Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 15. Oktober 2022

Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 15. Oktober 2022:

• Die USA kündigten am (gestrigen) Freitag (Ortszeit) weitere Lieferungen von Waffen, vor allem Munition, an die Ukraine an. Interessant sind neben den – zahlenmäßig nicht bezifferten – HIMARS-Raketen die genannten weiteren 500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds, also Excalibur-Geschosse für die Haubitzen:

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $725 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s 23rd drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
The United States has delivered unprecedented security assistance to Ukraine and will continue to work with allies and partners to ensure Ukraine has the support it needs. This new security assistance package includes:
Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
23,000 155mm artillery rounds;
500 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds;
5,000 155mm rounds of Remote Anti-Armor Mine (RAAM) Systems;
5,000 anti-tank weapons;
High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
More than 200 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs);
Small arms and more than 2,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition;
Medical supplies.

• Das britische Intel Update:

Contingents of mobilised Russian reservists have been deployed to Ukraine over the last two weeks. Their average level of personal equipment is almost certainly lower than the already poor provision of previously deployed troops.
Many reservists are likely required to purchase their own body armour, especially the modern 6B45 vest, which is meant to be on general issue to combat units as part of the Ratnik personal equipment programme.
This vest has been selling on Russian online shopping sites for 40,000 roubles (approx. USD $640), up from around 12,000 roubles (appox. USD $190) in April.
In 2020, the Russian authorities announced that 300,000 sets of Ratnik body armour had been supplied to the Russian military, which was ample to equip the force currently deployed in Ukraine.
Endemic corruption and poor logistics remain one of the underlying causes of Russia’s poor performance in Ukraine.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 6:00, on October 15, 2022
The two hundred-thirty-fourth (234) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The aggressor continues to focus his efforts on attempts to reach the administrative border of Donetsk oblast, as well as holding captured districts of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Zaporizhzшya, Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts.
The enemy does not stop striking the critical infrastructure and civilian facilities of our country. During the past day, the infrastructure and civilians of Kharkiv, Kostyantynivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Chumaky, Lebedynske, Zaporizhzhia, Davydiv Brid and Mirne were affected. Dnipropetrovsk oblast and the city of Ochakiv were hit by Iranian attack UAVs. Our defenders managed to knock down six out of nine.
The enemy continues to use winged, aviation, anti-aircraft guided missiles and attack UAVs for their crimes.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers have launched six rocket and thirty air strikes, carried out forty-eight MLRS attacks.
The situation in the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed significantly.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from rocket artillery, in the area of Rozhkovychi settlement of Sumy oblast. The occupiers also conducted reconnaissance in the area of Bleshnya, Chernihiv oblast, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, which was shot down;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Hatyshche, Vovchanski Khutory, Starytsa and Dvorichne;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Verkhnokamianske, Vyshneve, Hrekivka, Hryhorivka, Zarichne, Kovalivka, Makiivka, Nadiya, Novovodyane, Olhivka, Pershotravneve, Rozdolivka, Tabaivka, Terny and Yampolivka settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Klishchiivka, Odradivka, Zelenopillia, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk and New York;
in the Avdiivka region – from tanks and artillery, in the areas of Kamianka, Tonenke, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Opytne, Nevelske, Maryinka and Krasnohorivka settlements.
In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy did not conduct offensive actions and continues to engineer defensive lines and positions. Fired mortars, barrel and rocket artillery on more than twenty districts of populated areas. Among them are Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Zolota Nyva, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Mykilske and Novodanilivka.
More than thirty settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buh region.
According to available information, a large number of wounded people are being admitted to medical facilities in the temporarily occupied territories. So, in one of the hospitals of the city of Donetsk, about 100 wounded people arrived this week. Hospitals are overcrowded in the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region. According to information from local residents, civilians are not accepted in hospitals due to the workload of doctors and the lack of beds. Due to the low quality of medical care and the refusal of the command of the russian occupying forces to evacuate the seriously wounded to the territory of russia, the mortality rate among them exceeds 50%.
According to the updated information, the destruction of the enemy’s personnel and equipment in the previous days in the Zaporizhzhia oblast was confirmed. Thus, as a result of the effective actions of the Defense Forces in the areas of the settlements of Orihiv, Kinski Rozdory and Tokmak, about 100 occupiers were injured. Among them, more than 25 have just been mobilized. Four S-300 complexes were destroyed in the area of Berdyansk.
The Defence Forces successfully repelled enemy attacks in the Donetsk oblast. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Berestove, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Ivanhrad, Spirne, Nevelske, Maryinka, Bilohorivka, Terny, Novomykhailivka, and Krasnohorivka.
During the past 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defence Forces carried out about thirty strikes. It was confirmed that twenty-five areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as three anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy, were destroyed. In addition, our air defence units shot down nine unmanned aerial vehicles.
Missile troops and artillery struck four control points, fifteen areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, twelve warehouses with ammunition, one artillery installation and twenty other important targets during the day.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (October 15, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The enemy has conducted no offensive operations at Kupyansk direction.
Russian artillery neutralised the firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) at distant approaches in order to prevent attacks at Russian positions.
Up to 50 Ukrainian personnel, 2 tanks, 5 armoured combat vehicles, 3 motor vehicles, as well as 1 field munitions depot have been eliminated by artillery fire near Berestovoye (Kharkov region).
