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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 21 DEC 2023 21:15 PST - General Bezdorizhzhia Rules The Battlefield
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SITREP 565 is 63 pages long.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Mud. Warmer temperatures and rain have turned the line of conflict into a nightmare of mud and we have pictures and videos. General Bezdorizhzhia has stopped Russian advances in their tracks over the last 24 hours.
What's the second story? I don't even know how to explain this. Russia's projection on the world of its own issues was completely exposed by actress, blogger, and TV host Nastya Ivleeva, who held an Eyes Wide Shut meets The Hangover party in Moscow.
What's the bonus story? Robert "Magyar" Brovdi uses his magic pointer to make the sunrise. Badda boom!
Summary
- There are map updates
- The table of Ukrainian vs. Russian heavy equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database has been updated through December 21, 2023
- There are rumor updates
- Weather conditions have turned parts of the line of conflict (LOC) into impassable seas of mud
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- Russian forces probed Ukrainian defenses near Stelmakhivka in the Svatove AO
- Russian forces suffered heavy losses during a failed attack east of Yampolivka
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Russian forces made small but tactically significant gains in Khromove
- Fighting continued northwest and southwest of Bakhmut
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Fighting continued on the northern flank of Avdiivka
- Claims that Ukraine withdrew from Stepove are false
- Fighting continued on the southern flank of Avdiivka
- Russia is placing mannequins of soldiers on already destroyed tanks and APCs for unknown reasons
- Video suggests Ukrainian forces made marginal gains south of Sieverne
- Ukrainian forces continue to hold the northwestern corner of Marinka
- Russian forces used a VBIED in a failed attack east of Novomykhailivka
- Ukrainian forces made small but tactically critical gains south of Novomykhailivka
- A gas pipeline in occupied Makiivka exploded
- One of the water pipelines that supply occupied Donetsk was damaged
- The operational headquarters for the Russian 1st Army Corps Sparta Battalion had a close encounter of the worst kind with Mr. HIMARS
- Frustration is growing in occupied Donetsk as utility outages enter the ninth day, with officials declaring a state of emergency
- Positional fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
- The IAEA issued an update about the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Fighting continued in, south, and west of Krynky
- Robert “Magyar” Brovdi used his magic pointer to make a TOS-1A MLRS disappear, and it's spectacular
- A Russian Shahed-136 one-way drone struck an 26 story apartment building in Kyiv
- The Freedom of Russia Legion conducted a cross-border raid in Terebreno, Belogord, Russia
- Apparently, Chechen Akhmat took the day off from defending the Belogord border
- A partisan set fire to the “Museum of the Northern Military District” in Saratov, Russia
- A Russian soldier blew up his apartment and his hand in Chelyabinsk, Russia
- Twenty-eight Shahed-136 drones attacked Ukraine with 24 shot down
- Since February 24, 2022, Russia has fired 7,400 missiles and launched 3,700 Shahed-131/136 drones at Ukraine
- The number of UMPK glide bombs used by Russia in December is down
- Reports that Ukraine is going to conscript men who are living abroad are false
- Reports that Ukraine’s 2024 strategic goal is the liberation of Crimea is partially false
- The Verkhovna Rada has approved a law that will make medical marijuana legal
- Ukraine hinted that “good news” was coming about ammunition production
- PM of Hungary, Viktor Orban, has agreed to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Canada is sending its one-thousandth Rosel Senator IMV
- Poland transferred 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine
- Finland announced its 21st military aid package for Ukraine
- Germany will be sending 40 more Marder IFVs to Ukraine in 2024
- The United Arab Emirates sent its first batch of ambulances to Ukraine
- The deputies of the Smolninsky District of St. Petersburg, Russia, released a video demanding an end to mobilization
- Residents of the closed military settlement of Znamesk appealed to President Putin to solve poor living conditions immediately
- Police in St. Petersburg conducted new raids on migrants searching for military-age men
- Russia’s projected 2024 production numbers for guided missiles have become significantly lower
- Russian President Putin signed a decree to use mobilization by app and SMS in the fall of 2024, and to include Russians living abroad
- There won’t be Christmas or New Year fireworks in Moscow because of the “war”
- Russians are outraged after pictures and videos showed a “naked party” in Moscow hosted by Nastya Ivleeva
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs raided the Mutabor club in Moscow and opened up at least four investigations into “spreading LGBT propaganda”
- President of the Russian public movement Union of Right Forces, Leonid Gozman, has been charged with spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs has charged the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Maria Pevchikh, with three crimes and issued a warrant for her arrest
- The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued an arrest warrant for the host of the Popular Politics YouTube channel, Dmitry Nizovtsev
- The G7 countries signed an agreement to extend the deferral of Ukrainian debt payments until 2027
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Comments
Yeah I was wondering this. Roepke is a moron
Shouldn't anything that comes from Julian Roepke be treated as lowest possible quality? The dude is a certified idiot.
I read the Welt article and the German can be understood as “…men should be requested to report at recruitment centers….” which is a lot less obligation than the English quote in the SitRep. I am not sure if something was lost in translation somewhere along the line or it was redacted. In any event, I am suspicious of Russian disinformation due to the temporal proximity with Russian decree, too.
