Posted on 10/24/2022 9:44:37 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Key developments on Oct. 24
-Ukraine pushes Russian forces out of 4 settlements in Donbas
-Ukrainian forces liberated over 90 settlements in Kherson Oblast during counteroffensive
-Ukraine's Intelligence chief says Russia prepares for a defense in Kherson – not retreat
-Russia's Foreign Minister casts doubt on the future of UN-backed grain deal
Ukraine's Armed Forces have liberated four settlements in Donbas – Nevske, Miasozharivka, Karmazynivka, in Luhansk Oblast, and Novosadove, Donetsk Oblast.
The Defense Ministry also reported that Ukrainian forces have liberated over 90 villages and towns in southern Kherson Oblast.
Yet, Defense Ministry's Intelligence Directorate Chief Kyrylo Budanov said Russia prepares to fight for Kherson, not to retreat.
Russia is ready for a long war in Ukraine, therefore, it's crucial to keep providing Ukraine with military and financial assistance to help it get through winter and restore its civilian infrastructure, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich said.
The United States, The United Kingdom, and France have jointly rejected Russian claims that Ukraine is preparing to use a "dirty bomb" and warned Russia against using any pretext for escalating the war.
Over 85 percent of Ukrainians believe that the military should continue to fight Russia, even if Moscow doesn't stop attacking civilians, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology survey shows.
Meanwhile, the arrested head of a Ukrainian aircraft engine manufacturing giant Viacheslav Bohuslaiev has held a Russian passport since 2000, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Bohuslaiev was arrested allegedly for collaborating with Russia.
Since 2000, Bohuslaiev was elected to Ukraine's parliament, sitting on the National Security and Defense Committee, having access to state secrets.
After Bohuslaiev's arrest on Oct. 23, the Security Service published intercepted conversations in which allegedly Bohuslaiev sought to send Ukrainian-made attack helicopter engines to Russia via third countries.
A man said to be Bohuslaiev also expressed hope that Ukraine would fall in the face of Russia's advance.
Russian troops face tough choice in Kherson
As Ukrainian forces press forward down the southern region, Ukraine's intelligence chief says Russian forces facing difficulties its command understands.
Russia's new commander General Sergei Surovikin is creating the illusion that Russian forces are leaving Kherson. Instead, they are bringing new military units there to prepare for defense, Kyrylo Budanov told Ukrainska Pravda.
If Ukraine takes over the only functioning transport artery, Kakhovka dam, in Kherson Oblast, the Russian command will have to make a difficult decision, the military intelligence chief warned.
"Either to leave the city very quickly and withdraw, or they risk finding themselves in the same situation as our units in Mariupol. The situation is slightly different, but conceptually it will be very similar." Budanov said.
Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, and were forced to surrender in mid-May.
In order to slow down Ukraine's counteroffensive, Russian forces continue to mine bridges and crossings, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Oct. 24.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct. 20 said Russia is deliberately creating the grounds for a large-scale disaster in Kherson Oblast by mining Kakhovka dam and threatening to flood the city of Kherson.
GRAIN INITIATIVE MAY HALT as Russia questions UN-backed deal
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again questioned the UN-backed Black Sea Grain Initiative ahead of planned renewal talks set to take place before Nov. 19.
Lavrov, on Oct. 24, requested the UN to provide detailed information on which exact countries were receiving Ukrainian grain, the transport of which out of Ukrainian ports was renewed in August after a five-month Russian naval blockade.
Due to Russia's efforts to block an UN-brokered deal to export Ukrainian grain, Ukraine's Black Sea ports in Odesa Oblast have been working at a 25-30% capacity in recent days, the Infrastructure Ministry said on Oct. 23.
Russia has ramped up complaints in the past weeks, not only about the destination of the exported grain but also in relation to the promised transport of Russian agricultural products, including fertilizers.
According to the Infrastructure Ministry, a total of 380 vessels carrying 8.5 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain have left for Asia, Europe, and Africa since Ukraine and Russia signed the UN-backed grain deal in July.
CASUALTIES AND ATTACKS
Russian forces launched three missile strikes and seven airstrikes across Ukraine on Oct. 24, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said that Russian forces heavily shelled several settlements in the eastern region, killing one civilian in Zarichne, east of Lyman.
Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with allegedly Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, and struck its suburbs with S-300 missiles, the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Oleksandr Starukh said.
Starukh added that one of the drones hit a civilian building in the regional capital and that Russian forces shelled villages in the region, damaging a school and houses. No casualties were reported, according to Starukh.
In Mykolaiv Oblast, Russian attacks damaged power lines, houses, and an educational facility. No casualties were reported, Governor Vitaliy Kim said.
Everything is A-OK and the Russians continue to fortify defenses in preparations for the PR Ukie pushes to come.
#Chronicle of the Special Military Operation for 24 Oct 2022
#RussianFederation Territories:
▪️ A terrorist act occurred in the #Bryansk region near the border with #Belarus. An improvised explosive device went off on the Novozybkov - Zlynka line. The railway track was damaged, there were no casualties.
#Starobelsk Direction (MAP):
▪️ Units of the Ukrainian 71st Jager Brigade, reinforced by two Forces of Special Operations companies, tried to storm Russian positions near the villages of #Pervomayskoye (#Pershotravnevoye), #Orlyanka and #Berestovoye. The AFU attacks were repulsed by artillery and the enemies withdrew to their initial positions.
▪️ In the #Lyman area, the AFU tried to take the heights south of #Makeevka and approach #Krasnopopopovka again. Two companies of Ukrainian motorized infantry attacked strongholds of the Russian Forces, but came under concentrated artillery fire and withdrew with losses.
