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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 10 DEC 2023 23:59* PST - The Word Betrayal Starts to Come to Mind
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SITREP 556 is 65 pages and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russian forces made tactically significant gains in multiple areas of operation, and Ukrainian troops have been forced to ration ammunition.
What's the second story? Although Ukrainian officials aren't officially saying they were Kh-47 Kinzhal air-to-surface ballistic missiles, it looks like Patriot air defense systems in Kyiv went eight for eight against Russia's wonder weapon.
What's the bonus story? The whole world is a chessboard, and Ukraine is a pawn for multiple nations - geopolitics spanning four continents with continued aid from the E.U. and the U.S. on the brink.
Summary
- There are assessment updates
- There are map updates
- There are operational objectives updates
- There are rumor updates
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- Russian forces made marginal gains toward Yampolivka
- Ukrainian forces made marginal gains west and southwest of Dibrova
- Russian forces made tactically significant gains south of Kuzmyne
- In the Soledar AO, Russian forces made tactically significant gains near Rozdolivka and marginal gains near Vesele
- Russian forces attacked in the direction of Hryhorivka
- Russian forces made tactically significant gains at Bohdahnivka, Khromove, and in the direction of Ivanivske
- Russian forces attacked in the direction of Chasiv Yar
- Fighting continued for control of the 215-meter heights of Klishchiivka and east of Andriivka
- Russian forces attempted to advance from Novobakhmutivka
- Russian forces attempted to advance on Stepove and the Avdiivka Coke Plant
- Russian forces advanced into the dachas east of the Avdiivka sewage treatment plant
- Russian forces continue to fight for control of the industrial district in southeast Avdiivka
- Fighting continued in the Vodyane no man’s land and near Pervomaiske
- Russian forces raised another flag in western Marinka
- Russian forces attempted to advance on Pobieda
- Russian forces reached the eastern edge of Novomykhailivka and suffered heavy losses before retreating
- Russian forces attempted to advance on the Vuhledar coal mine complex
- Russian forces attacked west of Verbove
- Russian forces made tactically significant gains south of Robotyne
- Ukrainian forces reportedly landed in Bilohrudove on the left bank of the Dnipro River
- Fighting continued on the southern edge of Krynky, with Russian forces suffering significant losses
- Zarina Zabrisky recorded Shahed-136 one-way drones over Kherson
- Russia launched eight ballistic missiles at Kyiv – all were intercepted with debris wounding seven people
- Russia launched 18 Shahed-136 one-way drones with debris landing in Mykolaiv Oblast
- The GUR evacuated 315 people from the Gaza Strip, including nine Moldovans and two Ukrainian spies
- General Micael Bydén, Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, conducted a frontline inspection of the Ukrainian 45th Separate Artillery Brigade
- President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Ukraine’s accession to the E.U. will take some time
- NATO hopes to have Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and the Balkan states join the alliance “in the coming years”
- There’s a global shortage of gunpowder
- A Polish M120 SPG was spotted in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine
- Germany pledges to provide 200,000 155 mm artillery rounds to Ukraine in 2024
- UK defense company BAE Systems announced that it will be able to produce 1.5 million artillery shells “in the near future”
- On Sunday, Representatives of the PM of Hungary, Viktor Orban, met with anti-Ukrainian Congresspersons hosted by the Heritage Foundation
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the U.S. Senate, House Speaker Johnson, and President Biden over the next two days as U.S. aid approaches its end
- President Putin has ordered Russian troops to capture the Kupyansk and Avdiivka AOs by March 13, 2024
- Russian military police arrested a deserter in Armenia
- Russia is looking for a Syrian mobik they sought to deport who is now on the run
- Mobiks from the Republic of Tatarstan have been imprisoned after rioting against their commanders
- A mother of a Storm-Z penal solider has gone public about his unit’s maltreatment
- Video shows fresh Russian contract soldiers from Cuba arriving in Ukraine
- PM of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu left a War Cabinet meeting to take a phone call from President Putin
- Finland has refused to extradite accused Russian war criminal Jan Petrovsky to Ukraine, and he will likely be deported back to Russia
- Twenty-thousand adult civilians and almost 20,000 children are illegally detained in Russia and the occupied territories
- Former illegal child deportee Bohdan Yermokhin talked about his time under Russian control
- The U.S. Department of Justice has charged four Russians with war crimes for the extreme torture of a non-combatant U.S. citizen in April 2022
- The body of a 15-year-old girl killed by Russian soldiers in March 2022 was returned to Ukraine
- Nine more children, one with their guardians, were repatriated to Ukraine
- President Zelenskyy attended the inauguration of the President of Argentina, Javier Milei
- Zelenskyy met with the presidents of Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador
- Zelenskyy and Orban had a chat on the floor of the Senate of Argentina
- Incoming PM of Poland, Donald Tusk, vowed to end the border blockade where 3,500 trucks are currently stuck
- Ukrainian truck drivers launched a counterprotest, blockading car traffic at the Polish border
- The Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia announced they will blockade the Ukrainian border at one crossing
- Hungary told Ukraine they would prevent a planned border blockade
- A Saudi Prince with ties to the Saudi GIP and President Putin died a day after Putin visited Riyadh
- Moscow rejected a “significant offer” to exchange Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan
- Sweden and the U.S. signed a joint defense agreement
- Türkiye continues to block Sweden’s accession to the NATO Alliance
- The White House warned that the U.S. only has $1 billion left to replenish its own ammunition stocks
- U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres found a new way to anger Ukrainian officials
- A German-owned tanker with Russian oil products arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, despite sanctions
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Comments
Hey the Tanker mentioned in the report was carrying liquid fertilizer, not oil products. https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1732962783174570414
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Gregory Tucker
Is the illegal detention of 20k foreign nationals and almost 20k children related to the recruitment of “newly minted citizens” into military service?
