Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 8. Oktober 2022

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Im andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg bestimmen die Meldungen über eine Explosion auf der Brücke von Kertsch die Wahrnehmung der Kriegslage. Der Sammler am 8. Oktober 2022:

• Die für Russland strategisch wie psychologisch wichtige Brücke, die die russisch annektierte Krim mit Russland verbindet, wurde am (heutigen) Samstagmorgen offensichtlich Ziel eines Angriffs. Aus der Übersicht der New York Times:

An explosion tore through the sole bridge linking the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula to Russia, collapsing a part of the span into the sea and imperiling a primary supply route for Russian troops fighting in the south of Ukraine. (…)
The extent of the damage was difficult to immediately assess, though any impediment to traffic on the bridge could have a profound effect on Russia’s ability to wage war in southern Ukraine. Videos showed the railroad burning and two of four lanes of roadway collapsed into the Black Sea, where waves lapped the asphalt. (…)
Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that a truck had exploded on the bridge, igniting seven fuel cisterns being pulled by train on a parallel railroad crossing headed in the direction of Crimea and causing two car spans to partially collapse.

Der genaue Hergang ist bislang ebenso unklar wie die Verantwortlichen für diese Explosion – auch wenn nach russischer Ansicht die Ukraine dahinter steckt. Die Explosion eines Lastwagens als Ursache ist ebenfalls letztendlich nicht bestätigt, wie zu erwarten werden im Internet viele verschiedene Theorien erörtert:

Am Abend wurde die Brücke nach russischen Angaben teilweise wieder für den Verkehr freigegeben.

• Das britische Intel-Update:

Following continued battlefield setbacks for Russia over the last two weeks, increasingly diverse actors within the Russian system have joined voices in criticism of the Russian MoD leadership.
Critics have included Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Wagner Group private military company owner Yevgeny Prigozhin, state-approved TV presenters, pop stars, and an increasingly vocal community of ultra-nationalistic military bloggers.
Kadyrov and Prigozhin are likely being perceived as informal figure heads of a ‘pro-war’ bloc whose criticism hinges on arguments for greater state commitment and willingness to escalate.
Both likely achieve some credibility based on the significant deployment of both Chechen and Wagner combat units on the ground.
The criticism remains focused at the military high command rather than senior political leadership, but it does represent a trend of public voicing of dissent against the Russian establishment which is being at least partly tolerated and which will likely be hard to reverse.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00, on October 8, 2022
The two hundred-twenty-seventh (227) 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 attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions.
The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering defense equipment in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance.
The adversary continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, strikes critical infrastructure, as well as the homes of the civilian population.
There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine.
During the day, the occupiers carried out 7 rocket and 12 air strikes, carried out about 80 MLRS attacks.
More than 20 settlements were hit by the enemy. In particular, Slavhorod, Bilovody, Vuhledar, Ridkodub, Hulyaipilske, Novoandriyivka, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv.
The enemy also used seven Iranian-made „Shahed-136“ unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Ukrainian cities during the past day. Three of them were shot down, and four reached the cities of Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv.
In order to further support the armed aggression against Ukraine, mobilization continues in the russian federation. The local authorities of some districts are trying to implement its plan at the expense of unemployed men of conscription age, thereby solving the internal problem.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
The enemy fired in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bleshnya, Hai and Senkivka of the Chernihiv oblast and Starykovo of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansk direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of 18 settlements, including Hlyboke, Udy, Ohirtseve, Strilecha, Kolodyazne, Dvorichne, Neskuchne;
in the Kramatorsk direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilohorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Dronivka, Vesele;
in the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy shelled the areas of Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhrad, Opytne, Mayorsk, New York, Viimka, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Odradivka settlements;
in the Avdiyivsk direction – Avdiyivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka were affected by fire.
The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. Infrastructure in the areas of 16 settlements was damaged by enemy fire. Among others – Vremivka, Temyrivka, Olhivske, Hulyaipilske and Zaliznychne.
In the temporarily captured territories of the Zaporizhzhya region, the enemy is trying to intensify measures to discredit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Special correspondents of the russian mass media are additionally involved in creating fake content.
Areas of more than 27 settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the South Buh direction.
The enemy actively engages UAVs of various types to conduct reconnaissance and carry out strikes. Last day, our defenders shot down eight UAVs in different directions: five of the Orlan-10 type and three of the Shahed-136 type.
Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Ozeryanivka, Zaytseve, Odradivka, Andriivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Kamianka, Pobyeda, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, and Ternovy Pody.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to keep enemy logistics facilities and their supply arteries under fire control. Over the past day, one more enemy pontoon crossing was destroyed. In addition, information about the destruction of enemy ammunition depots on October 5 of this year, near the settlement of Kinski Rozdory, was confirmed.
Enemy units continue to suffer losses. For example, in the areas of Polohy and Tokmak settlements of the Zaporizhzhya region, as a result of shelling by units of the Defense Forces in areas where the enemy’s manpower is concentrated, the enemy lost about 85 people wounded. Information about the dead is being clarified.
In the Luhansk region, about three hundred wounded prisoners who agreed to fight in Ukraine were sent to the local hospital in Novosvitlivka.
Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 30 strikes during the past 24 hours. It has been confirmed that 24 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, have been destroyed. In addition, air defense units shot down two enemy helicopters.
Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit two control points, one area of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, two areas of artillery firing positions, a radar station and an enemy radio-electronic warfare complex.

