Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:37 More than $470 million in charitable contributions from more than 110 countries has already been collected through the United24 platform, Zelensky said in an evening video message.
22:28 The Bulgarian Parliament approved the sending of anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine. The ammunition is defective and over 30 years old, but Ukraine can use it as spare parts. For more details, see the article Why the Armed Forces of Ukraine have faulty missiles .
21:32 The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against a transnational network helping with the production of drones in Iran. They are involved in the procurement of critical parts for the Iranian drone program.
20:46 A video of new Iranian kamikaze drones Shahed-136 OWA has appeared online. It is claimed that the upgraded version of the drones has received new engines that can provide better speed, range and reduce the noise of the UAV. More details in the material Now not mopeds .
19:28 The United States and Ukraine agreed to jointly, under the control of the Pentagon, identify and prevent corruption crimes related to the supply of American weapons, a corresponding memorandum was signed by representatives of the US Department of Defense and NABU.
18:37 During the day, the Russians shelled Konstantinovka, Toretsk and Kalinovka in the Chasovoyarsk community of the Donetsk region. According to preliminary data, the enemy used guided and high-explosive bombs and tanks. One person was killed and four were injured, the prosecutor's office said.
17:50 The Bulgarian parliament has finally agreed to send faulty S-300 missiles to Ukraine, as well as ammunition for automatic small arms. Bulgaria does not have the capacity to independently repair these missiles, so it gives them to Ukraine as faulty ones.
17:29 The Grand Chamber of the Swiss Parliament did not allow the re-export of its weapons to warring countries, including Ukraine. The Small Chamber of Parliament proposed to allow the sending of military equipment to a warring country if it thus exercises the right to self-defense.
16:48 Scholz is blocking the supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine due to fears that German personnel will then have to be sent to help maintain them, and Moscow will regard this as a direct confrontation with Berlin, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing sources. According to the newspaper, the three-party coalition government of Germany has already “approved the delivery in principle,” but it is being blocked by the chancellor, who believes that a parliamentary vote will be required to send military personnel to the combat zone.
At the same time, some sources in Germany say that the supply may still be approved if the United States sends similar weapons to Ukraine. In addition, Scholz is afraid that Ukraine will use missiles on Russian territory. German officials said that even if the Taurus was approved, the missiles' range would be reduced.
16:11 Podolyak stated that the purpose of disseminating information about the appearance of Wagnerites in the Bakhmut direction is to briefly try to block the news about the liberation of Kleshcheevka and Andreevka by the Ukrainian army and the destruction of the main combat-ready Russian formations. According to him, the media effect of this event is greater than its real significance, because no PMC Wagner exists anymore.
“Today there are only former militants of a terrorist group who went somewhere: to Africa, to the civil-criminal life of the regions of Russia - or signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry and agreed to play the last chord, briefly plugging the Russian hole with themselves,” emphasized the adviser to the head of the OP.
15:36 In Rostov-on-Don, a new trial has begun against the defenders of Mariupol from the Azov regiment. According to advisor to the mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko, 24 Ukrainians are charged with “violent seizure of power” and “participation in a terrorist organization.”
14:57 There are about 500 Wagner troops on the territory of the Eastern Group of Forces, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Ilya Yevlash.
14:24 GUR sources confirmed to Babel that mercenaries from the Wagner PMC appeared again near Bakhmut. At the same time, intelligence clarified that these are individual fighters or former Wagnerites who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. Now they are present in different directions.
13:35 Wagner PMC mercenaries returned to the Bakhmut area, CNN reports citing the Ukrainian military. According to one of them, the Wagnerites “quickly changed commanders and returned here” to compensate for the lack of personnel. "Russia gathered troops from nearby areas and moved them here. They don't have many personnel left here," the military man said.
13:19 The “new shift” of Russian military personnel announced more than two months ago has not appeared in Belarus, reports the Belarusian Gayun monitoring group. Analysts note that the deployment of a regional group of troops and the presence of Russian military personnel in the Republic of Belarus was not due to the protection of the “union state” from external threats, but to the need to train mobilized Russians. If a new wave of mobilization is announced in the Russian Federation, one can expect a new escalation of threats to the “union state” as a pretext for the transfer of Russian mobilized to the Republic of Belarus for training, Gayun predicts.
12:27 Zelensky said following a daily conference call that Ukrainian troops are moving forward in the Donetsk direction, and “there are other plans that are being implemented.” The president also instructed to “find additional solutions to stop the terror” of Russians in the Kherson region.
