Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 29. Oktober 2022 (m. Ergänzung)

Im andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine hat die russische Regierung aktuell Großbritannien als Hauptgegner im Blick – britische Einheiten hätten Angriffe auf der besetzten Krim unterstützt und zudem die Nordstream-Pipelines gesprengt. Der Sammler am 29. Oktober 2022:

• Am (heutigen) Samstagmorgen wurden Explosionen auf der russischen Marinebasis Sewastopol auf der annektierten Krim beobachtet. Bislang unbestätigte Meldungen sprechen von schwer wiegenden Auswirkungen auf die russische Schwarzmeerflotte. Das russische Verteidigungsministerium bestätigte grundsätzlich die Angriffe, die aber nur geringe Auswirkungen gehabt hätten – und machte Großbritannien sowohl für die Planung dieser Angriffe als auch für die Anschläge auf die Nordstream-Pipelines in der Ostsee verantwortlich. Aus dem Telegram-Kanal des Ministeriums:

Today at 4.20 am, the Kiev regime carried out a terrorist attack against the ships of the Black Sea Fleet and civilian ships that were on the outer and inner roadsteads of the Sevastopol base.
The attack involved nine unmanned aerial vehicles and seven autonomous maritime drones.
The prompt measures taken by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed all air targets.
When repulsing the terrorist attack on the outer roadstead of Sevastopol, four marine unmanned vehicles were annihilated by shipborne weapons and maritime aviation of the Black Sea Fleet, and three more were destroyed on the inner roadstead.
Minor damage was received by the sea minesweeper Ivan Golubets as well as the floating net boom in Yuzhnaya Bay.
It should be emphasised that the ships of the Black Sea Fleet that were subjected to the terrorist attack are involved in ensuring the security of the ‘grain corridor’ as part of an international initiative to export agricultural products from Ukrainian ports.
The preparation of this terrorist act and the training of military personnel of 73rd Marine Special Operations Center were carried out under supervision of British specialists in the city of Ochakov, Nikolayev region in Ukraine.
According to the available information, representatives of this unit from the British Navy were involved in plotting, organising, and implementation of the terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on 26 September this year to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

Ergänzung: Das britische Verteidigungsministerium wies die Vorwürfe umgehend zurück:

Im Internet kursieren inzwischen etliche Videos, die den Einsatz ukrainischer Überwasserdrohnen gegen die Kriegsschiffe in Sewastopol belegen sollen. Unter anderem sei die russische Fregatte Admiral Makarow beschädigt worden:

Update: als Reaktion auf den Angriff setzte Russland die vereinbarte Zustimmung zu Getreidelieferungen aus der Ukraine über deren Schwarzmeerhäfen aus. Aus der Übersicht von AP:

The Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday that Moscow has moved to suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain deal which has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine and has brought down global food prices.
The ministry cited an alleged Ukrainian drone attack against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet ships moored off the coast of occupied Crimea, which Russia says took place early Saturday, as the reason for the move. Ukraine has denied the attack.

• Der litauische Verteidigungsminister Arvydas Anušauskas berichtete via Twitter von der regelmäßigen Instandsetzung der von Deutschland an die Ukraine gelieferten Panzerhaubitzen. Nach seinen Angaben werden voraussichtlich zwölf Geschütze repariert; 14 Panzerhaubitzen waren aus Deutschland übergeben worden.

