Russian special military operation in Ukraine #28

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Extensive and detailed report, with maps, and my comment at the end on the fighting on the northern front

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/parte-de-guerra-13-10-2022-informe-especial/

Missing maps from original

Part of war 10/13/2022 - special report
13 October, 2022 Zhukov

North Front

Excerpts from Rybar's report on the previous night's fighting until 10:00 on October 13

In the Kupyansk sector, Ukrainian formations with the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 14 mechanized brigade and the 32 Territorial combined battalion attempted an assault on the Kislovka — Pershotravnevoye line. they suffered serious losses.

In order to maintain combat capability and replace the 32 Territorial Battalion, inthe enemy sent reinforcements from the 192 battalion of the 124 Territorial Brigade to the combat area near Pershotravnevoe and Peschanoe.

Russian troops carried out a massive bombardment of Ukrainian positions, forcing them to retreat to Petropavlovsk to regroup.

Shock troops of the Ukrainian 92nd mechanized brigade tried to settle in the vicinity of Kotlyarivka. The Ukrainian formations were pushed back to their original positions by artillery fire.

During the heavy fighting, the total losses of the Ukrainian formations amounted to three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, seven vehicles and more than 50 men.

Ukrainian advanced reconnaissance groups are probing the positions of the Russian Armed Forces and directing artillery fire at the Sinkovka—Olshana, Orlyanka —Kotlyarovka —Kislovka, Nikolaevka and Stelmakhovka lines.

Two enemy battalion tactical groups attempted to cross the Zherebets River and occupy the villages of Stelmakhovka and Rozovka.

Russian artillery and aviation hit enemy concentrations destroying two tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles and two pickup trucks. The losses of the Ukrainian formations amounted to several dozen people.



South Front

Summary of the day 13 October Colonel Cassad (Boris Rozhin) 20:15 hours

Northern Front, Luhansk

1. Svatovo-Kremennaya
Fighting continues in the area of the localities of Terny and Torskoye. The enemy is strengthening its grouping in this direction. Northwest (NW) of Svatovo, the enemy continues to attack and has made a small breakthrough.



Donbass salient

2. Artemvosk.
Our troops (Wagner volunteers) have taken Ivangrad and are fighting for Opytne (the village has not yet been taken).
There is fighting on the eastern outskirts of Artemivsk.
There is no progress towards Kurdyumovka.
In the Soledar area, unchanged.

3. Address Donetsk.
The cleaning of Pervomaisky continues. It is reported that about a third of the ruined population was liberated.
There are combatsin the direction of Nevelsky.
In the area of Avdeyevka and Maryinka - unchanged.

South Front

4. Address Kherson.
The enemy continued to try to probe the front in the area of Davydov Brod and Dudchan.
The enemy did not abandon the goal of the offensive in Berislav - now there is an accumulation of forces in the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog directions for attacks in the coming weeks.

Chronicle of the day October 13, 22:15 hours – Rybar

Chronicle of the special military operation
by October 13, 2022

Russian forces continued to bombard the infrastructure and military installations on the territory of Ukraine: the logistics terminal on Nalyvaykovka in the Kiev region, where a NATO aid weapons and materiel warehouse was allegedly located, was hit..

Several explosions occurred in Zolochiv in the Lviv region and other regions of western Ukraine.

Attacks on the territories of the Russian Federation:

In the afternoon, Ukrainian Forces shelled Belgorod again. Air defense systems intercepted the targets, but fragments of one of the missiles fell on the roof of a multi-storey building.

At the same time, the enemy hit an ammunition depot in the village of Oktyabrsky. Another blow fell at the Shebekino border checkpoint.

There were no casualties among civilians during the Ukrainian shelling..

In the Kursk region, Ukrainian formations hit an electric transformer near the villages of Tetkino and Popovo-Lezhachi, cutting off electricity for several hours. The enemy also shelled Guevo, damaging several civilian buildings.

Address Starobilsk (Lugansk front)

In the Kupyansk sector the Ukrainian Forces, with part of the 14th Brigade and the 32nd territorial battalion, tried to storm the positions of the Russian army on the Kislovka — Pershotravnevoe line, but suffered losses and retreated.

The units of the 92nd mechanized brigade tried to establish themselves near Kotlyarovka, but they also retreated with losses. During the day, the enemy lost about 50 men and 10 armored personnel carriers in the Kupyansk area.

In the Liman-Svatovo sector, Ukrainian formations are accumulating forces to attack in the direction of Kremennaya. A large consolidated group of several battalions of the Ukrainian army and territorial defense has been formed in Ternov.

Address of Soledar_

There are no significant changes on the front line, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing for a Russian offensive in Bakhmut (Artemivsk).

Address Donetsk:

Ukrainian formations once again shelled Donetsk, Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Makeyevka and other surrounding settlements, after several days without shelling.

Address Zaporozhe:

In the Zaporozhye region, the enemy is preparing for a large-scale offensive along the entire front line. The parties are engaged in artillery duels on the line of contact: the Russian Armed Forces launched several attacks on Ukrainian installations in Zaporozhe.

