The 226th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 07.10.2022.
Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, is concentrating its efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces of Ukraine in certain directions, and at the same time is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions.
The Russian army is shelling the positions of Ukrainian troops along the contact line, carrying out engineering equipment of defensive lines and positions in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
There remains the threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During the day, Russian troops launched 2 rocket and 5 air strikes, launched more than 10 MLRS attacks.
Objects and civilian population of more than 10 settlements were damaged by Russian strikes. Among them – Ridkodub, Hulyaipilske, Novoandriyivka, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolayiv, Slavhorod.
Russian soldiers used 4 Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles to strike the populated areas of Zaporizhzhya and Mykolayiv. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
In other directions, Russian military carried out shelling:
- in the Siversky direction – from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Senkivka and Yasna Polyana settlements of Chernihiv oblast, as well as Seredyna Buda, Fotovнzh, Boyaro-Lezhachi, Ryzhivka, Holyshivske, Kiyanytsia, Myropillya, Mezenivka and Slavhorod of Sumy oblast;
- in the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Basove, Hlyboke, Vysoka Yaruga, Krasne, Strilecha, Starytsa, Hatyshche, Vovchansk, Volokhivka and Dvorichna settlements;
- in the Kramatorsk direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Terny, Raihorodok, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Torske, Ivanivka and Hrekivka settlements;
- in the direction of Bakhmut, Russians shelled the areas of Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhrad, Opytne, Mayorsk, Vyimka, Rozdolivka, Vesele, Zaitseve and Odradivka settlements;
- in the Avdiyivka direction, Russia inflicted fire damage in the areas of the settlements of Avdiyivka, Kamianka, Novobakhmutivka, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka, Vodyane, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka.
On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions, the infrastructure in the districts of Novoukrainka, Pavlivka, Neskuchne, Chervone, Hulyaipole and Novopole was damaged by Russian shelling.
In the South Buh direction, more than twenty settlements near the contact line were affected by fire.
Units of the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Andriyivka, Pervomaiske, Vesele, Kamianka, Pobyeda, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, and Ternovy Pody.
Russian authorities continue to put pressure on the citizens of Ukraine who remained in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk oblast. According to available information, in some areas of the city of Horlivka, representatives of “security structures” intimidate local residents who did not support the joining of the temporarily occupied region to the Russian Federation in an illegal referendum. Men who avoid mobilization continue to be identified, detained and forcibly sent to units of the 1st Army Corps to replace casualties.
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According to the available information, there are significant problems with the material support of the mobilization measures carried out by the military leadership of the Russian Federation. Thus, at the beginning of October, of the 8,000 demobilized persons staying at the base of the Novosibirsk Higher Command School, no more than half were provided with military uniforms. In addition, only field uniforms and shoes are issued to the specified personnel. The rest of the equipment must be bought at your own expense or try to get it from the local authorities as humanitarian aid. The issue of providing the mobilized with helmets and body armor remains problematic.
Russian soldiers continue to suffer losses in the south of Ukraine. Thus, in the area of Kakhovka, Kherson oblast, the destruction of personnel and military equipment, including air defence equipment, has been confirmed. Also, as a result of effective fire damage to the area of Russia’s concentration near the village of Borozenske, on October 5 of this year, the losses of the Russian army amounted to 10 people killed and about 20 wounded.
Aviation of the Defence Forces of Ukraine carried out 11 strikes during the day. It was confirmed that 8 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 3 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Russian army were destroyed. In addition, Ukrainian air defence units shot down two UAVs and two Russian helicopters.
Rocket troops and artillery hit one area of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, a pontoon crossing and a WED complex in a day.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
See also: Ukrainian military liberated more than 2,400 km2 in the south
