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

Nachgetragen fürs Archiv: Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 6. Dezember 2022:

• Die Angriffe der ukrainischen Streitkräfte auf Ziele in Russland selbst gehen möglicherweise weiter; auch wenn es dafür zunächst keine Bestätigung gab. Aus der Übersicht der New York Times:

A drone attack on Tuesday struck near an air base in Russia, a local official said, a day after Ukraine used drones to hit two military bases deep inside the country in one of its most brazen attacks in the nine-month war. If Ukraine’s forces are confirmed to have been involved in the latest strike, it would add to signs that Kyiv is willing to bring the war closer to Moscow and to President Vladimir V. Putin.
Russian officials did not directly accuse Ukraine in Tuesday’s attack, which hit an oil facility near an airfield in the Kursk region, 80 miles from the Ukrainian border. The regional governor said on Tuesday that a fire caused by the strike had been extinguished and that there were no injuries.

• Das britische Intel Update:

On 05 December 2022, multiple open sources reported explosions at Engels Airbase, in Russia’s Saratov Oblast, and at Dyagilyaevo airfield near Ryazan, south-east of Moscow.
Two Tu-95 BEAR heavy bombers were reportedly damaged at Engels and three people were killed when a fuel tank exploded at Dyagilyaevo.
The causes of the explosions have not been confirmed. However, if Russia assesses the incidents were deliberate attacks, it will probably consider them as some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine.
The sites are much deeper inside Russia than previous similar explosions: Engels is over 600km from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Engels is the main operating base of Russia’s Long Range Aviation (LRA) within western Russia and is home to more than 30 heavy bombers.
These aircraft contribute to Russia’s nuclear deterrent and have also frequently been used to launch conventional cruise missiles at Ukraine. The LRA is likely to respond by temporarily moving bombers to dispersal airfields.
The Russian chain of command will probably seek to identify and impose severe sanctions on Russian officers deemed responsible for allowing the incident.

