Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 16. Oktober 2022

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Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 16. Oktober 2022:

• Der Iran weitet nach US-Angaben seine Waffenlieferungen an Russland aus und will unter anderem Boden-Boden-Raketen zur Verfügung stellen, wie die Washington Post berichtet:

Iran is strengthening its commitment to supply arms for Russia’s assault on Ukraine, according to U.S. and allied security officials, secretly agreeing to send not only attack drones but also what some officials described as the first Iranian-made surface-to-surface missiles intended for use against Ukrainian cities and troop positions. (…)
An intelligence assessment shared in recent days with Ukrainian and U.S. officials contends that Iran’s armaments industry is preparing a first shipment of Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles, two well-known Iranian short-range ballistic missiles capable of striking targets at distances of 300 and 700 kilometers, respectively, two officials briefed on the matter said. If carried out, it would be the first delivery of such missiles to Russia since the start of the war.

• Die russische Stadt Belgorod nahe der Grenze zur Ukraine scheint zum Kriegsschauplatz zu werden. Am (gestrigen) Samstag erschossen auf einem Truppenübungsplatz zwei Personen aus einer ehemaligen Sowjetrepublik elf russische Soldaten. Aus der Meldung der russischen Nachrichtenagentur TASS:

Two citizens of a CIS country carried out a terrorist attack during a shooting training session at a military training ground in the Belgorod Region, eleven people were killed in the attack and 15 more were wounded, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Saturday.
„On October 15, two citizens of a CIS country committed an act of terror at training range of the Western Military District in the Belgorod Region,“ the ministry said.The Russian Defense Ministry said that the terrorists opened fire using small arms at the unit’s military personnel during a shooting training session, which was attended by those willing to take part in the special military operation.

… und militärische Einrichtungen und Teile der Infrastruktur von Belgorod werden – erneut – zum Angriffsziel. Aus der Übersicht der New York Times:

Several strikes hit the Russian region of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border on Sunday, wounding at least three people, according to local officials, and renewing questions about the security of an area that has been a key supply route for Russian troops in the war.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts. Ukrainian officials did not comment, in keeping with an official policy of near-total silence surrounding explosions in Russian territory.
On Sunday, some 16 explosions were heard in the Belgorod region, RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency, reported. At least three people were injured in an artillery strike, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the regional governor, said in a statement on Telegram, the social messaging app.

• Das britische Intel Update:

On 10 October 2022, Russia probably fired more than 80 cruise missiles into Ukraine. President Putin claimed the strikes were in retaliation for the attack on the Kerch Bridge.
Ukraine’s defence ministry reported that more than half of the projectiles were shot down, but dozens struck Kyiv and other population centres, killing civilians and damaging civil infrastructure.
Russia’s defence industry is probably incapable of producing advanced munitions at the rate they are being expended.
These attacks represent a further degradation of Russia’s long-range missile stocks, which is likely to constrain their ability to strike the volume of targets they desire in future.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on October 16, 2022
The two hundred-thirty-fifth (235) 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.
russian enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on trying to restrain the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive positions and lines in separate 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.
Over the past day, the enemy launched 5 missile and 23 air strikes, launched up to 60 MLRS attacks.
Objects and civilians in the areas of more than 30 settlements were hit by the enemy. In particular, these are Nikopol and Shakhtarske of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast; Hlushkivka in Kharkiv oblast; Orikhiv and Mali Shcherbaky of the Zaporizhzhia oblast; Dmytrivka – Kyiv oblast; Bilohirka in Kherson oblast and Vuhledar in Donetsk oblast.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. The threat of missile and airstrikes, as well as the use of „Shahed-136“ attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus, remains.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siverskyi direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of Mykolaivka settlements of Chernihiv oblast and Pokrovka of Sumy oblast. It also used shock UAVs;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Strilecha, Ohirtseve, Starytsa, Hatyshche, Pishchane, Kamianka and Dvorichna;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from tanks and various caliber artillery along the entire line of contact. In particular, in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Novoyehorivka, Rozdolivka and Serebryanka;
in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery along the contact line;
in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy shelled more than 15 settlements. Among them are Vuhledar, Vremivka, Paraskoviivka, Prechystivka and Shcherbaki.
More than 25 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buh region.
The violations of international humanitarian law, laws and customs of warfare in temporarily occupied territories have become the norm for the russian occupying forces. In the village of Rubizhne, Luhansk oblast, military personnel from the chechen republic, who arrived to reinforce the group, began evicting civilians from private homes to house their officers.
According to the specified information, the results of the enemy’s fire damage have been confirmed. As a result of point strikes by the artillery of the Defence Forces, an ammunition depot was destroyed and more than 20 occupiers were injured in the village of Marfopil, Zaporizhzhia oblast. In the settlement of Tokmak, 10 units of military equipment were destroyed and up to 40 servicemen were injured. Up to 30 injured occupiers in the settlement of Polohy. In Kamianets-Dniprovska, 7 units of military equipment were destroyed and about 40 enemy servicemen were wounded. The number of dead, which the occupiers are trying to hide carefully, is being clarified.
Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Torske and Spirne settlements in the Kramatorsk direction, Berestove, Soledar and Bakhmut in the Bakhmut direction, and Maryinka, Pobieda and Nevelske in the Avdiivka direction.
Aviation of the Defence Forces carried out 32 strikes during the past 24 hours. It has been confirmed that 24 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 8 positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems, have been hit. In addition, our air defence units shot down 6 UAVs and 1 enemy helicopter in different directions.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit 3 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, one ammunition depot, 7 enemy air defence facilities and other military targets.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums – darin auffällig die Aussage zu Beginn: The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching attacks with high-precision long-range air-based armament at the military control and energy system facilities of Ukraine.The goals of the attacks have been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised. Das wirft die Frage auf, was Ziele erreicht bedeutet für den weiteren Verlauf der russischen Kriegführung:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (October 16, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching attacks with high-precision long-range air-based armament at the military control and energy system facilities of Ukraine.
The goals of the attacks have been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.
Pre-emptive fire attack launched by Russian artillery has resulted in the frustration of an attempt made by 92nd Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to launch an offensive towards Berestovoye (Khakov region) at Kupyansk direction.
Up to 50 Ukrainian personnel, 5 armoured combat vehicles and 3 pickups with large-calibre machine guns have been eliminated.
3 U.S.-manufactured M777 howitzers have been destroyed near Zagryzovo (Kharkov region).
Moreover, 1 ferry installed by the AFU over Oskol river for redeployment of reserve forces, delivering ordnance and supplies has been destroyed near Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region).
Attacks launched by missile troops and artillery have resulted in the prevention of enemy’s attempts to cross Zherebets river near Stelmakhovka, Makeyevka (Lugansk People’s Republic) and Yampolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) at Krasny Liman direction.
Concentrated attacks launched by Russian artillery have resulted in the neutralisation of an AFU assault detachment that was redeploying towards Kirovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic) near Torskoye forestry.
