[Pravda UA] During his visit to the United States, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Henry Kissinger, a diplomat, scholar and politician who was previously against Ukraine's membership in NATO and now supports Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance.
Quote from Kissinger: "Before this war, I was opposed to the membership of Ukraine in NATO because I feared that it would start the very process that we are seeing now. Now that this process has reached this level, the idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions no longer makes sense."
[Euromaidan] Recently, Russian sources reported that in the aftermath of continued offensive operations, Ukrainian forces cut off a crucial supply road between Novoprokopivka and Verbove. However, Ukrainians did not achieve it by focusing on this area directly; rather, the collapse of the Russian defense happened as a consequence of Ukrainian forces’ defeats of Russians around Verbove.
Previously, it was reported that Ukrainians concentrated their efforts on clearing all major fortifications located on the second line of defense and that the operation was successful, and they opened virtually complete access to the village. After that, Ukrainians widened the corridor by breaking the Russian defense line.
Gradually, Ukrainians advanced by up to 1 km and pushed Russians away from the positions that covered their supply road between Verbove and Novoprokopivka. What this means is that now Russians can only redeploy their forces slowly between the two directions and have to make a long detour. On top of that, such changes also allowed Ukrainians to protect the flanks of the attack group around Novoprokopivka.
Ukrainians immediately leveraged the obtained benefits and suddenly shifted their focus from Verbove to Novoprokopivka. Here, Ukrainians already set the proper conditions for the attack because, even according to Russian sources, Ukrainians cleared all tree lines northeast of the settlement, which means that there is only one field that separates Ukrainians from the village, and Ukrainians also established total control over all fortifications north of Novoprokopivka.
Next, Ukrainians conducted an assault from the north and attacked Russian positions on the northern outskirts of the village. The attack was swift because the closest Ukrainian positions were just 400 meters away from the houses in Novoprokopivka. The attack has driven Russians away from the outer dozen of houses, and now this part of the village is in the grey zone.
Overall, Ukrainians advanced by more than 1 km along the main line of defense, cut a Russian supply road, split them into two groups, secured their flanks, and conducted the first assault on Novoprokopivka. As a result, Russians were driven out of the northern part of the village and were unable to restore control in their counterattack. The attacks are expected to intensify as Russian fighters reported that Ukrainians are gradually deploying additional forces to the contact line.
[Sun UK] SHAUN Pinner was a retired and decorated British soldier, living a peaceful and happy life in Mariupol with his Ukrainian family when Putin’s forces invaded in February 2022.
The Hertfordshire-born ex-squaddie signed up to fight for his adopted home, explaining that he saw it as "a battle between good and evil" - only to be captured by Russian forces in April 2022.
In an exclusive interview yesterday Shaun revealed how calls to the Sun news desk during his six months captivity helped keep him sane.
And now, in extracts from his new book, he reveals in chilling detail how he was subjected to sadistic torture by men he believes were Russian Spetsnaz special forces operatives.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:07 Zelensky, in an evening video message, reported on a productive week and announced the supply of “some other” types of weapons: “Defense packages. From the United States - this is artillery, the necessary shells, missiles for the Highmars, missiles for air defense, additional air defense systems, tactical vehicles and some other types of weapons that will assert themselves on the battlefield."
20:52 The number of victims as a result of the Russian strike on Kremenchug on September 22 increased to 55, of which 19 people are in hospital treatment, including one child. In total, six children were injured, as well as one pregnant woman, said the head of the Poltava Regional Police Department, Dmitry Lunin.
17:49 The enemy dropped two aerial bombs on Kherson: one hit an industrial zone in the Dnieper district, the second hit civilian infrastructure in the Korabelny district. One person was wounded, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
16:09 On the night of September 24, “unknown saboteurs” destroyed a fuel tanker on the territory of a military camp in the village of Kalininets, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region, as well as four units of vehicles with trailers on the territory of a military camp in Kaluga, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense reported.
15:32 Less than a thousand mercenaries of the Wagner PMC remain on the territory of Belarus, said the speaker of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andrei Demchenko. “As we remember, their number fluctuated around 6,000 when they arrived there. Intelligence units are closely monitoring what is happening on the other side of the border,” he added.
14:13 The Russians struck the center of Kherson, four people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
13:55 A Ukrainian drone hit the FSB building in the center of Kursk, the UP reports citing an intelligence source. Regional Governor Roman Starovoit said that as a result of the attack, “the roof of one of the administrative buildings was slightly damaged.” Later, there was another drone attack in Kursk, and a fire started. An intelligence source reported a hit on an oil refinery near the Kursk airfield.