▪️ A battalion of the 54th AFU Mechanized Brigade attempted an offensive on #Belogorovka. Russian Forces launched a counterattack and pushed the enemies back to their initial positions.
▪️ The enemy command continues to move reserves to the frontline to replace losses. 20 infantrymen and 2 tanks have arrived in the #Serebryanka area.
#Soledar Direction:
▪️ There is fighting on the eastern outskirts of #Bakhmut. The AFU is counterattacking and trying to push the Wagner PMC troops out of all positions at the asphalt plant.
#Lugansk Region:
▪️ Ukrainian militants shelled #Starobelsk, as well as #Zorynsk, #Belokurakino, #Zolotoye and #Krasnorechenskoye. Late in the evening, there was a heavy explosion near the Yubileynaya mine in #Lugansk. According to preliminary reports, the fire was due to domestic reasons.
#Donetsk Direction:
▪️ Ukrainian militants shelled #Donetsk, #Yasinovataya and other settlements in the agglomeration.
#Zaporozhye Direction (MAP):
▪️ There is no significant change in the situation. Artillery duels on the frontline continue and Ukrainian SRGs are trying to expose weak points in Russian defences in the areas of #Gulyaypole, #Orekhov and #Ugledar.
#Nikolaev - #Berislav Direction on Southern Front (MAP):
▪️ On the morning of 24 October, two companies of the Ukrainian Forces of Special Operations’ 3rd and 8th Separate Regiments in three Husky TSV armoured vehicles, supported by the 17th Territorial Defence Battalion in converted civilian vehicles, attempted a reconnaissance battle near the Russian positions in #Borozenskoye and #Pyatikhatki.
The convoy was detected by an Orlan-30 drone, after which it was attacked by Russian Air Force Su-25 attack aircraft. The forward positions of the AFU were also hit by Giatsint-B howitzers and Smerch multiple rocket launchers. The enemy attack was thwarted. The Ukrainian formations withdrew after losing all their armoured vehicles.
▪️ Ukrainian militants struck Novaya Kakhovka as well as the village of #Kairy with HIMARS and Olkha multiple rocket launchers.
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“-Ukraine pushes Russian forces out of 4 settlements in Donbas
-Ukrainian forces liberated over 90 settlements in Kherson Oblast during counteroffensive”
Were there any Russians in these villages to start with?
Doesn’t look any impressive on map.
liberate? they allied with Russia
Russian Defense Ministry said they have information about the contacts of Zelensky's office with representatives of Britain on the issue of obtaining technology to create nuclear weapons. According to Kiev's plans, the detonation of a "dirty bomb" can be disguised as an abnormal operation of a Russian nuclear munition
— the goal is to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction and launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world aimed at undermining confidence in Moscow;
— two Ukrainian organizations have specific instructions for the creation of a "dirty bomb", the work is at the final stage;
— there is information about the contacts of the office of the President of Ukraine with representatives of the United Kingdom on the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons technology;
— there are enterprises in Ukraine with stocks of radioactive substances that can be used for a dirty bomb - three operating nuclear power plants (Yuzhno-Ukrainskaya, Khmelnytsky and Rivne) and the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant with radioactive waste storage facilities;
— more than 50 000 m3 of radioactive waste, which can also be used for a "dirty bomb", can be placed at the newly created enterprise for the processing of radioactive waste "Vector", at the Dnieper chemical Plant, at the disposal sites of radioactive waste "Buryakovka", "Podlesny", "Rossokha", the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant is producing uranium ores;
— Ukraine also has a corresponding scientific base - the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, whose scientists participated in the USSR nuclear program and where experimental facilities operate, including the Uragan thermonuclear installations, as well as the Institute for Nuclear Research at the Academy of Sciences in Kiev, where research with radioactive materials is conducted at the VVR-M reactor in.The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has prepared forces and means in case of a “dirty bomb” being detonated by Ukraine.
Posted by: rk | Oct 24 2022 11:17 utc |
Look at the source. 😂😂🤣🤣
Ukraine reports still has trouble recognizing the difference between a withdrawal and so called libration of a community......as if they’ve pushed Russia back....they haven’t.
i have no dog in this fight, but its all crazy talk, mostly from the us msm
‘30 US Congress”people” want to “negotiate” now.’
https://progressives.house.gov/_cache/files/5/5/5523c5cc-4028-4c46-8ee1-b56c7101c764/B7B3674EFB12D933EA4A2B97C7405DD4.10-24-22-cpc-letter-for-diplomacy-on-russia-ukraine-conflict.pdf
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‘El Risitas - Funniest Laugh Ever!!’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkk9DI-8el4
it stuns me that we and the eu, nato would not allow elections
It is said that they lost 14,000 KIA and 329 tanks in Kherson since September. All you can hear is the Russians are running and “great progress” but nothing concrete on map.
Mommies Dearest is back. Let’s 🕺🏻
I do believe that Russia already succeeded in undermining confidence in Moscow all by themselves with the invasion in February. It sure didn’t need any outside help in reaching that goal.
I agree. Both sides are corrupt as all get-out.
It’s the daily onslaught of propaganda stinking up the news feed that I detest. Mostly from tabloid sources like Daily Mail and Newsweek.
LOL - I like that. Mommy Dearest. 😂
People following along already know how many years the Ukraine labored to provoke Russia into reacting.
I chased Ivan a long time, but NATO left me out there to dry.
I respect Russia
This is from the Ukrainian press.
The US MSM generally just repeats what they get from foreign sources, Euros, Ukrainians, etc. Also Russians, if they make statements.
The war mappers, however, integrate both Ukrainian and Russian sources as to the state of the maps. Those have been quite accurate.
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