Bob Homans September 29

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Ukraine – 9/29 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
Twitter: @rhomansjr
September 29. 2022

“The Noble Fury of Samuel Adams - How America’s “first politician” galvanized a colony—and helped set a revolution in motion” Smithsonian Magazine

Samuel Adams was the lesser-known distant cousin of John Adams, who became the 2nd President of the United States.   This article is about Samuel Adams, primarily covering the early days before the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April of 1775, that marked the beginning of the American Revolution. 

A Philadelphia colleague of Adams noted that “He eats little, drinks little, sleeps little, thinks much, and is most decisive and indefatigable in the pursuit of his objects.”  More than 2 centuries later, Samuel Adams would’ve been amused that a popular craft beer has been named after him – “Samuel Adams.”

Adams might have reminded today’s Russians, “To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace. At the same time, he was unremittingly pragmatic. Adams saw no reason that high-minded ideals should shy from underhanded tactics.”

Much of the article covered the events around March 5th, 1770, when a squad of British soldiers who were occupying Boston fired on a group of citizens, killing several.  The event became known as the “Boston Massacre.” 

The account of the Boston Massacre, the first spark that later set off the American Revolution, was very similar to the events in Kyiv from February 18, 2014, when fighting broke out on Independence Square, between the protestors and former President Yanukovich’s Interior Ministry troops known as “Berkut,” through the morning of February 20th when 100 protestors, now known as the “Heavenly 100,” were murdered by sharpshooters acting under the orders of Yanukovich’s Government, to early in the morning of February 22nd, when Yanukovich fled Kyiv.  

It took 12 ½ years, between the Boston Massacre and the British defeat at Yorktown ending the American Revolution.   It has now been “only” 8 ½ years, between the day Yanukovich fled Kyiv, and today, when we’re seeing Ukraine taking back large swaths of captured territory.   This is something that both the French, whose ancestors provided the weapons and military support that help the Colonials win their freedom from Great Britain, and Americans, who are providing Ukrainians with weapons that will defeat Russia, should remember.

The soldiers who fired on the crowd on March 5th, 1660, were arrested and tried in a colonial court.  Their defense attorney was John Adams.  They were all acquitted.

Battlefield Situation

It seems like Ukraine is trying for a breakout from the remaining part of Kharkiv Oblast toward Luhansk.  This could be even bigger than the breakout earlier this month that drove the Russians out of most of Kharkiv Oblast, yet there seems to be very little reporting about this from the Western press.   The videos from “Reporting From Ukraine” and The Latest Denys both cover the imminent Ukrainian encirclement of Lyman, now occupied by 3,000 Russian troops, and what Ukraine will do in the near future, starting with the likely liberation of Lysychansk.

Denys talks about continued Russian attacks against Donetsk, where they seem to run up against strong Ukrainian defensive positions, much of which Ukraine has continually built up since 2014.  The only success Russia has had, if one can call it that, has been around Bakhmut.  To me trying to attack strong static defenses in Donetsk Oblast seems like a fool’s errand, especially considering what is happening to Russian troops to the northeast.  

At the same time Ukraine seems to have decided, at least for the moment, to leave Crimea and the area around Melitopol to the tender mercies of the partisans who, on their own, are doing a lot of damage to Russian infrastructure and killing Ukrainian collaborators and Rssian officials.   25,000 Russian troops are trapped on the Right Bank of the Dnieper, in Kherson, much like 40,000 Japanese troops were trapped by General MacArthur’s Army and the U.S. 7th Fleet along the North Coast of New Guinea during WW-II – a potent force to be sure, but with no place to go.

9/29 Sitrep (my comment in bold face)

Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon September 28 to 12:00 noon September 29, 2022

Abbreviations:

RMA = Regional Military Administration             SBU = Security Service of Ukraine

INTERNATIONAL

September 28

11:55 Reuters: The last Turkish bank, The Turkish State Bank Ziraat Bankasi, has suspended servicing of cards of the Russian payment system Mir in Turkey.

10:32 Helsingin sanomat: Finland's border will be closed to Russian tourists on the night of Friday, September 30.

09:56: Ukraine will not immediately receive 18 HIMARS installations, which are included in the latest package of US military assistance to Ukraine .

09:35 Le Monde: France plans to train Ukrainian soldiers in Poland.

·        The French military is expected to be stationed in Poland, where they will conduct 5-week training in special army camps. Training can begin by the end of the year.

08:48 Pentagon: US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, during a conversation with his Danish counterpart Morten Bedskov, offered assistance in investigating the explosions of the  Nord Streams.