13:26 “Head of the DPR” Denis Pushilin introduced official censorship with full FSB control of Internet traffic, as well as a curfew in the entire occupied part of the Donetsk region, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko. He noted that in Mariupol the curfew was lifted almost a year ago, and now it has been returned. Simultaneously with the introduction of a ban on being on the street, any manifestations of public disobedience are officially prohibited.
12:31 On September 23, the Russians fired artillery at the civilian infrastructure of the Yunakovsky community of the Sumy region - a resident of the village was killed. Yablonovka, the prosecutor's office said.
12:24 The Russian Army launched an air strike on Berislav, Kherson region - one person was killed, three were wounded, including a policeman, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. The enemy carried out another airstrike on the village of Lvovo, killing one person. Over the past 24 hours, one person was killed and three more were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:29 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are cutting off the logistics routes of the Russians in the Bakhmut direction, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Ilya Yevlash. According to him, the Defense Forces are already reaching one logistics route of the occupiers - the Bakhmut-Gorlovka highway, and are working to cut off others.
09:37 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Wagner PMC mercenaries are returning to the front as part of a new “unknown organization.” According to analysts, the militants will not be able to significantly change the situation on the battlefield and will not show the same effectiveness as they had under the leadership of Prigozhin and Utkin.
09:05 In the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours, one person was wounded as a result of Russian shelling. Kotovka, Chuguevsky district, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
09:03 In the Zaporozhye region over the past 24 hours, one person died as a result of an artillery strike on Malaya Tokmachka, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
08:51 The Russians attacked Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region at night - they fired and dropped ammunition from a UAV. One person was seriously injured, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak. A department store building and a kindergarten were damaged in the city. In addition, the enemy shelled the Krasnogrigoryevskaya, Mirovskaya and Pokrovskaya communities.
08:28 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 24:
personnel - about 275,850 (+390) people,
tanks - 4662 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 8914 (+2),
artillery systems - 6233 (+23),
MLRS - 789 (+0),
air defense systems - 531 (+1),
aircraft - 315 (+0),
helicopters - 316 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 4888 (+21),
cruise missiles - 1518 (+0),
ships/boats - 20 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8734 (+18),
special equipment - 914 (+2).
07:35 Over the past 24 hours, more than 20 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy tried to restore the lost position in the Kleshcheevka area of the Donetsk region, but was unsuccessful. The defense forces continue assault operations south of Bakhmut and consolidate on the achieved lines.
In the Avdeevsky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area, in Maryinsky - in the Maryinka and Pobeda areas of the Donetsk region. In the Shakhtarsky direction, Ukrainian forces are holding the defense, in the Melitopol direction they are continuing the offensive. In particular, in the Verbovoye area of the Zaporozhye region they force the enemy out of their positions and consolidate on the achieved lines.
05:56 The head of the US House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, said that he would leave a provision for $300 million in aid to Ukraine in the Pentagon funding bill. According to him, it is becoming increasingly difficult to remove aid to Ukraine from the State Department budget and foreign operations, so he decided to leave funds for Ukraine in both budgets.
Next week, the House is scheduled to hold a single procedural vote on four appropriations bills, including funding for the Pentagon, State Department and overseas operations.
Another bold claim by this 🇷🇺 channel (Telegram - Kremlin Secrets):
The strike killed at least 36 people, more than half of them officers. It has not yet been possible to establish the exact number of the dead, as only fragments of bodies remain from many of them … identification is being carried out.
In total they had 298 2S5 at this base before the war, but on images from May 2023 I found 155 of which only 4 systems still had their barrel attached.
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The Russians are known to have problems producing the high quality steel required for cannon barrels.
They are thought to have ~500 2S5s in storage and have already cannibalized at least 60% of them for replacement barrels.
The target was both the port infrastructure and the sea terminal with a hotel standing by the sea - it is the one that is burning in the night videos from Odessa. The Ukrainian side tried to put a good face on a bad game, alternately claiming that they “missed the hotel,” “there was no one in the hotel,” and “the Russians hit a non-residential building.”
The statement from the Odessa city and regional authorities was rather meager and standard: “The strikes hit the warehouses of one of the enterprises, the port infrastructure and grain storage facilities.”
Considering that there was information that the Ukrainian Armed Forces and mercenaries were based at the hotel, there was every reason to strike the building.
Moreover, German hospitals have begun en masse accepting wounded American military personnel from Ukraine for treatment.
