Ukraine/Russland/NATO – der Sammler am 1. November 2022

Nachgetragen fürs Archiv: Zum andauernden russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Sammler am 1. November 2022:

• 250 Tage Krieg – eine Bewertung von Oberst Dr. Markus Reisner vom Österreichischen Bundesheer:

„Ukrainisches Fegefeuer“ – Der Krieg um die Ukraine, eine Kurzzusammenfassung nach 250 Tagen

• Erneute Meldung zu geplanten iranische Waffenlieferungen – von CNN (mit der interessanten Frage, wer denn officials from a western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program sein könnten):

Iran is preparing to send approximately 1,000 additional weapons, including surface-to-surface short range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia to use in its war against Ukraine, officials from a western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program told CNN.
The shipment is being closely monitored because it would be the first instance of Iran sending advanced precision guided missiles to Russia, which could give the Kremlin a substantial boost on the battlefield.

• Der russische Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu zog eine positive Bilanz der teilweisen Mobilmachung; 300.000 Männer seien eingezogen worden:

When opening the teleconference, the Minister of Defence stated that in accordance with the Presidential Decree dated 21 September, 300,000 persons have been conscripted within the partial mobilisation. ‘At the initial stage, there were deficiencies in the activities of military commissariats. We adopted emergency measures to improve the organisation of their work. It brought certain results. All the regions have provided military units with the assigned number of mobilised personnel. On 29 October, the General Staff sent instructions on concluding the conscription within the mobilisation’, the head of the defence ministry said.

Schoigu sicherte zugleich zu, die jetzt – zusätzlich im Rahmen der Wehrpflicht – eingezogenen Rekruten würden nicht in der Ukraine eingesetzt und nach ihrem Wehrdienst turnusgemäß entlassen:

As for the conscription autumn conscription campaign, over 2,700 conscription boards have commenced their work in the 85 regions of the Russian Federation. A total of 120,000 people are to be conscripted for a 12-month-long military service. The military commissariats are provided with all the necessary facilities, including clothing and medical supplies, as well as individual protection means.
Conscripted servicemen operate in accordance with the assignment of their units. At the same time, they are not to be sent to the area of the special military operation.
General of the Army Sergei Shoigu underlined once more that after completing their service, all conscripted people are to be sent home.

• Das britische Intel Update:

Imagery showed two MiG-31K FOXHOUND interceptor jets were almost certainly parked at Belarus’s Machulishchi Airfield on 17 October, with a large canister stored nearby within a protective earth berm.
It is likely that the canister is associated with the AS-24 KILLJOY air launched ballistic missile, a large munition which the MiG-31K variant is adapted to carry.
Russia has fielded KILLJOY since 2018, but it has not previously been deployed in Belarus. Russia has occasionally launched these weapons during the Ukraine war, but stocks are likely very limited.
It continues to expend its advanced long-range munitions against targets of limited operational importance.
With a range of over 2000km, basing KILLJOY in Belarus gives Russia little added advantage in terms of striking additional targets within Ukraine.
It has likely carried out the deployment mainly to message to the West and to portray Belarus as increasingly complicit in the war.

(Killjoy ist die NATO-Bezeichnung für die russische Luft-Boden-Rakete Ch-47M2 Kinschal)

• Das Morgenbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00, on November 1, 2022
The two-hundred-fifty-first (251) 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 Defense 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.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched 60 missile and 15 air strikes, carried out more than 45 MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than 50 settlements, in particular: Soledar, Vuhledar, Yakovlivka, Vesele of the Donetsk region, were hit by the enemy.
On the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation will remain without significant changes. The republic of belarus supports the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine. The russian federation continues the transfer of individual units to the territory of the republic of belarus. The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack drones from the territory of the republic of belarus remains.
The enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Vilkhuvatka, Vovchansk, Hatyshche, Strilecha and Veterynarne;
in the Kupyansk direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Kucherivka, Stelmakhivka, Myasozharivka, Petropavlivka settlements;
in the Lyman direction – from artillery of various types in the areas of Nevske, Bilohorivka, Rozdolivka, Spirne, Hryhorivka and Berestovka settlements;
in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of Zelenopillya, Klishchiivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske and Soledar settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks and artillery of various calibers in the areas of Maryinka, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Nevelske settlements;
in the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Vremivka, Vuhledar, Poltavka, Olhivske, Malynivka, Pavlivka, Novodanilivka.
In the Southern Buh direction, more than twenty settlements along the contact line suffered fire damage.
The occupiers carry out forced displacement of the civilian population. Thus, in the Kakhovka settlement of the Kherson oblast, citizens living in apartments along the banks of the Dnieper are forcibly evicted from their homes. The russian invaders are equipping engineering fortifications and mine-explosive barriers around civilian housing. In the settlement of Novochornomorya, Skadovsky district, russian servicemen psychologically and physically put pressure on civilians. They are kicked out of their own homes. The houses released in this way are planned for occupation by the occupants.
Aviation of the Defense Forces during the past day struck the enemy 14 times. Areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, strongholds and positions of the enemy’s air defense systems were hit. In various directions, our air defense units shot down 4 helicopters, 2 UAVs and 45 enemy cruise missiles.
Over the past day, soldiers of the missile forces and artillery hit 2 control points, 3 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment and other important military objects of the russian occupiers.

