Operational information as of the evening of October 22, 2022 from the General Staff

The two-hundred-forty-first (241) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. The enemy is trying to hold the temporarily captured territories, concentrates its efforts on restraining the actions of the Defence Forces in certain directions, at the same time, it does not stop trying to conduct offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions. During the current day, units of the Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Ozaryanivka, and Odradivka of the Donetsk oblast.

The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the contact line and conducting aerial reconnaissance. The enemy again resorted to massive shelling of critical infrastructure and civilian homes, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of warfare. During the current day, the occupiers launched 40 missile strikes and launched 16 Iranian-made "Shahed-136" attack UAVs.

Our defenders managed to shoot down 20 cruise missiles and 11 UAVs. Energy and critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, and Mykolaiv regions were hit by enemy attacks. The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly.

The enemy shelled in other directions: in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery, in the areas of settlements of Bachivsk, Starykove, Hudove, Atynske, Basivka and Yunakivka of the Sumy oblast; in the Slobozhansky direction - from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Mala Vovcha, Krasne Pershe, Berestove and Kamianka settlements of the Kharkiv oblast;
in the Bakhmut direction - from tanks and artillery of various types, in the areas of Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Bilohorivka, Spirne, Zelenopillia, Klishchiivka and Mayorsk; in the Avdiivka direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the Avdiivka, Veselye Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novomykhailivka, and Pervomaiske districts.

On the Novopavlivskyi and Zaporizhzhia directions, the enemy carried out artillery shelling in the areas of the settlements of Vremivka in the Donetsk oblast, Dorozhnyanka, Stepnohirsk and Orihiv in the Zaporizhzhia oblast, and Dobra Nadiya in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast. It also launched a missile attack on the city of Nikopol. In the South Buh direction, the enemy fired at military and civilian infrastructure.

Areas of more than 20 settlements near the contact line were damaged by fire. Separate units of the russian occupation forces continue to leave the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson oblast. At the same time, cases of looting and robbery of local residents have become more frequent.

According to available information, the enemy has completely left the settlements of Charivne and Chkalove, and officers and medical personnel have been evacuated from Beryslav. The number of cases of looting and illegal actions in the city of Kherson has increased. The occupiers seize cars from the local population and try to leave the city with the help of a ferry crossing in the area of the Antonivsky Bridge.

The practice of placing enemy units in the premises of educational institutions in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region continues. At the same time, the educational process of children of local residents continues. According to detailed information, as a result of the strikes of the Defence Forces during the last few days, it was confirmed that the enemy's manpower and equipment were damaged in the Zaporizhzhia oblast.

About 200 servicemen were killed, more than 150 were wounded. An ammunition warehouse and 10 units of weapons and military equipment were also destroyed. Aviation of the Defence Forces carried out ten strikes during the current day.

The defeat of nine areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as the position of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system, was confirmed.

Air defence units shot down one enemy helicopter.

During the current day, military personnel of the missile forces and artillery hit the control post, two areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, and one ammunition depot of the enemy.