Why would German hospitals accept Americans rather than US military accept? Are these Americans mercs?
Russian is not a terribly precise language, but when they say American military personnel, it does not necessarily means mercenaries, and it could mean both.
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[KavkazUzel] The Russian Congress of the Peoples of the Caucasus and the Council of Ingush Elders criticized the school textbook on the history of Russia, in which the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus was explained by their collaboration with the fascists, and the Congress of the Karachay People demanded that the copy be confiscated. Social media users supported these demands and criticism. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Ramzan Kadyrov demanded to rewrite the chapter of the new school textbook on the history of Russia, in which the deportation of the peoples of the Caucasus is explained by their cooperation with the German fascists, this was stated on September 23 by the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov. According to Daudov, he brought this issue to the head of the presidential administration department and to the co-author of the textbook, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, and Medinsky “admitted that this chapter was taken without changes from previous editions and assured of his readiness to put it in order.”
Text taken from Russian ministry of defense website (available only through a VPN)
The latest report from the Russian MoD is below.
[EngMilRu] Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (17–23 September 2023)
In the period from 17 to 23 September 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 12 group strikes with long-range ground-based and air-launched precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities for the repair of aircraft and armoured vehicles, oil refineries, storage depots for ammunition, precision weapons, and weapons of foreign manufacture, centres for the reconnaissance and training of Ukrainian militants, as well as locations where foreign mercenaries were stationed.
As a result of the strikes, significant damage was inflicted on the logistics system of the AFU groups operating in Kherson and Zaporozhye directions, the capabilities of the enemy's repair and recovery bodies were reduced, and part of the stocks of cruise missiles and depleted uranium ammo, launchers of multiple-launch rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft missile systems transferred by the West to Ukraine were destroyed.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces have repelled 28 attacks launched by assault groups of the 53rd and 110th Mechanised, 79th Air Assault, and 3rd Assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces close to Kleshcheyevka, Avdeevka, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic) during this period.
Over the past week, as a result of air, missile, and artillery strikes in this direction, the enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,455 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, 16 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, 15 field artillery pieces, and three MLRS combat vehicles. In addition, three ammunition depots and two military echelons of the 37th AFU Naval Infantry Brigade were destroyed at loading stations.
In South Donetsk direction, Russian units have repelled five enemy attacks with concerted action during the week, continuing to defeat clusters of AFU manpower and hardware. The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to over 950 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 14 armoured fighting vehicles, 32 motor vehicles, and five field artillery pieces. In addition, two ammunition depots were wiped out.
As a result of the significant losses and the low morale, the Kiev regime is withdrawing units of the 38th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 110th Territorial Defence Brigade of the AFU to rear areas to restore combat capability.
In Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops repelled eight attacks by combined assault groups of the 71st Jeager, 47th Mechanised, and 46th Airmobile brigades of the AFU near Rabotino and Verbovoye (Zaporozhye region). During the fighting, more than 515 Ukrainian servicemen, 24 armoured fighting vehicles and 19 motor vehicles were destroyed. In addition, 35 enemy field artillery pieces were neutralised as part of counter-battery warfare.
In Kupyansk direction, Russian units continued to hit the manpower and equipment of the 14th, 30th and 32nd Mechanised and 25th Airborne brigades of the AFU in the areas of Sin'kovka, Ivanovka, and Berestovoye (Khar'kov region). More than 215 Ukrainian troops, six armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, 24 field artillery guns, and one U.S.-made M1097 Avenger missile system were destroyed in this area.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the 63rd and 67th Mechanised brigades and the 12th Special Operations Brigade made unsuccessful attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops near Yampolovka and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic) Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic) and Serebryansky forestry. As a result of courageous action by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flame-throwing systems, 15 enemy attacks were repelled.
The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to up to 435 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, 15 armoured fighting vehicles, 16 motor vehicles, and eight guns.
In Kherson direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to seize bridgeheads on islands and the left bank of the Dnepr River. In military operations, the AFU have lost up to 445 Ukrainian troops, nine armoured fighting vehicles, 35 motor vehicles, 11 field artillery guns. In addition, eight sabotage and reconnaissance groups were disabled.
During the week, the enemy attempted to strike facilities on the Crimean Peninsula with cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. In the course of repelling the attacks, Russian air defence systems destroyed five cruise missiles, one Neptun anti-ship missile, and 37 attack drones.
Fighter jets of the Russian Armed Forces and air defence system have destroyed the following aircraft over the past week: Su-24m, Mig-29, and two Su-25 ground-attack aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force near Novovl'adimirovka (Nikol'ayev region) and Novorozovka and Novopokrovka (Zaporozhye region).