08:42: The Swedish Coast Guard has detected a fourth gas leak from Nord Stream.

·        According to one version, the threads of the gas pipelines were damaged using remote explosive devices.

·        Bloomberg: In the place where the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline occurred, a crater of raging water with a diameter of 700 meters formed. This is an environmental disaster.

08:21 Radio Liberty: Hungary blocked attempts by EU member states to impose sanctions on Patriarch Kirill

·        "Some EU member states tried to impose sanctions against Patriarch Kirill, but Hungary blocked them, as last time because the Hungarian authorities believe that no religious leader should be included in the list sanctions.”

·        The United States should absolutely sanction Kirill.

·        08:35 Institute for the Study of War: The Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced west, north and northeast of the Estuary and are working to complete the encirclement of Russian troops in the city and along the northern bank of the Siversky Donets River.

23:58 CNN: Tomorrow Finland will restrict the right of Russian citizens to enter the country.

·        "Tomorrow, Thursday, September 29, the Government will adopt a resolution that will significantly limit the right of Russian citizens to enter Finland as tourists and use Finland as a transit country when traveling to other parts. The Schengen area, as described in more detail in the resolution," the statement said.

23:36 CNN Turk: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to speak with the Russian president on Thursday.

·        The topic of conversation with Vladimir Putin is the situation in Ukraine.

23:15 Bloomberg: The accident on the "Nord Stream" risks provoking not only an economic catastrophe, but also an environmental one.

·        Germany estimates that about 300,000 tons of methane, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases, entered the atmosphere because of pipeline breakthroughs.

·        This amount of gas will have the same impact on the climate over the next 20 years as the annual emissions of 5 million cars.

23:01 U.S. State Department's press service: Ukrainian troops can use U.S.-provided weapons systems to strike areas they consider their own, including those that "join" Russia

22:45 Politico: The EU is going to impose sanctions against Alexander Dugin, leader of the Lyube group Nikolai Rastorguyev and president of the Kalashnikov concern Alan Lushnikov.

·        According to the publication, the sanctions may affect almost 30 people and 8 companies.

21:32 TSN: Canada's Foreign Ministry called on Canadian hockey players playing in the KHL to leave Russia and Belarus.

·        The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada has started a dispute with agents of hockey players who have signed contracts with clubs of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). 48 Canadian hockey players play in the league, 44 of them play for clubs from Russia and Belarus (four more play for Kazakhstan's Baris).

21:08: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev says Russians are forced to leave Russia "because of the current hopeless situation."

·        "Visitors from abroad will receive assistance in Kazakhstan, but no benefits are provided for them," Tokayev said.

20:34 Associated Press: The Pentagon announced a new tranche of $1.1 billion in "military assistance" to Ukraine.

·        18 HIMARS and related ammunition;

·        150 armoured multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWV);

·        150 tactical weapons towing vehicles;

·        40 trucks and 80 trailers for the transport of heavy equipment;

·        2 radars for unmanned aerial systems;

·        20 multifunctional Radar (Counter battery radars);

·        counteraction to unmanned aerial systems;

·        Tactical communication systems, surveillance systems, optics;

·        Equipment for the neutralization of explosive objects;

·        bulletproof vests and other field equipment;

20:27 The Times: The British defense ministry suggests that damage to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea could have been carried out by Russia using underwater drones.

·        According to a source in the British defense ministry, the Russian sabotage attack on Nord Stream gas pipelines was allegedly "pre-planned" and was carried out using an explosive device dropped into the sea a few weeks earlier.

20:19 European Commissioner for Enlargement: Ukraine's accession to the European Union mobile roaming space is possible at the next Ukraine-EU summit.

·        The Commissioner added that nothing prevents Ukraine's accession to roaming, and work is underway on this issue.

20:05: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania recommends its citizens to leave the territory of Russia and refrain from "optional trips" to the Russian Federation.

19:55: The EU has transferred €500 million of budget support to Ukraine," Oliver Vargei said at a briefing in Kyiv.

19:49: Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs urged his country's citizens not to visit Russia.

·        Those who are now in the Russian Federation are asked to leave it as soon as possible.

19:37 EU Diplomacy Chief: The European Union will apply "Crimean sanctions" against all territories not controlled by Ukraine.

·        Sanctions in force against the occupied Crimea include a ban on the import of products from this territory into the EU, as well as a ban on infrastructure and financial investments.