11:44 The Guardian writes, citing a report from the Ukrainian government, that Ukraine allegedly invited its allies to launch missile attacks on Shahed drone production facilities in Syria, Iran and Russia. Kyiv stated that it agreed to carry out strikes itself if it was given the necessary long-range weapons. This proposal was contained in the Shahed component report, which was submitted to the G7 countries. It notes that most drone parts are made in the USA, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Japan and Poland.
11:25 Lithuania has transferred sets of radar equipment to the Ukrainian Navy, Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said. According to him, they will strengthen Ukraine’s ability to monitor the sea and better understand the situation.
11:09 The commander of the operational-strategic group of troops of Tavria, Alexander Tarnavsky, announced “good news” in the Tavria direction. According to him, “our soldiers are steadily advancing and destroying Russians.”
11:02 British intelligence believes that the involvement of the newly created Russian 25th Army in the battles by separate units as reinforcements reduces the likelihood of a new large-scale offensive by the Russian Federation in the near future. Analysts note that since the invasion began, Russia has only occasionally had an uncommitted army-sized force that could form the basis for new large-scale offensive actions. Since the 25th Combined Arms Army has clearly begun to be deployed in “pieces” to strengthen the stretched front line, a new coordinated offensive by Russian forces in the coming weeks becomes less likely, intelligence predicts.
10:35 After the Ukrainian attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, “a certain confusion” can be traced in the actions of the fleet leadership, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. She explained that the Russians’ use of launch vehicles after this attack was “unsystematic and senseless: they went out, entered, maneuvered along unclear routes with unjustified fuel consumption, without accomplishing tasks.”
In her opinion, in this way the enemy was trying to demonstrate “that control exists, leadership is in place and the fleet can be combat-ready.” At the same time, there is now a lull in Russian naval activity: “Ships are now hiding more, looking for safe places to base and stay in the Black Sea. And we are not seeing any exercises required to maintain the combat capability of the fleet.”
10:23 The SBU detained two Russian agents who were correcting the attack on Kiev on September 21. On the eve of this date, they sent their curators the coordinates for a strike on the capital. The main targets of the enemy attack were life support facilities, including energy generating enterprises.
09:34 On Sunday, October 1, a minute of silence will be held throughout Ukraine at 9:00. On this day, Ukraine will celebrate the day of its defenders and defenders for the first time on a new date, Zelensky said. “This Sunday, for the first time, all of Ukraine will stop for a minute to honor in silence the feat of our people who died defending our state and Ukrainians. Let this become our new tradition,” the president emphasized.
09:02 In the Zaporozhye region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed in Orekhovo, one was wounded in Primorske, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
08:37 At night, the Russians fired heavy artillery at Nikopol and the Mirovskaya community of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Two people were injured, a private enterprise, six private houses, cars, gas pipelines and power lines were damaged.
08:32 The Russians are trying to build a direct railway connection with Mariupol, Volnovakha and Donetsk and have already begun construction of a railway bridge near the village. Granite across the Kalmius River, said Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko. According to him, if successful, this will allow the existing Mariupol-Aslanovo-Kalchik-Volnovakha branch to be included in direct communication with Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don.
“In practice, this is not only a global solution to the issue of military and civilian logistics, but also a radical reduction in dependence on railway traffic via the Crimean Bridge,” Andryushchenko noted. He recalled that the railway connection from Volonovakha goes west through Rozovka-Melitopol to Crimea, and north to Donetsk.
08:24 At night in the Moscow region, explosions were heard at the Chkalovsky military airfield, after which a strong fire started, Russian public pages write. Previously, Ukrainian intelligence reported an attack on this airfield by “unknown saboteurs.” The An-148 and Il-20 aircraft are based on it, intended for reconnaissance and transportation of high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation, including “doomsday planes”.
08:05 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of September 27:
- personnel - about 276,990 (+320) people,
- tanks - 4675 (+3),
- armored combat vehicles - 8950 (+4),
- artillery systems - 6337(+38),
- MLRS - 792 (+0),
- air defense systems - 534 (+1),
- aircraft - 315 (+0),
- helicopters - 316 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 4948 (+24),
- cruise missiles - 1529 (+0),
- ships/boats - 20 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 8792 (+29),
- special equipment - 927(+2).
07:26 Over the past 24 hours, 26 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Severny area, in the Maryinsky direction - in the Marinka area of the Donetsk region, in the Zaporozhye direction - in the area south of Novodarovka, Zaporozhye region. At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the Melitopol and Bakhmut directions.