In addition, Russian strike drones hit a Ukrainian Mig-29 fighter jet at the Dolgintsevo airfield (Dnepropetrovsk region), as well as two ST-68 radar stations for detecting low-altitude aerial targets near Volnyansk (Zaporozhye region) and P-18 and PRV-16 radar stations for detecting aerial targets near Novopetrovka (Kherson region).
Air defence and electronic warfare systems have shot down and suppressed 257 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the week and intercepted 46 HIMARS MLRS shells, nine Storm Shadow cruise missiles, two JDAM air bombs, and three HARM anti-radiation missiles.
In total, 477 airplanes and 249 helicopters, 7,067 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defence missile systems, 12,071 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,154 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,502 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,351 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have repelled an attack by the AFU 110th Mechanised Brigade near Vesyoloye (Donetsk People's Republic).
As a result of the enemy fire defeat, the Russian troops improved the tactical position by decisive counterattack actions.
A total of four enemy attacks have been repelled close to Krasnogorovka, Mar'yinka, Khimik, and Vesyoloye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 305 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, and one U.S.-manufacturer M777 artillery system.
In Zaporozhye direction, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems of the Russian grouping of troops have inflicted a fire defeat on manpower and hardware clusters of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, one infantry fighting vehicle, and three motor vehicles.
In the course of counterbattery warfare the enemy lost one U.S.-manufacturer M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two 122mm D-30 guns, one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 152mm Msta-B howitzer.
In Krasny Liman direction, as a result of competent and well-coordinated actions by units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, two attacks by assault groups of the 67th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have been repelled close to Serebryansky forest.
Ground-Attack and Army aviation and artillery have hit manpower and hardware concentration areas of the 63rd Mechanised Brigade of the AFU, the 100th Territorial Defence Brigade, the 5th National Guard Brigade, and the 12th Special Purpose Brigade of the AFU close to Torskoye and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic), Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy losses were 50 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In South Donetsk direction, aviation and artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces have hit manpower and hardware concentration areas of the 38th Marine Brigade, the 56th Motor Infantry Brigade of the AFU, and the 110th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Urozhaynoye, Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Malinovka (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and two152mm D-20 guns.
In Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery by the Zapad Group of Forces have struck manpower and hardware of 14th, 92nd Mechanised and 25th Airborne Brigades of the AFU and the 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade close to Berestovoye, Sin'kovka, and Kislovka (Khar'kov region), and Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic).
The enemy lost over 20 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one field ammunition depot were destroyed near Berestovoye (Kharkov region).
In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen and two motor vehicles.
In addition, in the course of counterbattery warfare, one U.S.-manufactured M777 artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, one 122mm Partizan artisanal MLRS, and one field ammunition depot of the 126th Territorial Defence Brigade near Shlyakhovoye (Kherson region).
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have struck one command and observation post of the 126th Territorial Defence Brigade near Berislav (Kherson region), one signal node of the 77th AFU Airmobile Brigade near Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic), as well as enemy manpower and military hardware in 109 areas.
Air defence means have shot down one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Kleshcheevka (Donetsk People's Republic). Three HARM anti-radar missiles and eight HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system projectiles have been intercepted.
In addition, 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Gorlovka and Stepnoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Kuzyomovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Samoilovka, Chervonogorka, Lyubimovka and Ocherevatoye (Zaporozhye region) and Kazachyi lageri (Kherson region).
In total, 477 airplanes and 250 helicopters, 7,082 unmanned aerial vehicles, 438 air defence missile systems, 12,104 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,155 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 6,515 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 13,397 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 09/24/2023 to 00:00 09/25/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 14 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of five civilians in the Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Seven residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. No damage to civilian infrastructure was recorded.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out seven attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
At Gorlivske there were six artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there was one artillery attack from 155mm artillery with a cluster warhead.
A total of 42 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 30 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
21:50 Personnel, in which the Russian Aerospace Forces strike at a train transporting Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment.
21:20 Zaporozhye direction
Another enemy attack is reported, which was unobtrusively dismantled by our Army: several foreign armored fighting vehicles and a tank are on fire. Enemy infantry is being cleared and destroyed in the Verbovoy area.
20:20 Details of the destruction of the best Swedish tanks Strv 122 - modernized “Leopards” on the Kupyansk sector of the front
Soldiers of the 1st Guards Tank Army of the Western Military District told RIAN details and showed new footage -video.
