Operational information as of the morning of September 26, 2022 from the General Staff
The two hundred-fifteenth (214) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to a russian military large-scale invasion continues. The enemy continues to focus its efforts on attempts to fully occupy the Donetsk region and hold the captured territories, as well as disrupt the active actions of the Defence Forces in certain areas.
Fires at the positions of our troops along the contact line, tries to restore lost positions in certain directions, conducts aerial reconnaissance.
Strikes civilian infrastructure and peaceful residential buildings, violating norms of International Humanitarian Law, laws and customs of war. There is a threat of air and missile strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine. For example, over the past day, the enemy launched 5 missile and 12 air strikes, carried out more than 83 MLRS attacks.
Also, the enemy used 4 attack UAVs to strike civilian infrastructure objects. More than 40 settlements were affected by enemy fire. These are, in particular, Kupyansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Kamyanka, Kurakhove, Pavlivka, Zaporizhzhya, Nikopol, Ochakiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa.
The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. In other directions, the occupiers fired from tanks, mortars, and barrel artillery: in the Siversky direction - in the area of Oleksandrivka settlement of Sumy oblast;
in the Slobozhansk direction - in the areas of the settlements of Strilecha, Odnorobivka, Veterynarne, Hatyshche, Kamyanka, Holubivka and Senkove; in the Kramatorsk direction - Novoselivka, Shchurove, Siversk, Hryhorivka, Belogorivka, Zakitne, Dibrova, Verkhnokamianske, Vesele, Rozdolivka, Ozerne and Spirne; in the Bakhmut direction - Soledar, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Odradivka, Zaytseve, Klishchivka, Vesela Dolyna, Yakovlivka, Mayorsk, Nelipovka, Vyimka and Bilohorivka;
in the Avdiyivka direction - Avdiyivka, Opytne, Pervomayiske, Novomykhailivka and Paraskoviyivka.
18 settlements were shelled by tanks, mortars and barrel artillery in the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya directions. Among them are Yehorivka, Pavlivka, Zaliznychne, Novoandriyivka, Hulyaipilske, Hulyaipole, Uspenivka, Novosilka, Vremivka and Chervone. In the South Buh direction, more than 27 settlements near the contact line were damaged by artillery and mortar shelling.
On the territory of the russian federation, measures of partial mobilization, announced by the russian military and political leadership, are ongoing. Rostov region is closed for entry and exit. Persons who are not at the place of registration, through relatives, are ordered to appear within three days.
Personnel arriving at assembly points in the Belhorod region are given a list of what they need to purchase at their own expense, in particular, warm clothing. The enemy is also carrying out the mentioned measures in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. From September 24 of this year, in Sevastopol, at the base of the automobile battalion of the Black Sea Fleet, the training of the demobilized began.
In the city of Svatove, Luhansk oblast, summonses for mobilization are handed out to persons who have reached the age of eighteen. Individual citizens, truck drivers, are immediately sent to military units. At the same time, the enemy is trying to implement the declared illegal "referendum" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Thus, in populated areas of the Zaporizhzhya oblast, representatives of the occupation authorities, together with armed russian military, conduct house-to-house rounds, forcing local residents to participate in the so-called "referendum". In addition, such rounds are also aimed at identifying men. The enemy carries out the same measures in the populated areas of the Luhansk oblast.
The occupiers continue to suffer losses. Another accurate hit was confirmed on September 24 of this year in the area of concentration of enemy equipment on the territory of the industrial zone within the city of Kherson. Previously, the enemy lost up to 10 units of military equipment, losses in personnel are being clarified.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Spirne, Soledar, Mayorsk, Bakhmut, Pidhorodne, Vyimka, Kurdyumivka, Zaitseve, Novomykhailivka, Pervomayiske, Kamyanka, Pobyeda, and Pavlivka. Aviation of the Defence Forces made 33 strikes. It was confirmed that 25 areas of concentration of the enemy's manpower and military equipment and 8 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems were hit.
In addition, air defense units destroyed one Su-25 aircraft, Mi-8 helicopter and 2 enemy UAVs.
Missile troops and artillery, in particular, during the current day, hit 6 command and control points, 12 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and equipment, 2 positions of anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 units of missile troops and artillery, 6 warehouses with ammunition, as well as 9 separate important targets.