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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 09 JAN 2024 23:30 PST - Ukraine Makes Small But Critical Gains
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SITREP 576 is 53 pages and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Ukrainian forces advance at Stepove and Novomykhailivka as the Russian attacks in Kupyansk approach their culmination point.
What's the second story? There's a storm brewing over military aid for Ukraine.
Summary
- New episodes of the podcast are now available on all the usual channels and we've added YouTube - link is below
- There are map updates
- There are minor assessment updates
- There are rumor updates
- Ukrainian forces have stabilized their defensive lines in the Kupyansk AO
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- In the Siversk AO, Russian troops tried to advance out of Bilohorivka [Donetsk]
- Fighting restarted in the Bakhmut AO
- Positional fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- The number of Russian attacks in the Avdiivka AO is down by 50%
- Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops out of the eastern part of Stepove
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- In the Vuhledar AO, Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops further south of Novomykhailivka
- It was more active in the Staromlynika AO
- Russian occupiers are trying to build a gas pipeline to Mariupol
- Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO, with Russian forces losing another company of motor infantry
- On January 8, a wind generator was destroyed by a Russian drone near Odesa
- In the Sumy Oblast, two Shahed-136 drones struck the Palace of Culture in Krasnopillya
- The remains of a Russian Kh-32 cruise missile was found in a field in the Sumy Oblast and neutralized
- RMOD claims air defense shot down four drones near Bryansk, Russia
- Two Ukrainian drones struck a fuel depot in Oryol, Russia, destroying a storage tank
- Over 150,000 homes in Moscow are without heat due to intense cold, collapsing civil infrastructure
- Hackers knocked the Moscow Internet provider M9kom offline
- The Ukrainian Air Force denies that a Shahed-238 turbine-powered UAV was shot down
- Ukrainian officials said the only thing holding back additional drone production is funds
- The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is severing ties with all companies owned by Lviv businessman Ihor Hrynkevich
- U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer
- A NASAMS air defense system Canada purchased for Ukraine in March 2023 has not been delivered
- The United Kingdom pledged to continue support to Ukraine, calling the ongoing war “the main challenge for our generation”
- The Prime Minister of Estonia called on all E.U. nations to commit 0.25% of GDP to support Ukraine
- Analysts warn that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it will end the United States’s status as a superpower
- There has been no progress on a U.S. Omnibus spending bill for 2024 and a continuing resolution is likely to be passed
- U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell called for the House to pass a Ukrainian military aid package before January 19
- Finland has started a petition to strip Hungary of its voting rights in the European Council
- Hungary has signaled it is ready to release funding for Ukraine, with conditions
- German defense company FFG will build a repair center in western Ukraine
- Russian mobiks will not be demobilized unless they die, become disabled, or the so-called “special military operation” ends
- The Russian State Duma called for relatives of mobiks to stop protesting in public
- The Russian government ordered Facebook clone VK to remove web pages about new Russian SMERSH units
- Political prisoner Alexi Navalny has been placed in a punishment cell
- President Putin ordered the Klimovsky ammunition plant placed under state control
- The leader singer of the band Puppies, Maxim Moiseev, was ordered to report to the commissariat
- Since March 2022, 8,386 criminal cases for discrediting the Russian Federation Armed Forces have been filed
- Russia is forcing teenagers as young as 16 to register with the military commissariat in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
- Russian missile attacks struck the children’s hospital in Kharkiv and a hospital in Pokrovsk
- A German citizen who went to Russia as a tourist has disappeared after being detained by the FSB
- Almost 10,000 trucks are stuck at the Poland-Ukraine border
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Comments
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AnaR737
Loving the SITREPS and the PODCAST!!! Thanks!!!
Today's SITREP indicates that Ukraine needs money to build more drones and that they have the capacity to build a million per year (which would have some effect on the war). I've been reluctant to search for places to donate because I can't verify legitimate recipients. It seems likely that your pool of readers is enriched for people who would donate something to help Ukraine build more drones. Do you have any confidence about how or where one might donate for this purpose?
