Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #5

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After over a year of pleading to get long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) from the U.S., Ukraine might finally receive this much desired weapon. But will they radically change the course of the war? US will reportedly give ATACMS to Ukraine. Will it change the war? (kyivindependent.com)

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Zelenskyy: "There is a historic decision by the United States to jointly produce weapons and defense systems. In particular, air defense. This is something that was an absolute fantasy until recently. But it will become a reality. We will make it a reality. Everyone who works for the state."

As a result, Ukrainian defense industry will reach a new level, and the economies of both countries will receive new jobs, Zelenskyy emphasized.

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BBC: British military bomb disposal teams training Ukrainian engineers to clear minefields. As Ukraine remains the world's most heavily mined nation, the U.K. Army has stepped up training Ukrainian engineers at a military base in Poland, helping them clear large anti-tank mines, smaller anti-personnel mines, and other deadly devices planted by Russian forces.

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Military: 34 Russian Black Sea Fleet officers, including commander, killed in Sevastopol strike.

Last week's strike against the Russian Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol killed 34 Russian officers, including the fleet's commander, and injured 105 more soldiers, the Special Operations Forces Command of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Sept. 25.

The Special Operations Forces Command also reported that an earlier strike against the Minsk landing craft docked in the Sevastopol shipyard on Sept. 13 caused 62 Russian casualties. Military: Russian Black Sea Fleet commander, 33 other officers killed in Sevastopol strike (kyivindependent.com)

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Zelensky confirms first Abrams tanks already in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Sept. 25 that the first U.S.-made Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine, thanking Washington for fulfilling the agreement.

Zelensky didn't mention how many vehicles of the 31 tanks promised by Washington were delivered in the first batch.
Zelensky confirms first Abrams tanks already in Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

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SEP 25, 2023

September 25, 2023 - Russia-Ukraine news

Russian strikes killed at least two people and caused "significant damage" to Odesa overnight, Ukrainian officials said Monday. Moscow's forces have repeatedly targeted the southern port following the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal in July.

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Pletenchuk was asked about comments made by Ukrainian authorities earlier Monday, claiming that Adm. Viktor Sokolov along with 33 other officers were killed and more than 100 servicemen were wounded in Friday's attack in Sevastopol.

Pletenchuk said Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not control the actual operation of ships at sea" and relies on his admirals who know "their means and forces, personnel, how to manage them, how to better deploy them. And they can also keep things from him [Putin], not report on certain issues."

He then claimed, "At this moment, they (the Russian Navy) lost the person who actually manages all of this, and his staff, who manages the fleet together with him. This is a large grouping that requires a great number of managers to run all the processes to make it (the fleet)work as a single mechanism. Imagine that the core part of this mechanism becomes inoperable."

Pletenchuk went on to say that "yes, last night they (referring to the Russian ships in the Black Sea) were still launching strikes by inertia" but he compared the operations to "a chicken running around without a head."

"Therefore, as of now, they (the Russian navy) will have respective problems with the control of the troops," he said.

Earlier on Monday, the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said Sokolov has been killed in Sevastopol on Friday, in perhaps the most daring attack by Ukrainian forces on Crimea so far.

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National Resistance Center: Russian forces impose curfews, censorship in occupied Donetsk Oblast.

The Center reported that Denis Pushilin, head of Russia's proxies in Donetsk Oblast, has demanded military censorship of phone calls and correspondence. National Resistance Center: Russian forces impose curfews, censorship in occupied Donetsk Oblast (kyivindependent.com)

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Frontline report: Ukraine entered key settlements of Novoprokopivka and Verbove, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Ukraine received Western tanks, which allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian positions from a distance, softening defenses before infantry assaults.
Frontline report: Ukraine entered key settlements of Novoprokopivka and Verbove, Zaporizhzhia Oblast - Euromaidan Press

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Media: Ukraine hits Russian command post near Kherson.

A Ukrainian HIMARS strike hit a temporary Russian command post near Kherson during a meeting of Russian officers, Hromadske media outlet reported, citing its source in Ukraine's Security Service.

Eight officers from Russia's 70th Motorized Rifle Division were killed, and seven more were injured, Hromadske wrote on Sept. 26. The media outlet's source said the attack occurred recently but didn't specify the date.