19:20 Reuters - Danish Energy Agency: Most of the gas from the Nord Streams pipes has flowed out, they can be emptied by the end of the week.

·        The Swedish Security Service said that it would investigate incidents on the Nord Streams.

18:57 Social Networks: Georgia has allowed Russian citizens to cross the border on foot. A huge queue has already formed on the spot.

18:11 Defense Minister: Lithuania will provide about 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers with winter clothing worth 2 million euros.

·        An additional 10,000 sets of winter uniforms are expected to be purchased for Ukrainian soldiers in January.

17:23: The European Commission proposes to ban the import of Russian products for 7 billion euros, introduce new export restrictions, as well as prohibit European citizens from holding senior positions in state-owned companies of the Russian Federation.

·        In addition, the new sanctions package will lay the legal basis for the ceiling of oil prices.

17:12 Reuters: Serbia does not recognize the results of "referendums" in the occupied territories of Ukraine, quoted the country's president.

·        "Serbia... does not recognize this ("referendums" - ed.), as it adheres to international law, the UN Charter and UN resolutions," Vučić stressed.

17:06: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EC has developed new proposals for sanctions against Russia in connection with "referendums" in the "DPR", "LPR", Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.

17:01 Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung - German Chancellor: Germany will never recognize the results of "referendums" in the "DPR", "LPR" and in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.

18:04 Intelligence Directorate: Ukraine and Russia are negotiating an exchange of "all for all. The negotiation process for the exchange of prisoners of war is lengthy.

16:21 German government website: Germany has already prepared to send bridge-laying systems and heavy trailers to Ukraine.

·        In particular, the Armed Forces of Ukraine should receive 10 bridge systems, 3 medium bridge systems, 90 heavy trailers.

15:52 Wall Street Journal: New US sanctions against Russia may be aimed at the Mir payment system.

·        The Russian Deposit Insurance Agency, the National Clearing Center and the National Settlement Depository may also fall under the restrictions.

·        In addition, the disconnection of new Russian banks from SWIFT, the expansion of export control and new sanctions against state-owned companies are being discussed.

15:04 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia: Georgia condemns pseudo-referendums conducted by Russia in the occupied Ukrainian territories.

14:45 Tagesspiegel: German security services fear that both strands of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline will be unusable forever.

14:26 AS com: The reigning champion of Spain and the Champions League, Real Madrid, has donated more than 1 million euros to help Ukraine.

·        The funds were used for food, medicines, blankets, beds, and other basic needs of people. A charity campaign called "Together with Ukraine" was launched by a Spanish football club to mitigate the consequences of the Russian invasion.

14:41 French Ambassador to Ukraine: A delegation from the French parliament, headed by the speaker of the National Assembly, has arrived in Kyiv.

14:15 Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the use of nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.

·        "Like US President Joseph Biden, I want to address Russia and say very clearly: forget about it," Scholz said.

14:04 Gibraltar Chronicle: The arrested yacht of Russian oligarch Dmitry Pumpyansky, Axioma in Gibraltar was sold at auction for $ 37,5 million and handed over to the new owner.

·        The identity of the new owner of the 72-meter yacht is not disclosed.

13:33: The U.S. Embassy in Moscow urged U.S. citizens to leave Russia immediately, "while there are limited opportunities to travel privately."

·        "Russia may deny recognition of US citizenship to persons with dual citizenship, deny them access to US consular assistance, prevent them from leaving Russia and call on persons with dual citizenship citizenship for military service," the statement said.

12:35 Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Austria condemns Russia's holding of fake "referendums" in occupied territories of Ukraine and called it another attack on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

12:30 Politico: The U.S. and allies are scrutinizing any evidence that Russia is preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.

·        The United States has lifted a rare aircraft into the sky to track flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Together with partners, it is stepping up intelligence to detect any Russian military movements or messages that may testify to the readiness to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

12:04 NBC - Polish Foreign Minister: If Russia uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine, the North Atlantic Alliance should not hit it in response with the same weapons of mass destruction, but NATO's response using "conventional" weapons "must be devastating" for the Russian army.

NATIONAL

September 28

11:48 Defense Ministry: During the two days of operation of the ICEYE satellite purchased by Ukrainians, Russia lost more armored vehicles than the entire project with satellites cost.

11:31 Ministry of Infrastructure: Today, 3 vessels left the ports of Chornomorsk and Yuzhny, 60.4 thousand tons of agricultural products for Africa and Asia.

11:06 President's Office: The Russians shelled Dnipro last night. As a result of massive missile attacks, two children are considered missing".

