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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: September 24th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Korrespondent] 22:55 The UN Security Council on Tuesday, September 27, will discuss holding Russia's "referenda" in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the department's secretariat reported. The initiative was taken by Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Serhiy Kyslitsa, who also asked UN Secretary General António Guterres to provide information on the situation in the temporarily occupied territories in connection with the "referenda". The meeting is scheduled for September 27, 22:00 Kyiv time.  22:47 The occupational "authorities" of Melitopol announced an "attempt of sabotage" at an electrical substation: an improvised explosive device allegedly went off, the damage is minor, there are no victims or injured. 22:23 Lavrov said at the UN General Assembly that Russia in the current situation "will not take the first steps towards a dialogue with the West." He also stressed that Moscow does not refuse negotiations with Ukraine, "but the longer Kyiv refuses, the more difficult it will be to negotiate." 22:13 Podolyak said that in response to the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, Ukraine's partners should provide Kiev with twice as many HIMARS and shells, as well as ATACMS tactical missile systems with a range of 300 km. 22:10 A powerful explosion thundered in the northern part of Melitopol. According to the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov, "resistance forces again do not allow the occupiers to sleep peacefully." According to eyewitnesses, a fire truck drove to the scene. 22:02 Zelensky again addressed the Russians in Russian: “It was not by chance that the criminal mobilization announced by Russia was immediately called a grave by the citizens of Russia themselves. Russian commanders do not care about the lives of Russians - they just need to fill in the empty spaces left after the dead, captured Russian soldiers... A key moment has come for you: right now it is being decided whether your life will end. It is better not to take a summons than to die on foreign soil as a war criminal. To escape from criminal mobilization is better than to be maimed and then answer to the court for participation in an aggressive war. Surrendering to Ukrainian captivity is better than dying under the blows of our weapons." 9:18 pm US congressmen are preparing a bipartisan appeal to Biden calling for Russia's exclusion from the UN Security Council, Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick said. 20:49 The Russians forced the Ukrainian prisoners of war, who are being held in the colony in Yelenovka, to take part in the "referendum" and join the "Cossack battalion named after Bohdan Khmelnitsky." According to Russian media, 57 prisoners of war with Ukrainian passports, which bear a mark of registration in the Donetsk region, took part in the "referendum". Also, according to propaganda, they allegedly themselves turned to the "People's Council of the DPR" with a request to join the "Cossack battalion named after Bogdan Khmelnitsky" being formed. 20:45 The procedure for "entry" into Russia "DNR", "LNR", Kherson and Zaporozhye regions may take place on September 30, Russian media write, citing sources in the State Duma. 20:24 The bodies of five children were found in a mass grave in Izyum, said the head of the investigative department of the police of the Kharkiv region, Sergei Bolvinov. According to him, 447 bodies of the dead were found at the mass grave site. Of these, 194 are civilian men, 215 are women, 22 are military men, and five are children. In 11 bodies, the sex has not yet been determined. “Many of the dead are missing limbs, their hands are tied, there are shrapnel wounds, head and chest injuries, missing genitals, broken ribs, stab wounds, penetrating bullet wounds, ropes around the neck,” Bolvinov said. 20:12 In the area of the settlements of Yuryevka and Urzuf of the Mariupol region, two powerful explosions thundered, and in Mariupol itself, air defense, which stands right in the city, worked, said the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko. "Good harbingers of returning home. To Ukraine," he wrote. 19:48 Bills on the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia will be submitted to the State Duma on September 28 - the day after the end of the "referenda". They can be considered and voted on September 29, TASS reports. 19:37 In Russia, they will pay a one-time payment of 300 thousand rubles to mobilized citizens. The corresponding bill has already been submitted to the State Duma by deputies from United Russia and the Communist Party. 19:21 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlovka, Vyemka, Bakhmutskoye, Zaitsevo, Experienced, Otradovka, Nevelskoye and Novomikhailovka, the General Staff said in the evening report . Ukrainian aviation attacked 14 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Russian Federation and five positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. Air defense units destroyed four enemy aircraft and a cruise missile. 18:16 Poland does not intend to open borders for Russians who evade mobilization, Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said in an interview with PAP. According to him, this is "highly undesirable" both from a security and moral point of view. However, he allowed an exception for those Russians who actually opposed the war or participated in protests. 