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ISW: Russia made no progress despite repeated attacks near Avdiivka, Marinka Russian troops failed to capitalize on attacks along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line and in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast. While the Ukrainian military liberated around 2 km of territory near Bakhmut. ISW: Russia made no progress despite repeated attacks near Avdiivka, Marinka - Euromaidan Press

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Liberating the village of Robotyne in late August, Ukrainian forces have now reached and breached the main Russian line of defense, known as the Surovikin line after the former overall commander of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Overcoming setbacks, NATO-trained brigade breaches Surovikin line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast (kyivindependent.com)

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Ukraine prepares dossiers for the ICC, accusing Russia of deliberately causing starvation by severing food supplies to cities, shelling supermarkets, destroying farms, and ruining critical infrastructure like water pumping stations during its full-out war War crimes dossier to accuse Russia of using hunger as weapon in Ukraine - Euromaidan Press

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Ukraine reportedly hits Russian command post in occupied Kherson Oblast; Polish investigation concludes Ukrainian air defense missile fell on Polish soil last year; and more. Ukraine war latest: Another Russian command post reportedly hit; Supposedly dead Russian general shown alive (kyivindependent.com)

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In Russian-occupied areas of Donetsk Oblast, authorities have imposed a curfew and initiated communication censorship. These actions contradict Moscow's claims of having local support and suggest fear of the occupied population. National Resistance Center: Russian forces impose curfews, censorship in occupied Donetsk Oblast

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UK Defense Ministry: New Russian offensive unlikely in coming weeks. Russia has begun deploying units of its new 25th Combined Arms Army "piecemeal" to the over-stretched lines, indicating that a new Russian offensive is unlikely in the coming weeks, the U.K. Defense Ministry said on Sept. 27.

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Official: Russia starts building railway links to occupied cities in Donetsk Oblast. Russia started building direct railway links to the occupied Ukrainian cities Mariupol, Volnovakha, and Donetsk, which could decrease Moscow's logistical dependence on the Crimean Bridge, Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to Melitopol's exiled mayor, said on Sept. 27.

The official noted that if these efforts are successful, Russia will connect the railway line of Mariupol-Aslanove-Kalchyk-Volnovakha in occupied Ukraine with the Russian cities of Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don.

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While Ukrainian pilots train to operate F-16 fighter jets abroad, those in Ukraine train on F-16s in virtual reality, conducting missions over Ukraine’s territory.

This video published by Ukraine’s Air Force shows what this virtual reality training looks like. Video: Ukraine’s Air Force / YouTube

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Ukraine's military confirms Wagner fighters return to front. Some mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Group have left Belarus and returned to the front in Donetsk Oblast, RBC Ukraine reported on Sept. 27, citing the spokesperson of the Eastern Grouping of Forces, Illia Yevlash.

He said that of roughly 8,000 Wagner fighters who were stationed in Belarus, around 500 are returning to Ukraine's eastern front. Yevlash noted that Wagner fighters no longer pose a "significant threat" since the death of their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Ukraine's military confirms Wagner fighters return to front (kyivindependent.com)

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WSJ: Scholz blocks transfer of Taurus missiles to Ukraine due to fear of Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has prevented the transfer of Taurus long-range missiles because he fears it will lead to a confrontation with Russia, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sept. 27, citing its sources. Other members of Germany’s ruling coalition have approved sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine. On Sept. 4, German MP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann wrote on Twitter that "he (Scholtz) alone blocks this decision within the coalition".

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CNN: House Republicans to reject Senate deal as US shutdown nears.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has signaled that Republican lawmakers will reject a temporary stopgap deal from the Senate that contains aid to Ukraine, CNN reported Sept. 27.
CNN: House Republicans to reject Senate deal as US shutdown nears (kyivindependent.com)

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North Korea advancing weapons deal with Russia.

North Korea is continuing arms negotiations with Russia and intends to strike a deal soon, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Sept. 27.

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U.S. Diplomat: 'This Is Crunch Time' For Ukraine's Counter Offensive​

A senior U.S. diplomat has told RFE/RL that it is "crunch time" for Ukraine's counter-offensive. Michael Carpenter, the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), was speaking in Prague on September 15.

Thousands Of Ukrainian Civilians Reportedly Imprisoned By Russia​

International monitoring organizations estimate thousands of Ukrainians have been illegally held prisoner and deported by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Their families fight for scraps of information while witnesses recount civilian arrests.

