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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief September 25th (updated)
2022-09-26
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:40 Four explosions occurred in the sky over Nova Kakhovka, the military-civilian administration of the city reports on September 25 in its Telegram channel.

At 22:45 four air explosions were recorded. “Air defense is working,” the administration said. The power supply has been cut off in the city.

19:50 Car explosion in Melitopol: what is known at the moment.

▪️At about 5:15 pm, a car exploded on Lomonosov Street.

▪️The force of the explosion was so powerful that the foreign car was torn into two parts, and the ammunition detonated for some time.

▪️A citizen of Ukraine died. A certificate of registration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was found with him, money was scattered on the spot.


Presumably, the man was a saboteur who was preparing a terrorist attack, and died due to careless handling of an explosive device.

However, the investigation is considering other versions, the city authorities said.

17:56 A car was blown up in Melitopol, information about the victims is being specified - the authorities of the region

It is reported that a loud explosion was heard in the area of ​​​​Lomonosov Street - a car was blown up there. Law enforcement agencies went to the scene to conduct investigative measures, the administration specified.

17:08 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation began investigating explosions in Kherson, Berdyansk and shelling in the Zaporozhye region.

16:31 Ukrainian troops attacked the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson, preliminary, there were no casualties - a representative of the emergency services of the city.

16:12 About 20 powerful explosions thundered in Kherson, preliminary air defense is working.

15:31 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation of September 25, 2022

- When hitting a point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the Zaporozhye region, up to a hundred militants were destroyed;
- For a day in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 110 people killed and wounded;
- 215 objects were hit by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery, including. launcher MLRS "HIMARS";
- In the area of ​​Novoselovka (Zaporozhye region), the launcher of the Osa-AKM air defense missile system was hit;
- Two Ukrainian MiG-29s were shot down, converted to use American HARM anti-radar missiles;
- A total of 12 enemy UAVs were destroyed.


14:29 The Russian military prevented the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with eight kamikaze drones.

Rocket strikes killed about 100 militants near the city of Zaporozhye and up to 50 militants in the Anikeevka area, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

A total of 18 HIMARS shells were intercepted, one of the launchers was destroyed in the Nikolaev region.

14:24 Another explosion thundered in Berdyansk, the details are being investigated, Rogov said.

13:12 The Lviv administration reports that the senior officer of the 93rd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, lieutenant colonel Matveychuk Valeriy Anatolyevich, was liquidated the other day.

13:00 In Berdyansk, an explosion occurred near the administration building. Ukraine is a terrorist country.

11:23 A strike from HIMARS on a hotel in the center of Kherson was inflicted on a tip and intelligence from NATO services - law enforcement agencies.

09:10 The RT film crew was in a hotel in Kherson, on which the APU fired rockets from HIMARS, the operator was crushed by plates, but he survived and almost did not suffer.

08:40 In the Kherson region, a group of SBU gunners was detained. They collected data on the movement of the Russian military.

08:27 Zelensky's office, in response to partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, will increase mobilization in Ukraine and grab everyone, so Zelensky banned students from foreign universities from leaving the country. Arestovich began to gently warm up the society, but let's say right away, it turned out badly.

“5.5 million Ukrainians can be mobilized, we are still a country of 40 million, we will call on a million if anything,” Arestovich said.

It has already caused a negative reaction. It is expected that Bankovaya may publicly deny this, but in reality it will be as Arestovich said. Everyone will be grabbed and dragged into the army.

08:18 In Ukraine, another mercenary of the "International Legion" has been destroyed. The Russian military destroyed the mercenary Yevgeny Brakha. Brach served five years in the "Foreign Legion" of France. The circumstances of his death are still unknown.

08:12 The Kyiv authorities are developing "several scenarios of a suicidal attack" on the Zaporozhye region, one of them involves forcing the Dnieper. This was stated by a member of the State Administration of Zaporozhye region Vladimir Rogov. He claims that such plans are developed under the supervision of the Pentagon.

08:02 Ukrainian sources report at least three strikes by Russian kamikaze drones on APU facilities in Odessa.

According to preliminary data, several arrivals occurred in the area of ​​​​the building of the regional administration and the headquarters of the "South" command.

Posted by:badanov

#11  Hi Forkbeard - fyi the Iranian Shaheed 136 isn’t an “updated buzz bomb”. Here’s a link to part 3 of a detailed analysis by a pro Ukrainian intelligence analyst https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-23-september-2022-intro-to-iranian-uav-ucavs-part-3-97481076922c
Posted by: Griter Slash1619   2022-09-26 15:27  

#10   Even the state TV robots see what a cluster F Russia is at this point, Putin may as well have hung a sign on Russia's logo "we suck at everything we do except rape and murder and when people resist we ain't good at that either":

https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1574388699730690049
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 15:21  

#9   https://twitter.com/rajdianos/status/1574408917131710468
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 15:18  

#8  https://twitter.com/dimaFromUkraine/status/1574163989826883587
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:47  

#7   Here's a video of the draft resistor killing the draft guy. Time for good people to kill the evil people dominating Russia, Dagestan has a supposed anti Russki jihad announced today as well:

https://twitter.com/Andrew__Roth/status/1574272320071426049

https://twitter.com/lilygrutcher/status/1574378307583447047
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:29  

#6   Russia joins 1979 Iran as the only modern nations to violate diplomatic immunity protocols:

https://twitter.com/MrKovalenko/status/1574421221634363392
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:23  

#5   Wonderhow many of these cowards got in to Georgia before Putin closed the border? Hope not, hope they get drafted and visit Ukraine. To die a useless death because they are evil bastards like a Nazi Germany in 1940, a couple got turned away and immediately blogged about "denazifying Georgia":

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1574459133163884544
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:16  

#4   Putin seeks to stop Rus males from fleeing:

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1574378601872588800
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:13  

#3   Dagestan is telling Putin to stick it:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1574396889247936512
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:11  

#2   This is where Iranian and Russian trainers were training soldiers to use the Iranian drones( which are essentially upgraded WWII buzz bombs).

https://twitter.com/lilygrutcher/status/1574373508364341251
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:10  

#1   https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1574328431277490176
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-09-26 14:08  

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