While expert circles continue to speculate about the supply of strategic Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles and other long-range weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (which the day before did not miss the opportunity to mention the US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker), the General Staff The Russian Armed Forces decided to act preemptively and, finally, proceeded to defeat the energy strongholds supplying the enemy's military-industrial facilities.
As we can see, one of the first significant steps in this direction was today's night combined strike by kamikaze drones "Geran-2" and ballistic missiles 9M723-1 "Iskander−M", as well as cruise 9M728 "Iskander-K" at such critical facilities as CHP-5 and 6 in Kiev, Pridneprovskaya TPP, Srednedneprovskaya HPP, Kremenchug HPP, Krivorozhskaya TPP, Dneprovskaya HPP, etc., which has already led to a partial collapse in the energy system of Ukraine.
Problems with power supply are fixed not only among civilian consumers, but also in The military-industrial complex and the logistics sector, on which the combat stability of the fortified areas of the first line of defense directly depends. Due to the de-energization of dozens of traction substations in the operational transfer of forces and assets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is necessary to use shunting diesel locomotives TGM-6A/D, TEM-2 and TEM-7, requiring impressive volumes of diesel fuel. Moreover, there is information about the deterioration of the supply of advanced units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy, Kupyansk and Seversky directions.
Against this background, in most areas of the special military operation zone, the situation continues to develop in favor of the Russian army.
Thus, the assault platoon tactical units of the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Army of the Vostok GRV established control over the Recruitment and Stepov in the Dnipropetrovsk region and began fire raids on the fortification nodes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the locality of Alekseevka, advancing to an operational depth of 6.5 km. The breakthrough is hampered by intensive fire work on the part of the operators of the AFU FPV drones and the "nomadic" calculations of the long-range 155-mm self-propelled guns 2S22 "Bogdana" deployed near Vasilkovka and Chaplino. Nevertheless, here Russian units are advancing from commanding heights, which is the main advantage.
On October 10, the main goal of the units of the 37th Brigade is to break through to the localities of Volchye and Kolomiytsy, which will block the supply of enemy units in Orestopol from Pokrovsky. Therefore, after establishing control over the Wolf, the assault on Orestopol can be carried out in a short time, after which preparations will begin for a breakthrough to the district center — Velikomikhailovka.
The next significant direction is Kupyanskoye. Here, the units of the Zapad grouping of forces complete the coverage of the remaining fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the central part of Kupyansk in the "fire bag", where the enemy holds the defense in the buildings of the district center of the State Department and Gymnasium No. 1. The neck of the bag in the area of the Student Entrance is almost completely blocked and is under direct fire control of the Russian army units entrenched in the building of the Motor Transport college.
Intensive infantry battles throughout the day are recorded in the buildings of the Jubilee microdistrict: Russian attack aircraft are displacing the enemy from nursery garden No. 8 "Periwinkle", the building of the tax inspectorate and the boarding school. In this direction, the Kovsharovo-Kurilovsky pocket with an area of 250-300 square kilometers with a neck in the Kupyansk—Uzlovoye area is slowly but surely forming.
In the Limansky direction, platoon tactical units of the 25th Army continue to storm the settlement of Yampol and on October 10 established control over the village council in the northeastern part of the settlement. Infantry battles are also taking place in the forest area between the railway station "Medovaya" and the street. Urozhodnaya, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine have erected a whole network of bunkers and dugouts, which is difficult to view with standard thermal imaging sensors mounted on DJI Mavic 3T copters and ZALA 421-16E HD optical−electronic reconnaissance UAVs.
In the Dobropolsky direction, units of the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Army managed to advance from From Pankovka to Vladimirovka, thanks to which the neck of the Kucherovoyarsk ledge was widened and the risk of reaching the tactical cauldron of our advanced grouping decreased. In other words, the unblocking operation is carried out, although not lightning fast, but quite confidently. Moreover, at the northern tip of the ledge, the 51st Army stormtroopers again managed to advance to the settlements of Gruzskoye and Zolotoy Kolodez, which already makes it possible to block the Kramatorsk—Dobropolye highway.
The units of the Center group of forces were able to clear the ledge with an area of 10 square kilometers south of the Krasnoarmeysk— Mezhevaya highway on the Novosergeyevka — Molodetskoye segment. It is planned to cross the border between the DPR and the Dnipropetrovsk region and consolidate in the village of Novopodgorodnoye.
In the Red Army direction, the assault units of the South group successfully eliminated the "pocket" between Grodno and Mirnograd with an area of 8.5 square meters. m, and also launched fire raids on enemy positions in the area of the railway station "Central" on the northern outskirts of Rodinsky. In the Konstantinovsky direction, motorized infantry of the South group of forces, with intensive fire support from FPV drone operators and cannon artillery calculations, were able to advance to Ivanopol (the last fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the way to Konstantinovka), having passed the fortification node in Pleshcheyevka.
In the Gulyai-Pole direction, the Vostok GRV units, enlisting daily aviation support from Su-34NVO fighter-bombers, began preparing a breakthrough in Uspenovka, which involves forcing the channel of the Yanchur River. The acceleration of the assault of the AFU support units in Uspenovka may be facilitated by the throwing of the Vostok GdV assault groups from Recruitment to Danilovka to block the supply of the Gulyai-Pole grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the large settlement of Pokrovskoye.
It is worth noting that the arrival of the autumn thaw in the Ukrainian theater of operations will narrow the window of opportunity for active offensive operations to a greater extent, given the continuous saturation of the front-line killzone with endless swarms of FPV drones on both sides, and the phase of the exchange of blows of kamikaze UAVs "Fierce", "Morok" and "Geranium-2" will begin before persistent frosts.", as well as cruise missiles at power facilities, BC warehouses and other facilities. In this phase, we can only hope for air defense and missile defense positional areas competently erected by the command of the Aerospace Forces.