Ukrainian Counteroffensive Liberates Village Bordering Donetsk Airport​

Capitalizing on "any gaps in the enemy's defense," Ukrainian troops said on September 12 they were slowly but steadily reclaiming ground in their counteroffensive to Russia's invasion. The cost is high, they explain, because Russian artillery usually razes retaken villages to the ground.

 

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SEP 28, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war live: Nato secretary general says ‘every metre Ukrainian forces regain is a metre Russia loses’

Jens Stoltenbery says Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom against Moscow’s ‘imperial delusions’ as he meets Volodymyr Zelenskiy

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Summary of the day so far …​

• Ukraine’s air force claimed on Thursday its air defence systems shot down 34 of 44 Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight, while a regional official said no casualties were caused by the attack. “Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units and mobile fire groups were engaged to repel the attack,” the military said on the Telegram messaging app.
• Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper said his region was the main target, but the attack left no casualties. “Our air defence forces did an excellent job,” Kiper said on Telegram.
• There were also strikes on Kirovohrad oblast and an infrastructure object was hit in Mykolaiv. One man was killed and another was injured in Kherson overnight. Three people have been hospitalised after a strike on Antonivka, near the Dnipro River.
• Britain’s defence secretary, Grant Shapps, discussed how to bolster Ukraine’s air defences during talks in an unannounced visit to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president’s office said on Thursday. The visit to the Ukrainian capital was Shapps’s first to Kyiv since he became defence secretary last month. “On behalf of the whole nation, I thank you for everything you are doing for us. We are grateful for your help – military, financial, humanitarian. We greatly appreciate that we can rely on you,” a statement released by Zelenskiy’s office quoted the president as saying.
• Shapps said: “We have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers, delivered hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition, and provided millions of pounds of economic and humanitarian aid to help Ukraine’s citizens reclaim and rebuild what has been taken from them by Putin’s barbaric invasion,” while accompanying him, Adm Tony Radakin, chief of the UK’s defence staff, said: “This visit, together with my visits over the summer, have reinforced my conviction that Ukraine will prevail. The UK will remain with them every step of the way.”
• International regulators are incapable of properly monitoring safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, according to a critical dossier compiled by Greenpeace that is being sent to western governments on Thursday. The environmental campaign group concludes the International Atomic Energy Agency has too few inspectors at Europe’s biggest nuclear plant – four – and that there are too many restrictions placed on their access. It argues that the IAEA is “unable to meet its mandate requirements” but it is not prepared to admit as much in public, and as a result what it describes as Russian violations of safety principles are not being called out.
• Alexander Bogomaz, governor of Russia’s Bryansk region, has claimed on Telegram that electronic warfare was used to down a Ukrainian drone on the approach to the city of Bryansk. He reports": “There were no casualties or damage. Operational and emergency services are on site.”

 

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NATO - News: NATO deploys AWACS surveillance jets to Lithuania, 28 Sep 2023
“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has increased our focus on the security environment in the Baltic Sea region,” said acting NATO Spokesperson Dylan White. “Our AWACS can detect aircraft and missiles hundreds of kilometres away, making them a key early warning capability for NATO. I thank Lithuania for hosting the aircraft. This is an important contribution to our shared security.”

In response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, NATO has boosted its air presence in the eastern part of the Alliance using fighter jets, surveillance planes and tankers. In the wake of Russian drone strikes near NATO territory, the United States last week deployed four additional F-16 fighter aircraft to Romania to enhance NATO’s air policing mission. Since February 2022, NATO AWACS have conducted hundreds of flights over Eastern Europe to monitor Russian warplanes.

The AWACS will start their reconnaissance flights over Alliance territory in the coming days. The mission is scheduled to last several weeks. The aircraft belong to a fleet of 14 NATO-owned surveillance aircraft based in Geilenkirchen, Germany. Around 150 military personnel will deploy to Šiauliai in support of the aircraft.

 

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Energy Ministry: IAEA demands Russia immediately leave Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference has adopted a resolution on the immediate return of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant under Ukraine's full control, the Energy Ministry reported on Sept. 29.

