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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief October 12th (updated)
2022-10-13
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] 23:19 About 30 percent of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been hit over the past two days, some cities are completely without electricity - the Ukrainian authorities.

22:52 Air defense forces of the Russian Federation daily work on enemy targets in the sky over the Zaporozhye region, Ukrainian militants have increased the intensity of shelling - an air defense officer.

22:21 The RF Armed Forces repulsed the attack of three Ukrainian companies on the village of Kislovka in the Kupyansk direction, the militants initially managed to penetrate the defenses, but later they were thrown back - the Russian Defense Ministry.

20:11 An air raid alert has been announced in Kyiv - the authorities.

19:08 Air defense systems are working on targets in the Cherkasy region. Fifteen minutes earlier, Ukrainian sources reported that a drone had flown south through the Chernihiv region.

19:07 The sounds of explosions were heard in the Vinnitsa region in Ukraine, an air raid alert was declared in the region - media.

17:53 An air raid alert has been declared in the Vinnytsia region, the sounds of explosions are heard, Ukrainian media report.

17:32 There are serious problems with the energy system in Kharkiv. According to Country V, due to rolling blackouts, the metro has stopped in the city, there is no electricity in entire areas.

"The work of the subway and electric transport has been disrupted, the light is cut off in some areas of the city," a channel source said.

According to him, a similar situation is observed in many large cities of Ukraine.

17:10 Ukrenergo called on Ukrainians to save electricity not only in the evening, but also during the day. Since 0800 hrs, Ukraine has consumed 6 percent more energy than yesterday, so restrictions have been introduced for consumers in some areas. Savings are encouraged in the morning - from 8:00 to 11:00, in the evening - from 17:00 to 23:00.

17:00 Ukraine must reduce energy consumption by 25 percent, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. This is necessary so that there is no need for rolling blackouts. Just imagine, a quarter of the country needs to be cut off from the power supply. And this is just the beginning. I am very sorry that ordinary Ukrainians have to go through this. But this power must be demolished either by them or by us.

15:40 100th Brigade of the DPR leads active actions to break into the defense of the Ukrainians in the Avdievka direction of the front. Fire to defeat the enemy is carried out from all available guns.

15:32 Armed Forces of Ukraine threw troops into the attack near Kupyansk, Liman, in the Kherson region and Zaporozhye:

In the Kupyansk direction, the main efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day were focused on taking the settlement.

Kislovka, which was attacked by the forces of three Ukrainian company tactical groups and foreign mercenaries simultaneously from three directions. The enemy managed to penetrate the defenses and reach the western outskirts of the settlement.

With the active actions of our troops and the concentrated fire of Russian artillery, Ukrainian units were driven out of the outskirts of Kislovka, dispersed and thrown back to their original positions. The position of the Russian units along the front line has been completely restored.

In addition, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to attack with forces of up to three companies in the directions of the settlement. Tabaevka, Orlyanka of the Kharkov region and Kuzemovka of the Luhansk People's Republic. All attacks by Russian troops were successfully repelled.

The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and mercenaries per day in this direction amounted to more than 100 militants, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and three Turkish Kirpi armored personnel carriers.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, new enemy attempts to force the Zherebets River in the areas of the settlement were thwarted.

Raigorodka, Karmazinovka, Rozovka, Makeevka and Novolyubovka of the Luhansk People's Republic. three infantry fighting vehicles, two armored vehicles and about 60 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed.

In the Zaporozhye direction, near the settlement of Novodarovka, the RF Armed Forces repulsed an attempt to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine with forces up to a platoon with the support of armored vehicles. Seven militants and an armored car were destroyed.

In the Krivoy Rog direction, the enemy attacked with forces of up to two battalions of the settlement. Novovoskresenskoe, Velyka Aleksandrovka and Sukhanovo Kherson region. Russian units successfully repelled all attacks. One tank, 16 armored fighting vehicles, four vehicles and more than 70 militants were destroyed.

In the Andreevsky direction, fire damage was inflicted on the advanced units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack in the direction of the settlements of Kostromka and Ishchenko, Kherson region. Two tanks, three armored vehicles, five technicals and more than 90 militants were destroyed.

In addition, four crossings of the Armed Forces of Ukraine across the Ingulets River, discovered by intelligence, were destroyed by preemptive fire damage and the transfer of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the combat area was disrupted.

14:33 Strikes were made on the energy infrastructure in the Sumy and Shostka districts of the Sumy region. Also, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine announced a new explosion on the energy infrastructure in the Kamyansky district.

13:33 Something is clearly wrong with the Kyiv hydroelectric power station - some areas of Kyiv adjacent to it have already been flooded. The SBU banned the publication of any data on the arrivals of Russian cruise missiles. It is quite possible that the hydroelectric power station itself or the dam could be damaged.