Southern Front: Nikolayev-Beryslav direction

Staff turnover is underway in the Posad-Pokrovskiy district on Zara and Lyubomirovka. In the same Posad-Pokrovsky the enemy placed warehouses with ammunition.

In the Andreyevka bridgehead sector the enemy units tried to entrench themselves 3 kilometers north of Ishchenko, but fell under Russian artillery fire and retreated to Davydov Brod. Enemy aircraft also attacked in the area of Borozenskoye and Bezvodnoye.

In the Stanislav sector, the personnel of the 60th Brigade of the Ukrainian army on the Novogrigoryevka-Novaya Kamenka line are preparing for an attack on Russian positions.

Russian units captured several enemy soldiers during a reconnaissance operation near Sukhoi Stavka.

Miscellaneous reports

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Donetsk sector



Advance on the Donetsk front. Ukrainazis are losing ground near Nevelsky.

A unit of the 100th brigade of the DNR advanced in the direction of Avdeyevka. Fierce fighting was fought with the use of heavy weapons - grenade launchers, incendiary rocket launchers and other means of destroying the enemy. The artillery provided significant support. Thanks to coordinated joint actions, the assault groups managed to break into the defense.

The enemy defensive line was built according to all the rules of fortification: fortified emplacements, communication trenches and shelters with three layers of logs. The enemy did not neglect camouflage, masterfully hiding his location in the forest plantations. Despite serious preparations, the enemy fled, leaving behind the wounded, the dead and ammunition. The offensive continues, the front line is moving away from Donetsk.



Assault of Artemovsk by the Wagner group



On October 13, it became known that Wagner's fighters drove the Ukrainian Forces out of Ivangrad, near Bakhmut (Artemovsk), and occupied the defensive lines built by the enemy there. At the same time, there are battles for the village of Opytne (note: do not confuse with another population in the Donetsk airport sector).

The village of Opytne is in the hands of a battalion of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade. Now the Ukrainian army is taking up positions in the area of the School of Arts on Kievskaya Street. At the same time, the unit lost up to a third of its personnel.

In addition, the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade e is entrenched in the cemetery area in Bakhmut, suffers heavy losses from fire. Judging by the radio intercepts, there are foreign mercenaries in the possessions.

The rapid advance of the Wagner fighters allowed them to break into the Ukrainian positions near the Bakhmut dam and Sosyura Street. In anticipation of the collapse of the front, the Ukrainian army is bringing reserves. Additional forces of the 26th Artillery Brigade were deployed in the kindergarten area of Bakhmut and the village of Yagodnoye (15 km from the Russian positions).

The 25th, 79th and 81st airmobile brigades of Ukraine defending Bakhmut are also severely depleted and are experiencing a shortage of medical supplies: they are running out of anti-shock and hemostatic drugs.



Ukrainian reservations in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut)

Reporting by Slavyangrad - Gleb Bazov

The reserves that they have brought to Bakhmut are from such inexperienced troops that they had to be trained "on the fly". An improvised barracks and a shooting range were set up on a fishing pier near stake 8 (in the village of Khromovo), on the southwestern outskirts of Artemovsk. The level of readiness of enemy reinforcements leaves much to be desired.

Ukrainian forces operating near Bakhmut today:

The 58th Mechanized Brigade, named after the Hetman (ataman) Ivan Vygovskiy (from Konotop, in the Sumy region), was once considered the most combat-ready unit of the Ukrainian army. The unit, rebuilt with novice soldiers has suffered many defections.

The 125th "Lvovskaya" Territorial Defense Brigade has been bled, replacements for covering casualties are being instructed on an accelerated program in fortified areas outside the city.

The 26th Artillery Brigade (from Berdichev), part of the 8th Ukrainian Army, has only 40% of its personnel.

The 25th Airborne Assault Brigade (from Novomoskovsk) was destroyed near Novobakhmutovka and has been rebuilt with reservists.

The 79th Airborne Assault Brigade (from Nikolayev) was destroyed in Soledar, suffering up to 80% casualties, and has been rebuilt with mercenaries from Poland, Romania, Britain and the USA.

The 81st Airborne Assault Brigade (from Druzhkovka) is now the most combat-ready Ukrainian unit of all those listed above. It was damaged by the Russian attacks on the village of Nikolayevka. He took part in fighting near Krasny Liman.

Right Sector barrier detachment

About 200 Nazis from the Right Sector were transferred to Artemovsk. Their task is to restore the lost position and prevent the abandonment of positions and the flight of units of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade.

My comment from about the fighting on the Luhansk front

The situation in the last two weeks after the fall of Krasny Liman on September 30 is better than expected. The Ukrainian forces had, as expected, logistical problems to fuel the battle and literally to feed their troops on the other side of the Oskol River, although the river line has been lost, and specifically the obstacle that the reservoir represented, the Russians today still retain positions east of Kupyansk which allows to have the bridge under artillery fire, which limits the flow of troops and supplies to the passage through two bridges: the provisional bridge south of the Oskol, where the dam destroyed, and I guess the Borovaya, as well as pontoon bridges over the ford south of Kupyansk.

