Operational information as of the morning of October 8, 2022 from the General Staff

The two hundred-twenty-seventh (227) 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, is concentrating its efforts on attempts to disrupt the active actions of the Defense Forces in certain directions, and at the same time is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiyivka directions. The enemy is shelling the positions of our troops along the entire contact line, carrying out engineering defense equipment in certain directions and conducting aerial reconnaissance.

The adversary continues to violate the norms of International Humanitarian Law, the laws and customs of war, strikes critical infrastructure, as well as the homes of the civilian population. There remains the threat of the enemy launching air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. During the day, the occupiers carried out 7 rocket and 12 air strikes, carried out about 80 MLRS attacks.

More than 20 settlements were hit by the enemy. In particular, Slavhorod, Bilovody, Vuhledar, Ridkodub, Hulyaipilske, Novoandriyivka, Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv. The enemy also used seven Iranian-made "Shahed-136" unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Ukrainian cities during the past day.

Three of them were shot down, and four reached the cities of Zaporizhzhya and Mykolaiv. In order to further support the armed aggression against Ukraine, mobilization continues in the russian federation. The local authorities of some districts are trying to implement its plan at the expense of unemployed men of conscription age, thereby solving the internal problem.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The enemy fired in other directions: in the Siversky direction - from mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bleshnya, Hai and Senkivka of the Chernihiv oblast and Starykovo of the Sumy oblast;

in the Slobozhansk direction - from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of 18 settlements, including Hlyboke, Udy, Ohirtseve, Strilecha, Kolodyazne, Dvorichne, Neskuchne; in the Kramatorsk direction - from artillery of various types, in the areas of the settlements of Spirne, Bilohorivka, Verkhnokamianske, Rozdolivka, Serebryanka, Hryhorivka, Dronivka, Vesele; in the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy shelled the areas of Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhrad, Opytne, Mayorsk, New York, Viimka, Rozdolivka, Vesele and Odradivka settlements;

in the Avdiyivsk direction - Avdiyivka, Krasnohorivka, Pervomaiske and Novomykhailivka were affected by fire. The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. Infrastructure in the areas of 16 settlements was damaged by enemy fire.

Among others - Vremivka, Temyrivka, Olhivske, Hulyaipilske and Zaliznychne. In the temporarily captured territories of the Zaporizhzhya region, the enemy is trying to intensify measures to discredit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Special correspondents of the russian mass media are additionally involved in creating fake content.

Areas of more than 27 settlements near the contact line were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the South Buh direction. The enemy actively engages UAVs of various types to conduct reconnaissance and carry out strikes.
Last day, our defenders shot down eight UAVs in different directions: five of the Orlan-10 type and three of the Shahed-136 type.

Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Vyimka, Bakhmutske, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Mayorsk, Ozeryanivka, Zaytseve, Odradivka, Andriivka, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Kamianka, Pobyeda, Nevelske, Novomykhailivka, and Ternovy Pody. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to keep enemy logistics facilities and their supply arteries under fire control. Over the past day, one more enemy pontoon crossing was destroyed.

In addition, information about the destruction of enemy ammunition depots on October 5 of this year, near the settlement of Kinski Rozdory, was confirmed. Enemy units continue to suffer losses. For example, in the areas of Polohy and Tokmak settlements of the Zaporizhzhya region, as a result of shelling by units of the Defense Forces in areas where the enemy's manpower is concentrated, the enemy lost about 85 people wounded.

Information about the dead is being clarified. In the Luhansk region, about three hundred wounded prisoners who agreed to fight in Ukraine were sent to the local hospital in Novosvitlivka. Aviation of the Defense Forces carried out 30 strikes during the past 24 hours.

It has been confirmed that 24 places of concentration of weapons and military equipment, as well as 6 enemy anti-aircraft missile systems, have been destroyed.

In addition, air defense units shot down two enemy helicopters.

Over the past day, missile forces and artillery hit two control points, one area of concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, two areas of artillery firing positions, a radar station and an enemy radio-electronic warfare complex.