UKRaine Repels New RUssian Onslaught on Eastern Front; UKR’s ATACMS Strike on Berdiansk Airfield Likely to Reduce RU’s Military Capabilities in the Area; UKR Repels 70+ RU Attacks in 7 sectors; UKR Forces kill Astonishing Number of RU Soldiers in 24hrs, LIVE UPDATES and MORE
Ukraine repels new Russian onslaught on eastern front, Zelenskiy says:
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukrainian forces had repelled a new Russian onslaught on the eastern town of Avdiivka and were holding their ground in heavy fighting.
Zelenskiy and top military commanders visited the southern region of Kherson, where they discussed the situation there and around Avdiivka and Kupiansk, a town north of Avdiivka where Russian forces have also intensified attacks.
“Thanks to all our boys, who powerfully hold the defence and destroy the occupier day after day,” Zelenskiy said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app.
“These days, the Russian losses are really staggering, and it is precisely losses by the occupier that Ukraine needs.”
Zelenskiy’s office said Russia’s assault on Avdiivka had resulted in “record losses” of personnel and equipment, but gave no further details of the extent of the losses.
Reuters was unable to verify the battlefield situation.
Moscow has presented the situation around Avdiivka as more favourable for its forces, and each side has exaggerated the other’s losses since Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
The Ukrainian military said fighting was raging along the front line, with about 90 combat clashes in the past 24 hours. That compares with an average of about 60 daily clashes a week ago.
General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, heading Ukraine’s operations in the south, reported heavy attacks from both sides, with his forces conducting 1,500 firing missions in 24 hours. He provided no data for Ukraine’s losses but said Russia lost 1,051 people, 143 pieces of military equipment and one ammunition depot. —>READ MORE HERE
UK Defense Ministry: ATACMS strike on Berdiansk airfield likely to reduce Russia’s military capabilities in the area:
Russia’s loss of several combat helicopters as a result of a Ukrainian ATACMS strike on an airfield in occupied Berdiansk will likely negatively affect Russian defensive and offensive operations on this axis, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported on Oct. 20.
“Given that Russian fixed-wing close air support to date has been extremely poor, Russian defensive lines have become increasingly reliant on rotary-wing support in the face of the Ukrainian offensive,” the ministry explained.
Ukrainian forces used U.S.-supplied Army Tactical Missiles Systems (ATACMS) for the first time on Oct. 17 to strike Russian military airfields in occupied Berdiansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Luhansk.
According to the U.K. Defense Ministry, the strikes possibly damaged nine Russian military helicopters in Berdiansk and five more in Luhansk, but the extent of damage is still unconfirmed.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces earlier said that a total of nine helicopters were damaged in the attacks, as well as an air defense system, an ammunition warehouse, the airfields’ runways, and “special equipment” stored at the premises.
If confirmed, the loss of any aircraft will be hard to replace in the short to medium term, considering the current load on the Russian military production, the ministry wrote in its latest intelligence update. —>READ MORE HERE
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