• Das britische Intel Update:

On 27 October 2022, the Russian-appointed governor of Ukraine’s occupied Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said that more than 70,000 people had now left Kherson city.
On 26 October 2022, Saldo also claimed that Russia had removed the remains of the well-known 18th century Russian statesman, Prince Grigory Potemkin, from his tomb in Kherson’s cathedral to east of the Dnipro.
In the Russian national identity, Potemkin is heavily associated with the Russian conquest of Ukrainian lands in the 18th century and highlights the weight Putin almost certainly places on perceived historical justification for the invasion.
This symbolic removal of Potemkin and the civilian exodus likely pre-empts Russian intent to expedite withdrawal from the area.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on October 29, 2022
The two-hundred-forty-eights (248) 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, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, while at the same time not stopping offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and is not abandoning attempts to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Vodyane, Kamianka and Nevelske settlements of the Donetsk oblast.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line, carrying out fortification equipment of positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
Over the past day, the enemy launched 4 rocket and up to 25 air strikes, launched more than 70 attacks from rocket salvo systems.
Areas of more than 35 settlements were hit by the enemy. Among them are Siversk and Prechystivka of the Donetsk oblast; Mali Shcherbaki, Zaporizhzhia oblast; Davydiv Brid and Mala Seideminukha in the Kherson oblast and Kobzarka, Mykolaiv oblast.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of this country remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Hai, Khrinivka, and Leonivka, Chernihiv oblast;
in the Slobozhansky direction – with the use of artillery of various types, in the areas of Veterynarne, Dvorichna, Starytsa, Strilecha and Chugunivka settlements;
on the Kupyansk and Lyman directions – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Berestove, Nevske, Spirne, Olhivka and Novoyehorivka settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks and artillery of various calibers, in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Soledar, Zelenopillia and Yakovlivka;
in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Vodyane, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske settlements.
In the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy fired at the positions of the Defense Forces and civilian infrastructure in the areas of Velika Novosilka, Vremivka, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, and Pavlivka.
More than 20 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buh direction. To conduct aerial reconnaissance, the enemy made about 20 flies of UAVs of various types.
In connection with the unstable operation of medical aviation, the unpreparedness of the medical infrastructure of the Belgorod region, the 100% capacity of hospitals, the enemy is forced to evacuate the wounded by buses to nearby Voronezh.
In the Beryslav settlement of the Kherson oblast, the occupiers are en masse changing into civilian clothes and moving into private residences.
The so-called „evacuation“ of occupiers from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, including medical facilities, continues. All equipment and medicines are taken out of Kherson hospitals. Doctors who refuse to leave are not allowed to enter hospital grounds, even for personal belongings.
As a result of point strikes by units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine, about 300 occupiers who were preparing for another attack were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Mayorsk the day before. About 60 more lightly wounded were taken the next day to medical facilities in the city of Horlivka. Up to 20 enemy servicemen were eliminated in the village of Chervonopopivka, Luhansk oblast, and about 30 occupiers were wounded of various degrees of severity.
During the past 24 hours, the Air Force of the Defence Forces carried out 24 strikes on the areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as on the positions of the enemy’s air defence systems. In different directions, our air defense units shot down two Su-25 attack aircraft, one Mi-8 helicopter and one enemy UAV.
During the current day, soldiers of the missile troops and artillery hit the positions of batteries of self-propelled artillery installations and other important military objects of the enemy.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums (ohne Erwähnung des Angriffs auf Sewastopol):