17:31 On September 20, 130 League PMC mercenaries arrived in Minsk with personal weapons and ammunition that can be involved in organizing provocations on the Ukrainian border, the National Resistance Center of the MTR reported, citing information received from the Belarusian underground. Already on September 22, 300 units of Ukrainian military uniforms were delivered to the territory of the Belarusian private security company Gard Service, where the mercenaries are located, which the Russians seized in warehouses in the Kherson region. Possible sabotage is expected in the area of the settlements of Pinsk, Ivanovo and Kobrin. 17:08 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to the deceased military Serhiy Owl, whose body with blue and yellow bracelets on his arm was found during exhumation in Izyum. 16:26 Putin signed laws on imprisonment for up to ten years for refusing to participate in hostilities, voluntary surrender, desertion, non-appearance of military personnel for conscription service, etc. 15:50 In Crimea, 80% of all handed subpoenas were received by Crimean Tatars. Therefore, they are forced to leave the peninsula, the UP reports with reference to interlocutors among the Crimean Tatars. Human rights activists Crimea SOS note that the mobilization of the Crimean Tatars can lead to genocide. According to their estimates, the Crimean Tatars received about 90% of the subpoenas in Crimea. 15:38 Borrell said in an interview with the BBC that the European Union should take Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons seriously and come to a diplomatic solution, "but with one indispensable condition: it must preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine." Otherwise, according to him, "we can end the war, but we will not have peace, but there will be another war." According to a European diplomat, the war has reached a "dangerous moment" because "the Russian army is cornered and Putin's reaction - the threat of using nuclear weapons - is very bad." 15:19 Russian opposition media report, citing their sources, that the Russian Federation will close the state borders on September 28 - immediately after the "referenda" in the occupied territories of Ukraine. In particular, according to Iznanka's sources, all men and women who may be subject to mobilization will be prohibited from leaving. According to the publication, the relevant bill will be considered at a meeting of the State Duma and adopted with lightning speed - just as it happened before the announcement of mobilization. At the same time, several Russian regions have already banned the departure of those liable for military service outside the city or region. Restrictive measures have been introduced in the Amur, Voronezh, Kurgan, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Smolensk, Rostov, Sverdlovsk, Tver, Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in North Ossetia, Dagestan, Tatarstan and Yakutia. 14:41 The "DPR" once again accused Ukraine of shelling the center of Donetsk - this time in the area of Vatutina Avenue and Rosa Luxembourg Street. Pushilin said that as a result of attacks on the city, one person was killed and three were wounded. 13:58 In Mariupol last night, the occupation administration was reprimanded for an ultra-low turnout at the "referendum", so this morning began with a forced vote. According to Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city, mobile teams were waiting for workers at their workplaces with the condition - you vote or you lose your job and salary. Several tents were also set up in places of concentration of people, but even here there were few people willing. Many evade voting, including leaving the city for the coast. 13:34 The Iranian Foreign Ministry, in response to the restrictions imposed by the Ukrainian side on the work of the Iranian embassy in Kiev, said that Tehran "regrets" Kiev's tightening of diplomatic cooperation, but considers this measure "based on unconfirmed reports and caused by the creation of a media space by a foreign country" . The statement also emphasized that Iran stands for "political settlement of disputes in a non-violent way." 12:49 After the scandals with the provision of the Russian army and the mobilized, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, General Dmitry Bulgakov, who was responsible for logistics, was dismissed. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that he "was relieved of his post in connection with the transfer to another job." Instead, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev was appointed. The Western press calls Mizintsev the "Mariupol Butcher" and the "Syrian Executioner". It was he who was behind the bombing of Aleppo and gave orders to bomb the maternity hospital and drama theater in Mariupol. 12:36 Erdogan's speaker, Ibrahim Kalin, said that initially the Turkish and Ukrainian presidents coordinated the exchange of 15 commanders with Azovstal, but they managed to agree on only five - Denis Prokopenko, Sergey Volynsky, Svyatoslav Palamar, Denis Shleg and Oleg Khomenko. The discussion of release from captivity lasted about three and a half months. 12:08 The United States raised aircraft tracking strategic nuclear weapons into the sky at night , reports flightradar24. 10:48 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that his country will not provide asylum to Russians fleeing mobilization: "Lithuania will not provide asylum to those Russians who simply run away from responsibility and try to evade mobilization. The Russians must stay and fight. against Putin. 10:15 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of September 24th. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk and Donetsk directions.