19:35 RF Armed Forces released Orekhovo-Vasil'evka from enemy forces in the Artyomovsk direction.
The village is being cleaned up now!
19:05 The Carlson group of the AKHMAT special forces provided irrefutable facts about the situation in Kleshcheevka and thereby, as it were, “confirmed” the next rattling media reports about the “victories” of the Nazis in this direction.
But the real picture is not quite beautiful and decent for the other side. They go into Kleshcheevka, but they can get out, as Klitschko says, “not only everyone, few people can do this.”
18:30 Russian fighter shows the bodies of the Nazis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who attempted to attack the positions of the Russian Army in the Opytny area.
17:55 Polish mercenaries entered into battle with Ukrainian Nazis from the Aidar battalion on the banks of the Zherebets River
The fact of a shootout was recorded in the Krasnolimansky direction on September 22 in the area of the settlement. Torskoye, near the Zherebets River.
It turned out that one of the Polish mercenaries was celebrating his birthday there. At some point, a pickup truck with Aidara Nazis arrived there, and almost immediately a verbal altercation and subsequent shootout began.
17:30 Russian Aerospace Forces apply attacks on Ukrainian defense forces and places of deployment in the Avdeevsky direction.
16:50 Army Aviation works in the Zaporozhye direction seven days a week
During combat missions, the crews of Ka-52 and Mi-28 helicopters strike at concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thwarting enemy attempts to attack Russian positions.
16:30 Andreevka-Klescheevka:
Fierce fighting is taking place close to the railway and along forest belts.
15:55 On September 24, at about 14.40 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.
Duty air defense systems destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
15:30 APU for several dayscontinuemassive artillery attack of the border area of the Belgorod region.
An enemy drone dropped ammunition on the village of Novy, Volokonovsky district. One person was injured as a result of the attack and is receiving medical assistance.
Local residents also reported artillery attack of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Dol'goye, Grafovka, Rzhevka, Voznesenivka and Prilesye; no official information has yet been received.
UPD. According to the mayor of Belgorod, a Ukrainian drone was shot down over the city, there were no casualties or damage.
14:55 Personnel defeat of Ukrainian positions in the Krasnolimansk direction
The stormtroopers of the Brave group did a good job. Apparently, the militants were just getting ready to have lunch.
14:25 A little over half an hour ago, a Su-24M aircraft of the naval aviation of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navycausedstrike by two FAB-500s from UMPC on Zmeiny Island.
This piece of land is actively used by Ukrainian formations as a logistics base for sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
Over the past few days, ammunition, fuel and food have been actively transported there, preparing for new attacks on the Crimean peninsula.
13:25 Russian Army destroys self-propelled guns of Ukrainian militants
In one video, the crew of the gun of the 30th Artillery Brigade destroys the 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled gun of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Novoukrainka
Figure 2 shows the destruction of two Polish self-propelled guns “Crab”
12:55 Telegram channel “Rybar” Kherson direction: formation of a strike group of naval infantry for an attack on Crimea
Situation as of 11.00 September 24, 2023
The situation in the occupied part of the Kherson region is becoming more and more interesting. The Armed Forces of Ukraine with the forces of the Omaha tactical group continue to gain a foothold on Kozatsky Island, despite the losses.
Yesterday, the observation post of the 131st reconnaissance battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed by an artillery strike from the Russian Armed Forces. However, by evening, in the southwestern part of the island, Ukrainian units again began to equip positions.
The activity of enemy reconnaissance groups is covered by artillerymen and mortars, who fire at the front line with all means. Russian fighters respond with artillery and air strikes.
At the same time, the transfer of units of the Marine Corps Command of the Ukrainian Navy continues to the Kherson region. To date, 6,870 people, 46 tanks, 223 armored fighting vehicles and eight artillery pieces have been deployed to the area.
And that is not all. So far, only formations of the 35th, 36th and 37th Naval Infantry Brigades have arrived. It is also expected that 38 infantry infantry fighting vehicles and seven artillery battalions will appear. All these connections were removed from the Vrem'evsky site, which is why there is now a lull there.
Judging by the concentration of forces, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have prioritized an offensive across the Dnieper to reach Crimea. Therefore, attempts continue to occupy the island zone of the Dnieper to provide a bridgehead.
The most likely direction should be considered Novaya Kakhovka. But the implementation of the plan is possible only with a simultaneous attack on the Orekhovsky sector, as well as from the Black Sea.
Given the increasing activity of the Ukrainian landing force off the coast of the peninsula, preparations are in full swing. Moreover, at the Rabotino-Verbovoe line, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are again preparing for an assault.