·        The Russians aimed at a bus station. Affected: 61 private houses, one multi-storey building, dozens of cars, damaged power line.

10:26 British Intelligence: Those trying to leave Russia are dominated by wealthy and well-educated people.

·        Given the reservists who will be mobilized, reducing the workforce, and accelerating the "brain drain" will have an increasing impact on the situation in the domestic economy.

10:10 SBU Press Service: SBU identified the Russian general who ordered the seizure of Mariupol and storming pf Azovstal

·        The war criminal is the commander of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Andrei Mordvichev.

07:51 Operational Command South: Ukrainian military continues to destroy Russians in the South Bug direction. On September 28, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the Russian attack in the Kherson region.

·        It was also reported that Ukrainian aircraft inflicted 6 strikes on areas of concentration of manpower, weapons and equipment, as well as Russian air defense positions.

·        Rocket and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have completed more than 220 fire tasks.

·        In particular, four districts of concentration of forces and means in Charivne, Oleshky and Kherson, as well as two electronic warfare stations in the Beryslav district, as well as a bridge in Nova Kakhovka.

00:59: Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov and mathematician Maryna Viazovska were included in TIME magazine's 100 Next 2022 list dedicated to new names from different industries.

07:17 Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

·        Over the past day, the Russians inflicted 3 missile and 8 air strikes, carried out more than 82 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on military and civilian targets in Ukraine.

·        More than 28 settlements were affected by Russian strikes.

·        On September 27, in the Zaporizhia direction, near the settlement of Tokmak, the Defense Forces destroyed three S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems. Losses of personnel of the Russian Federation are being clarified.

·        Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repulsed Russian attacks in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo, Mayorsk, Zalizne, Bakhmutskoye, Odradivka, Nikolaevka Druha, Ozeryanivka, Pervomaiske, Pobeda, Novomykhaylivka, Pavlivka and Bezimenne.

·        Russian military leadership continues to reman its units using prisoners

·        According to available information, about 400 people of this category arrived at the training center on the territory of the Rostov region.

·        They also continue to send newly mobilized, low-skilled personnel

·        Thus, on September 26, 7 units of tanks left for the Estuary of the Donetsk region, 2 of which were involved in accidents while following.

·        In addition, the formed crews also did not pass proper fire training with the use of standard tank weapons.

·        Military commissars in the temporarily occupied territory of the autonomous republic of Crimea received an order on the priority of conscription of Crimean Tatars into the ranks of the Russian troops, sending them to combat units performing tasks in the areas of the most intensive hostilities

07:10 Forbes: The Armed Forces of Ukraine seized more equipment than they received from partner countries.

·        According to documented data, the Ukrainian army seized from the Russian army up to 400 tanks, up to 700 armored vehicles and 170 artillery systems.

00:26 NV newspaper: The National Security and Defense Council plans to impose sanctions on the assets of a number of Russian oligarchs and related persons by the end of the week.

·        According to the source, last week the Interdepartmental Working Group on Sanctions approved a list of 1300 people on whom the National Security and Defense Council plans to impose sanctions.

00:09: Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the implementation of the grain export initiative during a phone conversation with the UN Secretary General.

·        "We agreed that the initiative should not only be preserved and protected from any attempts to disrupt it, but also expanded. Ukraine is ready to significantly increase exports of our agricultural products to countries that need it," he said.

22:22: During the day, 2 munitions warehouses, 2 headquarters were demilitarized, and 3 hits to the base of Russian troops were also preliminarily reported.

22:08 National Security Defense Council Secretary: "Putin will definitely not use strategic nuclear weapons. Even if he uses tactical nuclear weapons, it will be the end of the Russian Federation.”

·        He noted that in case of the use of tactical weapons, the isolation of the aggressor country from the civilized world will immediately begin.

·        Ukraine will respond to Belarus in case of new attacks from its territory, says NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov.

·        "We understand that Putin puts pressure on Lukashenko every day to launch armed aggression from Belarus. We know everything. Even recently, the meeting in Sochi was on this topic, but if there are troops from Belarus, as it was on February 24, they will receive an answer that they did not expect," he stressed.

21:57 Air command East: Air Defense forces shot down 4 of the 5 enemy missiles today.

·        During the missile strike, the enemy used 5 Kh-59 guided missiles from su-35 on targets in Dnipro and Zaporizhia regions.

21:15 Prime Minister: Ukraine's is already more than 88% ready for the heating season. During a conference call with the heads of regional administrations and ministries, he set the task to reach 100% readiness as soon as possible.