The document calls on Russia to immediately withdraw all military and other unauthorized personnel from the plant's territory to ensure its safe and secure operation, according to the report. The IAEA hasn't yet reported on the resolution's adoption. Energy Ministry: IAEA demands Russia immediately leave Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (kyivindependent.com)

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Putin asks former Wagner commander to create 'volunteer units' for Ukraine war. Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Andrei Troshev, the former chief of staff of the mercenary Wagner Group, to form 'volunteer units" for the war in Ukraine, according to a transcript of Putin's speech published by the Kremlin on Sept. 29.

"You yourself fought in such a unit for more than a year. You know what it is, how it's done, you know about the issues that need to be resolved in advance so that combat work goes in the best and most successful way," Putin told Troshev in a meeting. Putin asks former Wagner commander to create 'volunteer units' for Ukraine war (kyivindependent.com)

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Approximately 30% of Ukraine — an area twice the size of Austria — has been contaminated with mines as a result of Russian aggression. Clearing the minefields will be a colossal task that will continue well after the shooting has stopped. Russia is covering Ukraine with landmines. Clearing them will be extremely difficult (kyivindependent.com)

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Today marks the anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre committed by the Nazis on the Kyiv outskirts on 29-30 September 1941. Over 34,000 Jews were murdered in two days. Survivors recalled the events: Jewish survivors of Babi Yar Holocaust massacre recall events, reconstruct exact shooting location - Euromaidan Press

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Putin says convicts killed in Ukraine paid debt to society

Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russian prisoners who were recruited for the war in Ukraine and died in combat have redeemed themselves in the eyes of society.

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Putin declares holiday commemorating occupation of Ukrainian regions.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin signed a decree marking Sept. 30 a "reunification day" commemorating Russia's occupation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts.
Putin declares holiday commemorating occupation of Ukrainian regions (kyivindependent.com)

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Ukrainian agent infiltrates Russian Spetsnaz, helps expose crimes

Russia’s vaunted special forces have been infiltrated by Ukraine, the SBU disclosed, with an undercover Ukrainian operative helping expose plots and document war crimes.
Ukrainian agent infiltrates Russian Spetsnaz, helps expose crimes - Euromaidan Press

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Dozens of international firms join Kyiv's new defense industry alliance. President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sept. 30 announced the creation of an international alliance between defense industries. Among other capabilities, the alliance will eventually pave the way for Ukraine to localize production of licensed foreign weapons on Ukrainian soil.

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Double-agent Russian officer facilitates 11 surrenders in Ukraine’s Intel Operation

Ukrainian Def intel conducted a special operation codenamed “Barynia” to recruit a Russian lieutenant as a double agent who then helped convince 11 Russian soldiers to surrender Double-agent Russian officer facilitates 11 surrenders in Ukraine's Intel Operation - Euromaidan Press

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Belarus to showcase abducted Ukrainian children at meeting with foreign diplomats. Belarus is planning to organize a visit for foreign representatives at locations where Ukrainian children taken from regions temporarily occupied by Russia are kept, the Foreign Ministry said.

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SEP 29, 2023

Russia is covering Ukraine with landmines. Clearing them will be extremely difficult

In March 2022 right after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, a cell phone video apparently taken by a Russian soldier captured two “Zemledeliye” mobile mine-laying systems thought to be stationed in Kharkiv Oblast. Positioned against a drab backdrop of what was once farmland, the...

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What is known is that Russia, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, had a stockpile of 26 million mines —the largest in the world, according to various estimates. With one vehicle able to place 15,600 mines in a single salvo, what percentage of that number now sits buried in Ukrainian soil, gathering silt in its lakes, or floating down its rivers is impossible to assess.

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Mine clearance, according to both Cunliffe and his MAG colleague, Jon Brown, is an extremely slow, painstaking process. As MAG is a humanitarian organization, it does not operate in active combat zones, but military deminers have long been priority targets for troops protecting minefields.

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Further complicating humanitarian mine-clearing efforts is the sheer variety of mines that Russia is using.

There is more than just the PFM-1 “Butterfly,” historically referred to as the “green parrot.”

The OZM-72 — a “bounding” mine usually triggered by pressure or a tripwire that jumps (or “bounds”) a meter into the air before exploding — looks like a paint can attached to a radio antenna.

The POM-3 — probably Russia’s rarest and most expensive anti-personnel mine — modestly hides its seismic sensor and bounding explosive charge inside what could be a misplaced Thermos flask.