12:30 In Kurdyumovki are coming assault measures to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
12:00 Kirovsky district of Donetsk, Tekstilshchik microdistrict, arrival AGM-88 HARM missiles (USA), two women were injured.
11:35 Situation in Zaporozhye on September 24
Pyatikhatki - Stepovoye - Kamenskoye
After a long lull, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have become more active: they are trying to clear mines on bypass paths near forest belts using American M58 MICLIC. The direct road is still cut off by Russian artillery, so Ukrainian infantry is looking for a passage through the fields. Unsuccessfully.
Malye Shcherbaki - Nesteryanka
The 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been suffering losses for the last seven days and is moving mainly around the T-0812 route. Going on an attack across the fields comes at a great price - mines can only be removed with equipment, and there is a huge shortage of sappers and engineering equipment. The 83rd Airborne Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces holds Nesteryanka.
Rabotino
The use of the T-0408 road south to Novoprokopovka is complicated for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, so the attack vector is shifting to the east. It is known from radio interceptions that the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade will soon be thrown into the attack again, although the brigade has a shortage of infantry and a large number of refuseniks.
Verbovoe
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using cluster munitions, NATO self-propelled artillery is gradually moving in from Malaya Tokmachka and Orekhov, and there is a counter-battery fight. Polish AHS Krab and PzH-2000 are brought into position only at night, hidden during the day. Russian DRGs are actively working - entering the rear and hunting for Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment, directing aircraft.
Belogorye - Lugovskoe
There is relative calm, mostly artillery is working.
Gulyaypole — Marfopol
Mostly positional combat with rare appearances of armored vehicles. All main battles are fixed either to the west or to the east.
10:50 Exemplary exit into the flank/rear of the enemy, performed by a guardsman of the renowned 70th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division.
Clearing Novoprokopovka from Ukrainian Armed Forces units. The result was achieved thanks to the personal courage and proven skills of the fighter, as well as established interaction and communication with aerial reconnaissance.
The enemy’s actions can also be called exemplary, but in the opposite direction. The classic “fucked up.” And his example should be even more instructive than the success of our fighter. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
10:25 Tonight, Russian border guards again fought off attack of Ukrainian formations west of the Black Sea.
A few kilometers from the coast, an unmanned enemy boat was discovered, which with a high degree of probability was monitoring the activities of the fleet.
As a result of fire from a border service boat and detachments on the shore, the naval drone was first damaged and subsequently scuttled.
10:00 Statement of Head of the press center of the “West” group:
In the Kupyansky direction, the operational-tactical aviation of the West group of troops launched an air strike on the temporary deployment points of units of the 44th Mechanized and 68th Jaeger Brigades in the Kopanki and Pershotravnevoe areas.
In the defense zone of the 1st Tank Army, the enemy attempted to rotate units of the 25th Airborne Brigade to forward positions in the Berestovoe area. The group's artillery fire disrupted the rotation.
During the fighting, personnel of the West group of troops destroyed two Leopard tanks, two 152mm towed howitzers 2A65 Msta-B and a mortar crew in the Stelmakhovka area, level. Krinichki, Peschanoye, Petropavlovka.
The enemy's total losses amounted to more than a company of manpower, two pickup trucks, and one unmanned aerial vehicle.
09:37 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 09/23/2023 to 00:00 09/24/2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representative Office reported 30 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of four civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and Ozeryanovka.
Three residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of five settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Ozeryanovka, Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Kievsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 20 attacks from AGM-88 HARM and 155mm artillery.
At Gorlovka there were eight artillery attacks from MLRS, 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
A total of 85 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 40 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
09:35 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- in the village of Kazachi Lagery 17 rounds;
-- in the village of Golaya Pristan seven rounds;
-- in the village of Staraya Zburyevka six rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoe eight rounds;
-- n.p. Peschanivka five rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan seven rounds;
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement of Novaya Kakhovka, settlement. Kakhovka, Aleshki settlement, Korsunka settlement, Krynki settlement firing a total of 30 rounds from barrel artillery
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
08:36 A captured Ukrainian soldier said that 28 out of 140 people went on the mission - the rest refused -video
The task was to occupy a point and hold the defense.
After some time they were encircled. When asked by the senior staff who was suitable, the answer was that these were friendly units. However, it turned out to be Russian troops.
