Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2022-10-13
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⚡️ (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/311)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 12 Oct 2022⚡️
The Russian Armed Forces have again struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Today, targets were hit in #Sumy and #Dnipropetrovsk regions. Compared to the previous two days, the salvos were less massive, but work to overload the country's energy system continues.
#RussianFederation Territories:
▪️ The AFU shelled #Belgorod several times during the day, but all strikes were repelled by Russian air defences.
#Starobelsk Direction (MAP (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/309)):
▪️ In the #Kupyansk direction, the enemy continued its offensive against the positions of the Russian Forces near #Olshany, where the 14th AFU Brigade was able to entrench around the village. At the same time, the enemy attacked on the line #Pershotravnevoye - #Orlyanka on order to reach #Olshany from the flank.
▪️ In the course of the day, fierce fighting took place around #Kislovka. Ukrainian formations initially gained control of the village, but then the Russian forces regained their lost positions. The enemy, in turn, suffered heavy losses of personnel and equipment.
▪️ In the #Tavolzhansky sector, the AFU hold a position defence and rotate their personnel. Russian Forces are engaging the enemy with massive firepower.
▪️ South in the #Lyman - #Svatovo section, Ukrainian formations tried to cross the #Zherebets River at #Raygorodka, #Karmazinovka, #Rozovka, #Novolyubovka and #Makeevka, but suffered losses and retreated.
#Soledar Direction:
▪️ The AFU command is preparing for another Russian offensive in the #Kodema - #Kurdyumovka and #Klinovoye - Krasnaya Gora areas, which if successful would result in the blockade of #Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) from the northeast and south.
▪️ Position fighting continues in the outskirts of #Bakhmut and #Soledar. Russian Forces launched missile strikes on an AFU position near #Bakhmut railway station.
#Lugansk Region:
▪️ Ukrainian militants struck #Troitsky and #Artemovsk(?). Several people were killed in the settlements and civilian infrastructure was damaged.
#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ Enemy artillery again shelled #Donetsk, #Makeevka, #Gorlovka, #Yasinovataya, #Zaitsevo and other populated areas in the #Donetsk agglomeration.
#Zaporozhye Direction (MAP (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/308)):
▪️ The Ukrainian command is finalising preparations for a massive offensive in the area. Soldiers of the 65th Brigade of the AFU Reserve Corps conducted a reconnaissance battle near #Novoaydarovka, but, hit by massive artillery fire, suffered losses and retreated.
▪️ Ukrainian formations are strengthening their defences near #Dorozhnyanka and preparing SRGs for a raid on Russian Forces' positions near #Marfopol.
▪️ There remains a high risk of an enemy landing near #Energodar, both from #Nikopol and Zolotaya Balka.
#Andreevka and #Berislav Sections at Southern Front(MAP (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/307)):
▪️ In the #Andreevka sector, units of the 35th Infantry Brigade attempted to storm Russian positions on the #Kostromka - #Ishchenka line, but suffered losses and retreated. New crossings across the #Ingulets are beiong used to supply the group.
▪️ In the #Berislav area, the AFU are preparing a new offensive and moving reserves to the front line.
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⚡️ (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/316)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in #Starobelsk Direction at 10:00 on 13 Oct 2022⚡️
#Kupyansk Section:
▪️ Ukrainian formations with the forces of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 14th Mechanized Brigade and the 32nd Separate Composite Battalion of the Territorial Defence attempted an assault at the #Kislovka -#Pershotravnevoye line. The 32nd´s Separate Reconnaissance Group suffered heavy losses.
▪️ Personnel of the 192nd Battalion of the 124th Territorial Defence Brigade were transferred to the combat area near #Pershotravnevoye and #Peschanoye in order to maintain combat strenghth and replace the 32nd´s fighters.
▪️ Russian forces shelled Ukrainian positions on a large scale, forcing them to retreat to #Petropavlovka to regroup.
▪️ Assault units of the Ukrainian 92nd Mechanized Brigade tried to entrench themselves near #Kotlyarovka. Artillery fire drove the Ukrainian formations back to their initial lines.
▪️ During the intense fighting, the total losses of Ukrainian formations amounted to three tanks, four BMPs, seven vehicles and over 50 personnel.
▪️ Ukrainian advanced reconnaissance groups are searching for the positions of the Russian Forces and targeting the AFU artillery on the line of #Sinkovka - #Olshany, #Orlyanka - #Kotlyarovka - #Kislovka, #Nikolaevka and #Stelmakhovka.
#Lyman - #Svatovo Section:
The AFU is concentrating units near #Torskoye in preparation for an offensive on #Kremennaya.
▪️ A combined assault grouping with the 1st Battalion of the 66th Brigade, the 110th Battalion of the 111th Division of the TPO and the 131st Battalion of the 112th Division of the TPO has been formed near #Terny. In case of a failed attack on the settlement, the Ukrainian command is ready to make another attempt. Reinforcements and reserves are being moved to #Lyman.
▪️ The AFU, using the forces of two battalion-tactical groups, tried to force the #Zherebets River and occupy the settlements of #Stelmahovka and #Rozovka. Russian air force artillery and aviation struck clusters of the AFU, destroyed two tanks, five BMPs and two pickup trucks. The Ukrainian formations suffered several dozens of casualties.