• Die Situation am russisch besetzten ukrainischen Atomkraftwerk Saporischja wird eher schlechter – die Reaktoren sind inzwischen ausschließlich auf die Notstromversorgung angewiesen. Die aktuelle Mitteilung der Internationalen Atomenergieagentur:

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has lost its last remaining external power source due to renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators for the electricity it needs for reactor cooling and other essential nuclear safety and security functions, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.
The ZNPP’s connection to the 750 kilovolt (kV) power line was cut at around 1am local time today, Director General Grossi said, citing official information from Ukraine as well as reports from the team of IAEA experts present at the site of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.
Sixteen of the plant’s diesel generators started operating automatically, providing its six reactors with power. After the situation stabilised, ten of the generators were switched off, leaving six to provide the reactors with necessary electricity.
“The resumption of shelling, hitting the plant’s sole source of external power, is tremendously irresponsible. The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant must be protected,” Director General Grossi said. “I will soon travel to the Russian Federation, and then return to Ukraine, to agree on a nuclear safety and security protection zone around the plant. This is an absolute and urgent imperative.”
All the plant’s safety systems continue to receive power and are operating normally, the IAEA experts were informed by senior Ukrainian operating staff at the site. Although the six reactors are in cold shutdown, they still require electricity for vital nuclear safety and security functions. The plant’s diesel generators each have sufficient fuel for at least ten days. ZNPP engineers have begun work to repair the damaged 750 kV power line.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums (einschließlich Aussagen zum Atomkraftwerk Saporischja; ohne Aussagen zur Kertsch-Brücke):