The casualties suffered in the battle for Krasny Liman and in the fighting in the rest of the points where the Oskol and Seversky Donetsk rivers were forced to pass must have been considerable, going from 10,000 or 25% of the force that began the Balakleya-Izyum-Lyman offensive, this, with the disorganization and supply difficulties, in addition to the devastating loss of command and control communications when the communication of the Star Link satellites failed, due to Russian interference or another reason, have prevented the Ukrainian army could take advantage of its numerical advantage, at least 4 to 1, maintained despite the casualties thanks to the arrival of reserves from Kharkov and Kiev. They could not prevent the retreat of the defenders of Krasny Liman or attack the new Russian line before it became solid. They have not yet managed to drive the Russians out of the vicinity of Kupyansk, and have even lost some ground in Russian counterattacks towards Liman.

On the negative side, the Ukrainians have in this sector a good number of artillery pieces. It is the only sector, apart from the central front, where Rybar in his report of shelling on the night of October 12-13 mentions intense shelling by the Ukrainian side along the entire front, answered by the Russians.

Fortunately, the Ukrainians wasted a large part of their heavy artillery rockets and missiles in a futile attempt of retaliatory bombing against the city Belgorod, in a single day a hundred missiles and rockets were shot down by the anti-aircraft defense..

Meanwhile reinforcements have arrived and precious time has been gained to form a second line of defense on the Zherebets River, approximately the Kupyansk-Svatovo-Kremenaya -Severodonetsk line.

With the use of engineers' machines, pits reinforced with "dragon's teeth", concrete tetrahedra, anti-tank obstacle, and undoubtedly minefields have been dug along this line.

They are not insurmountable obstacles, of course, but it prevents the Ukrainians from repeating their maneuvers during the offensive, from taking advantage of their numerical superiority to surround the islets or hedgehogs of resistance and look for poorly defended areas through which to advance and penetrate to the rear with their light armored vehicles and pickup trucks.

South of the Seversky Donets River the situation remains worrying. Despite strong counterattacks, it has not been possible to recover the ruins of Spornoye, because the enemy does not stop sending reinforcements, it seems that the position has had to change hands a couple of times, and the Ukrainians are still pressing at this point towards the Lysichansk oil refinery, when writing this report there was fierce fighting in this sector of the city.

https://www.1tv.ru/news/2022-10-13/439563-soyuznye_sily_dayut_otpor_ukrainskim_boevikam_pod_lisichanskom

Finding:

North Front:

stabilized after the fall of Liman and consolidated the second line, despite the fact that the enemy is making a great effort albeit late to renew the offensive.

Donbass salient:

the siege of Artemovsk continues, where the two bastions that protected it from the south have already fallen. On the negative, the enemy attacks towards Lisichansk and no matter how many times Maryinka changes hands, the enemy always manages to retain part of the ruins.

Central Front:

A third and the most important major offensive is expected to try to capture the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is even more important for the Kiev regime now after the attacks on the power grid.

The attacks on the northern and southern fronts are secondary. I am talking about a third offensive because the first in Kherson was a failure, not counting the Russian withdrawal in the Krivoy Rog sector, the second in Kharkov (Balakleya-Izyum) was a more apparent than real success. The Ukrainian army has managed to gain some ground at the cost of thirty thousand casualties but no tactical or strategic objectives.

South Front:

The crisis produced in the Krivoy Rog sector has stabilized after the shortening of the front. It is even managed to maintain fire control over the crucial Davidov Ford. In Kherson, civilians are being evacuated from the city in order to avoid casualties and alleviate supply problems. The reinforcements of the first mobilized arrive.

RF Lancet kamikaze drones on Ukrainian troops


Failed attack of Ukrainian troops at Davydov Ford on October 9


RF artillery engages Ukrainian M777 battery


Ukrainians keep returning to destroyed gas station to be re-engaged by allied troops


^ location seems fammiliar?. because it is.
Yes, let that sink in how many Ukrainians died defending that indefensible position.
earlier:

The lancet drone explosions look weak to me. They are accurate but need more energy intense (not heavier) explosive. Maybe
some nanoparticle "catalyst" explosives could be used to increase the explosive yield.

calripson wrote:

kvs wrote:The lancet drone explosions look weak to me.   They are accurate but need more energy intense (not heavier) explosive.   Maybe
some nanoparticle "catalyst" explosives could be used to increase the explosive yield.  

Explosions look weak with enemy personnel surviving the attacks and the speed of the drone is slow, coupled with its shape this allows for early recognition and evasion on the part of enemy personnel. Several hits also seem to be wide of the mark. Frankly, it looks distinctly inferior to the Iranian drones being used.

That is clear, the Iranian drones have dart shapes optimized for diving. These lancet drones are regular RC aircraft which are slow. I am not
impressed with the designers. If it is intended as a suicide drone and not just repurposed, then they need to design it accordingly.