·        They also discussed military risks during the heating season. In particular, all regions should have ready-made plans for anti-crisis response and interaction of organizations in case of destruction of critical infrastructure facilities.

20:12 Prime Minister: The Government has already allocated more than UAH 4 billion for a rapid and critically needed recovery in de-occupied regions".

·        According to the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development, the total number of facilities that need to be restored in the liberated regions has already reached almost 51 thousand.

19:59 Intelligence Directorate: The first mobilized Russians, who are already at the front, surrender. In addition, there are many appeals within the framework of the project "I want to live" with the question of how to properly surrender Ukrainian captivity.

·        "Yes, there really is such information (about the presence at the front of the first wave of Russian mobilized - ed.). Those who are most "lucky", without training, they are immediately sent to the front as part of the occupying forces, to those units that have suffered the most losses, and this personnel hunger is replenished with mobilized recruits.

·        Among them, there are also many appeals to the project "I want to live" with clarifications on how to properly surrender to Ukrainian captivity," says Yusov.

19:13 Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights: The UN mission to investigate the tragedy in occupied Olenivka has not yet arrived in Ukraine.

·        According to him, the UN said that they had applied to the Russian Federation and were waiting for permission to visit Olenivka.

18:52 Operational Command South: Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 22 kamikaze drones out of 32 that Russians fired across the south of the country.

18:31: Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on September 28:

·        During the current day, the Russians inflicted 2 missile and 3 air strikes, carried out more than 6 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems.

·        More than 8 settlements suffered from enemy strikes. In particular, Seversk, Bilohorivka, Marinka, Mykolaiv, Vyshetarasivka, Ternovi Pody, Mirne and Novogrigorivka.

·        During the current day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repulsed enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Zaitseve, Mayorsk, Zalizne, Odradivka, Mykolaivka Druha, Ozeryanivka, Pervomaiske, Pobeda, Novomykhaylivka, Pavlivka and Bezimenne.

·        To support the actions of ground troops, the aviation of the Defense Forces during the day hit 2 enemy strongholds.

·        Rocket troops and artillery hit the command post, 4 areas of concentration of enemy manpower and equipment and one radar station.

·        In remote settlements of the Russian Federation, the entire male population of a certain age category is subject to mobilization, despite the lack of experience in military service in the past and combat experience.

·        There are frequent cases of mobilization of persons with disabilities, cancer patients, parents with many children and persons over 60 years old.

·        The unpreparedness of the implementation of mobilization measures was noted at the collection points of the Belgorod and Rostov regions.

·        Thus, newly arrived personnel must purchase winter uniforms and protective equipment at their own expense.

·        There is also a tendency for persons of draft age to search for ways to evade mobilization, particularly in Crimea.

17:36 Deputy Prime Minister: Residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine who will go to war on the side of Russia face criminal punishment for treason and collaboration.

·        "Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories must find a way to avoid mobilization into the enemy army. Or at least find a way not to take up arms, or to surrender at the first opportunity.

16:53 Kyiv RMA: French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna visited Hostomel.

·        According to him, France will help rebuild the military town, which suffered significant damage because of Russian aggression.

16:49 Operational command "South": In the southern direction, the Armed Forces stopped an enemy sabotage group.

·        "In order to reconnaissance our positions, the location of units and the likely directions of its actions in the Beryslav district, the enemy sent a sabotage and reconnaissance group of 4 people. The group was stopped with rifle fire.

16:11 Social Networks: A Russian Buryat soldier, who was captured Ukraine, said he was mobilized on September 18. Official mobilization in the Russian Federation was announced only on the 21st.

16:05 Intelligence Directorate: After a series of explosions in the temporarily occupied Crimea, the Russian military redeployed part of the personnel of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation to Novorossiysk, and distributed aircraft located on the peninsula to airfields in Russia.

15:19: The National Police of Ukraine showed footage from surveillance cameras of Russians shooting cars during the occupation of Hostomel in the Kyiv region.

·        According to the National Police, Omonov (Russian special forces) killed 11 civilians who tried to evacuate from the occupied city and wounded 15.

·        The lowest number of hits in vehicles is 38 bullets, the most - 178.

14:56 Press Service: Employees of the State Bureau of Investigations laid charges against the director of a civil aviation enterprise planning to sell a plane to the Russians.

·        During searches in the territory leased by the company, the bureau's employees found a passenger aircraft AN-140-100. Currently, the plane has been arrested, and in the future it is planned to transfer the aircraft to government control.

