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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 22 FEB 2024 23:59* PST - It's Batman!
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SITREP 608 is 61 pages long and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russian forces have launched furious attacks in the Bakhmut, Marinka and Vuhledar AOs. There is a lot of battlefield analysis today.
What's the secondary story? Putin's Purge has crossed a grim milestone, and why we're providing coverage on the political repression within Russia.
What's the bonus story? What does Russia's scale model of its future uncrewed surface vessel and a Batman toy have in common? A lot. A whole lot.
Summary
- There are map updates
- There are assessment updates
- There are rumor updates
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Fighting continued in the Siversk AO
- Intense fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
- Russian forces suffered heavy losses trying to advance from Khromove and Bakhmut
- Russian forces advanced to the edge of Ivanivske
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Shahed-136 one-way drones hit a dorm filled with displaced Ukrainians in Dobropillya
- Fighting continued in the Toretsk-Niu York AO
- Fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
- Russian forces advanced toward Orlivka
- Russian forces suffered heavy losses trying to advance on Lastochkyne
- Russian forces advanced toward Sieverne from Opytne and Avdiivka
- Russia shelled the settlement of Kurakhivka, killing one and wounding nine
- The Russian VKS bombed the DTEK thermal power plant in Kurakhove, wounding nine
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- The situation east and in Heorhiivka and within Pobieda is unclear
- Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
- Russian forces suffered catastrophic losses in a failed night attack on Novomykhailivka
- Light fighting continued in the Staromlynivka AO
- Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
- In occupied Berdyansk, a car bomb exploded
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
- Members of the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade called out Defense Minister Shoigu for lying about the situation in Kyrnky and the Dnipro River islands
- Russian shelling of L’vove killed one
- Debris from a Shahed-136 one-way drone killed three in Odesa
- A Shahed-136 one-way drone struck a nine-story apartment building in Dnipro, wounding at least eight
- For the eighth time in 2024, a bomb fell off a Russian plane in Belgord, Russia
- On February 21-22, Ukraine shot down 8 of 10 Shahed-136 drones
- On February 22-23, Ukraine shot down 23 of 31 Shahed-136 drones
- NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said Ukraine had the right to use provided weapons to strike Russia
- Fox News interviewed President Zelenskyy, with parts recorded 2,500 meters from the line of conflict
- Ukrainian military analyst Alexander Kovalenko believes there is a high probability of a Russian missile attack between now and February 24
- Ukraine has approximately six weeks of ammunition remaining
- Pentagon officials are warning the situation in Ukraine will become catastrophic without more aid from the United States
- The perception of the United States is still strong in Ukraine, but it is fading
- The Inspector General from the U.S. Department of Defense warned that no provisions were made for the sustainment and maintenance of the equipment already provided to Ukraine
- France is heading a European summit to explore available means to strengthen cooperation in support of Ukraine
- The U.K. is transferring 200 Brimstone surface-to-surface missiles to Ukraine
- Canada and Denmark are providing funds to purchase artillery shells secured by the Czech Republic
- Denmark believes the first eight F-16s will be in Ukraine "by the summer”
- Ukraine has received “dozens” of M113 APCs, with hundreds more arriving soon
- The Bundestag has approved the sending of “long-range” weapons to Ukraine, but not Taurus cruise missiles
- Anger at the Kremlin from Russian soldiers is increasing despite harsh repressions
- Armenia continues to pull away from the CSTO Alliance
- Russia demonstrated a scale model of a future uncrewed surface vessel – it turns out it is a toy Bat Boat
- In the last six years, Putin has accused more Russians of crimes against the state than any Soviet leader after Stalin
- Russia has started the next stage of fascism, with the denunciation system becoming weaponized
- Crimean activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva was detained
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