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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Chronicle of Strikes and Mutual Firing in the SMO Zone Overnight from 12-13 Oct 2022⚡️
▪️ The Russian Forces carried out at least three strikes using a Geran-2 UAV against a logistics terminal in the Buchansky district of the #Kiev region, where foreign military equipment might have been present.
According to some reports, one of the kamikaze drones was shot down on the border of the #Kiev and #Zhytomyr regions.
▪️ Ukrainian militants again attempted to shell #Belgorod Region. As a result of an air defence strike, debris from one of the missiles fell on a residential block of flats.
▪️ Russian Forces fired on targets in #Miropolye and #Stukalovka in the #Sumy region.
▪️ In #Kharkov region, the Russian Forces struck enemy concentrations of personnel in the border towns of #Volchansk, #Udakh and #Bugrovatka.
▪️ In the #Starobelsk direction, the sides shelled each other with high intensity along the entire line of contact.
▪️ Russian Forces engaged targets in #Dvurechnaya, #Gryanikovka, #Zarechnoye, #Novoegorovka, #Stelmakhovka, and west of #Kislovka.
▪️ In the #Bakhmut (#Artemovsk) direction, Russian missile forces and artillery hit enemy positions in #Bakhmut, #Bakhmutskoye, #Spornoye, #Zelenopolye and #Serebryanka.
▪️ In the #Donetsk direction, Russian Forces continued strikes against defensive positions of the AFU in #Avdeevka, #Maryinka and #Pervomayskoye.
Ukrainian militants, in turn, shelled the #Donetsk agglomeration again.
▪️ In #Zaporozhye region, Russian Forces worked on targets in #Orekhovo, #Zaliznichny, #Nikolskoye and #Poltavka. The Russians also struck enemy firing points in #Nikopol and #Marganets.
▪️ In the #Nikolaev - #KrivoyRog area, the Russian Forces conducted several strikes on AFU targets in #Nikolaev, Davydov Brod and #Bereznegovatoye.
The enemy shelled Novaya Kakhovka, with most of the shells intercepted by air defence assets.
▪️ In #Odessa Region, Ukrainian air defence forces failed to hit Russian UAVs: one of the anti-aircraft missiles went off course and exploded near the AFU positioning area.
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⚡️ (http://t.me/SLG_MAPS/317)🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation on the #Nikolaev - #Berislav Direction at 15:00 on 13 Oct 2022⚡️
#Posad-Pokrovskoye Sector:
▪️ In #Zara and #Lyubomovka, the AFU rotated the personnel of the AFU´s 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade. Artillery and mortar shells were delivered to Posad-Pokrovskoye.
▪️ A spot artillery strike by the Russian Armed Forces with the targeting of a UAV in Posad-Pokrovskoye hit the firing position of a 120mm mortar crew.
#Andreevka Section:
▪️ A company of the 137th Battalion of the AFU´s 35th Marine Brigade attempted to entrench itself three km north of #Ishchanka. The Ukrainian positions were shelled with barrel and rocket artillery. The surviving militants were evacuated to Davydov Brod under tank cover.
▪️ Forward gunners of the 46th Airmobile Brigade conducted a sortie in the area of the #Borozenskoye and #Bezvodnoye settlements. AFU army aviation helicopters fired on the identified positions.
#Berislav Section:
▪️ The command of the 60th Infantry Division put units on full alert ahead of the offensive. A brigade artillery group of the 60th Brigade is firing indiscriminately at #Pyatikhatki and #Borozenskoye.
▪️ Russian Forces conducted a reconnaissance battle near Sukhoy Stavok and captured several soldiers of the 11th Battalion of the 59th Infantry Brigade.
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GB: A note on the news of voluntary evacuation of civilians from Kherson on the right (west) bank of the Dnepr river.
As previously posted and explained on @Slavyangrad in relation to Svatovo (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/11744), the recent practice of voluntary evacuations is not an indicator of immediate (or even intermediate-term) threat to the cities being evacuated by the Russian authorities. On the contrary, it is evidence of the Russian authorities learning from experience to realize that cities are better and easier defended with fewer civilians and that no territory is worth civilian lives—the opposite to the methods practiced by the Ukrainian regime.
As can easily be seen from the map, the action is still very far from Kherson itself. While the Ukrainian offensive from the Andreevka/Davydov Brod bridgehead and toward Dudchany has now stalled, the city in the most danger—such as it is—of seeing direct clashes is Novaya Kakhovka, not Kherson.
Nonetheless, the Ukrainians shell Kherson daily, with howitzer and MLRS (HIMARS) artillery. In the circumstances, the fewer civilian remain on the right (west) bank of the Dnepr river, the fewer of them will die. The fewer of them also will be in the way of the defence of the city in the very unlikely (but not entirely amenable to being ruled out) event of clashes taking places in close proximity to the regional centre of Russia's Kherson Oblast.
Accordingly, the move to announce a voluntary evacuation from Kherson—in the circumstance where much of the city is being supplied by ferries and is subjected to constant shelling from afar by the Ukrainian Terrorist Forces—is a wise and timely move. The Russian Army should be focused on supplying the troops defending the Kherson Oblast, not the civilians who would be much safer further from the front lines.
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