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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 29 JAN 2024 23:59* PST - Europe Scrambles to Support Ukraine
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SITREP 591 is 53 pages and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russia claims Ukraine shelled Donetsk - again - but an in-depth investigation suggests a car bomb caused the explosion.
What's the second story? Russia has come up with a new and innovative solution when there aren't any pictures or videos to support claims a settlement was captured.
Summary
- There are map updates
- There are assessment updates
- No, Colonel General Valerii Zaluzhnyi did not resign and was not dismissed
- No, Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov did not resign and was not dismissed
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- Russian milbloggers have dug through a new rock layer to provide proof of battlefield success
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Fighting restarted in the Lysychansk AO
- Fighting restarted in the Siversk AO
- Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
- Fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
- Fighting continued in the Staromlynivka AO
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs headquarters in occupied Yasynuvata was shelled
- Russia claims Ukraine attacked occupied Donetsk with Grad rockets
- An in-depth investigation strongly indicates that a car bomb caused the blast
- There was only light fighting in the Orikhiv AO
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
- In the Sumy oblast, four civilians were killed in separate Russian attacks
- In the Belgorod region of Russia, two more glide bombs fell off Russian aircraft
- On February 1, we will have an update on the Iranian connection to the Il-76 military transport that was shot down
- Russia claims Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in the Yaroslavl region of Russia
- Russia claims Ukrainian drones attacked a fuel depot in the Kaluga region of Russia
- Russian state media reported cellular Internet service was disabled in the Leningrad, Novgorod, and Pskov regions to prevent Ukrainian drone attacks
- Between the evening of January 28 and the morning of January 30, Russia attacked Ukraine with 43 Shahed-136 one-way drones, and 23 were shot down
- The Ukrainian Air Force said inspection of captured and shot down Shahed UAVs shows that improvements are being made and Western parts are still being used
- The National Police of Ukraine shared pictures that provided additional evidence that a new electronic warfare system is disabling Shahed-136 drones
- British intelligence assessed that Russia is able to replace main battle tanks as fast as they are destroyed, but there is a twist
- President Zelenskyy said Ukraine could defeat Russia, but without continued support, Europe will move closer to a World War
- The European Union moved closer to providing Ukraine with the profits from frozen Russian assets, but someone is getting a lousy return on investment
- Ukraine and Belgium signed an agreement on the joint production of weapons
- Luxembourg joined the F-16 fighter plane coalition
- The Netherlands has allocated 87 million euros to buy ammunition for Ukraine
- German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced it was building a strategic-level ammunition plant within the next three months
- Finland quietly moved to a partial wartime economy
- Three inspectors from the United States arrived in Kyiv to provide financial oversight to U.S. military aid
- The Russian State Duma will give the spouses of dead soldiers veteran benefits, but there’s a twist
- Russian political strategist Yaroslav Shirshikov has been charged with justification of terrorism
- A Russian pensioner was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for spreading “fake news”
- Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza is missing
- Russian rapper Nikolai Vasilyev is Russian conscript bound
- Three Russian soldiers executed a family in occupied Kreminna
- The E.U. Council extended Russian sanctions for another six months
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Comments
"The analysts we shared our findings with agreed that the damage is consistent with a car bomb, and the person in the video was either the bomber, the target, or incredibly unlucky to have a Grad rocket land on them the moment a vehicle-borne IED went off." 😂
