Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 6. Oktober 2022

Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 6. Oktober 2022:

• Zwar keine direkte Folge des aktuellen Kriegs in der Ukraine, mittelbar aber durchaus im Zusammenhang: Die US-Armee in Europa hat am (heutigen) Donnerstag eine neue Artilleriebrigade zur bodengebundenen Luftverteidigung in Dienst gestellt, stationiert in Rheinland-Pfalz. Aus dem Bericht der US-Soldatenzeitung Stars&Stripes:

The Army activated a new artillery brigade in Germany on Thursday that is focused on protecting U.S. and allied forces from potential aerial threats.
The 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade adds to the expanded American military presence in Europe, which was sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and concerns of a potential spillover into NATO territory. (…)
The brigade headquarters will provide command and control for all Army air and missile defense forces in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. It will report to the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.
“This strengthens the alliance and makes us all much safer,” Brig. Gen Maurice Barnett, commander of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said Thursday, adding that the events in Ukraine were a reminder of the importance of air missile defense.

… und ein Zitat, dass so wohl nur von einem US-General kommt:

“If your primary assets are obliterated by (tactical ballistic missiles) and cruise missiles, winning becomes increasingly difficult,” Barnett said.

• Das britische Intel Update:

Ukraine’s Armed Forces started a new phase of offensive operations in Kherson Oblast on 2 October 2022.
Advancing south, Ukrainian units have pushed the front line forwards by up to an additional 20km, primarily making gains along the east bank of the Inhulets and west bank of the Dnipro, but not yet threatening the main Russian defensive positions.
Russian forces have typically broken contact and withdrawn. Russian commanders are likely to see the growing threat to the Nova Kakhovka sector as one of their most pressing concerns.
The damaged river crossing over the Dnipro in this area remains one of the few routes available for them to resupply forces.
Russia faces a dilemma: withdrawal of combat forces across the Dnipro makes defence of the rest of Kherson Oblast more tenable; but the political imperative will be to remain and defend.
Russia has committed the majority of its severely undermanned airborne forces, the VDV, to the defence of Kherson.
Therefore, Russia currently has few additional, high quality rapidly deployable forces available to stabilise the front: it likely aims to deploy mobilised reservists to the sector.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 06:00, on October 6, 2022
The two hundred-twenty-fifth (225) 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 attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, does not stop attempts to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. The enemy is regrouping units in separate areas.
The shelling of our positions along the contact line continues, the enemy carries out remote mining of the territory in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers have launched 5 rocket and 8 air strikes, and fired more than 65 MLRS attacks. Objects and the civilian population of more than thirty settlements were damaged by enemy strikes. Among them are Bila Tserkva, Kupyansk, Bilohorivka, Siversk, Karlivka, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhya, Hulyaipole, Progress, Nikopol and Myrne.
There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – in the areas of Rozhkovychi and Fotovyzh settlements of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansky direction – in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Veterynarne, Strilecha, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Hlyboke, Neskuchne, and Milove;
in the Kramatorsk direction – near Verkhnyokamyanske, Ivanivka, Serebryanka and Spirne;
in the Bakhmut direction – in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Odradivka, Mayorsk, New York and Yuryivka;
in the Avdiyivka direction – in the areas of Avdiyivka, Pervomaiske, Vodyane, Pisky, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Paraskoviyivka, Novomykhailivka.
On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy inflicted fire on the areas of the settlements of Novopil, Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Shakhtarske, Zolota Nyva, Poltavka, Hulyaipole, Chervone, Pavlivka, Hulyaipilske, Dorozhnyanka and Novoukrayinka.
In the South Buh direction, the occupiers continue to regroup and withdraw their units. More than 30 settlements along the contact line were shelled with tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery. In particular, Velyke Artakove, Bilohirka, Blahodativka, Andriyivka, Pervomaiske, Lyubomirivka, Soldatske, Pravdyne, Myrne and Oleksandrivka.
Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Soledar, Odradivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Mayorsk and Novomykhailivka.
As a result of the gradual liberation by the Defense Forces of the temporarily occupied territories, simultaneously with the departure of units of the russian occupation forces, the departure of henchmen of the occupation authorities is noted. Thus, according to available information, the movement of three buses of supporters of the occupiers was recorded from the village of Svatove to Novopskov, Luhansk oblast.
The situation is similar in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson oblast, where representatives of private security campaigns from the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea plan to evacuate back to the peninsula.
In the village of Rubizhne, Luhansk oblast, in order to search for Ukrainian saboteurs and partisans, the occupiers imposed a curfew and intensified filtering measures.
Information continues to be received about the mining of infrastructure facilities in the city of Enerhodar by the russian invaders.
The Air Force of the Defence Forces carried out more than fifteen strikes. The defeat of twelve areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as four anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy, was confirmed. In addition, nine enemy UAVs were shot down.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit two control and command points, fourteen areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, an ammunition depot, as well as eight other important enemy facilities.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (October 6, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Up to 3 battalion tactical groups made an unsuccessful attempt to resume their offensive towards Pershotravnevoye, Kislovka and Berestovoye at Kupyansk direction.
Decisive action of Russian forces has resulted in repelling all the attacks.
Up to 120 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), 5 tanks, 12 armoured combat vehicles and 14 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Kiev regime’s military units have conducted no active operations at Krasny Liman direction.
2 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been eliminated by Russian artillery fire near Petrovskoye (Kharkov region).
