Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2022-10-25
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⚡️ (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/80)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 24 Oct 2022⚡️
#RussianFederation Territories:
▪️ A terrorist act occurred in the #Bryansk region near the border with #Belarus. An improvised explosive device went off on the Novozybkov - Zlynka line. The railway track was damaged, there were no casualties.
#Starobelsk Direction (MAP (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/79)):
▪️ Units of the Ukrainian 71st Jager Brigade, reinforced by two Forces of Special Operations companies, tried to storm Russian positions near the villages of #Pervomayskoye (#Pershotravnevoye), #Orlyanka and #Berestovoye. The AFU attacks were repulsed by artillery and the enemies withdrew to their initial positions.
▪️ In the #Lyman area, the AFU tried to take the heights south of #Makeevka and approach #Krasnopopopovka again. Two companies of Ukrainian motorized infantry attacked strongholds of the Russian Forces, but came under concentrated artillery fire and withdrew with losses.
▪️ A battalion of the 54th AFU Mechanized Brigade attempted an offensive on #Belogorovka. Russian Forces launched a counterattack and pushed the enemies back to their initial positions.
▪️ The enemy command continues to move reserves to the frontline to replace losses. 20 infantrymen and 2 tanks have arrived in the #Serebryanka area.
#Soledar Direction:
▪️ There is fighting on the eastern outskirts of #Bakhmut. The AFU is counterattacking and trying to push the Wagner PMC troops out of all positions at the asphalt plant.
#Lugansk Region:
▪️ Ukrainian militants shelled #Starobelsk, as well as #Zorynsk, #Belokurakino, #Zolotoye and #Krasnorechenskoye. Late in the evening, there was a heavy explosion near the Yubileynaya mine in #Lugansk. According to preliminary reports, the fire was due to domestic reasons.
#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ Ukrainian militants shelled #Donetsk, #Yasinovataya and other settlements in the agglomeration.
#Zaporozhye Direction (MAP (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/72)):
▪️ There is no significant change in the situation. Artillery duels on the frontline continue and Ukrainian SRGs are trying to expose weak points in Russian defences in the areas of #Gulyaypole, #Orekhov and #Ugledar.
#Nikolaev - #Berislav Direction on Southern Front (MAP (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/73)):
▪️ On the morning of 24 October, two companies of the Ukrainian Forces of Special Operations' 3rd and 8th Separate Regiments in three Husky TSV armoured vehicles, supported by the 17th Territorial Defence Battalion in converted civilian vehicles, attempted a reconnaissance battle near the Russian positions in #Borozenskoye and #Pyatikhatki.
The convoy was detected by an Orlan-30 drone, after which it was attacked by Russian Air Force Su-25 attack aircraft. The forward positions of the AFU were also hit by Giatsint-B howitzers and Smerch multiple rocket launchers. The enemy attack was thwarted. The Ukrainian formations withdrew after losing all their armoured vehicles.
▪️ Ukrainian militants struck Novaya Kakhovka as well as the village of #Kairy with HIMARS and Olkha multiple rocket launchers.
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⚡️ (https://t.me/sitrepmaps/85)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in #Starobelsk Direction until 12:00 on 25 Oct 2022⚡️
#Kupyansk Sector:
▪️There are no significant changes on the frontline. The command of the 14th Mechanized Brigade has rotated personnel. Formations of the Brigade are now preparing for an offensive against the positions of the Russian Forces in the direction of #Kislovka.
#Svatovo Sector:
▪️The AFU with a combined battalion and tactical group attempted an attack on the Russian positions near #Kuzemovka from the direction of #Peschanoye. Russian Forces repulsed the attack and destroyed one tank and three APCs.
#Lyman Sector:
▪️Assault groups of the 66th Mechanized AFU Brigade, supported by artillery, attacked the strongholds of Russian Forces near #Nevskoye.
During the fighting, the command of the Ukrainian unit moved a reserve of tanks to break through the Russian defences. However, the attack was repulsed and the forces of the 66th Mechanized Brigade retreated to their initial positions. As a result, the Russian Forces destroyed three tanks, two BMPs, one APC and three pickups of the AFU.
