The 238th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 19.10.2022.
The Russian army is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in certain directions, at the same time, it does not stop trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.
Russia is shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive positions and lines in separate directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, it continues to strike critical infrastructure and the homes of the civilian population.
During the current day, Russian military launched four missile and eleven air strikes, launched more than ten attacks from rocket salvo systems.
Russian troops has once again launched a massive strike with cruise missiles and Iranian strike UAVs on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv oblasts. At night, Russians also attacked Uman, Cherkasy oblast, and Kobleve, Mykolaiv oblast, with five Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles. All of them were successfully shot down by the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The Republic of Belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. During the day, Russian troops used nine “Shahed-136” attack UAVs from the territory of Belarus. Eight of them were shot down.
Russian soldiers shelled in other directions:
- in the Siversky direction – from mortars and barrel artillery, within the boundaries of the settlements of Gai and Khrinivka of the Chernihiv oblast;
- in the Slobozhansk direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Vovchanski Khutory, Terny, Krasne, Ohirtseve, Strilecha and Khatne settlements;
- in the Kupyansk direction – from barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Berestov, Dvorichna, Kamianka and Kislivka;
- in the Lyman direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Hrekivka, Hryanikyvka, Nadiya, Novoyehorivka, Zarichne, Serebryanka, Terny, Torske and Yampolivka;
- in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks and artillery, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Mayorsk, New York, Opytne, Rozdolivka, Soledar, Spirne and Yakovlivka settlements;
- in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Berdychi, Pervomaiske, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, and Novomykhailivka settlements.
The Russian army did not conduct active offensive actions in the Novopavlivskyi, Zaporizhzhia and Yuzhnobuzki directions. Fired in the areas of more than 45 settlements along the entire contact line.
The Russian leadership of the temporarily captured territory of the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine organized the so-called inventory of the housing stock and the “census” of the population. The measures are carried out with the aim of finding and alienating the housing of residents who have left the captured territories.
Replenishment of the losses of units of the Russian forces at the expense of prisoners caused additional problems to the command. Thus, recruited servicemen from prisons, after receiving weapons, leave their units and look for an opportunity to return to the territory of the Russian Federation. According to available information, after the damage to the warehouse with ammunition in the Kherson region on October 17 of this year, part of the unit involved in its protection was injured, and the rest managed to escape. Rosguard units, under the guise of fighting subversive and intelligence groups, conduct activities to search for deserters.
Russian servicemen continue the practice of forcibly recruiting the local population to carry out fortification works in the area of the city of Kherson, allegedly from among curfew violators and citizens disloyal to the Russian authorities.
Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out ten strikes during the current day. Damage to six areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as four positions of the Russia’s anti-aircraft missile systems, was confirmed. Air defense units of Ukraine shot down four cruise missiles, one Ka-52 helicopter and thirteen “Shahed-136” UAVs.
Soldiers of the missile troops and artillery of Ukraine hit three control points, four areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, an electronic warfare station, one bridge and one pontoon crossing of the Russian army.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
See also: More than 400 objects of Ukrainian infrastructure were attacked by Russia since October 10
