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| Ukrainian military repelled ten Russian attacks in Donbas |
| 2022-10-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] Aviation of the defense forces hit 22 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 5 ammunition depots and positions of nine enemy anti-aircraft missile systems. by Iryna Gamalii Last day, the Ukrainian military repelled ten Russian attacks in Donbas Photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, improve the tactical position, concentrates efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time conducts offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions. This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the morning of the 244th day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian military invasion. Over the past 24 hours , the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bilogorivka , Luhansk region , and Bakhmut, Bilogorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Ivangrad, Klishchiivka, Spirne, Soledar, Maryinka, and Nevelske, Donetsk region . The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has launched missile and air strikes on the infrastructure and homes of the civilian population, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war. In general, during the previous day, the occupiers launched three rocket and 12 air strikes, carried out more than 60 attacks from rocket salvo systems . Objects of civil infrastructure in the settlements of Vugledar and Neskuchne of the Donetsk region, Nova Kamianka of the Kherson region, and Mykolaiv were hit by enemy attacks. The situation in the Volyn and Poliske directions has not changed significantly. There is still a threat of missile and air strikes on the critical infrastructure of our State from the territory of the Republic of Belarus, including the use of Iranian-made strike UAVs. The enemy shelled in other directions: in the Seversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Senkivka settlements of Chernihiv region and Rozhkovichi, Sosnivka and Velika Pisarivka of Sumy region According to available information, the enemy is setting up defensive positions on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region. For example, in the area of ​​the settlement of Gornostaivka, engineering and sapper units of the Russian occupying forces are mining the coastline, leaving small passages for a potential retreat of their troops from the right bank. Measures to evacuate local residents from temporarily occupied Kherson are underway. From the right bank of the city, to the settlements of Genichesk and Skadovsk, the equipment and personnel of all banks and the occupation administration were taken out. The equipment of Internet providers was stolen. Emergency services and medical personnel are subject to evacuation. Funding of schools and provision of food for children in schools has been stopped. The number of robberies of local residents and cases of looting has increased. To replace the evacuated collaborators, servicemen from among the mobilized persons are transferred to the settlement of Lviv. According to detailed information, the destruction of five units of weapons and military equipment and up to 110 servicemen of the occupation forces in the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions has been confirmed in recent days. During the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces has carried out more than 30 strikes. It was confirmed that 22 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment of the enemy, 5 ammunition warehouses and positions of 9 anti-aircraft missile systems of the enemy were destroyed. In different directions, our air defense units shot down three Ka-52 "Alligator" helicopters, a Su-24M bomber, 2 "Orlan-10" UAVs and "Shahed-131" UAVs of the enemy. Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit six areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, two ammunition depots, an anti-aircraft missile complex, the "Zoopark" radar station and two other important enemy objects. We will remind you that the Bellingcat team and its partners The Insider and Der Spiegel discovered a hitherto hidden group of three dozen Russian military engineers with education and experience in the field of missile programming during six months of investigation. |
| Posted by:badanov |