08:07 Summary on the morning of September 24, 2023
At night, there were reports of the work of “Geraniums” in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions. On the Zaporozhye Front, fighting is taking place on the Rabotino-Verbovoye line; the enemy is unable to break through our defenses. Operating from the ledge towards our front, the enemy became more active at Novoprokopovka
In the Kherson direction, the FAB struck enemy positions on the right bank of the Dnieper.
In the battles near Kremennaya in Serebryansky forestry, several armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed; the enemy tried to take active actions.
Heavy fighting continues south of Artemovsk. The tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command to conduct “meat assaults” lead to the destruction of enemy manpower in sensitive proportions. Our defense department counted 1,455 enemy corpses over the past week near Kleshcheevka alone.
Yesterday morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to launch a missile attack on the port infrastructure of Sevastopol. Shebekino is under fire in the Belgorod region. In the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region, the air defense system went off. Enemy activity continues on high-speed boats northwest of Cape Tarkhankut on the Crimean Peninsula. Four civilians were wounded in the DPR.
“Work on the Zmeevik has been frozen, since now all the efforts of the defense industry are aimed at improving all the missile weapons that are already flying,” he said.
According to the agency’s interlocutor, “Zmeevik” is a new missile system, similar in its tactical and technical characteristics to the Chinese DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile. It is being created, among other things, to destroy sea and land carriers of the new American hypersonic Dark Eagle missile. “In connection with the existing difficulties of the US Department of Defense in creating the Dark Eagle, the government customer received instructions to the developer of Zmeevik to direct all efforts to modernize and improve the weapons used in a special military operation in Ukraine,” the source clarified.
1) Again a head-on comparison with the Chinese DF-21D. Well, not the worst example. Again, another proof that a hypersonic gliding winged unit is a special case of a maneuvering warhead.
2) Linking with the American project of a single hypersonic weapon for the army and navy, however, only the army LRHW is called Dark Eagle, the navy so far only under the abbreviation CPS. There, indeed, not everything is fine. But they are also talking about putting it into service after the first successful test launch (which, however, keeps being postponed and postponed).
3) The reference to the priority of work on improving already flying weapons indirectly points to a possible developer, but we’ll keep our guesses to ourselves. In any case, everyone in the arena is the same. Again, before dismantling LRHW carriers, you should learn to deal with GMLRS and ATACMS carriers.
4) The question remains - what is the state of the Serpentine project, and how long have they been working on it? It was publicly exposed ( https://t.me/vatfor/7888 ) (albeit in the same way as it was frozen now) last summer, but it cannot be ruled out that it was discussed ( https://t.me/nuclear_stormbringer/ 81 ) senior military-political leadership at a well-known meeting to respond to the US withdrawal from the #INF Treaty .
That's all for now, let's continue to monitor the fate of domestic missile affairs.
https://t.me/vatfor/8839 - zinc
Over the past year, priorities have changed. This was also facilitated by the failures of the United States to develop its own hypersonic weapons. The latest tests by the Americans also ended in failure and the current gap of 2-3 years from Russia in hypersound remains.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kyiv's allies have committed billions upon billions in military and humanitarian aid to help Ukrainian Armed Forces fight off Russian occupiers.
But as the war drags into its 19th month, President Volodymyr Zelensky is seemingly facing an uphill battle convincing both his neighbours and Western allies to continue apace.
The Biden administration's latest request for a fresh $24billion aid package is the subject of a bitter spending battle that could see Congress trigger a government shutdown with skeptical Republican lawmakers wary of sending yet more funds to Kyiv.
Some Republicans say the money could be better spent on US border security, while there are also concerns about the pace of Kyiv's counteroffensive and that corruption in Ukraine means the money will be squandered.
Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this week his country 'is no longer transferring weapons to Ukraine' amid a row over Poland's ban on Ukrainian grain imports to protect the interests of its farmers.
With this in mind, MailOnline recaps the level of funding sent to Ukraine so far.
A neat little bar graph can be seen at the link, along with pretty pictures of all sorts of war equipment.
#4
Poland hasn't cut off Ukraine. They are still sending Soviet era weapons they have pledged. The Poles have said they are keeping NATO weapons, like the Leopards and F-16s, for their own defense. The Poles are still selling NATO standard weapons and ammunition they produce, like the Krab SPG.
#5
The EU nations have given a lot more equipment than the US and their financial help far outstrips the US contribution. They don't apply ridiculous values to obsolete equipment, like $1 million for 60 year old M-113s. Consider the number of armored vehicles and aircraft sent by Europeans vs the US.