Redeployment of AFU company tactical group across Oskol river has been frustrated near Dvurechnoye (Kharkov region).
Attack launched by army aviation and Russian artillery has resulted in the elimination of over 30 Ukrainian personnel, 4 armoured vehicles and 2 pickups.
AFU made attempts to conduct reconnaissance by fire near Sergeyevka and Makeyevka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Novosadovoye and Torskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
The involved units were driven back to their initial positions as a result of a fire attack.
Up to 60 Ukrainian personnel, 2 armoured combat vehicles and 7 pickups have been eliminated.
Overnight from 13 to 14 October, Russian forces frustrated preparatory activities of the AFU at Zaporozhye direction for a riverborne landing operation near Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
According to updated information, attacks launched by Russian Aerospace Forces‘ army aviation, missile troops and artillery at the amphibious force located in the bay of Kakhovka reservoir near Osokorovka (Kherson region) have resulted in the elimination of over 50 Ukrainian personnel, 5 fast boats, 2 barges, 5 tanks and 4 infantry combat vehicles.
High-precision attack launched by Russian Aerospace Forces at the provisional base of 2nd Battalion from 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Zaporozhye has resulted in the elimination of over 160 Ukrainian personnel accomodated in three outquarters.
The enemy made unsuccessful attempts to launch an offensive towards Dudchany, Sadok and Ishchenka (Kherson region) at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Intense action of Russian forces have resulted in repelling all the attacks.
About 120 Ukrainian personnel, 17 armoured combat vehicles and 8 motor vehicles have been eliminated. Moreover, Russian artillery has destroyed 5 ferries installed by the AFU across Ingulets river.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 4 AFU command posts, 53 artillery units at their firing positions, 142 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
5 missile, artillery armament and munitions depots have been destroyed near Glushkovka, Kupyansk (Kharkov region), Konstantinovka and Fyodorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), as well as Novaya Kaluga (Kherson region).
Russian air defence facilities have shot down 1 Su-25 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Kiselyovka (Nikolayev region).
Moreover, 10 unmanned aerial vehicles, including 1 U.S.-manufactured Switchblade 600, have been intercepted near Poltava (Lugansk People’s Republic), Petrovskoye, Staromayorskoye, Nikolskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Dmitrenko, Tomarino, Chaykino (Kherson region) and Tavricheskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region).
In addition, 18 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS have been destroyed in air near Svobodnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region).
2 U.S.-manufactured HARM anti-radar missiles have been shot down near Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
In total, 323 airplanes and 161 helicopters, 2,236 unmanned aerial vehicles, 380 air defence missile systems, 5,792 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 869 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,475 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,580 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00, on October 15, 2022.
The two hundred-thirty-fourth (234) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The aggressor continues to focus his efforts on attempts to reach the administrative border of Donetsk oblast, as well as holding captured districts of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of the positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it strikes critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
During the day, the occupiers launched 4 rocket and 17 airstrikes, carried out up to 10 attacks from multiple rocket launchers.
The objects and civilians of more than 20 settlements were hit by the enemy. Among them are Kostyantynivka, Bilohirya, Ivanivka, Nikopol, Bakhmut, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Davydiv Brid and Nalyvaikivka.
Infrastructural facilities in Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv and other regions were affected. For strikes, the enemy used cruise, aviation and anti-aircraft guided missiles. In addition, the enemy continues to use Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. There remains the threat of missile and air strikes, as well as the launch of attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Senkivka, Progres of Chernihiv oblast and Pavlivka, Dmytrivka, Mezenivka, Bachivsk, Sosnivka of Sumy oblast.
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Vovchanski Khutory, Hatyshche, Lyptsi, Ohirtseve, Starytsa, Udy. The enemy also used UAVs to adjust artillery fire;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Verkhnokamianske, Vyshneve, Zarichne, Nadiya, Pershotravneve, Terny and Torske settlements;
in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, the enemy fired from tanks and artillery of various types along the entire contact line.
The occupiers did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlovskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions. More than 20 settlements were hit by fire from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery. In particular, Bilohirya, Vuhledar, Vremivka, Zaliznychne, Mykilske, Novoukrainka, Neskuchne, Orihiv, Charivne and Olhivske.
More than 35 settlements along the entire contact line were affected by fire in the South Buh direction. For air reconnaissance, the enemy made more than 60 UAV sorties.
In the armed forces of the russian federation, work continues on finding possible options for replenishment of units that have suffered losses in battles on the territory of Ukraine. Thus, according to the available information, the commanders of all levels of the russian navy have begun campaigning with conscript service personnel regarding the prospects of transitioning to contract service.
Military personnel are offered high benefits, an improved social package and the assurance of service beyond the front line.
The issue of material support for servicemen of the occupation forces called up for mobilization remains problematic. Thus, the arrival of a unit of the russian federation, whose personnel is partially dressed in civilian clothes, was marked in the city of Polohy, Zaporizhzhia region.
Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of settlements of Novosadove in the Kramatorsk direction, Yakovlivka, Berestove, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske and Opytne in the Bakhmutske direction, Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske, Maryinka and Pobyeda in the Avdiivka direction.
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Aviation of the Defence Forces carried out 30 strikes during the day. It has been confirmed that 23 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 7 positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems, have been hit. In addition, our air defence units shot down 6 UAVs and one enemy helicopter.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit 5 control points, 7 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, and 3 ammunition warehouses. Enemy artillery positions and other important military targets were also hit by fire.