14:20 SBU press service: The SBU has laid charges against 16 other organizers of the Pseudo-Referendum in the occupied territories of Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

·        SBU investigators suspect these persons of committing a criminal offense under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 5 of Art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration).

13:38 Minister of Infrastructure: Within two weeks after the de-occupation of part of the Kharkiv region, almost 200 km of roads were cleared, and railway communication was returned to 45 settlements.

13:28 Social Networks: In response to protests from Ukrainian students studying at foreign universities, Ukrainian students were detained at the Shehyni checkpoint on the border with Poland.

13:01 Minister for Communities: The social housing program has been launched in Ukraine. So far, 60 apartments have been purchased for temporary accommodation of citizens of Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions.

12:45 SBU press service: The Security Service has identified 5 Russian troops who fired on 10 vehicles evacuating civilians from Hostomel on February 25. 5 people were killed, another 6 were injured.

·        According to the investigation, these are the military of the consolidated detachment of the Rosgvardia, as well as a mobile special purpose detachment .

12:26 President’s Office: The Rosh Hashanah celebration, which lasted from September 25 to 27, ended in Uman. Almost 23 thousand Hasidic pilgrims have begun to leave.

MORDOR (Russia)

September 28

11:26 Russian media: In the Rostov region, the building of the district administration was set on fire. One of the offices was completely burned out.

·        On the night of September 28, an unknown person broke a window in the administration building of the Zymovnikovsky district with bricks and set fire to one of the offices with a bottle of incendiary mixture.

11:19: Those mobilized with HIV are taken to the army despite their diagnosis," said human rights activist Pavlo Chikov.

·        He published a summons from a resident of Yekaterinburg. After appearing at the military registration and enlistment office with a certificate of HIV, he was not sent home.

11:11 Russian media: The mobilization point "in the coming days" will be deployed on the border with Kazakhstan in the Astrakhan region.

·        Earlier, mobile military enlistment offices were opened on the Russian-Georgian border near the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia, as well as at the Torfyanivka checkpoint on the border with Finland in the Leningrad region.

10:15: The Russian authorities have already announced that on September 30 this day the central streets and embankments of Moscow will be blocked due to a rally following referendums on the entry of the "LPR", "DPR", Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russia.

·        According to local media, state employees, activists and students are now actively gathering.

·        In the seven days that have passed since President Putin announced "partial mobilization," there has been a significant outflow of Russians trying to avoid conscription.

·        Although the exact figures are unknown, they probably exceed the size of all the forces deployed by Russia for the February 2022 invasion.

09:23: Russian opposition leader Leonid Gozman has decided to leave Russia after two arrests in a row, his daughter said.

·        He was detained in a criminal case of failure to notify the Russian authorities of Israeli citizenship. Then he was sent under administrative arrest for a post where he compared Hitler with Stalin, and the SS with the NKVD.

·        Then they were once again detained for 15 days for publication, where the politician reflected that the units of the SMERSH and the NKVD were generally no better than the SS and the Gestapo.

09:03: Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin said that Russians who are liable for military service have no right to leave their place of residence without the approval of the military registration and enlistment offices.

23:23 Russian media: A plane with self-proclaimed leaders of the so-called DPR, LPR, occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions landed in Moscow.

22:35: Moscow's Tver court jails poet Artem Kamardin and two other participants in the Mayakovsky Readings, Yegor Shtovba and Nikolai Dainek, for two months for anti-war poems, RosSMI.

·        They are reported to have been tortured. They are suspected of showing hatred against the so-called "armed formations of the LPR and DPR."

20:53 Media zone: Since the beginning of the war, 50 arson attacks on military registration and enlistment offices and administrative buildings have been carried out in Russia.

·        Attacks have been carried out in almost 40 regions of Russia. In addition to the military registration and enlistment offices, the targets of the attacks were the buildings of local administrations, the police, the FSB and the Rosgvardia.

19:25 Russian Media: In Russia, civilian pilots are being prepared for mobilization.

·        Russian pilots are not allowed on foreign flights due to the ban on traveling outside the Russian Federation.

17:55: In the Valuysky city district of the Belgorod region, a detonation of ammunition occurred, because of which 14 people were injured.

·        According to the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov, the explosion occurred "due to the human factor."

17:48 Social Networks: Explosions heard in occupied Crimea in Alupka and in the village of Sanatorne, near Yalta.

16:56 Social Networks: A mobile military registration and enlistment office appeared on the border of Russia with Finland.