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update regarding russian invasion as of 06.00, December 6, 2022
The two hundred eighty-sixth (286) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The russian occupiers continue their armed aggression against our country, they do not stop striking civilian infrastructure. They are trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrate their efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, carry out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions in the temporarily captured and occupied territories of Ukraine. In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, the enemy continues to attack, actively using aviation to support the actions of its ground groups.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of Verkhnokamianske, Bakhmut, Andriivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Kurdyumivka, Krasnohorivka settlements of the Donetsk oblast.
The enemy does not stop shelling settlements and the positions of our units along the contact line, conducts aerial reconnaissance. It continues to strike critical infrastructure and civilian homes in violation of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war.
Over the past day, the enemy launched a massive missile attack on critical and civilian infrastructure of Ukraine. Residential buildings and objects of critical infrastructure in Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa and other oblasts of Ukraine were affected.
The enemy launched 70 Kh-101, Kh-555, Kh-22, Kh-59, Kh-31P and Caliber missiles on the territory of Ukraine. In total, more than 60 missiles of the invaders were destroyed by air defense units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
There is still a threat of the enemy launching missile strikes on the objects of the energy system and critical infrastructure throughout the territory of Ukraine.
Over the past day, the enemy carried out 17 airstrikes and launched 38 MLRS attacks.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected.
The republic of belarus continues to support the russian federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine, providing territory and airspace for launching missile and air strikes.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy fired mortars and barrel artillery at the settlements of Senkivka, Sosnivka, Chernihiv oblast, and Homelivske, Manukhivka, Oleksandrivka, Slavhorod, Sumy oblast.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy continues to maintain its troops in the border areas of the Belgorod region. Areas of settlements Volokhivka, Vilkhuvatka, Dvorichna, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Starytsa, Strilecha, Ternove of the Kharkiv oblast were shelled by tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery.
The enemy is defending in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions. Fired from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery in the districts of Berestove, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Pischane, Krokhmalne settlements of Kharkiv oblast; Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka in Luhansk oblast and Makiivka, Nevske, Terny in Donetsk oblast. The enemy used army aircraft for strikes in the area of the Kotlyarivka settlement.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive actions, trying to improve its tactical position. 20 settlements, including Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Bila Hora, Druzhba, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk oblast, were shelled by tanks and the entire range of artillery. The enemy struck by combat aircraft in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Kamianka, and Maryinka.
The enemy is defending in the Novopavlivsk direction. Fired different types of artillery fire in areas of Bohoyavlenka, Vuhledar and Prechistivka settlements of Donetsk oblast.
The enemy is conducting defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions. It carried out tank and artillery shelling of the areas of more than 16 settlements bordering the contact line, in particular the settlements of Vremivka, Novopil of the Donetsk oblast, Olhivske, Dorozhnyanka, Zaliznychne, Plavni of the Zaporizhia oblast; as well as Zolota Balka, Novosilka of the Kherson oblast and the city of Kherson.
During the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 15 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as 5 strikes on the positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems.
Units of missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit 2 control points, 8 areas of concentration of personnel and an important enemy object during the day.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (6 December 2022)
On December 5, Russian troops inflicted a massive strike with high-precision long-range air- and sea-based weapons against military command and control system, defence facilities, and related energy facilities of Ukraine. The objective of the strike has been achieved. All designated targets were hit.
As a result of the strike, the production and repair of Ukrainian arms at defence industry enterprises has been halted, railway transportation of military equipment for the AFU, including foreign-made equipment, has been disrupted. Transportation of reserves to the battlefields is hampered. It is to be noted that there have been no missile strikes on the city of Kiev.
In Krasny Liman direction, Russian troops carried out offensive that resulted in gaining favourable lines and new positions.
More than 80 Ukrainian personnel, two tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickup trucks were neutralised by artillery fire, assault and army aviation strikes.
In Kupyansk direction, the enemy’s attempt to attack in the direction of Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic) was foiled by pre-emptive artillery fire on the AFU’s concentration area. Up to 65 Ukrainian personnel, two armoured fighting vehicles, and one pickup truck were eliminated.
In Donetsk direction, Russian troops‘ offensive successfully continues. Attempts by Ukrainian Armed Forces to counterattack Russian units near Spornoye, Kurdyumovka, and Marynka (Donetsk People’s Republic) have been repulsed. More than 60 Ukrainian personnel and five armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed during the day.
In South Donetsk direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to regain lost position in the areas of Vladimirovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region). The AFU units were halted by air strikes and artillery fire and pushed back to their initial positions. The enemy’s casualties were more than 30 Ukrainian personnel killed or injured, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.
Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery struck four enemy command posts in the areas of Kupyansk (Kharkov region), Stepnoye (Zaporozhye region), Kramatorsk and Artemovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic). Moreover, 83 AFU artillery units in firing positions, manpower, and military equipment in 176 areas were engaged. A provisional base for foreign mercenaries‘ near Ilichovka (Kharkov region) has been hit.
One radar of Ukrainian S-300 air defence system was neutralised near Andreevka (Donetsk People’s Republic). Three storage sites for missile and artillery weapons and ammunition for the AFU have been destroyed near Gulyapole, Stepnoye, and Primorskoye (Zaporozhye region).
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 MiG-29 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Yasnevoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Six unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defence systems in the districts of Olkhovatka (Kharkov region), Zhytlovka, Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Vasylyovka and Sladkoye (Zaporozhye region).
Additionally, 15 HIMARS and Uragan MLRS rounds were intercepted in the districts of Komisarovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Bogdanovka (Kherson region), Tokmak and Melitopol (Zaporozhye region). Two U.S.-manufactured HARM anti-radiation missiles have been intercepted near Morozovka (Kherson region).
In total, 340 airplanes and 180 helicopters, 2,634 unmanned aerial vehicles, 391 air defence missile systems, 7,010 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 910 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,662 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,484 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

• Neben dem Standard-Briefing nahm der russische Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu gesondert zu den Entwicklungen in der Ukraine Stellung – und blieb bei der üblichen russischen Aussage, es würden ausschließlich militärische Ziele angegriffen:

The Russian Armed Forces continue to liberate Donbass. Recently Maiorsk, Pavlovka, Opytnoye, Andreevka, Belogorovka Yuzhnaya and Kurdyumovka have come under the Russian control.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces‘ troops and equipment were severely damaged in Lugansk–Donetsk and South Donetsk directions.
Enemy losses in November amounted to over 8,300 troops, five aircraft, ten helicopters, 149 tanks, and over 300 armoured fighting vehicles.
The Russian Armed Forces are launching massive, long-range, precision-guided strikes against the military administration, defence industry complex enterprises, and related facilities to crush Ukraine’s military potential.
Russia’s troops are taking all measures to ensure the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The Kiev regime, for its part, is attempting to create the impression of a nuclear disaster by deliberately shelling the site.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have fired 33 large-calibre shells at the station in the last two weeks alone.
Russian Air Defence systems intercept most of Ukraine’s weapons.
However, some of them have an impact on infrastructure that are critical to the safe running of a nuclear power station. Russia classifies these Ukrainian attacks as nuclear terrorism.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 18.00, on December 6, 2022
The two-hundred-eighty-sixth (286) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
russian occupiers continue to carry out full-scale armed aggression against our country, and do not stop striking civilian infrastructure. In the Lyman, Bakhmut, and Avdiivka areas, the enemy is concentrating its efforts on the offensive. In other directions, it tries to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates its efforts on restraining the actions of units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, carries out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions, conducts reconnaissance.
The enemy does not stop striking and shelling settlements and positions of our troops along the contact line. During the day, he made 4 missile strikes, carried out up to 10 MLRS attacks.
It continues to strike critical infrastructure and civilian homes in violation of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war.
During the day, the enemy’s rocket attacks damaged the civil infrastructure of the settlement of Stepne, Zaporizhzhia oblast.
The threat of missile strikes on the objects of the energy system and critical infrastructure throughout the territory of Ukraine remains in the future.
In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups have been detected. Training of enemy units continues on the training grounds of the republic of belarus.
The republic of belarus continues to support the russian federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine, providing territory and airspace for launching missile and air strikes.
In the Siversky direction, the enemy carried out mortar attacks on the settlements of Zapsilya and Myropillya of the Sumy oblast.
In the Slobozhanskyi direction, the russian occupiers continue to keep their troops in the border areas of the Belgorod region. Areas of settlements of Strilecha, Ternova, Starytsa, Vovchanski Khutory, Chuhunivka of the Kharkiv oblast were shelled by tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy is conducting defensive operations on captured lines. It carried out shelling from tanks and the entire range of artillery in the areas of Dvorichna, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Pishchane, Berestove settlements of the Kharkiv oblast; as well as Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka, Luhansk oblast.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy fired tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Makiivka, Ploshchanka and Nevske of the Luhansk oblast; Terny and Lyman of Donetsk oblast.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, the enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive operations. More than 20 settlements were shelled by tanks and artillery of various types, including Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Bila Gora, Druzhba, Zalizne, Avdiivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka Donetsk oblast.
The enemy is defending in the Novopavlovsk direction. It carried out artillery and mortar attacks on the areas of Vuhledar, Bohoyavlenka, Prechystivka and Zolota Nyva settlements of the Donetsk oblast.
In the Zaporozhzhia direction, the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position. Fired tanks, mortars and artillery in more than 10 settlements, including Vremivka, Novopil of the Donetsk oblast; Dorozhnyanka, Hulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Stepove and Plavni of the Zaporizhzhia oblast;
In the Kherson direction, the enemy is conducting defensive operations, strengthening the grouping of troops. It carried out artillery shelling of areas of settlements bordering the contact line, in particular Osokorivka, Zolota Balka, Dudchany, Bilohrudove of the Kherson oblast and the city of Kherson.
The enemy suffered losses, so on December 4 in the Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of fire, up to 20 units of enemy military equipment of various types were destroyed, and about 70 occupiers were injured.
On November 30, in the Verkhnyotoretsky district of the Donetsk oblast, the fact of desertion of servicemen of the russian occupation forces with weapons from their combat positions was discovered. Among them, 13 out of 21 are persons recruited from prisons. The command of the russian occupation forces ordered the arrest and liquidation of violators. As of December 5, all deserters have been eliminated.
During the day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 14 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as 2 strikes on the positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems.
Units of the missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the control post, 2 personnel concentration areas and the enemy’s ammunition depot within a day.