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (29 October 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In the Kupyansk direction, as a result of the active actions of the Russian troops, two reinforced companies of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a unit of foreign mercenaries were defeated close to Timkovka, Ivanovka, Tabayevka, and Krakhmalnoye (Kharkov region). More than 70 Ukrainian personnel and militants, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armoured personnel carriers, and ten cars were annihilated.
Near Staroverovka (Kharkov region), two U.S. HIMARS MLRS installations, four tanks, 15 vehicles, a muniton depot, and 43 Ukrainian militants were neutralised by a missile strike.
In the Krasny Liman direction, the enemy carried on unsuccessful attacks by tank and motorised infantry companies in the direction of Chervonopopovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Artillery fire and army aviation strikes eliminated more than 70 Ukrainian personnel, four tanks, two armoured combat vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
In the Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog direction, the AFU launched five attacks by company tactical groups in the directions of Mylovoye, Sukhanovo, Pyatikhatki, Ishchenko, Bruskinskoye, and Sadok (Kherson region).
As a result of the fire damage and successful actions of the Russian troops, the enemy was thrown back to the initial positions. More than 60 Ukrainian personnel, 17 armoured fighting vehicles, and 12 cars were destroyed.
Unmanned aerial vehicles strikes successfully eliminated a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft self-propelled missile system and two U.S. M777 howitzers near Vysokopolye and Novogrigorovka (Kherson region).
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery neutralised nine AFU command posts close to Petropavlovka and Ivanovka (Kharkov region), Dopropolye, Zvanovka, Torskoye, and Vodyanoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Trifonovka, Andreyevka, and Davydov Brod (Kherson region) as well as 68 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 189 areas.
Two ammunition depots were wiped out in the areas of the settlements of Novoaleksandrovka (Kherson region) and Kolodezi (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 MiG-29 of Ukrainian Air Force near Prishib (Nikolayev region).
Russia’s Air Defence shot down 14 unmanned aerial vehicles close to Arapovka, Svatovo, Raevka, and Rudovo (Lugansk People’s Republic), Elenovka and Shevchenko (Donetsk People’s Republic), Burchak (Zaporozhye region), Novokamenka, Mylovoye, Klapaya, and Charivnoye (Kherson region).
In addition, nine shells of the U.S. HIMARS MLRS were shot down near Novaya Kakhovka, Olgino, and Otradokamenka (Kherson region), as well as eight American HARM anti-radiation missiles close to Zelenovka and Antonovka (Kherson region) and Svistunovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
In total, 327 airplanes and 164 helicopters, 2,370 unmanned aerial vehicles, 384 air defence missile systems, 6,162 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 878 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,536 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,863 units of special military equipment 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 29, 2022
The two-hundred-forty-eights (248) 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, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, while at the same time not stopping offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
The enemy continues shelling units of the Defence Forces along the contact line, carries out fortification equipment of the lines in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes critical infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
During the day, the enemy launched 5 missile and 7 air strikes, carried out more than 29 MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than 15 settlements were hit by enemy attacks. In particular, Slovyansk and Siversk in the Donetsk oblast and Novooleksandrivka in the Kherson oblast.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from mortars, in the areas of Rozhkovychi and Budky settlements of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Veterynarne, Vilkhuvatka, Hatyshche, Hryhorivka, Dvorichna, Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Strilecha and Chuhunivka;
in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions – from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Tabayivka, Berestove, Nevske, Olhivka, Novoyehorivka, and Yampolivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Zvanivka, Siversk, Soledar, Zarichne, New York, Vasyukivka and Serebryanka settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction, the enemy inflicted fire damage in the areas of the settlements of Avdiivka, Nevelske, Vesele, Vodyane, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske and Opytne.
The occupiers did not conduct active offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhia directions. Shelling from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery was recorded in the areas of Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, Vremivka, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Pavlivka, Olhivske and Chervone settlements.
Nikopol and Vyshchetarasivka of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast were directly affected by rocket and barrel artillery fire in the South Buh direction.
The vehicles that were in the communal property of the city of Kherson were moved by the invaders to the temporarily occupied Crimea. Information regarding the removal of medical preparations from most pharmacies in the city is confirmed. Since October 26 of this year, the occupation authorities suspended the medical staff of several city hospitals, the medical equipment from which the russian occupiers took away.
Under the pretext of conducting preparations for the defence of the city of Nova Kakhovka, the russian military is conducting a forced evacuation of the local population from the streets located on the banks of the Dnipro River.
According to available information, the illegal armed formations of the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region have significant problems with financial support. Militants do not receive assigned payments.
Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck the enemy 17 times during the day. 11 of them – in areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 3 – in platoon strongholds, and 3 – in positions of enemy air defense complexes. In different directions, Ukrainian air defense shot down an enemy Kh-59 guided missile and 2 Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles.
During the current 24 hours, units of missile troops and artillery hit 4 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 2 ammunition warehouses, an anti-aircraft missile installation and 6 other important military objects of the occupiers.