The attack has resulted in the elimination of 25 militants and 2 pickups with large-calibre machine guns mounted.
Offensive of the allied forces has resulted in the liberation of Zaytsevo (Donetsk People’s Republic) at Artyomovsk direction.
The offensive has resulted in the elimination of over 120 personnel from 58th Mechanised Infantry and 128th Mountain Assault brigades of the AFU, as well as 3 infantry combat vehicles.
Attacks launched by army aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces near Novy Komar (Donetsk People’s Republic) have resulted in the elimination of up to 60 servicemen from 56th Mechanised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 2 tanks and 5 motor vehicles.
4 enemy battalion tactical groups made numerous attempts to break through the defence of Russian forces towards Dudchany, Sukhanovo, Sadok, Bruskinskoye at Andreyevka-Krivoy Rog direction.
The enemy has been driven from the defence line of Russian forces.
Over 100 Ukrainian personnel, 6 tanks, 8 armoured combat vehicles and 9 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
Missile and air defence attacks launched by Russian Aerospace Forces at the provisional bases of 35th Marine Brigade of the AFU near Davydov Brod (Kherson region), 46yh Airmobile Brigade of the AFU near Murakhovka (Nikolayev region), 60th Infantry Brigade near Trifonovka and Novaya Kamenka (Kherson region) have resulted in the elimination of over 280 Ukrainian personnel and 9 units of military equipment.
High-precision missile attacks of Russian Aerospace Forces near Velikoye Artakovo (Nikolayev region), Novogrigorovka and Belaya Krinitsa (Kherson region) have resulted in the destruction of 3 pontoon crossings of the AFU over Ingulets river.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 9 AFU command posts, 63 artillery units at their firing positions, 173 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
4 missile, artillery armament and munitions depots have been destroyed near Seversk and Vodyanoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), as well as near Zaporozhye.
Within the counter-battery warfare, 2 Ukrainian Grad MLRS batteries have been neutralised by missile attacks near Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region) and Karpovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces have shot down 2 airplanes of Ukrainian Air Force: 1 MiG-29 near Novogrodovka and 1 Su-24 near Sviridonovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Air defence facilities have destroyed 9 Ukrainian UAVs near Chervonoarmeyskoye, Dmitriyenko, Charivnoye (Kherson region), Pokrovskoye, Poltava, Troitskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic), Orlinskoye and Mospino (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Moreover, 3 projectiles launched by Olkha MLRS have been shot down in air near Velikaya Novosyolka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
In total, 315 airplanes and 157 helicopters, 2,160 unmanned aerial vehicles, 379 air defence missile systems, 5,412 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 862 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,452 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,316 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 6, 2022
The two hundred-twenty-fifth (225) 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 attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. The enemy is regrouping its units in separate directions.
The enemy fires at our positions along the contact line, carries out engineering defense equipment in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential areas, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During this day, the occupiers launched 6 rocket and 7 air strikes, carried out more than 23 MLRS shellings.
Objects and civilian population of more than 25 settlements were damaged by enemy strikes. Among others, these are Zaporizhzhya, Shepetivka, Siversk, Bilohorivka, Olhivske and Hoptivka.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Senkivka, Yasna Polyana and Bleshnya of the Chernihiv oblast and Seredyna Buda, Kiyanytsia and Fotovyzh of the Sumy oblast, and the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Uda, Strilcha, Neskuchne, Hatyshche and Vilkhuvatka;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilohorivka, Siversk and Verkhnokamianske;
in the Bakhmut direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Kurdyumivka, New York and Zaitseve settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske, Paraskoviivka, Pisky and Novomykhailivka settlements;
the enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions. The infrastructure of more than twenty settlements was damaged by enemy shelling. In particular, Novoukrainka, Vremivka, Poltavka and Novopolya.
In the Southern Buh region, more than thirty settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire. Among them are Pravdyne, Myrne, Kiselyvka, Kobzartsi and Velike Artakove.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmutske, Yakovlivka, Odradivka, Zaitseve, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda, Vodyane and Lyubomirivka settlements.
According to available information, the partial mobilization announced by the military-political leadership of the russian federation actually „absorbs“ small settlements in remote regions of russia. Conscription is carried out by the method of roundups, practically all male population of conscription age is forcibly taken to military commissariats. At the same time, in Moscow, the demobilization plan, which accounts for less than 0.2 percent of the population in districts, has not been fulfilled by half.
As before, the russian invaders are using scorched earth tactics in Ukraine. Thus, during another chaotic retreat, the enemy blew up the dam, which caused the settlement of Raihorodok to flood. There is a mass destruction of archives and copies of documents, especially those containing the history of the occupation, in Kadiivka. In Svatovo, the main infrastructure facilities, buildings and territories have already been mined.
Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 11 strikes during the day. The destruction of one stronghold, 5 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 5 anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy was confirmed. In addition, our air defense units shot down 5 enemy UAVs, including two Shahed-136 and one Mohajer-6.
Missile troops and artillery during the current day hit 19 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 ammunition depots and 6 artillery means.

Nachtrag: Das Europäische Parlament verabschiedete am (heutigen) Donnerstag eine Entschließung zu Russlands Eskalation seines Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine. Interessant ist darin aus deutscher Sicht nicht zuletzt der Punkt 6:

Das Europäische Parlament, (…)
fordert den Vizepräsidenten der Kommission und Hohen Vertreter der Union für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik auf, Waffenlieferungen über das Clearing-House-Verfahren des Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienstes (EAD) zu koordinieren, auch im Rahmen einer Initiative der Union zur Lieferung fortgeschrittener Waffensysteme wie der Leopard-Panzer; fordert die Mitgliedstaaten auf, umgehend mit der einschlägigen Ausbildung ukrainischer Soldaten zu beginnen;