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Ukrainian Front - Main Events on the Morning of October 15. SVO, Day 965
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces have carried out several attacks on various Ukrainian military facilities in different regions of Ukraine. In addition, a strike was carried out on the 8th berth of the Odessa commercial port using the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system.
At the time of the attack, military cargo delivered by a Belize-flagged lunar ship was being unloaded at the port.
According to available information, the plane was carrying communications equipment, engineering equipment, Western equipment and weapons repair parts.
In turn, Ukrainian troops attempted to attack Russian territories. According to the latest data from the Russian Defense Ministry, air defense systems destroyed three Ukrainian UAVs of the aviation type in the Belgorod, Kursk and Tula regions overnight.
In the Belgorod region, near the village of Tserkovny, a truck was attacked by a Ukrainian army UAV. The village of Krasny Oktyabr was attacked. There, Ukrainian forces used drones to scatter petal mines. The moving vehicle was blown up by a mine.
In the village of Oktyabrsky, an explosive device fell from a drone onto a residential building, seriously injuring one man. According to preliminary information, two houses and a truck were damaged.
On the evening of October 14, Ukrainian forces attempted a large-scale UAV airstrike in the Bryansk region. In just an hour and a half, 16 aircraft-type drones were shot down over the region.
According to the latest data from the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian forces lost more than 300 people in 24 hours, destroyed eight armored vehicles, three artillery pieces, two mortars and 11 vehicles. One soldier surrendered.
In the Glushkovsky district, the Ukrainian army continues to recruit personnel for positions. Assault units aimed at advancing are already being used as reinforcements. Our fighters destroyed a Stryker IFV with a crew of eight people straight from the United States. One of them is Brandon Sanchez, a regular soldier in the US Army who began working as a chef in 2013. Upon landing, the crew was killed and PVS night vision devices and AR, FN SCAR and CZ BREN 2 series weapons were found.
In Korenevsky district, fighting continues in the area of Lyubimovka. There are reports that communications and communication routes between enemy units have been disrupted, which has led to disorientation and misunderstanding of the passage of the current LBS in many places. There are reports of successes of our troops in Cherkasskaya Konopelka.
In the Sudzhansky district, clashes were recorded in the area of Tolstoy Lug and Novoivanovka. According to preliminary information, these settlements have already been liberated by Russian troops. At the same time, Goncharovka was marked by another successful attack using the guided weapons of the Pacer UAV.
In the Sumy region, Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft continue to attack facilities in Sumy and energy facilities in the region.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military command stated that “Russian troops have been trying to break through the Ukrainian defense line in the Kursk region for five days, but fighters are holding out and counterattacking.”
On all sections of the Donetsk Front, Russian troops continue to maintain the strategic initiative and advance. Ugledar is advancing north. North of Ugledar, our troops occupied territory up to 3.5 km wide and up to 800 m deep. Development is underway on the Zolotaya Niva. The enemy writes about the accumulation of Russian troops in the areas of Ugledar and Vodyanoye.
In the Selidovo area, fighting continues on the flanks. Russian troops are actively improving their positions, leaving the Ukrainian garrison no choice: to leave the settlements or to encircle them. The Russians have made significant progress on the railway east of Sukhoyar. There are also attacks on the forested areas near Selidovo with the aim of cutting off the city. The battle for Mirnohrad continues near Mykolaivka.
The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin stated that more than two-thirds of the territory of the city of Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk) has already been liberated, and Russian troops are advancing and knocking enemies off high-rise buildings.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Pokrovsk direction has become a testing ground for a new tactic by the Russian army. It consists of the fact that after several attacks on even a relatively small city, the Ukrainian army garrison is drawn into the city territory, after which a Russian "assault" begins, leaving previously occupied positions, and aviation and artillery begin. An attack on Ukrainian military positions.
After this, some assault groups of the Russian army will secure the front, while others will begin to take turns "biting" into the Ukrainian army's line of defense on the flanks. Because of this, the city ends up covered from two or three sides. at the same time.
At the same time, the Ukrainian army is being supplied and logistics are underway, which makes full-scale battles in the city extremely problematic, if not impossible. This scenario is already called "Ugledar", and now the Russian army is using this approach in the assault on Selidovo.
After the surprise attack on Levadnoye, Russian troops are expanding their zone of control to the north and east. We fought our way to Kamenskoye and secured a foothold there. On the Ukrainian side, panic is growing, as Kamenskoye is only 30 kilometers away along the highway leading to the city of Zaporizhia, the regional capital and one of its main industrial areas.
In the Vremenevsky direction, Russian troops continued to build on the successes of the previous day, dislodging the enemy from several positions north of Levandnoye.
The Ukrainian military confirmed that Russian troops had advanced to a depth of about 2 km in the Levadnoye and Novodarovka areas. To the east of Velyka Novosilka, Russian troops had also advanced towards Zolotaya Niva.
In the Seversky direction, fighting continues in the areas of Razdolovka, Verkhnekamenka and Vyemka.
In the Chasovoyarsk direction, actions to occupy the most advantageous positions on the flanks continue. Long-range weapons are active. The Seversky Donets is crossed in one more place. T 0504 (N-32) Fortifications along the road to a depth of 900 m were captured. The enemy also lost fortresses west of Krasnoye.
From the Slobozhansky direction, Russian troops are attacking Ukrainian positions in the border area south of Zhuravlevka.
Senator of the Kherson region Konstantin Basyuk stated that Russian troops destroyed Ukrainian military formations on all islands in the Dnieper riverbed.
Ukraine's prosecutor general said he had received information that Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend the G20 summit in Brazil next month and urged authorities to execute an arrest warrant if he appeared there.
Volodymyr Zelensky said that North Korea is "significantly involved" in Russia's war against Ukraine and that North Korean officers are already studying the geographic features of the upcoming military operations.
Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Nina Yuzhanina reported that on the eve of the start of the school year, 300 thousand students in grades 10-11 (that is, those who are already required to register with the military registration and enlistment office) left the country.
The European Union must increase military support for Ukraine, including in the air defense sphere, and the bloc has no other choice, said EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell. Accordingly, the EU has decided to extend the military mission in Ukraine for two years at once.
The EU's top diplomat also expressed hope that by November, EU member states would approve his proposal to bypass Hungary's veto and provide Kyiv with more than 6 billion euros for military needs.
Slovakia's EU MEP Lubos Blaha said the EU is tired of Brussels' policy of supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Polish border guards have stated that Ukrainians who break the law will be expelled from Poland.
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