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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 18 FEB 2024 23:59* PST - Russia Executes POWs
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SITREP 604 is 60 pages long and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russian forces learned that their belief that Ukraine is out of artillery ammunition was very wrong.
What's the secondary story? Seven Ukrainian POWs executed on video in two separate incidents.
Summary
- On February 17, Ukrainian forces withdrew from Avdiivka
- On February 16, Russian political prisoner Alexei Navalny died at the Polar Wolf penal colony in Kharp, Russia
- There are map updates
- There are Russian and Ukrainian military objective updates
- There are assessment updates
- There are rumor updates
- Russian forces bombed Kupyansk and Barova in the Kharkiv Oblast
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Fighting continued in the Lysychansk AO
- We could confirm a Russian Su-34 was shot down over occupied Luhansk
- Fighting continued in the Soledar AO
- Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Fighting continued in Torestk-Niu York AO
- Fighting continued in the rest of the Avdiivka AO
- Intense fighting was reported east of Lastochikne
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
- Light fighting continued in the Staromlynivka AO
- In the Orikhiv AO, intense fighting restarted west, east, and southeast of Robotyne
- The IAEA provided an updated about the status of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
- Russia shelled Khotyn in Sumy, killing one
- ATESH took responsibility for sabotaging railroad infrastructure in Volgograd, Russia
- Moldovan police found the wreckage of a second Russian drone
- Dmitry Medvedev threatened nuclear war on the world – again
- Russia used a Kh-69 cruise missile for the first time
- There’s nothing stealthy about it
- 20 Days in Mariupol won the BAFTA Award for the Best Documentary Film
- The United States is transferring $500,000 in confiscated Russian funds to help restore Ukraine's power infrastructure
- Germany was overcharged by 300% for infantry mobility vehicles from the U.S. company The Armored Group that Ukraine can’t use due to a lack of armor
- Denmark’s promise to provide all of its artillery pieces to Ukraine isn’t what you think
- The Czech Republic found 500,000 155 mm and 300,000 122 mm artillery rounds that could be in Ukraine within weeks – but there’s a twist
- France is going to provide Ukraine with new drones for field testing
- The body of Russian politician and prisoner Alexei Navalny is missing
- Russia arrested hundreds who tried to hold public memorials in remembrance of Navalny
- Russian officials arrested a St. Petersburg priest who was going to lead a memorial service in honor of Navalny, and he is now in intensive care
- Russian forces executed at least five prisoners of war in Avdiivka
- In the Soledar AO, Russian forces executed two prisoners of war near Vesele
- In occupied Kherson, Russian troops are accused of torturing a priest to death
- Over the last week, Russia attacked three hospitals
- Hungary might vote on Sweden’s accession to NATO by the end of the month
- A poll in the United States by the Pew Institute found that registered voters continue to have very high support for Ukraine and continued aid
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Comments
We had that in a SITREP a week or two ago - Ukrainian SSO has been operating there since June 2023
It won’t open in browser unless you are logged in. If on the phone, open through X app and link works. Had the same issue
When you click the link to the murder of POWs in Avdiivka ; X says it doesn't exist...Hmmn...
the economist acusing ukraine of having troops on sudan?
