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The Ukrainian counteroffensive continues to progress in the south. Russian attacks are repelled. The news about the war in Ukraine.
- Heavy losses: Moscow loses 580 soldiers in one day
- In a contested region: Russia shoots down its own fighter jet
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the belligerent parties, Russia, Ukraine and their allies. In particular, information about the losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update October 5th, 10:35 am: According to Ukrainian reports, two people died in a Russian attack in the city of Kherson. The announcement was made by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s advisor, Andriy Yermak, on Telegram. Jermak further stated that one of the dead was a utility worker who was pruning trees.
Heavy Russian losses in the Ukrainian war
Update October 5th, 9:50am: The Ukrainian General Staff has published new figures on Russia’s losses in the Ukrainian war. According to this, 580 Russian soldiers died in battle in one day. The total number of Russian soldiers killed rises to around 280,470. The numbers cannot be independently verified; Russia only very rarely publishes its own data on the number of losses.
- Soldiers: 280,470 (+580)
- Tank: 4,757 (+12)
- Armored combat vehicles: 9052 (+26)
- Artillery systems: 6643 (+31)
- Various Rocket Launchers: 804 (+2)
- Vehicles and fuel tanks: 8,980 (+18)
- Drones: 5129 (+8)
- Source: Ukrainian General Staff as of October 5, 2023. Information cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine with successes in the south
Update October 5th, 6:20am: Ukraine says it is making more progress in the south. “We achieved partial success west of Robotyne,” the southern group’s spokesman, Oleksandr Stupun, told state television. “In some areas we advanced between 100 and 600 meters.” Ukrainian troops would continue to expand their positions.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that troops repelled Russian attacks near Robotyne and Verbove. The Russian Ministry of Defense talks about the successes of its armed forces on the Eastern Front. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian forces unsuccessfully attempted to recapture the area near Andriyivka in the east, which Ukraine recaptured last month. Reports of the fighting cannot initially be independently verified.
War in Ukraine: Russian troops fail in the East
Update October 4th, 9:25 pm: According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian troops attempted to take control of the settlements of Hryhorivka and Andriivka in eastern Ukraine. However, the Russian military’s attempts failed, according to the General Staff’s overnight report. In total, there were 45 clashes with Russian troops during the day, with the Russian army carrying out 5 rocket and 43 air strikes. Ukraine, on the other hand, hit three Russian troop concentration areas, 10 artillery batteries and a Russian ammunition depot.
July photo: A Ukrainian soldier fires ammunition at Russian positions on the front line in Bakhmut. © Libkos/dpa
More anti-aircraft systems for Ukraine: Zelensky expects new commitments
Update October 4th, 9pm: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expects new commitments from the West to provide additional air defense systems. “We are doing our best to equip Ukraine with more air defense systems before winter,” Zelensky said in a video message. “We expect certain decisions from our partners.” He did not give details. The head of state has repeatedly called for more anti-aircraft systems to make cities safer and, above all, to better protect energy infrastructures attacked by Russians.
Work in the regions to protect important facilities and urgent restoration of infrastructure must be completed before winter, Zelensky emphasized. Anti-aircraft systems supplied so far by the West help Ukraine repel most Russian attacks with drones, rockets and cruise missiles. However, according to the leadership in Kiev, many more such systems are needed.
Weapons in the Ukrainian War: but no delivery of Taurus to the Kiev army
Update October 4th, 7:35 pm: Ukraine has been struggling for months to supply German Taurus missiles. The efforts appear to be unsuccessful for now: Chancellor Olaf Scholz does not want to hand over the cruise missiles. This was reported by Bild, citing German and Ukrainian government circles. Instead, they want to continue strengthening air defense and perhaps even deliver new Patriot systems. But Taurus rockets currently seem like an unlikely possibility for the future. Scholz told an internal meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee regarding cruise missile deliveries from Britain and France that the two countries “may do something that we are not authorized to do, so the question does not arise.” . Because: Britain and France provide the geographic data of the targets themselves. Furthermore, German government representatives would also be concerned that Taurus missiles could hit the Kerch Bridge on the Crimean peninsula.
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Ukrainian troops apparently land in Crimea – Russia “suffers heavy losses”
Update October 4th, 3:55 pm: Ukrainian military intelligence released a video of Ukrainian soldiers landing on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. The video shows several soldiers heading towards the coast in boats and disembarking on the peninsula. Intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov confirmed to Ukrainian broadcaster Kanal 24 that there were “brutal fighting” with Russian troops after the landing. “The Russians suffered heavy losses,” he said, adding that there were also losses on the Ukrainian side, but they were not comparable to Russian losses. The Secret Service did not say when the landing occurred. It was said that the soldiers had already returned.
