Russia deploys military cadets to fight in Ukraine due to lack of officers – General Staff report

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – SATURDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2022, 07:11

Russian military leadership is deploying military cadets before the term of their study is over to fight in Ukraine, mostly due to the lack of officers.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 1 October

Details: Military cadets from the Tyumen Higher Military Engineering Command School will graduate early. The cadets are expected to take up officer positions in military units that are staffed with mobilised reservists.

Military cadets in the last years of studying at the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School are being sent to train regiments of mobilised reservists at military training grounds near Ryazan, Omsk, Pskov, Tula and other Russian cities. These units are expected to take part in training and coordination activities over the course of next month, at most, and will then be deployed in combat zones in Ukraine.

Over the course of the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 4 missile strikes and 15 airstrikes, as well as over 85 attacks using multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS). More than 50 Ukrainian cities, towns and villages came under Russian fire, including Bilohorivka, Novomykolaivka, Blahodativka, Sukhyi Stavok and Odradivka.

There were no significant changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts. On other fronts, the Russians continued to fire on military and civilian targets using tank guns, mortars and artillery:

• On the Slobozhanshchyna front: areas in and around Strilecha, Ridkodub, Kuchkivka, Okhrymivka and Vilkhuvatka;

• On the Kramatorsk front: areas in and around Hryhorivka, Bilohorivka, Ivano-Darivka, Zakitne, Rozdolivka and Spirne;

• On the Bakhmut front: areas in and around Bakhmut, Zaitseve, Mykolaivka Druha and Paraskoviivka;

• On the Avdiivka front: areas in and around Marinka, Vodiane and Oleksandropil;

• On the Novopavlivka front: areas in and around Novosilka, Novopil, Prechystivka and Pavlivka;

• On the Zaporizhzhia front: areas in and around Mala Tokmachka, Zaliznychne, Huliaipole and Novoandriivka; 
• On the Pivdennyi Buh front, over 25 towns and villages in the vicinity of the line of contact came under Russian fire, including Stepova Dolyna, Myrne, Sukhyi Stavok, Olhyne and Arkhanhelske.

Over the course of the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled Russian attacks in the vicinity of Zaitseve, New-York and Soledar. Ukrainian aircraft carried out 11 airstrikes, striking a Russian strong point, 6 areas of concentration of Russian military personnel and equipment and 4 anti-aircraft defence systems. In addition, Ukrainian air defence forces struck down 3 Russian UAVs and a Ka-52 helicopter.

Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery struck 11 command posts and 8 areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment were concentrated, as well as 14 further targets, including ammunition storage points, anti-aircraft defence systems, river crossings, and electronic warfare and reconnaissance systems.

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