US forces training in #Ukraine“ per a senior US defense official
#Russia in the #Donbas „at least several days behind where they wanted to be“ per a senior US defense official
„They mean to be much further along“ in efforts to encircle #Ukrainian troops in the east, per the official, adding #Moscow has not been able to link north & south
#Russia’s nuclear posture – „We do not assess that there is a threat of the use of nuclear weapons“ right now, per a senior US defense official
US not changing its nuclear posture for now, either
„The #Ukrainians continue to resist effectively in the #Donbas…one of the reasons we think the #Russia|ns are behind schedule in the Donbas is bcs of the Ukrainian resistance“ per a senior US defense official
US expecting a „longer slog“ as fighting intensifies in the #Donbas
„It could go on for some time“ per a senior US defense official, calling th battle between #Ukraine, #Russia forces a „potential knife fight…shaping up that way“
„No active discussion“ about providing #Ukraine with long-range US air defense systems, per a senior US defense official
US continues to provide Ukraine with Stingers
„We do show some [#Russia|n] kinetic activity, in other words, some strike activity around #Kharkiv“ per a senior US defense official
#Ukraine forces in control despite intensified Russian push there
#Russia|n logistic woes…
„In #Mariupol we’re seeing a predominance of the ordnance being dropped is dumb ordinance, not precision guided [PGM]“ per a senior US defense official
„We think that that speaks to the challenges that the Russians are having with PGM replenishment“
US observing increased #Russia|n strike in central #Ukraine / #Kyiv & in the #Odesa area
„In general, what we think they’re trying to do is get at the ability of the Ukrainians to to replenish their own stores and to reinforce themselves“ per senior US defense official
„For instance, we’re seeing at least attempted attacks on on electrical power facilities, perhaps bcs the #Russia|ns believe if they can knock out some electricity, they can affect the ability of trains for instance to move“ per senior US defense official
„Some of the strikes in #Kyiv, we believe, were meant for military production capabilities“ per the senior US defense official
„I know that there’s reports that they hit residential areas….we’re not 100% certain that they meant to hit residential areas“
„The strikes around #Odesa are a little bit more difficult to discern exactly what they’re [#Russia] doing there“ per a sr US defense official
More on #Russia|n military activity near #Odesa: „Could be of a piece of their efforts to try to pin down Ukrainian forces in the area btw Odesa & #Mykolaiv so that they can’t come to the assistance of their colleagues further in the east in the #Donbas area“ per the US official
#Russia in the #Donbas: „We believe that essentially what they’re doing is is continuing to set conditions for a sustained & larger & longer offensive“ per a senior US defense official
„They’re trying to set the proper conditions for four sustained offensive operations“

Nachgetragen: Das Transkript dieses Briefings hier
(und als Sicherungskopie:
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• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The sixty-fifth day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues. A russian federation continues its full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine.
russian enemy continues to carry out offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to defeat the Joint Forces, establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and maintain the land route with the occupied Crimea.
In the Volyn and Polissya areas, certain units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus continue to carry out tasks to strengthen the section of the Ukrainian-belarusian border in the Brest and Gomel regions. An inspection of the readiness of the aviation component of the regular forces and means of the air defense system of the republic of belarus was noted.
The threat of missile and bomb strikes on the objects of Ukraine from the territory of the republic of belarus remains.
In the Siversky direction, russian enemy, by keeping the appropriate set of troops, is trying to prevent the movement of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Siversky direction to the Eastern Operational Zone. In the areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine, russian enemy deployed part of the units to restore combat capability.
In the future, it is possible that the enemy will demonstrate and provoke in the areas adjacent to the state border of Ukraine. In particular, there is a possibility of shelling of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and infrastructure in the border areas.
In the Slobozhansky direction, russian enemy group of the 6th Combined Arms Army, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets is focusing on maintaining positions in the area north and southeast of Kharkiv, trying to deploy additional artillery units.
In the Izium direction, russian enemy is operating with units of the 1st Tank Army, the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District, the 35th Combined Arms Army, the 68th Army Corps of the Eastern Military District and the Airborne Troops. The russian enemy’s main efforts are focused on conducting reconnaissance and inflicting fire damage on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
To ensure additional transfer of troops in the Izyum direction, russian occupiers provide additional pontoon-bridge crossings across the Siversky Donets River.
In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, enemy units are trying to launch an offensive in the Lyman, Severodonetsk, and Popasna directions. russian enemy continues to try to establish full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and is preparing to advance on Severodonetsk. russian enemy continues artillery shelling of our troops.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the occupiers‘ groups were reinforced by additional artillery units from the 1st Army Corps.
In the Mariupol direction, russian enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. It focused its main efforts on blocking the units of Ukrainian troops in the area of ​​the Azovstal plant, and also transferred some units from the Mariupol to the Kurakhiv direction.
russian enemy continues to launch air and missile strikes to destroy civilian infrastructure and disrupt the logistics of our troops. In order to clarify the position of the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, russian enemy conducted air reconnaissance using the Orlan-10 UAV. It continues to lose this reconnaissance equipment.
In the South Buh and Bessarabian directions, russian enemy is trying to fight with the available forces in order to improve its tactical position. Continues to regroup, increases the system of fire damage, improves the engineering equipment of positions.
As part of the increase in the system of logistics of the troops, russian occupiers deployed assembly points for damaged vehicles and points for repair and restoration of equipment.
In the transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova, russian rederation continues to disseminate information through pro-kremlin media about the threat to the population of the region from Ukraine. In particular, there are reports of another case of Ukrainian UAVs being used over ammunition depots.