#1
...Unlike SOME Air Forces I can think of (I'm lookin' at you, My Beloved Service), the RAF and Nordic air forces have always considered and planned for the possibility that those beautiful mile-long runways may not be there at the end of the war's first day. It was a pleasant surprise however that Typhoon showed itself well capable of handling an improvised runway.
#4
Yeah, but can the maintainers and fuelers get to the aircraft.
That was the command in the Philippines concern when they got notice that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. So they let them sit on the ground to be destroyed later the day. Better to have them someplace you have to get the maintainers to than clean up the debris later.
[ZERO] Yaroslav Hunka, 98, fought in a Third Reich military formation accused of war crimes.
On Friday, he was honored during a session of Canadian parliament in which Zelenskyy addressed the lawmakers to thank them for their support since Russia invaded Ukraine, saying that Canada has always been on "the bright side of history."
Hunka stood for standing ovation and saluted, according to Canadian television.
Herr Hunka extends thumbs up, stops short of Gruß.
#3
Everyone was rather quiet when the French Foreign Legionaries were dying in Indochina or at Chipyong-ni in Korea during the 50s about who was actually serving in the ranks. Just saying.
#5
Is it so surprising the the Uke's are fascinated with Nazi's? Soviet Russia tried to exterminate them via starvation in the'30s. Then in the '40s the Nazis came to town and started kicking Soviet butt. Damn right the Uke's signed up. Not so much because they were pro-Nazi as they were, and are, virulently anti-Russian. It's Ukes vs Russians; the politics are window dressing.
#7
#5 Is it so surprising the the Uke's are fascinated with Nazi's? Soviet Russia tried to exterminate them via starvation in the'30s. Then in the '40s the Nazis came to town and started kicking Soviet butt. Damn right the Uke's signed up. Not so much because they were pro-Nazi as they were, and are, virulently anti-Russian. It's Ukes vs Russians; the politics are window dressing.
Posted by: Mercutio 2023-09-25 09:42
Mercutio,
More than a few reputable historians have made the point that if Der Fuhrer hadn't been so convinced the Ukranians were untermenschen and instead recruited them in greater numbers, the USSR might not have survived.
And then there are more statements from the Poles: “Poland will not tolerate the bleaching of the Nazis and demands to apologize for inviting the Ukrainian Nazi to the House of Commons,” said Polish Ambassador in Ottawa Witold Dzelsky.
It's OK Canada, no need to apologize, after all the British royal family sympathized with the Nazis, and Carl Edward was a member of SA, and a personal friend of A. Hitler, his son died on Eastern front.
#12
Ukraine is getting a lot of bad press, but everyone seems to be ignoring the 25,000 Dutchmen who joined the Waffen-SS. Granted, 10 times that number of Ukrainians joined one Nazi formation or another, but the Soviets hadn't tried genocide on the Netherlands.
#16
I don’t think Trudeau will last through the next election. He is collecting more baggage than Paris Hilton.
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#17
everyone seems to be ignoring the 25,000 Dutchmen who joined the Waffen-SS
Pretty much any country that Germany overran had people join, especially at the end of the war. Ukraine and the Baltics people joined as they hated the Soviets and other nationalities joined for the same or different reason.
#25
#12, #17, indeed pretty much every country in Europe sent troops to fight the Soviets. The wide held belief was: "With the Germans you lose your freedom, with the Soviets you lose your soul". Folks chose accordingly. If Canada was truly on the side of freedom and personal liberty, such a gaffe could be explainable (Reagan at Bitburg). But, since Canaduh already exposed themselves as tyrants who hate personal liberty, this bit is most disturbing.
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#26
Canada was up there with Australia and Argentina in the number of nasties that ended up there after the war. Most came as fake refugees, but some were moved through the system by British Intelligence to use Canada (and Aus) to warehouse low-mid level war criminals and Nazi sympathizers with the hope of using them as witnesses should they catch bigger fish. As this man, most are now nearing or have past age 100 and are a rarity.
What probably happened was a sloppy wetting process because this Canadian government is incompetent and full of blunders.
It was not deliberate or orchestrated to signal Nazis that they have friends in Canada but the result of just being clownish fools at the top.
As someone pointed out already, these people weren't for the most part ideologically Nazi but people who saw the Nazis as liberators because they came to Ukraine as liberators and Ukraine just survived the Holodomor orchestrated by the Stalin regime. These collaborators numbered around 200K out of a population over 20M. Many of them later switched sides and became partisans fighting the Nazis once they realized how the Germans fooled them.
Stepan Bandera for example fought with the Nazis then fought against them and even ended up as a prisoner in Dachau.
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