Украйны ерөнхийлөгч Владимир Зеленский тийрэлтэт хөдөлгүүртэй, өндөр хурдны Shahed дроныг устгах чадалтай дотоодын үйлдвэрлэлийн шинэ зэвсэг амжилттай туршигдсаныг мэдэгдэв.
Украйны арми ОХУ-ын ашиглаж буй 400 км/цагаас дээш хурдтай нисдэг тийрэлтэт хөдөлгүүртэй дронуудтай тэмцэх шинэ арга замыг идэвхтэй эрэлхийлж байна. Ерөнхийлөгч Владимир Зеленскийн мэдээлснээр, Украины дотоодын үйлдвэрлэлийн шинэ зэвсэг нь нисгэгчгүй онгоцыг устгаж чадсан бөгөөд одоогоор техникийн нарийн тохируулгуудыг хийж байгаа аж. Украины агаарын цэргийн хүчин дроны өртгөөс хямд өртөгтэй, удирдлагатай пуужингийн шинэ үеийг бүтээхээр 60 гаруй компанитай хамтран ажиллаж байна.
Газар дээрх цэргийн ажиллагааны хувьд Украины 3-р армийн корпус Лиман хотын ойролцоо “Vivaldi” нэртэй сөрөг довтолгоог эхлүүлж, 75 хавтгай дөрвөлжин км талбайг Оросын хүчнээс чөлөөлсөн гэж мэдэгдлээ. Үүний зэрэгцээ ОХУ-ын зүгээс Одесса боомт, Запорожье, Киев, Славянск, Краматорск зэрэг хотуудад агаараас цохилт өгсний улмаас энгийн иргэд амиа алдаж, дэд бүтэц сүйдэв. Хариуд нь Украйн улс ОХУ-ын Сызрань хот дахь газрын тос боловсруулах үйлдвэр болон дрон үйлдвэрлэх байгууламжуудад цохилт өгснөө зарлалаа.
Дипломат болон улс төрийн түвшинд ОХУ-ын Гадаад хэргийн сайд Сергей Лавров яриа хэлэлцээ өрнөж байх үед ч байлдааны ажиллагааг зогсоохгүй гэдгээ мэдэгдсэн байна. Мөн есдүгээр сарын 14-ний даваа гарагт Владимир Зеленскийг Молдав улсад байх үед Оросын дронууд тус улсын агаарын орон зайд нэвтэрсэн тохиолдол гарчээ. Дотоод улс төрийн хувьд Украины парламент авлигын дуулианд нэр холбогдсон Ерөнхий прокурор Руслан Кравченког огцруулах шийдвэрийг олонхын саналаар баталсан байна.
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“Today, there is good news about interceptors against jet-powered Shaheds,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his Tuesday evening address as he spoke about efforts to counter newer, faster Russian suicide drones. A new interceptor managed to shoot one down, Zelenskyy said, without giving further details. “It’s a Ukrainian development and it scored a hit, the Shahed was destroyed.” He added: “Some technical things still need to be refined.” Ukraine’s military said its forces downed 187 airborne targets overnight into Tuesday – Zelenskyy said “of course more is needed”.
Ukraine has struggled to develop interceptors for the jet-engined Shahed drones that Russia has started using, which can go faster than 400km/h. Previously, Shaheds were all propeller-driven and half as fast. Reuters reports that tests of interceptors have been hampered by the high speeds involved. “With the jet drones, we completely screwed up the initiative again, that’s a fact … we don’t even know what to do about them,” Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of the 3rd Army Corps, posted on Friday.
Zelenskyy has said more than 60 Ukrainian companies are working on interceptors for jet-powered drones but only a handful have demonstrated results. Yuriy Cherevashenko, a deputy commander of Ukraine’s air force, said one solution being tested was a new generation of cheap guided missiles – engineered to cost less than the drones they shoot down. “I’m confident that soon we could fully have a class of weapons that will be effective at countering jet-powered UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles],” Cherevashenko said.
A Ukrainian army unit has launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces near Lyman in Ukraine’s east, the unit’s commander said on Tuesday. Ukrainian units have cleared Russian infiltrators from an area of “about 75 square kilometres”, said Andriy Biletsky. “The 3rd Army Corps has launched an offensive operation called Vivaldi in this sector,” Biletsky said. The battlefield mappers DeepState showed Ukrainian troops had made a small pocket of gains north of Lyman.
The reported gains in the Donetsk region would add to Ukraine’s push earlier this year in the south-east, where Kyiv said it clawed back more than 700 sq km of territory during a months-long counterattack. A week ago, war analysts said the same corps had recaptured a “salient” – a protrusion of Russian-occupied land hemmed by Ukrainian-held territory – of more than 200 square kilometres near Lyman.
Russia attacked port infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern Black Sea region of Odesa overnight, the regional governor said on Tuesday. Residential buildings, logistics facilities and transport infrastructure came under attack, said Oleh Kiper. A Russian drone attack killed one person and knocked out power in parts of the city of Zaporizhzhia in south-east Ukraine, said the acting regional governor, Mykhailo Semikin, said.
Russian strikes on Kyiv killed one person and wounded seven other people on Tuesday, with attacks carried out on the capital’s petrol stations, Ukraine’s state emergency service said. Two more people were killed in separate Russian strikes in the Ukrainian cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
Ukraine struck an oil refinery in the Russian city of Syzran, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday. He also reported a strike on a drone production facility in the Russian city of Taganrog, and on a drone preparation and launch site in the Oryol region. Unnamed targets were hit in the Black Sea, he said.
Zelenskyy said Russian drones attacked Moldovan airspace twice while he was in the country on board his aircraft at Chisinau airport headed to and from a trip abroad. “In Moldova, my presidential jet was there and that’s why they attacked Moldova, the airspace of Moldova. Maybe they didn’t want to attack me personally,” Zelenskyy told CBS. “When we came back home, again through Chisinau, again they did the same.” Moldovan authorities said two drones entered the country’s airspace on Monday 14 September. One came down in a field and the other flew off into Romania. Initially reports that Zelenskyy’s plane was almost hit were later played down.
Russia will not stop fighting in Ukraine while any potential talks take place, its foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Tuesday. Ukraine has repeatedly said that a ceasefire should be the starting point for the talks.
Ukrainian lawmakers approved Zelenskyy’s sacking of the prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, who resigned amid a corruption scandal in his agency but then appeared to attempt a challenge against anti-corruption agencies. The vote was supported by 317 lawmakers, with 226 needed for a majority. None voted against.