13:07 The authorities of the Sumy region of Ukraine report arrivals at infrastructure facilities, in a number of areas there was an emergency power outage.

13:05 On the eve of winter, the authorities of Lviv are stocking up on "bourgeois stoves" for the population against the backdrop of strikes on the energy infrastructure, writes Politico.

12:31 The regional state administration of Dnepropetrovsk confirmed new arrivals at energy infrastructure facilities in the Kamensky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region. One of the substations was seriously damaged.

12:11 A source in the OP said that the US Embassy in Ukraine demanded that Zelensky stop his rash actions on the territory of Russia.

Brigitte Brink conveyed to Yermak claims from the State Department regarding the explosions on the Crimean bridge and the murder of Dugina, all the initiative of the Office of the President greatly irritates the White House and takes the conflict with Russia to a new level, which is difficult to predict.

11:05 Insider Ukrainian TG channels again report a large-scale alarm on the territory of Ukraine.

10:18 Air raid alert sounds in central and southern Ukraine, including in Odessa, Ukrainian media report.

09:16 An explosion followed by a fire sounded in Volnogorsk, Dnepropetrovsk region. Presumably, the UAV worked.

09:11 Explosions are reported in Kyiv.

08:44 A Shahed-136 kamikaze UAV has been spotted over Krivoy Rog.

08:21 Explosions are heard in the Nikolaev region, Ukrainian media report. An air alert has been declared in the region. As of 06:35 (coincides with Moscow time), an air raid alert has been announced in eight regions of Ukraine.

08:15 Ministry of Defense demonstrates how Su-25 attack aircraft launch missile attacks on military facilities and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the special operation zone.

08:05 A third of Ukraine's energy infrastructure has been hit over the past two days, said Minister of Energy Galushchenko

Posted by:badanov

#30  Tick tock.

Trump pushes for Russia-Ukraine talks, complicating GOP politics

BY BRETT SAMUELS 10/11/22 06:00 AM ET

Former President Trump has emerged as the most prominent advocate in the United States of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to broker a cease-fire as hostilities between the two sides ratcheted up over the weekenD

Posted by: Billy B   2022-10-13 21:16  

#29  Russia loses and is broken into small parts

Well this is its last century anyway. Right now the ethnic Russians are 87% of the population. With their demographic decline, by the end of the century they will only make up some 55%. And that is before the war and the loss of a chunk of their breeding population. You can't dominate the minorities when you are becoming the minority.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-10-13 15:05  

#28   What we need is Ukraine wins and Russia loses and is broken into small parts. You guys need it, too. It's unhealthy not caring when mass rape and murder happens, kinda like you guys have ISIS mentality. I suppose you're "Republicans"?

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1580464116258377728
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 14:56  

#27  I don't know what they need - marriage counselors or divorce lawyers or what. It's just too damn bad they got Joe Biden instead.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-10-13 13:35  

#26  This thread is like listening to a dumbass man and his dumbass wife who can't seem to get along so they insist on telling friends, family and neighbors all about it. So tedious.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-10-13 13:24  

#25  #23 Here's what Chaim and his FSB pal Badanov wish they could achieve. Make Hitler blush:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1579820810751324160


Gubarev is an even bigger political clown than Zhirinosky, if that is even possible.

Posted by: badanov   2022-10-13 13:23  

#24  #22 You don't even believe your own lies, FSB boy. No one else will. I bet Ukraine just flattened Mariupol and other cities, too, right?

Did your ignorant, embarrassing Army do this yourselves or is this another success story of the Ukraine Army?

https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1580594842815823877


Russians say that if those Russian cruise missiles did hit those victims, they would have been a red mist.

They don't say the missiles hit. They did. They are saying that Ukrainian SAMs ere launched against those missiles and either missed and hit a target that stood in the way, or the missiles went stupid and self destructed.

Posted by: badanov   2022-10-13 13:21  

#23   Here's what Chaim and his FSB pal Badanov wish they could achieve. Make Hitler blush:

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1579820810751324160
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 13:17  

#22   You don't even believe your own lies, FSB boy. No one else will. I bet Ukraine just flattened Mariupol and other cities, too, right?

