re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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???????? Situation on Zaporizhzhya direction
as of 3 p.m. Kyiv Time on October 6, 2022.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction the AFU are continuing to accumulate personnel and military equipment for an offensive.

The command of the AFU 65th separate mechanized brigade carried out rotation of personnel at the front line. Another convoy with armored vehicles arrived from Volnyansk station to staff the Dnieper Group of Forces.

Ukrainian formations still intend to conduct an offensive against Russian positions in the Orikhiv and Huliaipole sectors to cut the front line and possibly reach Melitopol and Berdyansk.

For the last few days UAVs of the AFU 44th Artillery Brigade have been actively searching for rear supply facilities of Russian Armed Forces, as well as their air defense systems. Pro-Ukrainian citizens of the Zaporizhzhya region have been assisting them in this effort.

The enemy command pays special attention to counter-battery warfare. There are AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-50 radars in the vicinity of Stepnohirsk and Maly Shcherbaki, which are integrated into a common control and communication network between units.

??Ukrainian leadership, on the wave of success in Kharkiv region and Kryvyi Rih, intends to implement a similar scenario in Zaporizhzhya: strike in several directions at the most vulnerable places, and then throw mobile groups and wedge them into the defensive lines.

Ukrainian recon groups have been actively probing the Russian defense in various parts of the front. Recon UAVs including Bayraktars have been surveilling the line of contact. First and foremost, the AFU are trying to take out anti-aircraft missile systems and ammunition depots.

A tactical landing from the right bank of the Dnieper, where AFU are entrenched, cannot be ruled out. With a full-scale assault in the Zaporizhzhia direction, a landing would open the rear of the Russian grouping in Enerhodar, and gain operational space towards Melitopol.

AFU command gave orders to set up mine barriers and establish strongholds. Ukrainian formations anticipate a potential failure of their plan and are preparing troops to defend Zaporizhzhya city in case of a counterattack by the Russian Armed Forces.

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