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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 05 FEB 2024 23:50 PST - As Long As It Takes Meant Until September 2023
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SITREP 595 is 64 pages long and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Future U.S. aid to Ukraine is 99.9999% dead. Putin's strategy of waiting it out worked.
What's the second story? Brutal and chaotic fighting in Avdiivka.
Summary
- Future U.S. financial and military aid to Ukraine is 99.9999% dead
- There are minor map updates
- There are assessment updates
- There was a sharp increase in combat clashes
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- A Russian missile struck a hotel in Zolochiv, Kharkiv
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Fighting continued in the Lysychansk AO
- The rocket attack on occupied Lysychansk killed the illegitimate Minister of Emergency Situations and two city council deputies
- The U.N. condemned Ukraine for the attack with a straight face as Russia calls for an emergency Security Council meeting
- Renewed fighting was reported in the Siversk AO
- Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- The situation in Avdiivka is chaotic as Ukrainian forces struggle to reestablish defensive lines
- Russian forces made a small gain in southern Avdiivka, and the 47th lost a now irreplaceable Bradley IFV
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
- Fighting continued in the Staromlynivka AO
- Light fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
- France summoned the Russian ambassador after two humanitarian volunteers were killed in Ukraine
- Foreign volunteers will not be allowed on the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson without special permission
- There is a shortage of civilian workers in occupied Kherson
- There is one Kilo-class sub of the Black Sea Fleet on patrol
- Russian DRG unit activity is increasing in northern Ukraine, and they’re elite forces
- Belarusian dictator Lukashenko made it legal for the military to shoot civilians
- Elite GUR forces are hunting down the remains of PMC Wagner in Sudan
- President Zelenskyy’s press secretary tries to explain the “stalemate” comment from yesterday
- Zelenskyy asked for martial law and mobilization to be extended another 90 days
- The Minister of Veterans Affairs for Ukraine was dismissed as part of the “reboot of the governing apparatus” of Ukraine
- 215,000 Russians have asked Ukraine if they know where their family member is
- 11,000 have been confirmed KIA in the last 78 days, with Ukraine holding their remains
- Ukraine has developed another new drone
- France has provided Ukraine with Ottawa-compliant antitank mines
- France vowed to continue to support Ukraine militarily and financially
- The Netherlands has increased the number of F-16s it will send to Ukraine to 24
- Ukraine has asked Canada for more than 80,000 70 mm unguided rockets set for disposal
- The Norwegian-Finnish company Nammo Lapua has requested to join the E.U. ASAP Program, which supports Ukraine
- E.U. head of diplomacy, Joseph Borrell, said that the reason Ukraine won’t get the promised 650,000 155 mm rounds is they were sold to other countries
- Greece denied they planned to send S-300 air defense missiles to Ukraine
- President Putin discredits the Russian Federation Armed Forces and its drone efforts
- Russian vowed to allocate 100 billion roubles for drone development and production over the next three years
- Russian propagandists celebrated a new state-of-the-art anti-drone technology
- Russian Tu-95 bomber pilot Major Oleg Stegachev survived an assassination attempt
- Russia lost two Mi-8 helicopters due to accidents
- Russia is having to cannibalize Ka-52 helicopters to keep the remaining fleet airworthy
- Russian troops who complained about their commander were handcuffed to a handrail for days as punishment
- Wounded Russian troops complain about hospital conditions
- The former head of the fuel and lubricants service for the Russian armed forces was arrested for stealing diesel fuel
- State Duma Deputy Andrey Kartapolov said that Russia doesn’t have enough air defense systems to protect St. Petersburg
- Russian propagandist Solovyov called for the arrest and destruction of Russian milbloggers who share information about battlefield failures
- Russian milbloggers hit back
- Chechen Akhmat is creating a children’s battalion
- Igor “Strelkov” Girkin may return to Ukraine in a Storm V penal unit
- Russia will outlaw the use of VPNs on March 1
- Former PMC Wagner leader Anton Elizarov has disappeared after being arrested by Russian officials
- Almost two dozen journalists covering a protested at the Russian tomb of the unknown soldier in Moscow were arrested
- Russian politician Yulia Galyamina is ending all activity due to threats
- Books written by Russian author Lyudmila Ulitskaya have been pulled and she is under investigation
- A woman in Nizhny Novgorod was arrested for having seven colored frog earrings
- A pensioner in Moscow was arrested for wearing a jacket that said, “Russia without Putin”
- Hungary did not vote on the accession of Sweden to the NATO Alliance
- An aid to German Bundestag Delegate Evgeniy Schmidt resigned after being accused of working with the FSB
- Finland plans to keep its border closed with Russia
- An appeal by Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to continue funding Ukraine was rejected
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Comments
It amazing that we hear that the Russian advance in Adkiika was successful in part to poor flying conditions. This is akin to the 1944 Ardennes Offensive. The West must "pull their finger out" and give Ukraine what it needs to take their land back. In Australia we have a small fleet of multi-role NH90 helicopters we have decommissioned that the government would rather bury than give to Ukraine.
AnaR737
There was an article a while ago, I believe it was the WSJ, comparing the attitude of independents toward Trump in the last election versus this upcoming one and it really looked like he lost a lot of ground in that constituency. If it is true that independents decide the result of election, that is a problem for him, but my guess is his strategy is to win key states where independents don't count so much. Who knows, American electoral politics are so complex, but I totally agree with you in that it seems so perplexing that "normal" republicans are completely stymied.
Why haven’t some moderate republicans said “enough is enough” and sided with dems to get an Ukraine bill passed? Trump will be crushed in this upcoming election because independents hate him more than they dislike Biden. Stop fearing Trump and his zealots.
