Destroyed military equipment of Kiev’s forces
The day of October 10 was marked by several important events. First of all, these were a massive strike of the Russian Armed Forces on military and energy infrastructure of the Kiev regime as well as the announcement of the creation of a joint regional grouping of troops by Russia and Belarus. Meanwhile, it would be interesting to look at how the military situation on the contact line developed while all the attention of the media was drawn to these events.
As of the second half of October 10, Russian forces were able to stabilize the frontline in Kherson region along the Lubimovka-Centralnoe-Novopetrovka-Snigirevka-Borozenskoe-Novaya Kamenka line. Nonetheless, fighting with regular attempts of Kiev’s forces to advance with separate groups of infantry supported by heavy military equipment continues along the entire contact line. All the recent attacks of this kind were successfully repelled by Russian forces and the Kiev regime suffered serious losses in troops and equipment. The settlements of Dudachani and Davidov Brod are among the main hot points.
The similar situation is being observed in the Krasniy Liman sector. The frontline there is currently stabilize along the Novoselovskoe-Kolomichiha-Kremennaya-Dibrovo-Zolotorevo line. The main fighting has been recently reported in the areas near Torskoe, Terni, Belgorovka and Verhnokamenka. Attacks of pro-Kiev forces continue.
The Russian military released a video showing the destruction of a military convoy of Kyiv’s forces.
“Airborne Troops detected a convoy of AFU vehicles and launched an attack with artillery and anti-tank missile systems to neutralise enemy manpower and armoured equipment.
6 tanks and more than 10 other armoured vehicles and motor vehicles, including foreign-manufactured ones, have been destroyed,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
At the same time, units of Russian forces successfully increased pressure of the grouping of Kiev troops in the Bahmut sector. In recent days, they liberated several settlements around it, including Zaytsevo, and entered Otradovka and Veselaya dolina. However, these advances are still of a limited scale as the Russian military still lacks infantry on the key sectors of the battleground. The liberation of Bahmut will likely become possible only when this situation is improved thanks to the ongoing ‘partial mobilization in Russia’.
The following videos show the destruction of a group of Kyiv’s troops by the famous battalion ‘Sparta’ of the Donetsk People’s Republic near the settlement of Opitnoe:
An official statement of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the military operation in Ukraine on October 10:
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Today, Russian Armed Forces launched a massive high-precision long-range attack at the facilities of military control, communications and energy systems of Ukraine.
The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised.
4 enemy company tactical groups were making unsuccessful attempts to launch an offensive towards Kislovka, Tabayevka (Kharkov region) and Kuzemovka at Kupyansk direction.
All the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been repelled. The enemy has lost over 40 personnel, 5 tanks, 4 armoured combat vehicles and 15 motor vehicles.
AFU units made unsuccessful attempts to cross Zherebets river near Makeyevka and Raygorodok (Lugansk People’s Republic) at Krasny Liman direction.
Concentrated fire attacks launched by missile troops and artillery have resulted in frustrating all the attempts of the AFU to install ferries across the river.
Up to 3 battalion tactical groups and 1 foreign mercenaries’ unit were conducting an offensive towards Bruskinskoye, Bezymennoye, Sadok and Sukhanovo (Kherson region) at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction.
Intense action of Russian forces has resulted in driving the enemy back to its initial positions.
AFU have lost over 60 personnel, 9 tanks, 16 armoured combat vehicles and 17 motor vehicles at the abovementioned direction.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery have neutralised 6 AFU command posts near Verkhnekamenskoye, Bakhmutskoye, Artyomovsk and Ugledar (Donetsk People’s Republic), Pavlovka (Zaporozhye region) and Blagodarovka (Nikolayev region), as well as 52 artillery units at their firing positions, 143 manpower and military equipment concentration areas.
5 missile, artillery armament and munitions depots have been destroyed near Seversk, Avdeyevka and Shevchenko (Donetsk People’s Republic), Novoaleksandrovka (Zaporozhye region) and Bereznegovatoye (Nikolayev region).
2 storages of fuel for the AFU have been destroyed near Dnepropetrovsk and Pavlograd (Dnepropetrovsk region).
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 MiG-29 of Ukrainian Air Force near Belaya Krinitsa (Kherson region).
Air defence facilities have destroyed 6 unmanned aerial vehicles near Nikolayevka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Petrovskoye, Veleryanovka, Kodema (Donetsk People’s Republic), Chervony Yar and Mylovoye (Kherson region).
Moreover, 6 projectiles launched by U.S.-manufactured HIMARS MLRS near Kazatskoye, Otradokamenka, Chervonoye Podolye and Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region), as well as 3 HARM anti-radar missiles near Antonovka (Kherson region).
In addition, 1 Tochka-U ballistic missile has been shot down over Vysokoye (Kherson region).
In total, 318 airplanes and 159 helicopters, 2,188 unmanned aerial vehicles, 379 air defence missile systems, 5,604 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 866 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,462 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,463 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Summing up the developments of the recent days, it is important to note that while the ‘counter-offensive’ of the Kiev regime in Izum-Liman and Kherson directions lost most of its steam, pro-Kiev forces still enjoy the significant advantage in manpower. This allows them to continue attempts (even if weakened by regular and notable losses in equipment and manpower) to break the Russian defense in the sectors of Kherson and Liman. On top of this, reports appear that the Kiev regime is consolidating another group of forces in Zaporozhie region for a potential attack in the direction of Melitopol. Likely, the Ukrainian military leadership (i.e. NATO advisers) understands pretty well that the ‘window of opportunities’ is rapidly closing. Frontline units of the Russian military will soon receive reinforcements and the Russian grouping of forces will increase to the minimum size really needed for operations on such large battleground. Therefore, it would be logical to expect several more attempts of the Kiev regime to launch large-scale attacks on key parts of the contact line in the nearest future. If these attacks do not happen or are successfully repelled, the Ukrainian advantage in manpower on the frontline will be at least partly compensated. Thus, the ‘window of opportunities’ will be fully closed for Zelensky and his masters. Together with the recent signals that Russia may have finally decided to fight for real, this opens very sad prospects for the Kiev regime.
