As the Ukraine’s General Staff operational update on the state of warfare as of 06.00, on October 30, 2022, aviation of the Defense Forces during the day struck the enemy 32 times: 23 - in areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 3 - in platoon strongholds, and 6 - in enemy air defense positions. Soldiers of Ukrainian air defense shot down an Iskander-K missile and 2 enemy Orlan-10 UAVs.
During the current 24 hours, units of missile forces and artillery hit 6 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, 3 ammunition depots, 2 anti-aircraft defense facilities and 9 other important military objects of the enemy.
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As the update states, during the day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of settlements: Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Oleksandropil, Kamianka, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk oblast.
The enemy continues shelling units of the Defense Forces along the contact line, carries out fortification equipment of the lines in separate directions and conducts aerial reconnaissance. Strikes critical infrastructure and civilian homes, violating international humanitarian law, laws and customs of war.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched 5 missile and 23 air strikes, launched more than 100 MLRS. The districts of more than 45 settlements were affected by this criminal activity. Among them are Slovyansk and Siversk in the Donetsk oblast, Zaporizhzhia and Novooleksandrivka in the Kherson oblast.
Key points of the report:
- The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukrainians. The russian federation continues to transfer individual units to the territory of this country. Thus, on October 26, the arrival of an echelon of military equipment from the russian federation at the Brest railway station was marked. Together with the servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation, the so-called "kadyrivtsi" arrive. In addition, russian soldiers were spotted in settlements between the cities of Brest and Malorita.
- The threat of missile strikes and the use of attack UAVs from the territory of the republic of belarus continues to persist.
- The enemy shelled in other directions:
- in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of Rozhkoyichi, Budky, Mezenivka, Fotovyzh and Myropillya settlements of the Sumy oblast;
- in the Slobozhansky direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Ternova, Vovchansk, Veterynarne, Vilkhuvatka, Hatyshche, Hryhorivka, Kamianka, Fiholivka, Dvorichna, Starytsa, Ohirtseve, Strilecha and Chuhunivka settlements;
- in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Kislivka, Krokhmalne, Hrekivka, Zarichne, Novoyehorivka, Berestove, Nevske, Olhivka, Terny, Torske, and Yampolivka;
- in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and the entire range of artillery, in the areas of Andriivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Bilohorivka, Vesele, Zvanivka, Siversk, Zelenopillia, Soledar, Odradivka, Opytne, New York, Vasyukivka, Serebryanka and Yakovlivka;
- in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in the areas of Avdiivka, Nevelske, Vesele, Vodyane, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, Pervomaiske and Opytne settlements;
- in the Novopavlivsk direction - from tanks and rocket artillery in the areas of Vremivka, Vuhledar, Yehorivka, Mykilske, Novoukrainka, Pavlivka and Prechystivka settlements.
- In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy inflicted fire in the areas of Hulyaipole, Nove, Dorozhnyanka, Zaliznychne, Zelenyi Hay, Temyrivka, Olhivske, and Chervone settlements.
- About 20 settlements along the contact line were hit by fire in the South Buh direction. The settlements of Nikopol and Vyshchetarasivka in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast and Havrylivka in the Kherson oblast were hit by enemy shelling from rocket and barrel artillery.
According to Ukraine’s General Staff operational report, during the so-called "evacuation" of Kherson correctional colony No. 90, the occupiers took out prisoners. The enemy is using the territory of the mentioned correctional institution for the placement of personnel and military equipment.
In settlements near the city of Kherson, the enemy is taking measures to prepare for defense. The arrival of about a hundred "rosguards" from the city of Hrozny to the settlement of Kalanchak was noted.
On the territory of the city of Nova Kakhovka, russian special services are actively listening to the telephone conversations of the civilian population.
In the village of Velyka Znamyanka, Zaporizhzhia region, the enemy continues to place personnel in the homes of local residents.
Find more details on the current situation of Ukraine-russia war as well as russia’s combat losses in a publications by Defense Express:
Ukraine’s Defense Forces Continue Destroy russian Troops and Equipment on Southern Front
Russia Has Withdrawn Troops from the Airfield in Chornobaivka, Kherson Region
249 Days of russia-Ukraine War – russian Casualties in Ukraine
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