Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 17. Oktober 2022

Im andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine bleiben die Städte weitab der Front im Visier russischer Luftangriffe – offensichtlich zunehmend mit iranischen Drohnen. Der Sammler am 17. Oktober 2022:

• Die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kiew wurde am (heutigen) Montag mit Drohnen offensichtlich aus iranischer Produktion angegriffen, vier Menschen starben. Aus einem Bericht der New York Times:

In strikes early in the war and last week, destruction arrived in Kyiv as a bolt from the blue, with missiles streaking in at tremendous speeds. Monday’s drone attack was different, with residents aware of the drones overhead, seeking their targets.
The strikes highlighted Russia’s growing use of Iranian-made drones, which explode on impact and are easier to shoot down, as Western analysts say Moscow’s stocks of precision missiles are running low. While Iran has officially denied supplying Russia with drones for use in Ukraine, U.S. officials said that the first batch of such weapons was delivered in August.
Drones flew low over office buildings and apartment blocks in the center of Kyiv, visible from the streets below and adding a frisson of terror. Soldiers at checkpoints or other positions in the city opened fire with their rifles.

In verschiedenen Meldungen hieß es, die ukrainische Luftverteidigung habe von den 43 auf Kiew gerichteten Drohnen 37 abgeschossen. Im Lagebriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs (s. unten) ist allerdings nur von 25 abgeschossenen UAV des iranischen Typs Shahed-136 die Rede.

 

• Das britische Intel Update:

