Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 1. August 2022

Im anhaltenden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine gibt es einen kleinen Hoffnungsschimmer: Erstmals wurde der Export von Getreide aus einem ukrainischen Hafen möglich. Im Land kamen weitere Raketenwerfer aus dem Westen an. Der Sammler am 1. August 2022:

• Erstmals seit Beginn des Krieges ist ein Frachter mit Getreide aus einem ukrainischen Schwarzmeerhafen ausgelaufen: Der Massengutfrachter Razoni, unter der Flagge von Sierra Leone, nahm mit 26.000 Tonnen Mais an Bord Kurs zunächst auf Istanbul und soll weiter in den Libanon fahren.

Es ist der erste Transport, nachdem unter Vermittlung der Vereinten Nationen und der Türkei eine Regelung für den Export aus ukrainischen Häfen getroffen wurde, der sowohl die Ukraine als auch Russland zustimmten.

• Der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister Oleksij Resnikow begrüßte am Montag das Eintreffen weiterer Mehrfach-Raketenwerfer aus dem Westen bei den Streitkräften seines Landes: Sowohl die drei MARS II-Systeme der Bundeswehr (deren Lieferung die Bundesregierung bereits am 27. Juli bestätigt hatte) und vier weitere HIMARS-Systeme aus den USA:

• Das britische Intel Update:

Over the last four days, Russia has continued to attempt tactical assaults on the Bakhmut axis, northeast of Donetsk, only managing to make slow progress.
As briefed by the Ukrainian authorities last week, Russia is likely reallocating a significant number of its forces from the northern Donbas sector to southern Ukraine.
Russia is probably adjusting the operational design of its Donbas offensive after failing to make a decisive operational breakthrough under the plan it had been following since April.
It has likely identified its Zaporizhzhia front as a vulnerable area in need of reinforcement.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on August 1, 2022
The one hundred fifty-nineth (159) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
In the Volyn and Polissya e directions, in the border areas with our state, the additional deployment of radio-electronic warfare complexes by the armed forces of the republic of belarus is noted.
In the Siver region, the enemy continues to hold separate units of the armed forces of the russian federation in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions. Conducted artillery fire near Pavlivka, Sumy oblast.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy shelled the areas of settlements Novomykolaivka, Prudyanka, Nove, Dementiivka, Pytomnyk, Borshcheva, Ruska Lozova, Ruski Tyshki, Petrivka, Bazaliivka, Korobochkine, Stara Hnylytsia, Ivanivka from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. Made an air strike near Mospanove.
In the Slovyansk direction, the enemy carried out fire damage near Chepil, Protopopivka, Hrushuvaha, Husarivka, Dibrovne, Mazanivka, Krasnopilla, Dolyna and Barvinkove. With the forces of the reconnaissance group, he tried to clarify the location of the positions of our troops in the direction of Mazanivka, but was unsuccessful, the group withdrew.
The enemy was not active in the Kramatorsk direction. It carried out shelling from barrel, rocket artillery and tank weapons near Siversk, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Verkhnyokamyanskyi, Zvanivka, Ivano-Daryivka, and Spirne. Airstrikes near Hryhorivka and Spirny.
In the Bakhmut direction, shelling was recorded near Berestove, Soledar, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve, Vershyna, Kodema, Semyhirya and Travneve Made an air strike near Kodema.
Tried to carry out reconnaissance of the positions of our troops in the direction of Yakovlivka, the enemy’s reconnaissance group was neutralized. The enemy also tried to conduct assaults in the directions of Vershyna and Soledar, but was unsuccessful and retreated. Leads an offensive in the direction of Bakhmut, hostilities continue.
In the Avdiyivka direction, the occupiers shelled the areas of the settlements of Novokalynove, Novoselivka, Avdiivka, Netaylove, Pisky, and Krasnohorivka. Airstrikes near Vesele. It assaults in the direction of Pisky, was unsuccessful, withdrew.
On the Novopavlivske and Zaporizhzhia directions, it is shelling the areas of Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Pavlivka, Shevchenko, Novosilka, Novopil, Malynivka, Charivne, Hulyaipilske, Orihiv and Kamianske settlements with barrel and rocket artillery. Carried out airstrikes near Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Vuhledar, Shcherbaky, Mali Shcherbaky and Novoandriivka. Conducted combat reconnaissance in the direction of Maryinka, had no success, withdrew. Enemy troops are regrouping in the Zaporizhia direction.
In the South Buh region, the occupiers shelled the districts of Myrolyubivka, Novovoznesenske, Visokopilla, Mykolaiv and more than 25 settlements with barrel, rocket artillery and tanks. Conducted an airstrike near Olhyne. Air reconnaissance of the UAVs continues.
The strengthening of the enemy grouping of troops in the Kryvyi Rih direction is noted.
Active involvement of aviation by the enemy to control the surface and air situation in the northwestern part of the Black Sea area is recorded.
The threat of missile strikes on military facilities and critical infrastructure facilities on the territory of Ukraine remains. There are six Kalibr sea-based cruise missile carriers in the waters of the Black Sea.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums (mit der erneuten Behauptung, es seien zwei HIMARS-Mehrfachraketenwerfer zerstört worden; s. dazu unten):