• Das Abendbriefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 38 Ukrainian military assets. Among them: 20 platoon strong points, 11 areas manpower and military equipment concentration, 1 fuel depot near Volnoe Pole and 1 radar station near Pechenegi.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces have hit 22 military assets of Ukraine. These include 5 platoon strong points, 13 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 4 missile-artillery weapons and fuel depots in Severodonetsk, Chervonnoe and Belohorie.
Missile troops have hit 3 Ukrainian military assets during the day. The neutralised targets are 1 Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile launcher near Adamovka and 1 Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Chuguev.
Artillery units have hit 5 command posts, 13 strong points, 64 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, as well as 7 artillery positions.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination over 200 nationalists and 32 armoured and vehicles of various purposes.
Russian air defence means have shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Zavody, Semyonovka, Rubezhnoe, Chervonnyi Oskol, Sukhaya Kamenka and Lyubimovka.
During the day, 3 Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles over Izyum, Novaya Dmitrovka and Sukhaya Kamenka, as well as Smerch MLRS rockets near Topolskoe have been shot down in the air.
In total, 142 aircraft and 112 helicopters, 640 unmanned aerial vehicles, 279 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,646 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 305 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,184 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,475 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.

• Zum späteren Wiederfinden aus der Meldung des Wall Street Journal zu polnischen Panzerlieferungen an die Ukraine:

Poland has sent at least 240 Soviet-style tanks to Ukraine, Polish officials said, a donation that is enough to form two new tank brigades as Ukraine races to rebuff Russia’s advance in the east of the country.
The T-72 tanks were donated in recent weeks alongside self-propelled howitzers, Grad rocket launchers and other Soviet-designed weaponry from the stocks of Poland, which has become Ukraine’s key benefactor within the European Union. (…)
Aside from tanks, Poland has also given Ukraine locally manufactured surveillance drones and dozens of infantry fighting vehicles. It has also sent oil overland into Ukraine to keep the country’s military vehicles fueled.

• Und der Vollständigkeit halber: Etliche Meldungen am Freitagabend heben darauf ab, dass Pentagon-Sprecher John Kirby vom Training ukrainischer Soldaten in Deutschland berichtete:

Today, I can announce that the United States has commenced training with the Ukrainian Armed Forces on key systems at U.S. military installations in Germany. Now, these efforts build on the initial artillery training that Ukraine’s forces already have received elsewhere, and also includes training on the radar systems and armored vehicles that have been recently announced as part of security assistance packages. U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command will organize this training in coordination with the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, and we’re grateful, of course, for Germany’s continued support.

Leser*innen von Augen geradeaus! wissen das natürlich seit einer Woche, das hat nämlich Generalleutnant Kai Rohrschneider, Abteilungsleiter Führung Streitkräfte im BMVg, bereits am 22. April berichtet.

(Das Transkript von Kirbys Pressekonferenz hier, und die Sicherungskopie:
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