Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 24. Oktober 2022

Nachgetragen fürs Archiv: Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler vom 24. Oktober 2022:

• Die russische Anschuldigung, Ukraine bereite den Einsatz einer schmutzigen Bombe vor, bleibt weiterhin ein wichtiger Punkt in der internationalen Beobachtung des Krieges – vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der Befürchtung, Russland wolle mit dieser Behauptung einen eigenen Angriff dieser Art verschleiern. (Eine Übersicht der Entwicklung hier bei der Voice of America)

Die Internationale Atomenergie-Agentur erklärte, sie habe auf Bitten der Ukraine an zwei – nicht genannten – Nuklearstandorten ihre Überwachung intensiviert:

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is aware of statements made by the Russian Federation on Sunday about alleged activities at two nuclear locations in Ukraine, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.
Director General Grossi confirmed that both locations are under IAEA safeguards and have been visited regularly by IAEA inspectors. He added that the IAEA received a written request from Ukraine today to send teams of inspectors to carry out verification activities at the two locations.
“The IAEA inspected one of these locations one month ago and all our findings were consistent with Ukraine’s safeguards declarations,” said Director General Grossi. “No undeclared nuclear activities or material were found there.”
The IAEA is preparing to visit the locations in the coming days. The purpose of the safeguards visits is to detect any possible undeclared nuclear activities and material.

• Über die russische Behauptung, Ukraine plane den Einsatz einer schmutzigen Bombe, sprach auch der britische Generalstabschef Tony Radakin mit seinem russischen Kollegen Waleri Wassiljewitsch Gerassimow:

At the request of the Russian Ministry of Defence, the Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, spoke with his Russian counterpart, General of the Army Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov, this afternoon.
The Chief of the Defence Staff rejected Russia’s allegations that Ukraine is planning actions to escalate the conflict, and he restated the UK’s enduring support for Ukraine.
The military leaders both agreed on the importance of maintaining open channels of communication between the UK and Russia to manage the risk of miscalculation and to facilitate de-escalation.
The conversation followed the Defence Secretary’s call with his Russian counterpart yesterday and a call between the Foreign Ministers of France, the UK, and the USA last night.

Auch zwischen US-Generalstabschef Mark Milley und Gerassimow gab es ein Telefonat, allerdings wurden dazu keine Details bekannt, wie Reuters berichtet.

Das russische Außenministerium erneuerte dagegen den Vorwurf:

Das britische Intel Update:

Russia continues to use Iranian uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) against targets throughout Ukraine. Ukrainian efforts to defeat the Shahed-136 UAVs are increasingly successful.
With official sources, including President Zelenskyy, claiming that up to 85% of attacks are being intercepted.
These UAVs are slow, noisy and fly at low altitudes, making lone aircraft easy to target conventional air defences.
Russia is likely expending a high number of Iranian Shahed-136 UAVs in order to penetrate increasingly effective Ukrainian air defences.
It is likely using them as a substitute for Russian-manufactured long-range precision weapons which are becoming increasingly scarce.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on October 24, 2022
The two-hundred-forty-third (243) 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, improve the tactical position, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, and at the same time conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
According to available information, the russian federation continues the training of a part of the mobilized persons at the combined military training grounds and in the training units of specialists of certain specialities.
Over the past 24 hours, the Defence Forces of Ukraine have repelled attacks by the occupiers in the areas of Zemlianka and Chuhunivka settlements of Kharkiv oblast, as well as Soledar, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Klishchiivka, Novomykhailivka, Maryinka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske and Avdiivka of Donetsk oblast.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Over the past day, the russian occupiers have launched missile and air strikes on the infrastructure and homes of the civilian population, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war.
In general, during the previous day, the occupiers launched 2 missile and 28 air strikes, carried out 65 MLRS attacks.
Objects of civil infrastructure in the settlements of Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Novotavrycheske of the Zaporizhzhia oblast were hit by enemy attacks.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
During October of this year, measures to check mobilization resources are ongoing on the territory of the republic of belarus. Special groups have been created at local executive authorities to check and clarify information on potential conscripts. The type of activity of men of conscription age, military accounting specialities and marital status is being clarified.
There is still a threat of launching missile and air strikes against the critical infrastructure of Ukraine from the territory of the republic of belarus, including the use of Iranian-made attack UAVs.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Slobozhansky direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Hryhorivka, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Starytsa, Petro-Ivanivka, Fiholivka, Khatnye, Chervona Zorya and Chugunivka settlements;
in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions – from tanks and artillery of various calibres, in the areas of the settlements of Berestovka, Hrekivka, Zarichne, Kovalivka, Makiivka, Yampolivka, Kamianka and Bilohorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Zelenopillia, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, New York, Ozaryanivka, Opytne, Soledar, Spirne and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka region – from tanks and artillery of various types, in the areas of Avdiivka, Opytne, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Kostyantynivka, Pervomaiske, Novomykhailivka, Maryinka, Prechistivka, Novopil, Novosilka and Zaliznychne;
on the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions – from barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Malynivka, Mykilske, Olhivske, Pavlivka and Shevchenko.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy fired in the areas of populated areas near the contact line. Among them are Shevchenkove, Ternovi Pody, Myrne, Novohryhorivka, Kvitneve, Kiselivka, Blahodativka, Novopoltavka, Bilohirka, Davydiv Brid and Trifonivka. The infrastructure of Nikopol and Ilyinka of Dnipropetrovsk region was directly affected by rocket and barrel artillery fire.
According to updated information, the destruction of three BM-21 „Hrad“ multiple rocket launcher systems, as well as the evacuation of about seventy wounded enemy servicemen on October 22 of this year in the Mykhailivka settlement of Zaporizhzhia oblast, has been confirmed.
In the city of Energodar, the russian occupiers rotated personnel at the nuclear power plant. Further, the facts of physical and moral pressure on employees of the Zaporizhia NPP in order to force them to sign contracts with the rosatom Corporation are recorded. In addition, the invaders forbade the employees of the power plant to leave the territory controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
Aviation of the Defence Forces during the past day made 11 strikes. It has been confirmed that 11 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment of the enemy have been destroyed. Air defence units shot down 12 „Shahed-136“ UAVs.
Over the past day, Ukrainian missile forces and artillery hit four control points, five areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, four ammunition depots, an anti-aircraft missile complex, an area of artillery firing positions and other important enemy objects.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (24 October 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, the hostile forces of up to three motorised infantry companies attempted to attack the Russian positions close to Pershotravnevoye, Orlyanka, and Berestovoye (Kharkov region). All the enemy’s attacks have been repelled. As a result of the fire damage, the AFU units were forced back to their initial positions. More than 25 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, 5 armoured personnel carriers, and 4 pickup trucks were eliminated.
In the Krasny Liman direction, up to two mechanised companies from the AFU attempted to infiltrate the Russian troops’ line of defence in the direction of Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People’s Republic). The enemy was driven back to the initial frontier by the aircraft and artillery fire, and defending forces. More than 20 Ukrainian personnel and 2 infantry fighting vehicles were neutralised.
