Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 8. September 2022 (mit Ergänzungen)

Im andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine haben die westlichen Staaten ihre Bereitschaft zur weiteren, auch langfristigen Unterstützung der Ukraine erklärt – scheinen aber unverändert nicht zur Lieferung von schweren Waffen wie Kampf- oder Schützenpanzern aus westlicher Produktion bereit. Der Sammler am 8. September 2022:

• Bei einem erneuten – physischen – Treffen der so genannten Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe auf der US-Luftwaffenbasis Ramstein bei Kaiserslautern kündigte US-Verteidigungsminister Lloyd Austin am (heutigen) Donnerstag weitere Waffenhilfe der USA in Höhe von 675 Millionen US-Dollar an:

Ergänzung: Das Pentagon veröffentlichte inzwischen die Liste der geplanten neuen Waffenlieferungen, die alle aus den Beständen der US-Streitkräfte kommen:

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $675 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twentieth drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
Capabilities in this package include:
– Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
– Four 105mm Howitzers and 36,000 105mm artillery rounds;
– Additional High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARM);
– 100 Armored High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV);
– 1.5 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
– More than 5,000 anti-armor systems;
– 1,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
– Additional grenade launchers and small arms;
– 50 armored medical treatment vehicles;
– Night vision devices and other field equipment.
In addition, State Department notified Congress of our intent to make $2 billion available in long-term investments in Foreign Military Financing: $1 billion to bolster the security of Ukraine and $1 billion for 18 of Ukraine’s regional neighbors.

Die deutsche Verteidigungsministerin Christine Lambrecht und ihre niederländische Kollegin Kajsa Ollongren kündigten in Ramstein eine gemeinsame Initative zur Ausbildung ukrainischer Soldaten in der Minenabwehr an. Möglichst schnell sollen zunächst 20 Ukraine an der Kampfmittelabwehrschule der Bundeswehr in Stetten am kalten Markt den Umgang mit Minen und IED (Improvised Explosive Devices, Sprengfallen) lernen und dieses Wissen auch als Multiplikatoren weitergeben können.

Zusammen mit Material für die Minenräumung soll die Ukraine auch aus Deutschland Winterausrüstung erhalten, unter anderem Stromgeneratoren, Zelte und Winterbekleidung. Das so genannte Winterpaket ist eine Initiative mehrerer NATO-Staaten; was und wie viel genau Deutschland zur Verfügung stellt, sagte Lambrecht zunächst nicht.

Ergänzung: Nach Informationen von Augen geradeaus! will Deutschland unter anderem 100.000 so genannte Unterziehjacken Kälteschutz, 80.000 dazu gehörende Hosen sowie 240.000 Feldmützen Winter liefern.

Das Statement von Lambrecht und Ollongren zum Nachhören:

 

Norwegen gab die Lieferung von rund 160 Hellfire-Raketen an die Ukraine bekannt:

Norway will donate Hellfire missiles to Ukraine. The donation includes approximately 160 missiles, launching pads and guidance units. Ukraine will also receive night-vision equipment drawn from Armed Forces inventories. (…)
This is a weapon that Ukraine has asked for, and it will prove useful in their fight against Russian invasion forces. The missile is easy to operate, and can be used against both land- and sea-targets, says Defence Minister Bjørn Arild Gram.
The Norwegian Armed Forcestested and verified the status of the missiles prior to their shipment. They have now been shipped from Norway. Ukrainian operators have been trained in the use of Hellfire by Norwegian instructors.
The Hellfire system is nearing the end of its service life was scheduled to be phased out the Norwegian Armed Forces.

Nach einem Bericht der US-Wirtschaftsagentur Bloomberg soll hoch präzise Artilleriemunition vom Typ Excalibur aus den USA bereits bei den ukrainischen Streitkräften eingetroffen sein und genutzt werden:

The Pentagon has sent Ukraine its most accurate artillery shell, the GPS-guided Excalibur, according to budget documents that confirm the previously unannounced addition to the arsenal assembled to combat the Russian invasion.
A plan to replenish the US stock of Excaliburs acknowledges for the first time that the Pentagon has been supplying Ukrainian forces with the shell. Officials have sidestepped questions about the Excalibur despite reports that planning was underway to provide it and then that it was already in use in Ukraine.