Logistical issues faced by Russian forces in southern Ukraine have likely become more acute following damage to the Kerch Bridge on 08 October 2022. Repair efforts are ongoing, and it is open to some traffic. However, a large queue of waiting cargo trucks remains backed up near the crossing.
Russian forces operating in southern Ukraine are likely increasing logistical supply flow via Mariupol in an attempt to compensate for the reduced capacity of the Kerch Bridge.
With the Russian presence in Kherson strained, and the supply routes through Crimea degraded, the ground line of communication through Zaporizhzhia Oblast is becoming more important to the sustainability of Russia’s occupation.
The city of Melitopol is a junction of supply routes and hosts a major Russian aviation presence.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 6:00, on October 17, 2022
Тhe two hundred-thirty-sixth (236) 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 Defence 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 two missile and twenty-six air strikes, launched more than eighty MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than twenty settlements were hit by the enemy. In particular, Bilopillia in the Sumy oblast, Slovyansk, Pavlivka and Novosilka in the Donetsk oblast, Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Pravdyne and Biloghirka in the Kherson oblast. The enemy attacked Mykolaiv with fifteen kamikaze drones, eleven of them were shot down by our defenders.
In the Volyn, Polissya and Siverskyi directions, the situation remains unchanged. There is still a threat of missile and air strikes, as well as the use of the „Shahed-136“ attack UAV from the territory of the republic of belarus.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Slobozhansky direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Veterynarne, Vysoka Yaruga, Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, Gatishche, Dvorichne, Zelene, Kozacha Lopan, Krasne and Ogirtseve settlements of the Kharkiv region;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from tanks, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Berestov, Petropavlivka, Pershotravneve settlements of the Kharkiv oblast; Hrekivka and Novoyehorivka in Luhansk oblast and Zarichne, Terny, Torske and Yampolivka in Donetsk oblast;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks and rocket artillery in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Opytne, Soledar and Yakovlivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast;
in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Berdychi, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk region.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Fired artillery of various types in the areas of Bohoyavlenka, Velyka Novosilka, Volodymyrivka, Vuhledar and Paraskoviivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast.
In the South Buh direction, more than twenty-five settlements along the contact line suffered fire damage. In particular, Nikopol and Novokamyanka in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Ternovi Pody, Partyzanske, Shyroke in the Mykolaiv oblast, and Myrne in the Kherson oblast.
The occupiers are trying to replenish their losses in manpower and massively mobilize men in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, according to the available information, in Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk oblast, employees of communal services were forcibly registered for military service under russian legislation and conducted a so-called medical examination. According to its results, all were found to be suitable for military service.
It was confirmed that the enemy’s manpower, weapons and military equipment had been destroyed in the previous days. As a result of accurate strikes by the Defence Forces, the enemy suffered the following losses in the populated areas of the Zaporizhzhia oblast: Molochansk – up to 40 wounded, Kamianka-Dniprovska – 5 units of weapons and military equipment and about 25 wounded, Enerhodar – up to 20 wounded, Orihiv and Hulyaipole – up to 5 units of weapons and military equipment and up to 50 wounded, Polohy – about 7 units of military equipment and up to 30 wounded. The information is being clarified.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Torske, Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast.
Air Defence Forces have carried out more than thirty strikes in the past 24 hours. It has been confirmed that twenty-five areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as six positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems, have been hit. Also, our air defence units shot down fifteen enemy UAVs.
Missile forces and artillery hit two control points, one anti-aircraft defence position and one ammunition warehouse over the past day.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (October 17, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued launching attacks with high-precision long-range air- and sea-based armament at the military control and energy system facilities of Ukraine.
All the assigned targets have been neutralised.
Russian artillery and army aviation have neutralised the manpower and military equipment of 14th and 92nd mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) near Sinkovka, Petropavlovsk, Peschanoye, Ivanovka and Berestovoye (Kharkov region) at Kupyansk direction.
About 160 Ukrainian personnel, 4 armoured combat vehicles, 2 artillery guns, 1 pickup and 2 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
AFU battalion tactical group made an unsuccessful attempt to launch an offensive towards Stryapovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) at Lisichansk direction.
Intense action of Russian troops has resulted in driving the AFU units back to their initial positions.
Over 50 Ukrainian personnel, 6 tanks, 2 armoured combat vehicles and 4 pickups have been eliminated.
Russian troops have prevented an attempt made by AFU units to break the defence near Bruskinskoye (Kherson region) at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Over 100 Ukrainian personnel, 13 armoured combat vehicles and 8 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 2 command posts near Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region), Drobyshevo (Donetsk People’s Republic), 39 artillery units at their firing positions, 127 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
6 munitions depots have been destroyed near Figolevka (Kharkov region), Verkhnekamenskoye, Soledar (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novogrigorovka (Nikolayev region), Novopetrovka and Davydov Brod (Kherson region).
1 storage of fuel for AFU military equipment has been destroyed near Nikolayev. Moreover, 1 post for AFU armament and equipment repar works has been destroyed near Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region).
Within the counterbattery warfare, 1 Ukrainian Smerch MLRS battery has been neutralised near Kazachaya Lopan, as well as 1 U.S.-manufactured M777 howitzer battery near Metallovka (Kharkov region).
Air defence facilities have destroyed 9 unmanned aerial vehicles near Yagodnoye (Kharkov region), Pilipovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Novosyolka, Valeryanovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Shirokaya Balka, Sukhanovo, Tomarino, Pyatikhatki and Ingulovka (Kherson region).
21 projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS have been shot down near Vladimirovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Olgovka, Nikolayevka, Novaya Kakhovka, Vesyoloye and Otradokamenka (Kherson region).
Moreover, 2 U.S.-manufactured HARM anti-radar missiles have been intercepted near Antonovka (Kherson region).
In total, 323 airplanes and 161 helicopters, 2,256 unmanned aerial vehicles, 380 air defence missile systems, 5,855 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 871 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,484 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,610 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update regarding the russian invasion as of 18:00, on October 17, 2022
The two hundred thirty-sixth (236) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The enemy is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, at the same time, it does not abandon attempts to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda and Nevelske of the Donetsk oblast.
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 9 missile and 39 air strikes, carried out about 30 MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than 25 settlements were hit by the enemy. Among them are Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia; Kozacha Lopan and Strilecha of Kharkiv oblast; Krasnohorivka, Terny, Soledar and Maryinka of the Donetsk oblast, Bilohirka of the Kherson region; as well as other settlements of Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Sumy oblasts.
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.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes. 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 other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from artillery of various types, in the Popivka and Khodyno settlements of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Vysoka Yaruha, Vovchansk, Vovchanski Khutory, Kozacha Lopan, Ohirtseve and Hatyshche;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from tanks and artillery along the contact line. In particular, in the areas of Grekivka, Stelmakhivka, Zarichne, Kiselyvka, Terny and Yampolivka settlements;
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 25 settlements. Among them are Velyka Novosilka, Pavlivka, Olhivske and Mali Shcherbaky.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy is defending previously occupied lines and positions. Fires at objects of military and civilian infrastructure. Areas of more than 35 settlements along the contact line were damaged by fire.
According to the clarified information, the results of fire damage to enemy units have been confirmed. More than 40 occupiers were injured in the Melitopol settlement of the Zaporizhzhia oblast as a result of point-blank artillery strikes by the Defence Forces. An ammunition depot was destroyed in Berdyansk. Up to 30 invaders were wounded in the village of Voskresenka, and up to 25 wounded in Vasylivka. The number of dead, which the occupiers are trying to hide, is being clarified.
In Kherson, the occupiers are forced to involve russian guard units in the engineering equipment of positions around the city. At the same time, measures are being taken to deport collaborators and their families to the territory of the temporarily occupied territory of the Republic of Crimea.
During the current day, the aviation of the Defence Forces has carried out more than 11 strikes. The defeat of 10 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as the position of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile complex, was confirmed. In addition, our air defence units shot down 25 enemy „Shahed-136“ UAVs.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit two control points, one area of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, two air defence facilities, 2 ammunition warehouses and other military targets of the enemy.