16:27 Social Networks: The situation on the border of the Russian Federation with Kazakhstan at the checkpoint "Teple". People set up tents, build huts, burn fires, and some sleep in the open air.

16:16 The Verge: Apple says it has removed VK's apps from the App Store due to UK sanctions on 23 executives at Gazprombank, which owns 45% of VK. (VK is a Russian knockoff of Facebook)

15:37 Local media: The head of North Ossetia signed a decree on the introduction of a high-readiness regime due to the situation at the Upper Lars checkpoint, which restricts the entry of cars with a number of exceptions to the Russian region.

15:32 Intelligence Directorate: Parents of freshmen of the Naval Academy in St. Petersburg are protesting sending cadets to war.

·        After a month of training at the university, the cadets were evicted from the barracks, which was transferred for the needs of mobilization, to a building without repairs and windows. To avoid communicating with parents and arbitrarily leaving the duty station, cadets are under round-the-clock surveillance and security.

15:27: The so-called "head of administration" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balytsky, appealed to Putin to accept the region into the Russian Federation as a new entity.

15:23: Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin convenes Russian parliamentarians for an extraordinary meeting on October 3.

·        On it, the deputies plan to consider the so-called "accession" of the occupied territories of Ukraine after the "referendums".

·        According to Volodin, State Duma deputies need to "stay in Moscow next week" to "make decisions on a "referendum" in Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions."

·        Lists of those leaving are being compiled on the Russian border

o   "We have lists of all those who are on the road now. Do you think they're leaving and no one sees who left, why did they leave?" said Volodin.

·        He also commented on a document where Russia is called an aggressor country, which Russians are allegedly offered to sign when entering Georgia. The Speaker of the State Duma said that when returning to the Russian Federation, citizens will face criminal punishment for signing such documents.

·        Volodin offered to confiscate the cars left on the border by Russians who left due to mobilization and give them to the families of the military.

o   "Now the cars are being thrown away. It is also necessary, by the way, to think about who to give these cars to. Maybe the families of those guys who went to fight? It will be right," he said.

·        Volodin called Russians who left the country in connection with mobilization "traitors."

14:32 Russian State portal Obъyasnyaem: In Russia, soldiers under the age of 50 and officers under the age of 60 can be mobilized.

·        "The age limit for privates and sergeants subject to partial mobilization is 50 years, junior officers are 60 years old".

13:58 Social Networks: In Penza, IT specialist Alexander Penin was mobilized, whose dependent mother is disabled with multiple sclerosis. He did not serve in the army.

13:51 Belarus Ministry of Defense: A sudden check of the combat and mobilization readiness of one of the military units has begun in Belarus, it will take a month.

·        According to the department, they are going to work out conscription and restoration of skills of military servicemen, removal from storage of military and special equipment in order to check its combat capability.

13:18 Russian Media: The so-called head of the "LPR" Leonid Pasichnik appealed to Vladimir Putin to consider the issue of joining the "republic" into the Russian Federation.

13:15 Russian Media: The so-called "head of administration" of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, appealed to Putin with a request to join the Kherson region into the Russian Federation.

12:51 Russian Media: A resident of Vladivostok died after being detained at an enlistment center.

·        According to the publication, yesterday 39-year-old Serhiy Fedoseenko came to the territory of the local conscription center and began to express dissatisfaction. The leadership of the military registration and enlistment office called the police.

·        Fedoseenko was arrested and put in a police car. Arriving at the station, the police saw that the detainee was ill. They called an ambulance, doctors constituted he was dead.

12:40 Associated Рress: Russians are leaving the country en masse.

·        More than 53 thousand people entered Georgia.

·        98 thousand people entered Kazakhstan.

·        More than 43 thousand people entered Finland.

12:15 Social Networks: In Moscow, priests hand out icons to mobilized people.

KHARKIV

September 28

09:11 RMA: In the Kupiansk district, the villages of Dvorechna, Hrushivka, Senkove and Kolodyazne were shelled. In Kharkiv - Strelecha and Krasne. in Bohodukhivske - Sosnivka. Private houses and utility buildings were damaged, fires occurred.

·        During the day, 7 people were hospitalized with injuries in the Kupyansk district.

17:17: Near the liberated Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, fighters from the 92nd separate mechanized brigade named after the kosh ataman Ivan Sirk "captured" a Russian "Tiger".

LUHANSK

September 28

12:10 Social Networks: In occupied Luhansk in the old city center there is a column of Russian military vehicles, on its way city of Shchastia.