In the South-Donetsk direction, the enemy with the forces of two company tactical groups attacked the Russian positions in the directions of Sladkoye and Vladimirovka (Donetsk People’s Republic). The enemy’s attack was repulsed by artillery fire and active actions of the Russian troops. In total, 25 Ukrainian personnel were defeated, as well as 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 2 pickup trucks.
In the Nykolayev–Krivoy Rog direction, with the help of a battalion tactical group, the enemy attempted to attack the Russian positions near Bruskinskoye, Pyatikhatki, and Trifonovka (Kherson region). As a result of fire damage and concentrated strikes by Russian artillery, more than 80 Ukrainian personnel, 11 armoured combat vehicles, and 15 cars were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery neutralised 4 AFU command posts close to Stepovaya Novosyolovka (Kharkov region), Davydov Brod, Andreyevka (Kherson region), Olenovka (Nykolayev region), 72 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 174 areas.
1 munition depot was annihilated close to Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region).
Russian Air Defence units have shot down 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Yagodnoye (Kharkov region), Shevchenko, and Maly Kermenchik (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In addition, 21 projectiles of HIMARS and Olkha MLRS were intercepted over Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic, and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region).
In total, 325 airplanes and 162 helicopters, 2,326 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 anti-aircraft missile systems, 6,020 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 874 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 3,521 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,741 units of special military hardware 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 24, 2022
The two-hundred-forty-third (243) 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, improve the tactical position, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
During the current day, the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Maryinka and Pervomaiske settlements. Thanks to successful actions, our troops pushed the enemy out of the settlements of Karmazynivka, Myasozharivka and Nevske in the Luhansk oblast and Novosadove in the Donetsk oblast.
According to available information, the russian federation continues the training of a part of the mobilized persons at the combined military training grounds and in the training units of specialists of certain specialties. During the implementation of the mentioned training activities, the enemy has significant problems due to the shortage of officer and sergeant positions in the instructor-teaching staff of training units (training grounds, training centers). This is caused by the death of most of such specialists during hostilities, as well as due to the excessive number of those mobilized. There are quite a few cases of the appointment of rank-and-file members who have just signed a contract and have at least some combat experience to similar positions.
The command of the russian occupying forces is trying to raise the level of morale and psychological state of servicemen by sending ministers of the russian Orthodox Church from the Samara region to combat units on the territory of Ukraine. But most of them refuse to travel to the war zone due to the danger and lack of protective equipment.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. During the current day, the enemy launched missile and air strikes on the infrastructure and homes of the civilian population, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of warfare.
In general, during the current day, the occupiers launched three rocket and seven air strikes, carried out three MLRS attacks.
Objects of civil infrastructure in Kupiansk of Kharkiv region, Vugledar and Soledar of Donetsk region, and the city of Mykolaiv were hit by enemy attacks.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The threat of missile and air strikes on critical infrastructure facilities of Ukraine from the territory of the republic of belarus remains. In particular, iranian-made strike UAVs.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Slobozhansk direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Krasne, Ohirtseve, Starytsa and Chuhunivka settlements;
in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions – from tanks and artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Berestove, Kyslivka, Kamianka, Dronivka, Zarichne, Nadiya, and Bilohorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Zelenopillia, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka, Verkhnokamianske, Ozaryanivka, Opytne, Soledar, Spirne and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of the settlements of Avdiivka, Berdychi, Vodyane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Kostyantynivka, Novomykhailivka, Maryinka, and Pervomaiske;
in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporizhia directions – from tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Vuhledar, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Malynivka, Mykilske, Olhivske, Pavlivka and Shevchenko.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy fired, in particular, in the areas of Kvitnevy, Blahodatny, Bilohirka, Pravdyny, Partizanske, Davidiv Brid and Trifonivka.
In order to slow down the counteroffensive of our units, the occupiers continue to mine bridges and crossings on the retreat routes in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
In order to replenish current losses, the russian occupying forces continue to actively recruit prisoners both on the territory of russia and in the temporarily occupied territories. Thus, most of the criminals were released from the correctional colony No. 90 in the city of Kherson, after the so-called talks with representatives of the federal security service of the russian federation. At the same time, the occupiers continue to evacuate the wounded to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made seventeen strikes. It was confirmed that thirteen areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment of the enemy and four positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed. In addition, air defense units shot down two helicopters in different directions.
During the current day, Ukrainian missile forces and artillery hit four control points, ten areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, six ammunition depots, an anti-aircraft missile complex, an area of artillery firing positions and three other important enemy objects.