CSTO mission begins its work in Armenia

1 Ukraine On 16th of September the Ukrainian forces launched a missile attack on the building of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region. The total number of casualties is still unknown. The local authorities reported that there were no casualties among the officials. The head of the local civil-military administration, Sergei Eliseev, wasn’t injured. Most of the casualties were random civilians — the civil-military administration reported. The local authorities added that the missile attack was a «planned terrorist act, organized by the political-military leadership of Ukraine». A similar attack took place in the LPR as well. The head of the LPR’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Sergei Gorenko, died during an explosion in the building. His deputy, Ekaterina Steglenko, died as well — an assistant of the Minister of the Interior Affairs of the LPR, Vitaly Kiselev, reported. The explosion in the building, located in the city center, took place at noon. The police blocked the area of the event. Emergency and rescue services are working on site.

2 Kyrgyzstan — Tajikistan The presidents of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Sadyr Japarov and Emomali Rahmon, agreed to pull the servicemen away from the borderline. The parties agreed that the chairman of the State Committee for the National Security of Kyrgyzstan, Kamchibek Tashiev, and his Tajik counterpart, Saimumin Yatimov, will work in the area. A commission will be set up to investigate the circumstances and the cause of the incident. The clashes on the border of the two countries began on the morning of 16th of September. The parties accuse each other of shelling. Bishkek reported about 42 victims. Dushanbe reported about 1 dead serviceman and 3 wounded. According to the ’’Sputnik-Kyrgyzstan’’ news agency — 15-years-old Elzada Mannanova, from the village of Dostuk, died from a shrapnel wound during the shelling. Such conflicts on the borderline take place because both countries have yet to finish the delimitation and demarcation of some sections.

3 The Special Military Operation The Russian forces destroyed an HQ and a training base of a Ukrainian separate special operations center «South», located near the town of Ochakov — Igor Konashenkov reported. The Russian air forces carried out precision air strikes against the positions of the 28th Ukrainian Motorized Infantry Brigade, located near the city of Nikolaev. The positions of the Ukrainian 66th Mechanized Brigade, located near the towns of Dvurechnaya and Kupyansky, in the Kharkov region, and also the positions of the Ukrainian Nationalistic Battalion ’Kraken’, in the city of Kharkov, were hit. Positions of the 80th Ukrainian Air Assault Brigade, stationed near the town of Seversk, in the DPR, are under fire. The deputy head of the Kherson administration, Kirill Stremousov, reported that some Ukrainian forces are tactically surrounded. «The water level of the river Ingulets went up. It has disrupted the crossings, built by the Ukrainian forces from the right bank to the left bank of the river, near the borders of the Kherson region. They are left without supplies, and they are currently in a tactical encirclement. They are pressed against the river, and they are in a distress» — he concluded.

4 Oman Training of the Oman Special Forces has ended in Oman. The training was done together with the Egyptian Special Forces — the official Omani news agency, ONA, reported on 16th of September. The training was held in the province of Jabal al-Adhar, from 4th till 15th of September. The training was aimed at gaining an experience for the military of the 2 countries in the fight against the terrorism, and to achieve an integration of the servicemen from 2 Arab states. The Special Forces of both countries practiced patrolling, ambush reconnaissance, and combat operations.

5 Uzbekistan During a meeting of Vladimir Putin with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, during the SCO summit, the Russian president stated that Moscow will do everything possible in order to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible, even though Ukraine refuses to negotiate. Vladimir Putin stated that he knows Modi’s position on the situation in Ukraine, his concerns, as well as his statements on the issue. Putin expressed his regret that the Ukrainian leadership announced its refusal to negotiate, and expressed a desire to achieve their goals by military means. On 16th of September, the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization signed the ’Samarkand Declaration’ after the summit. The document announced an intention to increase the cooperation in defense and security matters. Representatives of the SCO condemned the terrorist attacks in the world, and expressed their deep concern about the threat to security that comes from terrorism, separatism, and extremism.

6 Armenia News about the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Vladimir Putin had a late-night telephone conversation with the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan — the Russian presidential press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, reported. A mission of the CSTO begins its work in Armenia. The chief of staff, Anatoly Sidorov, who heads the group, visited the Russian FSB’s border guard point in Armenia. He heard a report on the situation. He also spoke with the Russian Ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin. The CSTO delegation went to Yerevan on behalf of the Collective Security Council to understand what is happening. Baku and Yerevan accuse each other of the escalation. Both sides claim dozens of dead.

Constantine Reztsov, specially for the ANNA NEWS