DONETSK

September 28

11:40 Mayor: Kramatorsk suffered 4 missile strikes: 10 wounded are already known. High-rise buildings, infrastructure and private homes were damaged. All relevant services work on the ground,

08:15 Donetsk RMA: On September 28, Russians killed 6 civilians in Donetsk region: 2 in Toretsk, 1 in Bakhmut, 1 in Severny, 1 in Blagodatne, 1 in Mykolaivka. Another 4 people were injured.

09:07 Mayor: Announced the explosion of the car of local Melitopol collaborator Elena Shapurova. According to eyewitnesses, she is alive.

·        "The face, who in peaceful life became famous for numerous corruption schemes in the college, found his "vocation": headed the occupation "department of education" and in every possible way helped the occupiers to impose a Rashist regime " education", - Ivan Fedorov

13:44 Social networks: A video from Novoselivka in the Donetsk region appeared on the network. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have hoisted the flag of Ukraine.

ZAPORIZHYA

September 28

08:24 Mayor: Confirmed explosions in occupied Melitopol.

00:55 Social Networks: Report explosions in Zaporizhia.

21:22 Advisor to the mayor of Mariupol: The occupation authorities in Mariupol have compiled an updated list of high-rise buildings that are going to be demolished. In total, 68 high-rise buildings are going to be demolished in the city.

21:27 RMA: Confirmed that Zaporizhia air defense had been active in the city.

12:57 Mayor of Melitopol: Only 0.5% of residents of the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhia region took part in the pseudo-referendum of Russians. No civilized state recognizes either the conduct or the results of a fake "vote".

DNIPRO

September 28

11:33: There are already 19 wounded in the Zelenodolsk community due to the Russian morning attack, says Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA.

09:28 RMA: New shelling. Russians struck the Kryvyi Rih district with prohibited cluster shells from the "Hurricanes".

·        They targeted the industrial infrastructure in the Zelenodolsk community.

·        Previously, 13 employees of the enterprise were injured. Damaged administrative building.

09:41 Sumy RMA: Yesterday evening, at about 10 p.m., Russians hit the territory of the Mid-Buda community with self-propelled guns and mortars. Only 10 arrivals.

·        Without casualties and destruction.

08:28 RMA: At night, the Nikopol district came under another shelling. The strikes were inflicted with the use of MLRS "Grad" and heavy artillery.

·        Industrial infrastructure was damaged in Nikopol. 10 private houses, outbuildings and cars were damaged in the Chervonohryhorivska community.

·        There are no casualties or casualties.

07:41 RMA: The Russians hit the Dnieper at night with missiles. Fell on residential areas, - the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko

·        At present, 3 dead are known, including 1 child. Another 5 were injured, including a 12-year-old girl. Rescuers took her out of a broken house, where she was just sleeping when a Russian rocket arrived there.

·        Several private dwellings have been completely destroyed. Rescuers continue to dismantle the rubble - they are looking for people. There is a possibility that there may still be children there.

·        More than 60 private houses and several high-rise buildings were damaged in the city. The market, buses, cars and power lines are mutilated.

00:57 Social Networks: Report explosions in Dnipro.

23:09 RMA: In the evening Russians attacked the Kryvyi Rih region with Kh-59 missiles. Most of the missiles were destroyed by the air defense forces.

·        One hit a grain processing plant. Without casualties.

KHERSON

September 28

00:49 Social Networks: Report explosions in occupied Nova Kakhovka.

23:42 Kherson regional council: The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a concentration of Russian soldiers in Kherson.

18:06 Social Networks: Explosions in occupied Kherson.

14:59 Operational Command "South": The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit a concentration of weapons and equipment in Kherson and an ammunition depot of Russian troops in the Novooleksandrivska community of the Kherson region.

13:46 Social networks: Explosions in occupied Oleshky, Kherson region

MYKOLAIV

September 29

10:43.: Russians in Mykolaiv damaged one of the museums and the building of the educational institution with an S-300 rocket.

OTHER REGIONS

September 28

21:46 Sumy RMA: Russians fired mortars, artillery shells from self-propelled guns and drones at the Krasnopilska community. The power line was partially damaged, 2 houses in one of the villages were damaged.

15:57 Operational command "North": The Russian army again shelled the border of the Chernihiv region.

·        In the afternoon near Senkivka, the SMM recorded 70 explosions from the AGS and 7 explosions from a 120mm mortar. There are no casualties among personnel and equipment.

Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.

SOURCES

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https://euromaidanpress.com/

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