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision strike has destroyed 2 US rocket launchers of HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system on the territory of the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant in Kharkov. 53 Ukrainian nationalists and foreign mercenaries have been also eliminated.
High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces have struck a temporary deployment point of 92nd Mechanized Brigade of AFU near Kharkov city . The attacks have resulted in the elimination of up to 200 nationalists and 7 units of military equipment.
Due to heavy losses in 93rd Mechanized Brigade of AFU in Kharkov direction and 128th Mountain Assault Brigade in Zaporozhye direction, there is mass abandonment of combat positions and desertion of personnel of these formations to the central and western parts of Ukraine.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery strikes continue against military facilities in Ukraine.
2 ammunition depots near Seversk and Kaleniki, Donetsk People’s Republic, 1 fuel supply centre for AFU military equipment near Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk Region, as well as 239 areas of enemy manpower and military equipment concentration have been destroyed.
In addition, 1 launcher of American anti-ship Garpoon missile system has been destroyed near Velikyi Dalnik, Odessa Region.
In the course of counter-battery warfare 1 artillery battery of AFU has been destroyed near Umanskoye, Donetsk People’s Republic.
8 Ukrainian Grad MLRS platoons and 6 artillery and mortar platoons at firing positions near Sukhaya Balka, Petrovskoye, Vodyanoye, Tonenkoye, Kurdyumovka and Dzerzhinsk, Donetsk People’s Republic have been suppressed.
Russian air defence means have shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Makeyevka and Petropavlovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, Lyubimovka, Zaporizhzhya Region, as well as Chervonyi Yar, Krasnoye, Andreevka, Zavody, Vernopol’e and Iziyum, Kharkiv Region.
In total, 261 Ukrainian airplanes and 145 helicopters, 1,659 unmanned aerial vehicles, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,215 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 778 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,234 field artillery and mortars, as well as 4,621 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.

Ein Video soll die Zerstörung der HIMARS belegen:

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 18:00, on August 1, 2022
The one hundred fifty-nineth (159) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
The situation has not undergone significant changes in the Volyn and Polissya directions.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy fired barrel and rocket artillery at civilian infrastructure in the areas of Senkivka and Lypkivka of the Chernihiv oblast and Staraya Huta, Pavlivka, Pokrovka and Bilopylla in the Sumy oblast. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAVs near Hremyach and Hlukhiv. In order to counter the technical means of intelligence, it deployed radio-electronic warfare complexes.
In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling of the districts of Kharkiv, Prudyanka, Nove and fourteen other settlements. With the forces of the reconnaissance group, it tried to expose the firing positions of our troops, it did not succeed, it withdrew.
In the Slovyansk direction, the enemy fired tanks and artillery of various calibers on the areas of the settlements of Nortsivka, Chepil, Hrushuvakha, Ridne, Virnopillya, Husarivka, Dibrivne, Dolyna and Adamivka.
In the vicinity of Mazanivka, the Defense Forces exposed and neutralized an enemy reconnaissance group.
In the Kramatorsk direction, due to significant losses of manpower, military equipment and the low level of morale and psychological state of personnel, the enemy did not conduct active offensive actions. He shelled the positions of our troops and civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Siversk, Kryva Luka, Serebryanka, Ivano-Daryivka, Hryhorivka, Zvanivka, Verkhnyokamianske and Spirne from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery. Airstrikes near Serebryanka and Hryhorivka. For the purpose of reconnaissance of logistics support routes and critical infrastructure facilities, the UAV conducted aerial reconnaissance.
In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy used tanks and artillery near Berestove, Soledar, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve, Vershyna, Kodema, Vesele, and Travneve. It cynically carried out airstrikes on the settlements of Pokrovske, Novoluhanske, Soledar, Vershina, Yakovlivka, Bakhmut and Kodema.
In the area of Yakovlivka, the enemy tried to conduct reconnaissance by the forces of the reconnaissance group. The occupiers were discovered and suffered losses. The rest of the group fled.
The enemy tried to improve the tactical position in the areas of Soledar, Vershyna and Bakhmut with assault actions, but was unsuccessful and retreated.
In the Avdiyiv direction, the enemy fired near Novokalynovoy, Novobakhmutivka, Pisky and Krasnohorivka. Made an air strike near New York. He led assaults in the directions of Avdiyivka and Pisky, without success, hostilities continue.
The enemy did not conduct active offensives in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. It carried out systematic shelling of civilian and military infrastructure in the areas of Maryinka, Pavlivka, Novosilka, Novopilla, Malynivka, Hulyaipole, Hulyaipilske, Orihiv and Kamianske.
Ukrainian soldiers nullified all attempts of the occupiers to advance in the direction of Maryinka. The enemy, in order to identify our troops and adjust the fire, conducted aerial reconnaissance. He continues to regroup, trying to strengthen its troops in the south of Ukraine.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy’s main efforts are focused on holding previously occupied positions and preventing the advance of our units.
Conducted shelling from tanks, barrel and rocket artillery along the contact line. Carried out airstrikes near Bila Krynytsia and Andriivka. Conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV.
The enemy is trying to restore destroyed and damaged bridges and bridge crossings across the Dnipro River by the forces of engineering units.