Ukrainian Armed Forces repel Russian attacks near 4 settlements – General Staff report

OLHA HLUSHCHENKO - TUESDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2022, 07:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have repelled Russian attacks near Maiorsk, Vesele, Kurdiumivka and Novomykhailivka over the course of the past 24 hours. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 20 September

Quote: "Russian occupiers carried out 10 missile strikes, 15 airstrikes and more than 56 MLRS attacks on targets across the territory of Ukraine over the course of [19 September] in violation of the norms of international humanitarian law and the wars and customs of war.

The Russian attacks damaged infrastructure in more than 33 cities, towns and villages, including Slavhorod, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Maiorsk, Vodiane, Dorozhnie, Soledar, Novopil, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Oleksandrivka, Snihurivka, Nova Odesa, Shyroke, Bilohirsk, Myroliubivka and Bila Krynytsia. There is an ongoing threat of [Russian] airstrikes and missile strikes across the territory of Ukraine." Details: There were no changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts.

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On other fronts, the Russians continued to fire on military and civilian targets using tank guns, mortars and various types of artillery:

On the Sivershchyna front: areas in and around Mykolaivka (Chernihiv Oblast) and Novovasylivka, Slavhorod and Riasne (Sumy Oblast);
On the Slobozhanshchyna front: areas in and around Kozacha Lopan, Shevchenkove, Derhachi, Kamianka, Strilecha, Hlyboke and Dvorichna;
On the Kramatorsk front: Oleksandrivka, Donetske, Raihorodok, Shchurove, Kryva Luka, Ozerne, Bilohorivka, Pryshyb, Hryhorivka and Siversk;
On the Bakhmut front: Maiorsk, Mykolaivka, Verkhnokamianske, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Vesela Dolyna, Odradivka, Vesele, Vyimka, Mykolaivka Druha, New-York, Bilohorivka, Yurivka, Spirne, Zaitseve and Yakovlivka;
On the Avdiivka front: Krasnohorivka, Marinka, Novomykhailivka and Pervomaiske;
Russian forces did not undertake active operations on the Zaporizhzhia and Novopavlivka fronts, but used artillery to fire on Vuhledar, Velyka Novosilka, Mykilske, Mali Shcherbaky, Novomaiorske, Mala Tokmachka, Chervone, Pavlivka, Huliaipole, Novopil and Vremivka;
On the Pivdennyi Buh front, Russian forces fired on over 28 towns and villages, including Oleksandrivka, Novohryhorivka, Zoria, Shevchenkove, Myrne, Shyroke, Bilohirka, Bezimenne, Myroliubivka, Vysokopillia and Olhyne.

The Ukrainian defence forces [a collective name for all forces fighting for Ukraine - ed.] have repelled Russian attacks near Maiorsk, Vesele, Kurdiumivka and Novomykhailivka. Over the course of 19 September, aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force carried out airstrikes on 24 areas where Russian military personnel and equipment were concentrated, four Russian anti-aircraft defence systems and a Russian ammunition storage point. Meanwhile, Ukraine's anti-aircraft defence units shot down a Russian Su-25 jet, a guided missile and three UAVs.

Ukraine's missile forces and artillery units fired on 16 Russian targets, including six areas where Russian troops and military equipment were concentrated, seven artillery positions, and three ammunition storage points.

Russia's total losses have yet to be confirmed.

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