Significant losses of the occupiers on the Slobozhanshchyna front are confirmed – the General Staff

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER 2022, 18:42

Ukrainian soldiers have inflicted significant losses on the Russians on the Slobozhanshchyna front.

Source: report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18.00 on 15 September

Quote: "Significant losses of the enemy on the Slobozhanshchyna front have been confirmed. Thus, the 202nd and 204th Rifle Regiments of the 2nd Army Corps of the occupying forces, which took part in hostilities, have been hastily withdrawn to the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast and are subject to disbandment. Remaining personnel are divided among units of the mobilisation reserve.

Due to the large number of wounded in the town of Novoaidar, civilian medical facilities, including a children's hospital, are urgently being repurposed as military hospitals."

Details: The General Staff also reports that the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation has decided to replenish the reserve for the war in Ukraine at the expense of penal institutions, state-owned businesses and institutions, the lifting of conscription restrictions for large families and the forced creation of regional battalions formed on a national basis.

As of 18:00 on 15 September, the Russian forces were continuing to attack peaceful residential areas and civilian infrastructure targets, violating the norms of International Humanitarian Law and the laws and customs of war. The infrastructure of more than 20 settlements was damaged as a result of Russian airstrikes, missile strikes, and MLRS attacks, in particular Kryvii Rih, Nikopol, Bilohirka, Marinka, Olhivske, Oskil, Mykolaiv, Ochakiv, Liubomyrivka, Huliaipole and Myrne.

During the current day, the Russian forces carried out five missile strikes, five airstrikes and 23 attacks using rocket artillery systems on military and civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine.

The Russian soldiers fired on Ukrainian infrastructure using tank guns, mortars and artillery of various calibres:

• on the Sivershchyna front: the Russians fired on areas in and around Halahanivka (Chernihiv Oblast) and Kindrativka (Sumy Oblast);
• on the Kharkiv front: Vovchansk, Hoptivka, Baranivka, Vysoka Yaruha, Neskuchne and Sotnytskyi Kozachok;
• on the Sloviansk front: Kupiansk;
• on the Kramatorsk front: Tetianivka, Bilohorivka, Siversk, Mykolaivka, Kramatorsk, Ivano-Darivka and Verkhnokamianske;
• on the Bakhmut front: Sukha Balka, Mykolaivka Druha, Zaitseve, Odradivka, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut and Vesela Dolyna;
• Russian forces did not undertake active operations on the Avdiivka, Novopavlivka, and Zaporizhzhia fronts, but fired on the positions of Ukrainian forces along the entire line of contact;
• on the Pivdennyi Buh front, Russian troops also fired on the positions of Ukrainian forces along the entire line of contact and used UAVs to conduct aerial reconnaissance, making a total of 48 sorties.

Defence forces of Ukraine successfully repelled Russian attacks in the vicinity of Vesela Dolyna, Maiorsk and Zaitseve.

In order to support the actions of ground groups, the aircraft of the Ukrainian Defence Forces carried out 18 airstrikes on the areas where Russian military personnel and equipment were concentrated. It has been confirmed that the Ukrainian aircraft struck 10 such areas, as well as three Russian strong points and five anti-aircraft missile systems. Russia’s losses have yet to be confirmed.

Air defence units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two UAVs of the occupiers on different fronts.

Units of the Ukrainian Missile Forces and artillery inflicted damage on three Russian control points and 12 areas where Russian military personnel and equipment were concentrated, striking two Russian ammunition storage points, several pieces of anti-aircraft defence equipment, and ground lines of communication.

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