Deutschland hat der Ukraine ebenfalls weitreichende Präzisionsmunition für die westlichen Haubitzen im NATO-Standardkaliber 155mm zugesagt; die so genannte Vulcano-Munition, die in der Bundeswehr noch nicht eingeführt ist, soll von der Industrie geliefert werden.

• In der Pressekonferenz von Austin und US-Generalstabschef Mark Milley nach dem Treffen gab es nicht nur Aussagen zur weiteren Unterstützung der Ukraine, sondern auch eine vorsichtige Einschätzung der ukrainischen Offensive(n). Aus Milleys Aussagen:

Let me give you a very brief battlefield update. As you know, the Russians attacked beginning 24 February — so think in terms of 24 February to about the middle of April. The Russians continue the strategic attack to try to capture Kyiv, get to the Dnipro River, assault through the south out of Crimea, into the Donbas, and then also potentially conduct an attack against Odessa. Those attacks failed. They didn’t seize the capital, they didn’t topple the government, they didn’t get to the Dnipro River, and they didn’t seize Odessa.
So in the beginning of April, the Russians adjusted their war aim and they consolidated their forces in the east, in order to attack and seize all of the Donbas and hold Odessa at risk. They launched that offensive on or about the 15th or 16th of April and they have been defeated in that.
Their operational objectives in that offensive have not been successful. They have not achieved (all of the Donbas)(sic), and they have only crossed the Dnipro River in the south, in the vicinity of Kherson. So their operational aims, in addition to their strategic aims, have been defeated by a very successful defense conducted by Ukraine.
At the beginning of this month, on or about the 1st of September, Ukraine launched an offensive in order to seize the operational and strategic initiative. That offensive is ongoing. That offensive is in its early stages and it’s too early to give a full assessment, but to date, Ukraine is effectively using their fires to shape the ground maneuver as they continue their offensive in the south. And what we’re talking about is the area just north of the Dnipro River, in the vicinity of Kherson. (…)
We are seeing real and measurable gains from Ukraine in the use of these systems. For example, the Ukrainians have struck over 400 targets with the HIMARS and they’ve had devastating effect.
Russian lines of communication and supply channels are severely strained. It is having a direct impact on the Russian ability to project and sustain combat power. Russian command and control in the headquarters have been disrupted and they’re having — they’re having great difficulty resupplying their forces and replacing their combat losses.

• Das britische Intel Update:

In Kherson Oblast, Ukrainian brigades continue to conduct offensive operations. Ukraine has probably destroyed a military pontoon bridge at Darivka, which Russian forces had deployed after the nearby road bridge was severely damaged.
The Darivka crossing is one of the main routes between the northern and southern sectors of Russia’s military presence along the Dnipro river. Ukraine’s systematic precision targeting of vulnerable crossing points likely continues to impose pressure on Russian forces as they attempt to contain Ukrainian attacks: it slows their ability to deploy operational reserves and resupply materiel from the east.

• Am (gestrigen) Mittwochabend hatte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj in seiner regelmäßigen Videoansprache Erfolge der ukrainischen Truppen bei ihren Vorstößen gegen russische Linien genannt, allerdings ohne Einzelheiten zu nennen:

