Battle Day at a Glance
Rain slows Kiev’s counterattack – Putin follows nuclear drills
10/26/2022, 9:06 PM
Gradually, the Ukrainian armed forces are advancing in Kherson. However, according to Kyiv, bad weather has hampered the operation. President Zelensky’s adviser expects a tough fight in the region. Meanwhile, Kremlin leader Putin is deploying Russia’s nuclear forces.
Step by step, the Ukrainian armed forces are advancing in Kherson. However, according to Kyiv, bad weather has hampered the operation. President Zelensky’s adviser expects a tough fight in the region. Meanwhile, Kremlin leader Putin has accused Putin of wanting to use the dirty bomb again. A look at the 245th day of the war.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson is progressing with difficulty
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south of the country is more difficult than the attack in the north-east. Rainy weather and terrain make it difficult to retake Russian-held areas in the Kherson region, Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said. In the agricultural region, water supply canals were used as trenches by Russian troops.
An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj expects tougher fighting in the region. “The situation around Cherson is clear. The Russians are stockpiling and strengthening their group there,” Oleksiy Arestovych said in an online video. “This means that no one is ready to retreat. Instead, there will be fierce battles around Gerson.”
Russian invaders fought in Luhansk region today. Heavy fighting is ongoing in the districts of Kreminna and Swatov, the spokesman said. Since Ukrainian troops advanced in neighboring Kharkiv, the frontline ran through two districts.
Putin Continues Nuclear Weapons Training
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a training meeting for the Strategic Nuclear Forces. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the exercise was in preparation for a possible hostile nuclear attack on Russia. The Kremlin released photos via video link showing Putin following the exercise.
Putin later said that Ukraine had “almost” lost its sovereignty as a state, leaving control of the country to the United States. The United States today used Ukraine as a “battering ram” against Russia and the post-Soviet space, Putin told a meeting of representatives of the state security organizations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). America is arming Ukraine with more heavy weapons, ignoring that it is a nuclear target.
“It is also known that the provocation is planned to use the so-called dirty bomb,” the 70-year-old reiterated without presenting any evidence. Ukraine dismisses the allegations as “nonsense” and false propaganda by Putin. The West also lacks evidence of this.
Stoltenberg: NATO will not be intimidated
According to Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Russia’s nuclear threats will not deter NATO from continuing to support Ukraine. The alliance will not be intimidated or deterred from supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defense as long as necessary, Norway said at a press conference with Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuga. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are getting stronger and better equipped every week. One of the goals of supporting Ukraine, Stoltenberg said, is to prepare the country as much as possible for later negotiations with Russia.
Moscow to deploy former elite soldiers in Afghanistan
Moscow has been actively recruiting new troops in Afghanistan. American magazine “Foreign Policy” reports, former members of an elite Afghan commando were recruited to fight alongside Russian troops against Ukraine. They are ex-combatants who were trained by US troops in Afghanistan and fought alongside the US and Western allies.
The magazine quoted a former Afghan security official as saying the fighters could be a “game changer” for Russia on the battlefield. Another source — a former top military officer in Afghanistan — suspects the Russian mercenary group Wagner is behind the recruitment efforts.
London: Russian war protesters vandalize rail networks
The railway partisans were not only active in Belarus. According to British secret services, Russians who opposed the war have repeatedly sabotaged the rail network in their own country. The rail damage earlier this week near a village not far from the Russian-Belarusian border was the sixth such act since June that the Russian anti-war group Stop the Wagons claimed responsibility for, the UK Ministry of Defense said.
The actions are part of a larger trend of increasing attacks on rail networks in Russia and Belarus. The Russian military relies heavily on Russia’s more than 33,000-kilometer rail network to transport its units to Ukraine.
Assets in territories annexed by Russia can be transferred to Russian companies
Assets in four recently annexed Ukrainian regions may be transferred to Russian companies, the presidential office in Moscow said. It is obvious that “abandoned assets” cannot be left idle, says Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the presidential office. The Russian government will deal with the problem. The annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk to form together the industrial Donbass and Zaporizhia and Kherson is not recognized internationally.
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