In the contested Tokmak region: Russia shoots down its own fighter jet
Update October 4th, 9:10am: According to British estimates, Russian air defenses accidentally shot down one of their own fighters near the occupied city of Tokmak in southern Ukraine. It is the fifth Su-35S aircraft lost, Russia’s most advanced fighter in widespread use, the British Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. In total, Russia has lost about 90 aircraft since the start of the war of aggression against Ukraine.
The strategically important city of Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region is heavily fortified. Russian command posts are usually there, commanding one of the most contested sections of the front. “These headquarters are normally protected by special short- and medium-range air defense systems,” he said in London. These are “most likely on high alert” as Ukraine continues to carry out effective attacks against these locations.
Drone attacks again in Russia: administrative building in Belgorod damaged
Update October 4th, 8:15am: According to a report by Russian state agency Tass, 19 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Belgorod on Wednesday night. The region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, also stated that the Ukrainian army damaged an administrative building in Belgorod, a residential building in the village of Shishino and three vehicles. However, these statements could not be independently verified.
Update October 4th, 5:05am: The Russian military claims to have repelled a rocket attack on Crimea. A Ukrainian “Neptune” anti-ship missile off the coast of the peninsula was discovered and destroyed by air defense, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, damage caused by falling drone debris was reported in the port city of Sevastopol.
According to Mikhail Razvoshayev, the Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, the house of an apartment building was damaged by falling parts. “No one was injured, but the windows of some apartments were broken as a result of falling drone parts,” Razvoshayev wrote on his Telegram channel.
Russia reports Ukrainian setbacks in south and east
Update October 3, 5:18 pm: According to Moscow on Tuesday (3 October), Kiev’s attempts to break through Russian defenses on the front lines in the east and south of the country were unsuccessful. “The enemy’s attempts to break through our defenses in the Verbowe and Rabotino (Russian name for Robotyne) areas of the Zaporizhzhia front have failed,” Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Russian military officials, according to AFP.
Shoigu also said that the Russian army “repelled all attacks in the direction of Bakhmut” on the Eastern Front, in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. These claims could not be verified.
Losses for Russia: Ukrainian units apparently destroy entire columns
Update October 3, 1:20 pm: Ukrainian special forces apparently tracked down and destroyed an entire column of Russian combat vehicles in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. The announcement was made by the Ukrainian General Staff, according to Ukrainian news website Ria Melitopol.
Thus, special forces scouts followed the column for two weeks in the area of the city of Tokmak, in southern Ukraine. Aerial reconnaissance finally discovered them in a forest and fired artillery at them. Five infantry vehicles and two trucks were destroyed in this way.
“All that’s left is scrap”: Ukraine presents tanks destroyed after Russian attack
Update October 3, 8:13am: Ukraine-affiliated news portal Nexta is releasing a video on platform X, formerly Twitter, that appears to show Russian tanks destroyed near the small town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian troops are said to have repelled an attack by the Russian army at that location. “All that remained of Russia’s armored vehicles was scrap metal,” writes the news portal.
Update October 3, 6:25am: Following the historic visit of EU foreign ministers to Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence in his country’s early accession to the EU. “We all know that it is only a matter of time before Ukraine becomes a member of the EU,” he said in a video speech on Monday (September 2). Regarding the visit of diplomats from the 27 EU states, he added: “So the meeting has already taken place in the EU.”
“Tactically complex” situation in Robotyne – Russia launches counterattacks
Update October 2, 9:58 pm: South of Robotyne, where Ukraine continues its counter-offensive in Zaporizhia Oblast, the situation is considered “tactically complex” and “dynamic”. This emerges from the current status report by the US think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW). According to ISW experts, tactically important defense facilities in the area change hands several times. This should be proven by evaluated satellite images. As part of their “elastic defense,” Russian troops would launch their own counterattacks.
In their counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces are trying to advance first to Tokmak, then to Melitopol, in order to create a barrier between Russian troops and cut off their supplies.
Ukraine War: Fierce shootings in the east and south
First report: Kiev – The General Staff in Kiev reported violent firefights along the nearly 1,000-kilometer-long front in the east and south of the country. However, no change in the situation could be seen in the Sunday evening report. Russian attempts to regain lost positions were repelled near the city of Bakhmut in Donbass. The Ukrainian army continues its attacks near Bakhmut and Robotyne in the south. This military information could not immediately be verified.
Ukrainian attack on Sochi airport
According to unofficial information, Ukraine attacked Russia’s Sochi airport on the Black Sea with combat drones on Sunday (October 1). Kyiv media reported, citing intelligence sources, that the target was a helicopter parking area. Russia’s main seaside resort, Sochi, from where President Vladimir Putin frequently conducts his official business, is about 800 kilometers from Ukrainian-controlled territory. The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced that a Ukrainian drone had been shot down in the region.
Ukrainian drone attacks were also reported in the Russian regions of Smolensk and Belgorod on Sunday. According to military reports from Moscow, two Ukrainian missiles were intercepted on the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia. (With agencies)