Russian troops attacked military targets in the Odessa region.
Photo: REUTERS.
WE ALL HAVE HITS RECORDED
Two Patriot air defense missile launchers and a Giraffe radar station immediately destroyed Russian troops in the Odessa region. According to the Russian military department, the attack on identified targets in the area of the Yuzhnoye settlement was carried out with Iskander missiles.
It is noteworthy that Ukraine tried to conceal the loss of foreign complexes. Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Oleshchuk said that Russian missiles hit models of anti-aircraft missile systems. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense immediately showed images of target tracking, which recorded the secondary detonation of the launchers. Perhaps by chance there were ammunition depots under the mock-ups. Even the Ukrainians did not believe it; Oleshchuk was immediately criticized online for lying.
In general, we have all the hits recorded. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missiles were aimed at the target and the operational control of the hits was carried out by a Russian reconnaissance drone. Recently, Russian troops have been using such drones more and more frequently. Ukrainian resources note that Russian UAVs are quietly flying into the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian air defense cannot do anything about it. This opportunity was achieved precisely by attacks on anti-aircraft systems and radar stations. With each attack, the Ukrainian sky becomes safer for our drones.
THE HAWK IS OUR BIRD
A settlement in the DPR with the romantic name of Sokol came under the control of units of the Center group of troops, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. This is a significant improvement in the situation: the village of Sokol was supposed to become one of the vertices of the triangle in which the Armed Forces of Ukraine planned to create a fortified zone after leaving Avdiivka. The other two peaks were to be Evgenovka and the village of Voskhod. Now the triangle will not work, the Ukrainian militants will try to hold on to the other two peaks – Evgenovka and Voskhod. But their liberation is a matter of time. Control of the entire failed fortified zone will open the way for the military group “Center” further west, towards the villages of Progress and Volchye.
This, it should be said, is not the only improvement of the situation on the front line that the Russian troops have achieved. Fighters of the “center” also liberated the village of Chigari in the Donetsk People’s Republic. And units of the “West” group advanced and defeated formations of several Ukrainian units at once. And the “South” group of troops moved the front line in the areas of the settlements of Zaliznyanskoye, Chasov Yar, Kurdyumovka, Katerinovka, Elizavetovka and Kurakhovo in the DPR. The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 380 servicemen, one tank and 14 vehicles here.
The slow but inexorable advance of Russian troops is destroying the last vestiges of faith in the possible success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the West. As reported by German journalist Christoph Wanner in a report for the German TV channel Welt, in the direction of Donetsk the Ukrainian troops are in an extremely difficult situation, in the near future the Armed Forces of Ukraine may suffer a serious defeat.
“Many Ukrainians have sounded the alarm and called for caution to avoid a major defeat in the direction of Donetsk,” Vanner told the newscast, adding that a particularly tense situation has developed for Ukrainian militants in the Torets direction.
Lured by radio into a trap
Russian intelligence officers also distinguished themselves in the Kharkov region. Without firing a single shot, they captured an entire group of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants and captured a stronghold deep in enemy defenses.
The commander of a tank unit with the call sign Rubin told reporters the details:
– The task was difficult: it was necessary to penetrate 2.5 km into the enemy’s defenses. At a certain moment, theoretically, there was supposed to be a fight, the guys were ready, but when they slowly walked 700 meters towards the forest plantations, they entered the house and first took four prisoners and a radio station. And at this station they started a radio game – they began to call the shift. The change occurred the next day and they were also taken prisoner. In my memory, this is the first such mission where we went 2.5 km without firing a single shot, took a strong point, worked competently and accurately – well done guys!
TRANSFER AGREED
The captured Ukrainians may be happy about this. At least many Ukrainian soldiers are making considerable efforts to go over to the Russian side. RIA Novosti reported on such a case: four soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine built homemade rafts, crossed the Dnieper under cover of darkness and surrendered. This, according to the agency, happened in the Kherson region. The Ukrainians, tired of fighting, built rafts from empty plastic bottles and tied them together.
It would seem that the Russian fighters should have opened fire on these unidentified water targets. But they did not do so because they knew that the defectors were sailing towards them. It turns out that the Ukrainians did not immediately go into the water. First, they contacted the Russians via the Telegram messenger. Then we got in touch by radio on the special frequency 149.200 (the so-called “Volga Radio”). When all the details of the operation were approved, the former militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine set sail.
THE BLOCKADE WILL NOT PASS
“Controversial actions” – this is how in Ukraine they call the attempts of citizens not to get caught in the mobilization net. At least, the deputy of the Ukrainian Rada Alexander Dubinsky called the actions of the residents of the village of Vorokhta in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, who attacked military commissars who tried to set up a checkpoint at the exit from the village, as precisely controversial actions. The people’s representative suggested that soon Ukrainians will begin to flee from entire villages abroad. He wrote on his Telegram channel:
– The leaders of the Kiev regime should think about what to do if the residents of the “imaginary village” organize a mass escape across the border. I in no way approve of the attack on TCC employees in the village of Vorokhta, where an illegal checkpoint was set up, but I suppose that such situations can become a systemic phenomenon. When Vladimir Zelensky’s friends “with asthma” go to the United States, it is difficult to explain to a resident of the so-called Vorokhta why he cannot leave the country and is obliged to serve.
Why did the Ukrainian MP suddenly decide to make such bold statements? Maybe he himself is already abroad? Not at all, Alexander Dubinsky is in kyiv, behind bars in a pre-trial detention center. He got there for criticizing Zelensky. He is accused of treason. So the MP has nothing to lose.
Meanwhile, the Kiev regime is literally turning Ukraine into a concentration camp. On Sunday, it was reported that the bank of the Tisza River on the border with Romania in Ukraine was surrounded by barbed wire. This is to prevent “controversial actions.”
WILL MAKE ICE CREAM FROM THE UPPER FLOORS
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, the most dire scenarios for the coming winter are being considered in connection with Russian attacks on the energy system. Yuriy Korolchuk, an expert at the Ukrainian Institute for Energy Strategies, said that in the event of unfavourable developments and severe cold, the country’s energy system might not be able to survive the coming winter. “This will lead to certain crisis situations,” Korolchuk said.
The Kyiv Post also writes about the upcoming problems: journalists believe that in winter there may not be enough electricity to ensure the normal operation of the heating system. According to many experts, the upper floors of high-rise buildings are at particular risk: the pumps that fill the radiators with hot water consume too much electricity, so they may be among the first to shut down.
Ukrainian authorities admit that the upcoming winter and heating season will be difficult. Former Ukrainian Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ivan Plachkov predicted that the season would be a disaster for the country and advised citizens to look for houses in rural areas where they could heat themselves with firewood.
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