10:04 Over the past day, the Russians fired at the settlements of the Kharkiv region, located near the border with the Russian Federation and the collision line. The Kupyansky district suffers the most from shelling. Over the past 24 hours, five people were injured there, including two children, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA. 10:01 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Krasnogorovka. Three more people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said. 09:57 Russians fired from Gradov and Hurricanes Marganets and Krasnogrigoryevsk communities of the Nikopol district of Dnepropetrovsk region in the morning. In Marganets, two people were injured, more than 20 private and multi-storey buildings, a bakery were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. 09:42 British intelligence believes that Russian troops are striking at the dams - Karachunovskaya near Krivoy Rog and Pechenezhskaya near Kharkov - as Ukrainian troops are moving down the Ingulets and Seversky Donets. Thus, Ukrainian forces are moving further down both rivers. As Russian commanders become more concerned about their operational setbacks, they are likely trying to hit dam locks to flood Ukrainian military checkpoints, analysts say. At the same time, intelligence considers it unlikely that the attacks caused a significant disruption in Ukrainian operations - due to the large distance between the damaged dams and combat zones. 09:38 Putin took over strategic control of the invasion, writes The New York Times. The command of the troops is not happy - he did not allow the withdrawal of troops from Kherson, because he does not want reputational losses. The publication notes that Putin has no military flexibility. At critical moments in decision-making, he procrastinated, refusing to face reality as the situation for the troops worsened. 09:34 The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office of France (PNAT) is investigating seven cases of crimes committed against the French during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As the head of the department, Jean-Francois Ricard, told in an interview with AFP, the crimes concern, in particular, the death of the French-Irish journalist Pierre Zakrevsky in Gorenka near Kyiv and the journalist of the BFMTV channel Frederic Leclerc Imhoff. “We are extremely determined. We are not opening an investigation for the sake of formality, just to announce it. We are opening an investigation in order to finally identify those responsible and so that trials take place - in France or somewhere else,” Ricard stressed. 09:22 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that partial mobilization in the Russian Federation already in the first days faced serious and systemic problems that cause discontent among the population and create conditions for the formation of a mobilization reserve that is unable to fulfill its tasks. And different processes of mobilization in different regions of Russia can further exacerbate social tension in the country. Analysts note that disagreements with the decree on mobilization and statements by Putin and Shoigu about the categories of men exempted from mobilization cause anger and distrust towards the Russian subjects of the federation and the Kremlin itself. The Russian occupation authorities began voting in their fake annexation referenda on September 23 with overt coercion and voter turnout fraud, ISW notes. 08:48 One of the Russian missiles fired at Zaporozhye tonight was shot down by air defense forces. The fragments of the shell fell outside the city, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh. 07:51 In the occupied territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the occupiers hand over subpoenas to men of military age with Russian passports, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. 07:45 Subdivisions of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in about ten settlements in a day - Disputed, Soledar, Bakhmutsky, Odradovka, Kurdyumovka, Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Kamenka, Avdiivka and Experienced, the General Staff reports in the morning summary . 05:59 The Russians fired at least five rockets at Zaporozhye at night. Infrastructure facilities were hit, one rocket hit the residential sector and caused a fire in a multi-storey building. As a result of enemy shelling, one person was killed and seven wounded, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh. 05:20 The United States will never recognize the occupied territories of Ukraine as Russian, Biden said in a statement: "Russian referendums are a fiction, a false pretext for attempts to annex parts of Ukraine by force, which is a flagrant violation of international law, including the UN Charter. <.. .> The United States, along with partners around the world <...> reject any fabricated results announced by Russia." Biden stressed that the United States, together with its allies, intends to quickly prepare new sanctions against the aggressor state of the Russian Federation: "We will continue to support the Ukrainian people and provide them with security assistance to help protect themselves." 04:13 A Russian drone in southern Ukraine dropped containers with a poisonous substance onto the combat positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to OK Pivden, presumably, it was a K-51 chloropicrin grenade. Combat medics worked well, there were no casualties or critical conditions. Posted by: badanov 2022-09-25 |
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