This week we have good news from the Kharkiv region. Probably, you all have already seen reports about the activity of Ukrainian defenders. And I think every citizen feels proud of our warriors. It is a well-deserved pride, a right feeling.
Now is not the time to name the settlements to which the Ukrainian flag returns. But it’s time to say thank you to the 25th airborne brigade, the 92nd separate mechanized brigade and the 80th airborne assault brigade for their bravery and heroism shown during combat missions.
I also express gratitude today to the 406th separate artillery brigade for the extremely successful hits in the areas where the occupiers are concentrated in the south of our country and to the 60th separate infantry brigade, which consistently advances our positions.
Each success of our military in one direction or another changes the general situation along the entire frontline in favor of Ukraine. The more difficult it is for the occupiers, the more losses they have, the better the positions of our defenders in Donbas will be, the more reliable the defense of Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and the cities of the Dnipropetrovsk region will be, the faster we will be able to liberate the Azov region and the entire south.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of the General Staff of UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on September 8, 2022
The one hundred ninety-seventh (197) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk oblast, maintaining the captured districts of Kherson, part of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolayiv oblast.
The UAVs constantly conducts aerial reconnaissance, continues to take measures to improve the logistical support of its troops.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out more than 10 missile and 22 air strikes on objects on the territory of Ukraine. In particular, infrastructure was affected in the areas of Kharkiv, Tsyrkuny, Velyki Prohody, Sloviansk, Siversk, Kramatorsk, Ivano-Daryivka, Zaitseve, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bohoyavlenka, Kostyantynivka, Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Prechystivka, Dorozhnyanka, Trudove, Chervone, Vysokopilya, Ternovi Pody, Lozove, Olhivske, Bilohirka, Kostromka, Chervyn Yar, Sukhy Stavok, Bezymenne, Andriivka and Bila Krynytsia.
The situation has not changed on the Volyn and Polissya directions. There is still a threat of missile and air strikes on the territory of Ukraine from the airspace and the territory of the republic of belarus.
In other directions, the enemy continued to attack military and civilian objects, namely:
in the Siverskyi direction from mortars and jet artillery in the areas of settlements of Bachivsk, Ulanove and Zapsillya of the Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction from barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Duvanka, Kostyantynivka, Udy, Dymentiivka, Borshcheva, Velyki Prohody, Cherkaski Tyshky, Ruski Tyshky, Bayrak, Stary Saltiv and Peremoha;
in the Slovyansk direction from barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of Dolyna, Krasnopillya, Hrushuvaha, Karnaukhivka, Nova Dmytrivka, Virnopillya settlements;
in the Kramatorsk direction from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bohorodychne, Pryshyb, Tetyanivka, Sydorov, Siversk, Spirne, Verkhnyokamianske, Vesele and Hryhorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction from mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Novobakhmutivka, New York, Yuryivka, Zaitseve, Vesela Dolyna, Mayorsk, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka and Bilohorivka settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction from mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Kamianka, Vesele, Opytne, Vodyane and Pervomaiske settlements;
in the Novopavlovsk direction from mortars, barrel and jet artillery near Vuhledar, Prechystivka, Yehorivka, Velyka Novosilka and Novomayorske;
in the Zaporizhzhya direction from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of settlements of Novoandriivka, Dorozhnyanka, Novopil and Vremivka.
In the South Buh region, the settlements of Stepova Dolyna, Oleksandrivka, Vesely Kut, Tavriyske, Lyubomirivka, Blahodatne, Pervomaiske, Shevchenkove, Myrne, Novohrihorivka, and Bilohirka came under fire.
Enemy troops continue to suffer losses. As a result of the fire impact on the concentration of personnel and military equipment of the enemy located on the territory of the agricultural enterprise „Ukraine“ of the village of Solodkovodne, Zaporizhzhya oblast, the enemy suffered significant losses, the number is being specified.
Units of the Defense Forces hold their positions and prevent the enemy from advancing. Our soldiers successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kostyantynivka, Dibrivne, Hryhorivka, Zaitseve, Mayorsk, Mykolaivka Druha, Pervomaiske and Kamyanka.