Simply put: landmines don’t look like landmines anymore.

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OCT 1, 2023

Zelensky: 'Never again will Ukraine pay with its sovereignty for illusory promises of peace'

“Our unity must enable us to go all the way to drive the occupier out of our land. And it will,” Zelensky said in a speech marking Defenders Day. “Courage, resilience, and unity are the things we must not lose in order not to lose Ukraine.”

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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 1, when Ukraine marks the Defenders Day, a public holiday honoring veterans and fallen soldiers, that the country will never again “pay with the future of its children, its sovereignty and its will for illusory promises of peace.”

“Ukraine has made historical conclusions,” Zelensky said.

In 1994, three years after gaining independence, Ukraine, which had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world and included more than 5,000 strategic and tactical weapons, signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Budapest Memorandum.

The country expected extended security assurance in return for moving warheads to Russia, which 20 years later would brutally violate memorandum and invade Ukraine.

“Our unity must enable us to go all the way to drive the occupier out of our land. And it will,” Zelensky said. “Courage, resilience, and unity are the things we must not lose in order not to lose Ukraine.”

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OCT 1, 2023

Institute for the Study of War

Russian forces are conducting tactical counterattacks in the Robotyne area as part of their elastic defense against ongoing Ukrainian offensive operations in western Zaporizhia Oblast. The situation south of Robotyne is fluid as some tactically

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Key Takeaways:

• Russian forces are conducting tactical counterattacks in the Robotyne area as part of their elastic defense against ongoing Ukrainian offensive operations in western Zaporizhia Oblast. The situation south of Robotyne is fluid as some tactically significant field fortifications have changed hands several times.
• The Russian information space continues to falsely portray Western aid to Ukraine as escalatory in order to discourage continued Western support for Ukraine.
• The status of the Wagner Group remains unclear amid reported negotiations about the Wagner Group’s future cooperation with the Russian government.
• ISW will revise its assessment about the prospects for the Wagner Group to reemerge an as effective military organization if the Wagner Group successfully reconstitutes as a large, unitary organization under Rosgvardia, the Russian MoD, or a similar organization.
• Russian forces conducted another series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of September 30 to October 1.
• Russian forces continued offensive operations along the Kupyansk-Lyman line, near Bakhmut, along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City line, in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia Oblast border area, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast and marginally advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) officially announced the beginning of its regular fall 2023 conscription cycle on October 1.

 

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NATO official: Ukraine's allies running out of ammunition, production must increase.

Kyiv's allies are running out of ammunition they can supply to Ukraine, Chair of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer said at the Warsaw Security Forum on Oct. 3, CNN reported.

"The bottom of the barrel is now visible," the official said. "We need the industry to ramp up production in a much higher tempo." NATO official: Ukraine's allies running out of ammunition, production must increase (kyivindependent.com)

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Politico: EU to announce Ukraine membership talks in December. The EU is preparing to open membership talks with Ukraine, with a formal announcement expected as early as December, Politico reported on Oct. 3, citing three diplomats familiar with the matter.

According to Politico's sources, the EU Commission will publish its report on Ukraine's membership progress in November and will make it "very hard for member states not to say let's open negotiations" for Ukraine.
Politico: EU to announce Ukraine membership talks in December (kyivindependent.com)

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Official: Russian ships pushed back 185 km from the Ukrainian coast

Russian ships are not sailing beyond Crimea’s cape Tarkhankut, spokesman of Ukraine’s southern military command said. Attacks on the Russian fleet allowed shipping from 3 key Ukrainian seaports to reopen.
Official: Russian ships pushed back 185 km from Ukrainian coast - Euromaidan Press

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Ukrainian engineers created an invisibility cloak to protect troops from Russian thermal imaging The 2.5-kg cloak blocks body heat emission. It was developed by Brave1, a Ukrainian platform connecting innovators to the country’s defense needs. Ukrainian engineers created an invisibility cloak to protect troops from Russian thermal imaging - Euromaidan Press

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Ukrainian troops allegedly raided Crimea from sea once again Ukrainian Military Intelligence released a video showing their landing operation. They say they raided Crimea, attacked Russian troops there, and retreated.
Ukrainian troops allegedly raided Crimea from sea once again - Euromaidan Press

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