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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 05 JAN 2024 23:59* PST - We Don't Get It
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SITREP 573 is 58 pages and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russia has the personnel, the ammunition, and the battlefield initiative - why have the number, size, and intensity of attacks dropped so much?
What's the second story? Ramzan Kadyrov has a new pedophile friend.
What's the bonus story? Winter is coming.
Summary
- There are assessment updates
- There are rumor updates
- A major weather event will bring blizzard conditions to large parts of Ukraine on January 8 and 9
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- There was no reported fighting in the Svatove, Kreminna, Lysychansk, and Siversk AOs
- Fighting continued northwest and southwest of Bakhmut
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
- Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
- Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
- Ukrainian forces were reportedly on the offensive in the Orikhiv AO
- South of Orikhiv, Ukrainian forces destroyed a pair of 2S9 SPGs that were clustered together
- Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
- A Russian rocket attack struck grain storage in Inhulets
- Russia claimed it shot down Ukrainian missiles over occupied Crimea
- Ukraine claimed it destroyed a Russian ammunition depot in occupied Crimea
- A GUR SSO platoon mined roads in the Belgorod region of Russia and attacked a Russian platoon
- Shebekino, Russia, was shelled by Ukrainian artillery
- Officials in the Belgorod region of Russia advised residents to tape their windows due to ongoing attacks and offered to evacuate civilians from the region
- Russia launched 31 Shahed-136 one-way drones, and Ukraine shot down 23
- In 2023, Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 70.3% of Russian missiles and 83.8% of large one-way drones
- Also, in 2023, Ukrainian officials issued more than 16,000 air raid alerts
- Ukraine provides proof that Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles were intercepted, and Russian milbloggers are not happy
- Ukrainian officials are working on confirming that North Korean Kh-23 SRBMs were used to attack Kharkiv
- The Freedom of Russia Legion has started training a new group of recruits from eastern Russia
- The SBU released new details about their ongoing investigation into Kyivguma and its business leaders
- The SBU arrested wannabe Ukrainian Internet edge lord Andrii Uvarov, who is facing life in prison
- President Putin signed a decree that will fast-track citizenship for foreign nationals who join the Russian military and survive
- Nepal will stop issuing work permits to Russia and Ukraine
- Russia has a growing worker crisis
- An Israeli defense expert estimates the mortality rate for wounded Russian troops is 33%
- A deputy commander of an elite Russian military unit was arrested for drug trafficking
- Russia is withholding rehabilitative medical care and vacation for mobiks due to an increasing number of desertions
- Video showed dozens of Russian soldiers stuffed in a basement prison cell located in occupied Luhansk
- Russian veterans and their family members were attacked in Chelyabinsk, Russia
- Russia is believed to be developing a new cluster bomb warhead for the Kh-32 supersonic cruise missile
- Russia is now using new 9M333 air defense missiles, indicating the supply of Cold War era 9M37 missiles is exhausted
- Film director Artem Burlov was convicted for a third time for discrediting the Russian Federation Armed Forces and is already facing a fourth charge
- Convicted pedophile Scott Ritter visited Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechenya
- Kadyrov offered to release 20 Ukrainian POWs if the United States drops sanctions against him and his family members
- Russians were upset over the publicity stunt, forcing Kadyrov to go, “just kidding”
- Investigators still don’t have a full list of the Ukrainian POWs held in Olenivka Prison when it exploded in the summer of 2022
- Almost two years in captivity couldn’t break the love between two members of the Ukrainian 36th Naval Infantry Brigade
- Another child was repatriated to Ukraine from the occupied territories
- The GUR reported 220 Russian soldiers have surrendered through the I Want To Live program
- Latvia notified 1,167 Russians they’ll be deported on February 2 if they don’t voluntarily leave
- Finland announced the nation will stop buying Russian natural gas
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Comments
AnaR737
Is Valery Gerasimov dead? No. Bummer..... Thanks for that touching video. My first tears of healthy emotion in 2024.
I am assuming Moldava wants wants to leave the IPA CIS in June 2203 is a typo but 2023 is past, so what?