During the day, in order to support the actions of the land groupings, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out more than 30 strikes on strongholds and places of concentration of the enemy’s manpower and equipment. Ukrainian air defense units destroyed two Su-25 aircraft, two helicopters (Ka-52 and Mi-24) and five UAVs in different directions.
Missile troops and artillery of our land groupings of troops continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, disruption of the command and control system and logistical support, damage to the enemy’s manpower and combat equipment. As a result of the fire impact during the current day, the command post, the fuel and oil warehouse, the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the enemy in the concentration areas were damaged.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (September 8, 2022)
Due to high losses of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) that formed the basis of the attack group, Ukrainian troops have held no offensive operations at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Russian Aerospace Forces, missile troops and artillery continue launching high-precision attacks at AFU units and reserve forces at the abovementioned direction.
The list of neutralised targets includes the command posts of 63rd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region), the manpower and military equipment of 46 Airmobile, 57th Mechanised Infantry and 28th Mechanised brigades of the AFU near Sukhoy Stavok, Petrovskoye, Plotnitskoye landmark (Kherson region), Murakhovka and Ternoviye Pody (Nikolayev region).
1 munitions depot has been destroyed near Murakhovka (Nikolayev region).
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 Su-25 of Ukrainian Air Force near Konstantinovka (Nikolayev region).
Due to high losses caused by concentrated fire attacks of Russian Armed Forces launched at the positions of 59th Mechanised Infantry Brigade of the AFU near Ukrainka, Zelyony Gay and Novogrivoryevka (Nikolayev region), Ukrainian servicemen refused to fulfil combat tasks and commenced withdrawing to the rear areas.
The enemy has lost a total of 2 tanks, 6 infantry combat vehicles and 5 other armoured vehicles, 7 pickups with large-calibre machine guns and over 190 servicemen at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction over the past 24 hours.
High-precision attacks of Russian Aerospace Forces have resulted in the neutralisation of the provisional bases of the units from 95th Air Assault Brigade near Slavyansk and 81st Airmobile Brigade near Kramatorsk (Donetsk People’s Republic). Up to 120 Ukrainian servicemen, 15 armoured and motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery continue launching attacks at the military facilities in Ukraine.
5 AFU command posts, including those of 72nd Mechanised, 58th and 53rd Mechanised Infantry brigades near Dzerzhinsk, Soledar and Artyomovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic), 1st Tank Brigade near Novonikolayevka (Zaporozhye region), as well as 51 artillery units, 167 AFU manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
5 missile, artillery and munitions depots have been destroyed near Trudovoye (Zaporozhye region), Kurakhovo, Konstantinovka, Seversk (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Balakleya (Kharkov region).
Moreover, 1 launching ramp of Buk-M1 air defence missile system has been destroyed near Belaya Krinitsa (Nikolayev region), as well as 1 air target detecting and tracking radar near Malomikhaylovka (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Air defence means of Russian Aerospace Forces have shot down 13 unmanned aerial vehicles near Chervonosyolovka, Ocheretovatoye and Aleksandrovka (Zaporozhye region), Vladimirovka, Mandrykino railway station, Kirillovka and Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Lyubimovka, Kreshchenovka, Kirovo and Tomina Balka (Kherson region), Alisovka (Kharkov region), Senkovka (Chernigov region), as well as Tochka-U ballistic missile near Rakovka (Kherson region).
19 MRLS projectiles, including 16 launched by HIMARS, have been intercepted near Novaya Kakhovka, Molodyozhnoye (Kherson region), Novoosinovo, Grushevka (Kharkov region) and 3 rocket-propelled projectiles launched by Olkha MRLS near Antonovka (Kherson region).
In total, 293 airplanes and 152 helicopters, 1,910 unmanned aerial vehicles, 374 air defence missile systems, 4,863 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 826 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,369 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,387 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs (tatsächlich vom 8. September 18.00 Uhr, auch wenn offensichtlich das Template vom morgen nicht geändert wurde und dort noch 06.00 Uhr steht):

Operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 06.00, on September 8, 2022
The one hundred ninety-seventh (197) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military invasion continues.
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on establishing full control over the territory of the Donetsk oblast and maintaining the temporarily captured districts of the Kherson oblast, parts of the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, and Mykolaiv oblasts.
The UAVs constantly conducts aerial reconnaissance, continues to take measures to improve the logistical support of its troops.
During the current day, the enemy inflicted:
4 rocket strikes on the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Tsyrkuny, Bereznehuvate and Kharkiv, there are victims among the civilian population;
15 airstrikes on military and civilian objects in the districts of Temyrivka, Krasnohorivka, Volodymyrivka and Novomykhailivka.
The occupiers launched more than 10 attacks from the Hrad and Uragan multiple rocket systems on the settlements of Serebryanka, Platonivka, and Tavriyske.
The situation remains unchanged on the Volyn and Polissya directions. Certain units of the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus continue to perform tasks in the border areas with Ukraine. The threat of missile and air strikes on Ukrainian territory from the airspace and territory of this country remains.
In other directions, the enemy continued to attack military and civilian objects by fire:
in the Seversky direction – in the areas of the settlements of Senkivka of Chernihiv oblast and Myropilske, Velikiy Prykil and Prohody of Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction, from barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Svitlychne, Nove, Male Vesele, Ruski Tyshki, Cherkaski Tyshki, Peremoha, Stary Saltiv, Bayrak and Kostiantynivka;
in the Slovyansk direction – Slovyansk, Virnopillya, Dolyna, Krasnopillya and Nova Dmytrivka;
in the Kramatorsk direction – in the areas of Pryshyb, Pereizne, Spirne and Rozdolivka settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction – in the areas of Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Zaitseve, New York and Vesele settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction – in the Avdiivka, Pervomaisky, Vodyanny and Opytny districts;
in the Novopavlovsk direction – in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Velyka Novosilka, Vuhledar, Novomayorske and Yehorivka settlements;
in the Zaporozhzhya direction – near Novoandriivka, Novopole and Vremivka;
in the Southern Buh direction – in the areas of the settlements of Bila Krynytsia, Pervomaiske, Lyubimivka, Ternovi Pody, Zeleny Hay, Petrivka, Stepova Dolyna, Pravdyne, Tavriyske, Myrolyubivka and Ivanivka.
As a result of the successful actions of the partisan movement, in cooperation with the artillery of the Defense Forces, the enemy units have significant problems with logistical support in the temporarily captured territories of the Kherson region.
In order to counter the leakage of information about the movement of occupation units at the railway station of the settlement of Sokolohirne, the armed forces of the russian federation have strengthened filtering measures.
In the temporarily captured territories of Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, in preparation for the so-called „referendums“, the occupiers are calling on local residents who have left the temporarily captured territory to return to their homes by October 1. In case of refusal, the russian invaders threaten to „nationalize“ the housing.
In the occupied part of the Chuguyiv district of the Kharkiv region, the enemy began active measures to forcibly mobilize the local population. Men of conscription age are detained and sent to Vovchansk, to the so-called „recruitment center“.
Units of the Defense Forces hold their positions and prevent the enemy from advancing. The Ukrainian military successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Kostyantynivka, Dovgenke, Dibrivne, Hryhorivka, Soledar, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Maryinka and Kamianka settlements.
Missile troops and artillery of ground groups of our troops continue to perform tasks of counter-battery combat, disruption of the control system and logistical support, destruction of enemy manpower and combat equipment.
During the current day, in order to support the actions of ground groups, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out more than 12 strikes, hitting 2 platoon strongholds,
6 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment and 2 anti-aircraft missile complexes of the enemy. Air defense units of our troops destroyed two UAVs. The losses of the enemy are specified.

(Foto: Treffen der Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe auf der US-Luftwaffenbasis Ramstein bei Kaiserslautern am 8. September 2022; v.l. die deutsche Verteidigungsministerin Christine Lambrecht, der Abteilungsleiter Politik im Verteidigungsministerium Jasper Wieck und US-Verteidigungsminister Lloyd Austin – U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Megan M. Beatty)