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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 18 DEC 2023 23:59* PST - Ammo Shortages and Kherson Questions
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SITREP 562 is 61 pages and a full report.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Ukrainian forces lost positions in one AO in part because artillery ran out of ammunition, and drone operators could only watch Ukrainian troops be taken prisoner.
What's the second story? The New York Times has stirred controversy over combat conditions for Ukrainian troops in Kherson.
Bonus story: Not a lot of coverage about how Russia is using growing swaths of its population as cannon fodder - but we're covering it.
Summary
- There are map updates
- The table of Russian vs. Ukrainian heavy equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database was updated through December 18, 2023
- There are rumor updates
- Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
- Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
- Russian forces renewed attempts to advance on Spirne in the Siversk AO
- Ukrainian forces are under tremendous pressure to hold their defenses in Bohdanivka
- Russian light infantry freely advanced in the direction of Ivanivske and took prisoners due to Ukrainian forces running out of ammunition
- Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
- Fighting continued near Horlivka
- Ukrainian forces destroyed Russian air defense and electronic warfare complexes in occupied Donetsk
- Ukrainian forces held their defensive positions in the Avdiivka AO
- Ukrainian forces continue to hold the northwestern corner of Marinka
- Russian forces advanced to the southern edge of Novomykhailivka, where intense fighting continues
- The illegitimate government of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic insists there are no fuel shortages
- The number of people without power in occupied Donetsk increased despite the improving weather conditions
- Russian forces made tactically significant advances northeast of Novoprokopivka in the Orikhiv AO
- Fighting continued in Krnyky, Kherson, as controversy swirled over reports in the New York Times and The Drive
- The Black Sea Fleet has almost completely withdrawn from Sevastopol
- Russian sources claim the drone attack on the Russian Morozovsk military airfield on December 16-17 caused more damage than reported
- Russian missile and Shahed-136 drone units practically took the day off
- The debate of accelerated or total mobilization in Ukraine has spilled into the public domain
- Kyivstar continues working to restore all services after last week’s cyberattack fully
- Ukraine announced the serial production of the new Cobra one-way drone with a range of 300 km and a 15 kg warhead
- Robert “Magyar” Brovdi said that Russia is outnumbering Ukrainian drones by 5:1 to 10:1
- Ukrainian General Alexander Tarnavskyi said that Ukraine is having to curtail military operations due to a lack of ammunition
- Polish trucker drivers are blocking the Dorogusk – Yagodin border checkpoint
- The United States Department of Defense warns that the last aid package to Ukraine will be on December 30, and there are no funds to replenish U.S. stockpiles
- Denmark and Sweden agreed to provide Ukraine with approximately 25 CV-90 IFVs
- Russian General Alexander Peryazev was reportedly wounded in action in the Kupyansk AO and evacuated
- A Russian family is appealing for help after an illegally mobilized man was killed in Ukraine on November 6
- Wives and mothers of wounded mobiks with Unit 45863 appealed for them to get medical care
- A Russian soldier who has an eye injury and an amputated leg was told by the medical commission he is fit for medical service
- Of the 3,000 Wagnerites PMC Wagner submitted paperwork to the Russian MOD before being dissolved, only 500 have received veteran status
- Naturalization of immigrants in the Russian Federation is down 29%
- Ukrainian insurgents reported that Russian Kh-32 missile production is down 20%
- Putin's Purge
- The U.N. Human Rights Committee asked Russia to explain the status of Alexei Navalny
- The Russian Ministry of Defense continues to attempt to recruit retired PMC Wagner Group mercenaries to join punishment units
- Russian author Boris Akunin has been charged with justification of terrorism and spreading fake news
- The former leader of Citizens of the USSR was found guilty of discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
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- A former Russian GRU major and PMC Wagner mercenary flew to The Hague and has offered to testify to the ICC
- Co-founder of the Rusich Group and suspected Russian war criminal, Jan Petrovsky, will be held by Finnish officials through May 31, 2024
- The European Union passed its 12th round of sanctions against the Russian Federation
- Bulgaria passed two draft laws that will effectively end the operation of the Lukoil Refinery in its country
- Russian economists issued a gloomy inflation outlook for 2024
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Comments
The New York Times article was nothing less than a hit job...Russian propagandists are in awe...Whodathunkit...
Ethan Stein
I am constantly aggravated by the NYT. I suppose it has always been a rag, and I have some nostalgic view that at one time it was higher quality. A mixed bag for sure, both news wise and editorially. Also when the editors talk it seems like they think their stuff doesn't smell.
