War Zone

Russia – Ukraine war updates: daily briefings as of October 8, 2019

Russia – Ukraine war updates from the war zone in southeast Ukraine as of October 8, 2019 by Joint forces operation HQ data: EMPR highlights.

(1) Russian hybrid forces increased to 27 the number of attacks in the war zone in eastern Ukraine for the last 24 hours. The enemy continue to use forbidden hard weaponry against Ukrainian troops. To this end, Russian troops 2 times opened fire with grenade and small arms in the area of potential withdrawal of the Ukraine’s Armed Forces units in the settlement of Zolote.

(2) Russian Roxies launched 13 attacks with the following types of arms in the East area:

forbidden 120-mm mortar launchers - near Chermalyk (2 times),

forbidden 82-mm mortar launchers - near Chermalyk (2 times),

easel anti-tank grenade launchers – near Pisky,

manual anti-tank grenade launchers - near Vodyane (4 times), Pavlopil and Novotroytske,

automatic grenade launchers – near Chermalyk,

grenade launchers of different systems – near Talakyvka,

small arms – near Novotroytske, Taramchuk, Pishchevyk, Chermalyk, Talakyvka, Vodyane, Opytne and Pisky.

(3) Russian occupies launched 14 attacks in the North area with the use of the following types of arms:

forbidden 120-mm mortar launchers - near Novoluhanske (3 times),

forbidden 82-mm mortar launchers - near Novoluhanske (3 times), Travneve, Gladosove and Hutyr Vilnuy,

grenade launchers of different systems – near Novgorodske (2 times), Krymske (2 times), Popasna, Luhanske and Zolote (2 times),