▪️ The Russian Forces' barrel and rocket artillery shell the AFU's forward positions in the #Borovaya area. For this reason, some of the personnel of the 64th Battalion of the 103rd Brigade of the AFU Territorial Defence have been withdrawn to the reserve lines.
▪️A unit of the AFU´s 71st Jager Brigade was deployed to reinforce the defence along the #Zherebets River and to carry out an assault on the #Raygorodka - #Kovalevka line.
▪️ In the vicinity of #Lyman and #Zarechnoye, the formation of a combined assault group of troops continues. A tank company was moved to the area of the settlements.
#Lysychansk Sector:
▪️After several unsuccessful attempts to storm the Russian positions in the direction of #Belogorovka, the AFU command is redeploying its units. Minefields were laid near #Serebryanka.
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🇺🇦💡 About electricity supply in the Odessa region and connections to Moldova and Transnistria
As we analyze the results of the Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure in Ukraine, we in our team ask one uncomfortable question.
Transdniestria is home to a large thermal power plant, the Moldavskaya TPP. From its open switchgear, there is a 400kV high-voltage line to Romania as well as a 330kV overhead line to Moldova, Ukraine, and Transdniestria itself.
The Odessa region, through which both personnel and foreign equipment are permanently transferred by rail to the front near Nikolaev and Kherson, receives a substantial part of its electricity from the Moldovan TPP.
Yes, the region is also fed by the South Ukrainian NPP, Ladyzhinskaya TPP, and the cascade of HPPs on the Dnieper River. Still, the Moldovan TPP plays an important role.
So, during the spring and summer escalation around Transnistria (at that time Ukrainian formations conducted exercises near the borders, and some politicians seriously declared the necessity of a military operation), a strange situation was observed.
All this time, the Moldovan thermal power plant continued to supply Ukraine with electricity.
But come October, the energy infrastructure was hit. Almost all TPPs were hit by cruise missiles or kamikaze UAVs. In addition, substations were hit almost all over the country, except facilities in the Odessa region (the situation changed on 22 October - then two substations in the Odessa region were hit for the first time).
What is even stranger is that after the hits on the Romanian power plants, hundreds of megawatts of electricity are happily in transit from Romania to Ukraine through the Moldova TPP.
And the wildest thing in this situation is that the Moldovan TPP also generates electricity that goes to Ukraine.
Yes, there are many excuses.
For example, mention the dependence of the north of Transnistria on Podolskaya 330/110/10 kV substation located in Ukraine. To tell about some commercial contracts for export and transit of electric energy. To point out that there is nothing personal here, but only business and replenishment of the Transnistrian budget. To argue that there are no technical possibilities, that the DMR is an independent state that decides with whom to trade.
There are a lot of reasons to come up with. But then what is the point of all this? It turns out that we hit the enemy in the face with one hand, and with the other hand we hold out a handkerchief soaked in alcohol.
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One source I heard today quotes 400,000+
Dead Ukrainian soldiers. But as much as the number seems correct, I've guessed like half a million dead , mostly Ukraine, the real question to me is how many of these were actually not Polish, UK, American, and other locales that sent their best to go die too?
When the West sent all their best weapons, bioweapons, and men to war in the foreign country that posed no threat, did anyone even think about how or when, if it was possible to bring the boys back home alive?
Nope.
Meanwhile in germany they adapted the laws
"Any person who approves, denies or grossly trivializes an act of the kind specified in sections 6 to 12 of the International Criminal Code against one of the majorities of persons referred to in paragraph 1, number 1, or against an individual on account of his belonging to one of those majorities of persons, publicly or in an assembly, in a manner likely to incite hatred or violence against such a person or majority of persons and to disturb the public peace, shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than three years or with a fine."
Last week someone with a Z in the car window got fined 4000 euro in germany, in future this might be 3 years jail.
Being openly pro Russia is already enough to get you into danger for some jailtime.