Over 20 Ukrainian personnel and 4 armoured motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Russian troops deployed near Vremevka (Donetsk People’s Republic) at Zaporozhye direction continued eliminating the enemy forces at their frontline and seized the heights near Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Over 40 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank and 3 infantry combat vehicles have been eliminated.
Up to 3 enemy battalions, including 1 armoured, made several attempts to break the defence of Russian troops near Koshara and Pyatikhatki (Kherson region) at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Russian units have maintained their positions and caused considerable casualties among enemy forces during fierce battles.
Over 250 Ukrainian personnel, 11 tanks, 14 armoured combat vehicles and 2 field artillery guns have been eliminated.
Russian troops have repelled the attacks launched by up to 1 mechanised infantry company per each towards Sadok (Kherson region), Zelyony Gai, Tamarino and Ternoviye Pody (Nikolayev region) at Andreyevka and Nikolayev directions.
Intense action of Russian troops supported by artillery has resulted in repelling all the attacks.
Up to 45 Ukrainian personnel, 4 armoured combat vehicles and 8 pickups with large-calibre machine guns have been eliminated.
Moreover, Russian unmanned aerial vehicles have destroyed 4 Zoopark artillery reconnaissance radars Zoopark and 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 electronic warfare system.
Over 350 Ukrainian personnel, 11 tanks, 18 armoured combat vehicles, 8 special motor vehicles and 2 field artillery guns have been eliminated at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 3 command posts near Koroviy Yar, Nikiforovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novoosinovo (Kharkov region), 42 artillery units at their firing positions, 141 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
5 munitions depots have been destroyed near Davydov Brod (Kherson region), Shandrigolovo (Donetsk People’s Republic), as well as at the territory of a shipyard in Zaporozhye.
Air defence facilities have shot down 11 unmanned aerial vehicles over Nikolskoye, Blagoveshchenka, Andreyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Podgornoye (Zaporozhye region), Sukhanovo, Staritsa, Charivnoye, Maksima Gorkogo, Kuybyshevo (Kherson region).
Moreover, 8 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS have been intercepted near Kakhovka and Antonovka (Kherson region).
In total, 323 airplanes and 161 helicopters, 2,247 unmanned aerial vehicles, 380 air defence missile systems, 5,830 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 870 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,480 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,595 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 18:00, on October 16, 2022
The two hundred-thirty-fifth (235) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on trying to restrain the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive positions and lines in separate 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 current day, the enemy launched one missile and ten air strikes, carried out eight MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than ten settlements were hit by russian occupiers. In particular, Strilecha and Terny in the Kharkiv oblast, Pavlivka and Novosilka in the Donetsk oblast, and Pravdyne and Bilohirka in the Kherson oblast.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. A planned rotation of units of the Armed Forces of the republic of belarus involved in the protection of the state border is being carried out. The threat of missile and airstrikes, as well as the use of „Shahed-136“ attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus, remains.
The enemy fired in such directions:
in the Siversky direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Senkivka, Hasychivka, Mykolaivka and Progress of the Chernihiv oblast and Bachivsk, Sosnivka and Pokrovka of the Sumy region;
in the Slobozhansk direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Kozacha Lopan, Strilecha, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Vovchanski Khutory, Zubyne, Lyptsi, Zarichne, and Kupyansk-Vuzlovy settlements of the Kharkiv oblast;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from tanks and artillery along the contact line. In particular, in the areas of Hrekivka and Bilohorivka settlements in Luhansk oblast and Zarichne, Rozdolivka, Serebryanka and Yakovlivka in Donetsk oblast;
in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery along the entire line of contact.
On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy shelled more than twenty-five settlements. Among them are Vilne Pole, Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Novopil, Zolota Nyva and Vuhledar of the Donetsk oblast and Zeleniy Hai, Shcherbaki, Orikhiv and Charivne of the Zaporizhzhia oblast.
In the South Buh direction, more than thirty-five settlements along the contact line were hit by fire. In particular, Biloghirka, Novooleksandrivka, Suhy Stavok in the Kherson oblast and Shyroke, Kiselivka, Ternovi Pody and Stepova Dolyna in the Mykolayiv oblast.
The occupiers are intensifying filtering measures in the Kherson oblast and have begun the process of evacuating so-called „state“ institutions. According to available information, employees and property of banks and a pension fund are being taken from Kherson to the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea.
The level of the moral and psychological state of the population in the border regions of the russian federation has significantly decreased. In particular, this is caused by the lack of medical care for civilians. According to available information, due to the mobilization of medical workers and an increase in the flow of wounded, civilians are being denied medical services in hospitals of the Belgorod region.
Our defenders continue to hold back the enemy and cause him losses in manpower and equipment.
During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made more than twenty strikes. Seventeen areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as four positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems, were confirmed to have been hit. In addition, our air defense units shot down one enemy UAV.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit one enemy command post during the current day.