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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 01 DEC 2023 23:59* PST - Putin Moves Russian Purge to Phase II
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SITREP 548 is 46 pages and is a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? A series of actions across Russia has made it clear - President Putin is tightening his grip even more as the 2024 elections approach. Phase II of the purge, which started in July 2023 after the Prigozhin Insurrection, has started.
What's the second story? Marinka holds.
Get to bed by 01:00 hours I said. Hard line in the sand I said.
Summary
- There are map changes
- There are rumors updates
- There are operational objectives updates
- Poor weather slowed the operational tempo in Kharkiv and Luhansk
- Northwest and southwest of Bakhmut, Russian forces are setting conditions for a future offensive on Chasiv Yar
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Russian forces continued their attempts to advance on Stepove from three directions
- Fighting continued northeast and southeast of Avdiivka
- On the south flank of the Avdiivka AO, subordinate attacks by Russian forces continued
- Ukrainian forces were able to push Russian troops back on the western and northwestern edge of Marinka
- Fighting continued near Novomykhailivka in Donetsk and the Orikhiv AO in Zaporizhzhia
- Ukrainian forces expanded the number of troops in Krynky
- The Security Service of Ukraine is believed to have destroyed two fuel trains in the Buryatia region of Russia
- The sabotage has disabled the Severomuysky Tunnel and the Devil’s Bridge on the Baikal-Amur Railroad
- A commissariat office in the Kemerovo region of Russia was set on fire
- Ukrainian air defenses intercepted a guided cruise missile and eight Shahed-136 kamikaze drones
- Ukrainian President Zelenskyy told the Associated Press the Russia-Ukraine War has entered a new phase
- Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny said that a lack of demining equipment, artillery support, electronic warfare systems, aviation, and missiles hobbled the summer offensive
- Retired United States General David Petraeus said Ukraine’s summer offensive faltered due to too little and delayed allied support
- Vitaly Polovenka was appointed as a Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine tasked with improving logistics and sustainment
- More than 4,000 Ukrianians have been charged with collaborationism or treason since February 24, 2022
- The rodent problem for Russian and Ukrainian forces has gotten significantly worse
- The U.S. Senate won’t vote on a military aid package until after December 11
- A former PMC Wagner Group mercenary was fined 150,000 roubles for discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- The Kremlin has started the second phase of its purge of critics of the government
- Russian President Putin signed an edict to expand the armed forces by another 170,000 troops
- Russia claims since January 1, 452,000 people have signed contracts with the military
- Russia’s cottage industry for drone production is rapidly expanding and is poised to outstrip Ukraine’s capabilities
- But all is not happy among Russian drone operators, with the Kremlin making unusual demands
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Comments
ASSESSMENT: Venezuela is heading towards war, and it has Russia's fingerprints all over it. It is not lost on us that before October 7, Israel and Saudi Arabia were days or weeks away from normalizing relations. It was widely considered a done deal in diplomatic circles. On Thursday, Venezuela hit its six-month due date for the reduction in U.S. sanctions to continue and an opportunity to permit more Western investment, something Venezuela desperately needs. Literally, on the same day, someone throws a metaphorical match into a bucket of gasoline. OPINION: You almost could believe that Moscow is throwing matches at every potential hot spot in the world where they hold influence to cause destabilization.
You’re doing no-one any favors if you keep working at an unsustainable pace. Knock it off. And delegate more.
AnaR737
It is truly astonishing to me that this second phase of the purge is playing out exactly the way we have seen other dictators make a grab for total power, whether you think of Hitler, Chavez/Maduro, Xi or Stalin. Perhaps they are not lining people up against walls, but they are sure getting away with a lot in the age of the Internet. Last week the podcast The Red Line published an assessment of the Arab Spring 13 years on. Depressingly, the youth unemployment and the discontent in these countries has gotten even worse than it was then. However, governments have learned how to control the Internet and that is why we do not see any demonstrations any more. Russia has taken a page from that playbook and they sure are getting away with it. There is also this new development in Venezuela. To me, there is a direct line between Russia's violation of Ukraine's borders in 2014 and 2022, getting away with it (so far), and these countries with territorial disputes like Azerbaijan and Venezuela making their own moves in their own little corners of the world. This is serious, as it involves Brazil too.