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (October 8, 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
The Russian Defence Minister has appointed Army General Sergey Surovikin as commander of the combined group of troops (forces) in the area of the special military operation.
The enemy with the help of two reinforced battalions has attempted an offensive towards Kupyansk near Pershotravnyevoe and Yagodnoe (Kharkov region). All attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been successfully repelled by Russian troops. More than 100 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and 4 motor vehicles have been destroyed.
As a result of massive strikes on advancing enemy reserves near Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), more than 110 Ukrainian servicemen of the 14th Mechanized Brigade and the 19th Territorial Battalion of the AFU troops near Petropavlovka have been destroyed.
In another unsuccessful attempt by two reinforced companies of the AFU to cross the Zherebets River, Russian troops destroyed over 30 Ukrainian servicemen, 3 infantry fighting vehicles and 5 pick-up trucks towards Krasniy Liman.
The provisional bases of the 17th Tank Brigade and the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU have been destroyed by Russian Aerospace Forces near Seversk, Novoye and Yampolovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, over 100 Ukrainian servicemen and 12 units of military equipment have been eliminated.
An attempted counterattack by units of the 115th Mechanized Brigade and the 1st Ukrainian Presidential Regiment of the AFU has been repelled towards South of Donetsk. More than 90 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 tanks, 8 armoured fighting vehicles and 6 motor vehicles have been eliminated.
A temporary foreign mercenary position has been eliminated by high-precision weapons of Russian Aerospace Forces towards Zaporozhye. The attack has resulted in the elimination of over 160 militants.
The enemy attempted to launch an offensive by three battalion tactical groups, a tank battalion and a National Guard battalion from western Ukraine towards Sukhanovo, Pyatikhatki, Sadok, Ischenko, Bruskinskoye, Karlo-Marksovskoye and Malaya Seideminukha (Kherson region).
All the attacks by the AFU have been repelled.
More than 240 Ukrainian servicemen, 12 tanks, 14 armoured combat vehicles, 8 vehicles and 4 artillery pieces have been destroyed by Russian units.
54 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 174 areas have been hit by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery. Four munition depots have been eliminated near Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Uspenovka (Zaporozhye region), Nova Kamenka (Kherson region) and Nikolayev. A signal node of a Ukrainian group of troops has been destroyed near Vysshee Solyonoye (Kharkov region).
A Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft has been shot down by Russian Aerospace Force’s fighter aircraft near Chapayevka (Zaporozhye region).
Air defence means destroyed 12 unmanned aerial vehicles, including one Bayraktar TB2, near Novy Bug (Nikolayev region), Bruskinskoye, Vysokoye, Karlo-Marksovskoye, Charivnoye (Kherson region), Ivanovka, Yasnoye, Zelenyi Gai and Yevgenovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Berestovoye (Kharkov region) and Novoyegorovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
21 shells of the US HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system were shot down near Ilovaysk (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novaya Kakhovka, Nikolskoye and Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, as well as a Tochka-U ballistic missile near Chervonyi Mayak (Kherson region).
In total, 316 airplanes and 158 helicopters, 2,176 unmanned aerial vehicles, 379 air defence missile systems, 5,494 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 866 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,457 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,395 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Despite the presence of IAEA representatives at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Kiev regime continues provocations aimed at posing a threat to create a technological disaster.
Energodar and the area adjacent to the nuclear power plant were shelled twice by the AFU using Grad multiple rocket launchers.
A total of 15 rockets were fired by Ukrainian troops from the Marganets (Dnepropetrovsk region).
As a result of Ukrainian rockets hitting near the industrial zone, a power line supplying the plant’s own needs and power supply to Energodar was knocked out.
Enemy firepower has been neutralised by Russian artillery’s counter-attack. Backup diesel generators are in place to ensure the operation of the nuclear power plant. 
Repair work to restore power supply to the nuclear power plant and the city of Energodar is currently being completed. The radiation environment at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant remains normal.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The operational update regarding the russian_invasion on 18.00, on October 8, 2022.
The two hundred-twenty-seventh (227) 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 counteroffensive actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, at the same time, periodically conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions.
The enemy fires at the positions of our troops along the contact line, carries out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions in certain directions, and conducts aerial reconnaissance by UAVs.
russian occupiers, in violation of international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war, continue to strike critical infrastructure and civilian housing.
There is a threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During the current day, the occupiers launched three rocket and sixteen air strikes, carried out more than twenty MLRS attacks.
More than fifteen settlements were damaged by fire. In particular, Bilovody, Hrabovske, Slavhorod, Udy, Chuhunivka, Kharkiv, Chasiv Yar, Bilohorivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. In the Republic of belarus, military inspections have been extended until October 15. Also, once again, the closure of the airspace in the southern regions of this country was continued.
In other directions, the enemy continued shelling with mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of populated areas:
in the Siversky direction – Senkivka, Bleshnya and Mykolaivka of the Chernihiv oblast as well as Bachivsk, Starykove, Kindrativka and Bilovody of the Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansk direction – Udy, Kozacha Lopan, Krasne, Hlyboke, Ohirtseve, Varvarivka, Neskuchne, Ternova and Dvorichna;
in the Kramatorsk direction – Terny, Novoyehorivka, Makiyivka, Yampolivka, Dronivka, Serebryanka, Bilohorivka, Vesele and Hryhorivka;
in the Bakhmut direction – Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Opytne, Mayorsk and New York;
in the Avdiyivka region – Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka.
The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. The infrastructure of more than twenty settlements was damaged by enemy shelling. Among them are Temyrivka, Zelene Pole, Vremivka, Neskuchne, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Olhivske, Zaliznychne, Hulyaipilske, Charivne and Myrne.
In the Southern Buh direction, more than forty settlements were shelled. In particular, the enemy once again used Iranian kamikaze drones to attack the infrastructure of Nikopol and the territories of the Mykolayiv region.
The enemy continues to suffer losses. Local hospitals in the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region cannot cope with the flow of wounded occupiers.
Up to thirty wounded invaders have been confirmed to have arrived at the children’s clinical hospital in the city of Lysychansk, Luhansk oblast. Additional medical personnel have been sent to the indicated institution.
During the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Bilohorivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Krasnohorivka, and Terny.
During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces made seven accurate strikes against the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down one Orlan UAV.
Missile troops and artillery during the current day hit eight areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, two warehouses with ammunition and ten other important objects.