Russian occupiers force Kherson Oblast residents to obtain Russian passports or face eviction – General Staff report

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2022, 07:10

Russian occupiers are threatening the residents of Tokarivka, in Kherson Oblast, with eviction and deportation if they fail to obtain Russian passports by 1 October.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 30 September

Details: Teachers in Mariupol are threatened with dismissal if they refuse to hand-in their Ukrainian passports and obtain Russian passports instead. Other residents of Mariupol are allowed to keep their Ukrainian passports when they obtain a Russian passport.

Russian occupiers in Kherson have evicted residents of several houses in multiple occupation. Russian soldiers that have arrived to reinforce Russian forces on the Kherson front are moving into those houses instead.

Over the course of the past 24 hours, Russian invaders carried out 5 missile strikes and 11 airstrikes, as well as over 100 attacks using multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) on military and civilian targets across Ukraine. More than 50 Ukrainian cities, towns and villages came under Russian fire, including Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv, Nikopol, Voznesensk, Pavlivka, Vysokopillia, Bilohirka and Myrne.

There were no significant changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts. However, Belarus began conducting checks of the radio technical support of its airfield network on 21 September. This may indirectly indicate the possibility that Belarusian airfields will be used by the Russian Armed Forces. Also, air force units from the joint training centre of the Air Force and Air Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Belarus and Russia made a rotation; three out of four existing Su-30M multi-purpose fighter jets were replaced. There is an ongoing threat of a missile strike on Ukraine from the territory of Belarus.

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

• On the Sivershchyna front: areas in and around Senkivka and Sosnivka (Chernihiv Oblast) and Novovasylivka and Pavlivka (Sumy Oblast);
• On the Slobozhanshchyna front: areas in and around Petropavlivka and Kurylivka;
• On the Kramatorsk front: areas in and around Bohorodychne, Blakytni Ozera, Shchurove, Dibrova and Ozerne;
• On the Bakhmut front: areas in and around Verkhnokamianske, Vyimka, Spirne, Vesele, Bilohorivka, Yakovlika, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Odradivka, Zaitseve, Pivnichne and Maiorsk;
• On the Avdiivka front: areas in and around Tonenke, Avdiivka, Netailove, Pervomaiske, Opytne, Krasnohorivka, Marinka and Novomykhailivka;
• Russian forces did not undertake active combat operations on the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia fronts, but fired on areas in the vicinity of Novopil, Prechystivka, Vuhledar, Pavlivka, Mykilske, Zaliznychne, Zelenyi Hai, Dorozhnianka and Novoukrainka using tanks, mortars and tubed and rocket artillery; 
• On the Pivdennyi Buh front, over 50 towns and villages in the vicinity of the line of contact came under Russian fire, including Arkhanhelske, Bilousove, Sukhyi Stavok, Shyroke, Bezimenne, Kvitneve, Ivanivka, Zoria, Olhyne, Lymany, Blahodatne, Pravdyne, Myrne and Oleksandrivka.

The General Staff confirmed some of the Russian losses on several fronts over the past few days:

• Over 50 Russian military personnel killed and 17 pieces of Russian military equipment destroyed as a result of the Ukrainian forces’ strike on a concentration of Russian forces in Bakhmutivka (Luhansk Oblast); 
• Up to 50 Russian military personnel sustained injuries and 10 weapons and pieces of military equipment were destroyed in Tokmak (Zaporizhzhia Oblast);
• Up to 40 Russian military personnel sustained injuries in the Huliaipole district (Zaporizhzhia Oblast);
• A command post and an S-300 missile system were destroyed and more than 50 Russian soldiers sustained injuries in Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia Oblast).

Over the course of the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled Russian attacks in the vicinity of Zaitseve, Maiorsk, Vesela Dolyna, Bakhmutske, Odradivka, Kurdiumivka, Niu-York, Pervomaiske and Bezimenne. Ukrainian aircraft carried out 29 airstrikes, striking 6 Russian strong points, 20 areas of concentration of Russian military personnel and equipment and 3 anti-aircraft defence systems. In addition, Ukrainian air defence forces struck down 7 Russian UAVs (including 5 Iranian-made UAVs), 1 Mi-8 helicopter and a Su-25 attack jet. Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery struck 5 command posts, 15 areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment were concentrated, 6 ammunition and fuel and lubricants storage points, 1 anti-aircraft defence system and 8 other crucial military targets.

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