Operational update of General Staff of the UAF regarding the russian invasion as of 18:00, on September 15, 2022
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk oblast, hold the captured territories and disrupt the active actions of our troops in certain areas.
The enemy is shelling our positions along the contact line, is trying to take measures to regroup troops in separate directions, conducts aerial reconnaissance. There remains the threat of air and missile strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine.
The enemy does not stop attacks on peaceful residential areas and objects of civil infrastructure, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, laws and rules of war. The infrastructure of more than 20 settlements was damaged by air strikes, missile strikes, and MLRS. These are, in particular, Kryvyi Rih, Nikopol, Bilohirka, Maryinka, Olhivske, Oskil, Mykolayiv, Ochakiv, Lyubomirivka, Hulyaipole and Myrne.
During the current day, the enemy carried out 5 missile strikes, 5 air strikes and carried out 23 on military and civilian objects on the territory of Ukraine.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.
In other directions, the enemy fired at the infrastructure from tanks, mortars and artillery of various calibers:
in the Siversky direction - in the areas of Halahanivka settlements of Chernihiv oblast and Kindrativka of Sumy oblast;
in the Kharkiv direction – Vovchansk, Hoptivka, Baranivka, Vysoka Yaruga, Neskuchne and Sotnytskyi Kozachok;
in the Slovyansk direction - Kupyansk;
in the Kramatorsk direction - Tetyanivka, Bilohorivka, Siversk, Mykolayivka, Kramatorsk, Ivano-Daryivka and Verkhnyokamianske;
in the Bakhmut direction – Sukha Balka, Mykolayivka Druha, Zaitseve, Odradivka, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut and Vesela Dolyna.
The enemy did not conduct active operations in the Avdiyivka, Novopavlivsky, and Zaporizhzhya directions. Fired along the entire contact line.
In the South Buh direction, the enemy inflicted fire damage along the entire line of contact. In addition, it conducted aerial reconnaissance of the UAV - made 48 flies.
Significant losses of the enemy in the Slobozhansk direction have been confirmed. Thus, the 202nd and 204th rifle regiments of the 2nd army corps of the occupying forces, which participated in hostilities, were quickly withdrawn to the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk oblast and are subject to disbandment. The remaining personnel are distributed among the units of the mobilization reserve. Due to a large number of wounded in the settlement of Novoayidar, civilian medical facilities, including a children's hospital, are urgently being repurposed as military hospitals.
In general, the military-political leaders of the russian federation decided to replenish the reserve for the war in Ukraine at the expense of penal institutions, state enterprises and institutions, lifting restrictions on conscription for large families and the forced creation of regional battalions formed on a national basis.
Defense forces of Ukraine successfully repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vesela Dolyna, Mayorsk and Zayitseve settlements.
In the current day, in order to support the actions of land groupings, the aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 18 strikes on the places where the enemy's manpower and equipment are concentrated. It has been confirmed that 10 areas of concentration of the occupiers' manpower, 3 strongholds and 5 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems have been hit. Enemy losses are being clarified.
Air defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two UAVs of the occupiers in different directions.
Units of the Missile Forces and Artillery inflicted damage on 3 command and control points, 12 areas of concentration of manpower and combat equipment of the enemy, 2 ammunition warehouses, anti-aircraft defense equipment and enemy logistics nodes fell into the affected area.
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