Ukrainian Armed Forces struck 19 concentrations of Russian manpower on 13 October – General Staff report

OLHA HLUSHCHENKO – FRIDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2022, 07:27

The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck 19 concentrations of Russian manpower and repelled several Russian attacks on 13 October.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 14 October

Quote: "The enemy continues to attack critical infrastructure and civilian targets in our country. Over the course of the past 24 hours, civilians and [civilian] facilities in Brody, Nalyvaikivka (Kyiv Oblast), Mykolaiv and Nikopol came under attack.

[Russian forces] deployed cruise, air-to-surface, and anti-aircraft guided missiles, as well as Iranian-made attack unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] to carry out those attacks.

Overall, the occupiers carried out 2 missile strikes and 16 airstrikes, as well as around 70 attacks using multiple-launch rocket systems [MLRS] over the course of the past 24 hours."

Details: There were no significant changes on the Volyn and Polissia fronts.

On other fronts, the Russians continued to fire on military and civilian targets:

• On the Sivernshchyna front: the Russians used mortars and tubed artillery to fire on areas in an around Mykolaivka in Chernihiv Oblast and Ukrainske, Atynske and Velyka Rybytsia in Sumy Oblast;
• On the Slobozhanshchyna front: Russian forces used mortars and tubed and rocket artillery to fire on areas in and around Strilecha, Ohirtseve, Starytsia, Hatyshche, Dvorichna and Hrianykivka;
• On the Kramatorsk front: Russian forces used various types of artillery to fire on areas in and around Spirne, Terny, Zarichne, Nadiia, Olhivka, Torske, Bilohorivka, Yampolivka and Travneve;
• On the Bakhmut front: the Russians used tank guns, mortars, and tubed and rocket artillery to fire along the entire line of contact, in particular on areas in and around Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Ivanhrad, Zelenopillia, Soledar, Maiorsk, Chasiv Yar and Opytne;
• On the Avdiivka front: the Russians deployed tank guns and artillery of various calibres to fire on areas in and around Avdiivka, Krasnohorivka, Vodiane, Marinka, Novomykhailivka, Nevelske, Pervomaiske and Zolota Nyva;
• On the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia fronts, areas in the vicinity of Vuhledar, Novoukrainka, Vremivka, Novoandriivka, Novodanylivka, Dorozhnianka, Huliaipole and Komyshuvakha came under Russian fire;
• On the Pivdennyi Buh front, areas in the vicinity of the line of contact came under Russian fire; the city of Nikopol and the village of Vyshchetarasivka sustained damage from the Russian attacks.

Additional Russian military personnel were deployed to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar on 10–11 October. Available information indicates that Russian occupation forces have set up camp at the power plant because the Ukrainian forces do not attack it.

The Russians are ramping up restrictive measures [on the occupied territories of Ukraine]. In addition to regular military personnel, representatives of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) are now also conducting thorough searches at checkpoints around Melitopol.

Russian military command is continuing to recruit mercenaries, including from foreign countries, to replenish losses in manpower. For example, the General Staff reported that around 400 foreign mercenaries arrived in temporarily Russian-occupied Crimea on 9 October. They are expected to be deployed in hostilities in Ukraine.

The training of conscripts from the town of Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) at the military training centres of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has for the time being been suspended in light of the lack of the training centres’ capacity to house, train and equip large numbers of military personnel.

Over the course of the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled Russian attacks in the vicinity of Terny, Opytne, Vesele, Nevelske, Odradivka, Ivanhrad, Bakhmut, Nova Kamianka and Sukhyi Stavok.

Ukrainian aircraft carried out 25 airstrikes on 13 October, striking more than 19 areas of concentration of Russian weapons and equipment and 6 anti-aircraft defence systems. In addition, Ukrainian air defence forces struck down 5 Russian cruise missiles and 9 UAVs.

Ukraine’s Rocket Forces and Artillery struck 3 Russian command posts, 5 areas where Russian military personnel, weapons and equipment were concentrated, 2 ammunition storage points and an electronic warfare system.

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