The 225th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 06.10.2022.
Russia is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in certain directions, does not stop conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. The Russian army is regrouping its units in separate directions.
The Russian army fires at Ukrainian positions along the contact line, carries out engineering defense equipment in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential areas, 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 this day, Russian forces launched 6 rocket and 7 air strikes, carried out more than 23 MLRS shellings.
Objects and civilian population of more than 25 settlements were damaged by Russian strikes. Among others, these are Zaporizhzhya, Shepetivka, Siversk, Bilohorivka, Olhivske and Hoptivka. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the situation remains without significant changes.
Russian troops fired in other directions:
- in the Siversky direction – from barrel artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Senkivka, Yasna Polyana and Bleshnya of the Chernihiv oblast and Seredyna Buda, Kiyanytsia and Fotovyzh of the Sumy oblast, and the Slobozhanskyi direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Uda, Strilcha, Neskuchne, Hatyshche and Vilkhuvatka;
- in the Kramatorsk direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilohorivka, Siversk and Verkhnokamianske;
- in the Bakhmut direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmut, Yakovlivka, Kurdyumivka, New York (Donetsk region) and Zaitseve settlements;
- in the Avdiivka direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of Avdiivka, Kamianka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske, Paraskoviivka, Pisky and Novomykhailivka settlements;
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Russian soldiers did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhya directions. The infrastructure of more than twenty settlements was damaged by Russian shelling. In particular, Novoukrainka, Vremivka, Poltavka and Novopolya.
In the Southern Buh region, more than thirty settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire. Among them are Pravdyne, Myrne, Kiselyvka, Kobzartsi and Velike Artakove.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled Russian attacks in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmutske, Yakovlivka, Odradivka, Zaitseve, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda, Vodyane and Lyubomirivka settlements.
According to available information, the partial mobilization announced by the military-political leadership of the Russian federation actually “absorbs” small settlements in remote regions of Russia. Conscription is carried out by the method of roundups, practically all male population of conscription age is forcibly taken to military commissariats. At the same time, in Moscow, the demobilization plan, which accounts for less than 0.2 percent of the population in districts, has not been fulfilled by half.
As before, Russian troops are using scorched earth tactics in Ukraine. Thus, during another chaotic retreat, Russia blew up the dam, which caused the settlement of Raihorodok to flood. There is a mass destruction of archives and copies of documents, especially those containing the history of the occupation, in Kadiivka. In Svatovo, the main infrastructure facilities, buildings and territories have already been mined.
Aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 11 strikes during the day. The destruction of one stronghold, 5 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 5 anti-aircraft missile systems of the Russian army was confirmed. In addition, Ukrainian air defense units shot down 5 Russian UAVs, including two Shahed-136 and one Mohajer-6.
Missile troops and artillery during the current day hit 19 areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 2 ammunition depots and 6 artillery means.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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