• Das Briefing des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums:

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine (1 November 2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Massive attack launched by high-precision long-range air- and sea-based armament on 31 October at the facilities of the control, communication and energy systems of Ukraine have resulted in considerable disruption of guiding the groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and their logistic support.
Railroad deliveries of reserve forces and material means to the operations areas have been considerably disrupted. Production works at military industrial facilities of Ukraine have also been disrupted.
In Kupyansk direction, a hostile battalion tactical group reinforced by foreign mercenaries made unsuccessful attempts to launch attacks towards Nikolayevka, Kuzemovka (Lugansk People’s Republic) and Orlyanka (Kharkov region). All the attacks have been repelled.
The enemy has lost over 150 Ukrainian personnel and mercenaries, 3 tanks, 4 armoured fighting vehicles, and 6 pickups.
In Krasny Liman direction, pre-emptive artillery fire attacks and operations conducted by Russian units against the AFU company tactical groups have resulted in frustrating enemy’s attempts to commence an attack towards Chervonopopovka and Makeyevka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Over 30 Ukrainian personnel, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, and three pickups have been eliminated.
In Nikolayev–Krivoy Rog direction, intensive action of Russian forces have resulted in preventing AFU units‘ attempts to launch an offensive towards Mylovoye, Sukhanovo, Bruskinskoye, Kostromka and Zelyony Gai (Kherson region). The enemy has been driven back to initial lines.
Over 110 Ukrainian personnel, 1 tank, 8 armoured fighting vehicles, and 8 pickups have been eliminated.
Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery have neutralised eight AFU command posts near Nikolayev, Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region), Andreyevka (Kherson region), Vodyanoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Kupyansk, Stepovaya Novosyolovka, Ivanovka and Golubovka (Kharkov region), as well as 63 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware in 154 areas.
3 ammunition depots have been destroyed near Kolodezi, Nevskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Novaya Kamenka (Kherson region). 2 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 electronic warfare radars have been destroyed near Belogorovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), and Soledar (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Fighter Aviation has shot down 1 Su-24 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Apostolovo (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Air defence facilities have destroyed nine unmanned aerial vehicles near Yevgenovka, Krasny Liman (Donetsk People’s Republic), Voyevodovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Energodar (Zaporozhye region), Vasilyevka, Kalininskaya, Doslidnoye and Chervonoye Podolye (Kherson region).
Moreover, 1 Tochka-U ballistic missile has been shot down near Antonovka (Kherson region), and six projectiles launched by Olkha multiple-launch rocket system near Donetsk.
In total, 329 airplanes and 167 helicopters, 2,402 unmanned aerial vehicles, 384 air defence missile systems, 6,233 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 881 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,544 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,937 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Kiev regime continues its provocations aimed at creating a possible technological disaster at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
Over the past 24 hours, AFU artillery has launched over 20 projectiles at the north-western suburbs of Energodar and the territory adjacent to the nuclear power plant. The attacks were launched from AFU-controlled Marganets (Dnepropetrovsk region).
The hostile firepower has been neutralised by Russian artillery’s counter-attack.
The radiation environment near the nuclear power plant remains normal.

• Das Abendbriefing des ukrainischen Generalstabs:

Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 18:00, on November 1, 2022
he two-hundred-fifty-first (251) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues.
The enemy is trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions. Conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivsky directions.
The enemy is shelling units of the Defense Forces along the contact line, carrying out border fortification equipment in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. 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 launched 4 missile and 26 air strikes, carried out more than 27 MLRS attacks.
Areas of more than 20 settlements were hit by enemy attacks. Among them are Mykilske of the Zaporizhzhia oblast, Poltava, Kramatorsk, Nikopol and Mykolaiv.
The threat of new strikes and the use of attack drones remains, in particular from the territory of the republic of belarus.
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 enemy shelled in other directions:
in the Siversky direction – from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Senkivka and Hai settlements of Chernihiv oblast, as well as Oleksandrivka and Vovkivka of Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansk direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Vilkhuvatka, Vovchansk, Kozacha Lopan, Krasne, Mylove, Starytsa, Strilecha, Veterynarne and Chuhunivka;
in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Dvorichna, Kucherivka, Kupyansk, Kiselivka, Berestove, Hrekivka, Nevske, Osynove, Terny, as well as Torske;
in the Bakhmut direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of Zelenopillya, Berestove, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhrad, Soledar, Spirne, Bilogorivka, Opytne and Yakovlivka settlements;
in the Avdiivka direction – from artillery of various calibers, in the areas of Avdiivka, Maryinka, Vodyane, Paraskoviivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Nevelske settlements;
in the Novopavlivsk direction – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bohoyavlenka, Pavlivka, Velyka Novosilka, Prechystivka, Vuhledar, Vremivka and Neskuchne;
in the Zaporizhzhia direction – from the entire range of artillery weapons, in the areas of the settlements of Hulyaipilske, Zaliznychne, Dorozhnyanka, Stepove, Olhivske, Malynivka, Novodanylivka and Chervone.
Areas of settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire in the South Buh direction. The city of Nikopol was hit by enemy MLRS.
The occupiers continue to forcibly relocate the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson oblast. The enemy is resorting to intimidation of civilian residents, spreading information about the possible undermining of the Kakhovska HPP dam. At the same time, the local population is deprived of means of communication.
The russian occupation administration of Kherson was moved to the city of Skadovsk.
The occupying command is trying to compensate for the constant loss of personnel in enemy units that take direct part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine with mobilized servicemen. With those who refuse to participate in combat operations, the so-called „work“ is carried out by the employees of the fsb of the russian federation.
According to updated information, the destruction of the enemy’s ammunition depots in the Zaporizhzhia region was confirmed on October 29. In addition, 5 units of military equipment were destroyed as a result of fire damage to the concentration areas of the Russian occupiers. Losses of personnel are up to 30 eliminated and about 100 wounded.
During the current day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 22 strikes. 19 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 3 positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems, were affected. In different directions, our air defense units shot down two Orlan-10 UAVs and six Shahed-136 attack drones.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit two areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, an ammunition warehouse and four other important military objects of the enemy during the day.