Did your ignorant, embarrassing Army do this yourselves or is this another success story of the Ukraine Army?

https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1580594842815823877
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 12:57  

#21   Look at these ridiculous Russians:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1580515057338720258
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 12:51  

#20  More innocent civilians murdered by Russian troopers. All this is gonna come back on Russia's head and the people that support it are gonna regret it:

https://twitter.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1580508823122763777


Most of those casualties were caused by Ukrainian SAMs.
Posted by: badanov   2022-10-13 12:28  

#19   More innocent civilians murdered by Russian troopers. All this is gonna come back on Russia's head and the people that support it are gonna regret it:

https://twitter.com/MFA_Ukraine/status/1580508823122763777
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 12:16  

#18  Bot-Wars! Two bots enter, one bot leaves then they just go on and on until everyone is bored.

Be insightful, be funny, or go home. (Bonus points if you can make it rhyme)
Posted by: SteveS   2022-10-13 12:14  

#17   Hello Chaim, isn't this what your nukes might do? I mean, you Russians allowed all the oligarchs to steal Russia's assets, so your military stuff has not been properly maintained at all:

https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1580515682412027904
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 12:10  

#16  Get a room
Posted by: Frank G   2022-10-13 12:07  

#15  
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 12:00  

#14   If there needs to be a holy war, it needs to be on Russia from all humanity. Russia's culture is about what Canaanite culture was in 2000 BC:

https://twitter.com/StarskyUA/status/1580456280455778304
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:57  

#13   Chaim,

Maybe you and Badanov should volunteer to teach your embarrassing Army how to train folks safely?

Watch closely, Chaim!

https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1580551789509689344
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:44  

#12   You guys are struggling to get trucks over the Kerch bridge aren't you, Chaim? Can't you people do anything good? Is exporting your slave mentality/rape/murder mentality all you Russians can do anymore?

Used to you guys could make good music as well as being slaves.
https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1580385992791334912/photo/1
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:38  

#11   Look at the generosity of the Russian taxpayers, funding Ukraine's war for NATO membership. Ukraine also has more operable MBTs now than when Russia invaded Ukraine, thanks to Russian incompetence.

Chaim, why are you and Badanov not in the Russian Army? Are you cowards?
Check out the latest below, it's a HOLY WAR isn't it, Chaim? Why are you guys so obsessed with gay people? Most of you are atheists, so what gives here?

https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1580445418525454336
https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1580445418525454336
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:32  

#10  Silly. I am a preach mongering warrior.

When you find the FREQUENCY, Kenneth, do let us know.

The innernet’s on the fritz, the kettle’s on the boil and we’re so easily called away
Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-13 11:21  

#9   Here Chaim, your own propaganda staff in Moscow is becoming upset with the incompetence of Putin's Army.

I can't read this trash language, but, you can, you and Badanov your war mongering preacher:

https://t.me/akashevarova/5654
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:18  

#8  wHatS thE fREquEncY KENnEtH???
Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-13 11:15  

#7   Chaim,

I am obsessive for freedom and Ukraine will have it, you Russians can remain robotic slaves, why not leave everyone else alone? That way you can enjoy slavery without having to die to protect it?

Looks like your Army is running out of stuff, US stuff is so superior to the trash you people make isn't it?

https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1580563217503653889

https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1580563217503653889
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:12  

#6   Dumbasses in Russia bombed their own people, this time accidentally. Putin had the FSB blow up civilians in apartments to gin up war fever on Chechnya in the 1990s on purpose:

https://twitter.com/Podolyak_M/status/1580513158027890688
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:09  

#5  Trump, Musk, Tulsi and the rest of the America First party will soon be joined by the left in opposing this pointless war that’s none of our business
Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-13 11:07  

#4  Go away, you manic-obsessive buffoon
Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-13 11:07  

#3   Maybe there is hope for Russia? Maybe some don't prefer slavery after all, unlike Badanov and his friends here:

https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1580495444152504320
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 11:00  

#2   Can you Russian agents come up with better pr? Russia started the war, everyone knows it, Ukraine is winning the war, everyone knows it.
If Putin doesn't pull something besides paying Russians like you and Badonov to make preposterous stories up, he's gonna have 0 soldiers left in Ukraine.

Kherson's puppet governor is ready for an evacuation, problem is, Ukraine screwed up all the bridges in the region so there is no evacuation possible. Thanks to the USA.

I guess messing with Badanov's "BULL" ain't that big of a deal cause Russia is so corrupt it's government has raped the nation, you people are born slaves and love being slaves and your Army sucks like your bag of vomit nation sucks:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1580532883546329093
Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962   2022-10-13 10:59  

#1  Tulsi, Trump and Musk are riding a wave. Both the right and the left have turned against the idiot warmongers in DC.

Chief Idiot Alexandra Occasional-Cortex gets roasted at a town hall meeting:

Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres

AOC humiliated at a Town Hall:

"You ran as an outsider yet you voted to start this war in Ukraine. You're voting to start a nuclear war with Russia and China!”
Posted by: Chaim   2022-10-13 10:27  

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