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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 17 OCT 2023 23:59* - Is Another Vuhledar Starting?
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SITREP 523 is 41 pages long and combat only.
What's Happening
What's the big story? Russia has started a counteroffensive in Verbove and is losing a lot of armor, ironically attacking their own antiarmor defense that Ukraine captured in September.
What's the second story? ATACMS has entered the chat.
Editor's Note: There will be a large "makeup" full report of the other events happening. The Israel-Hamas War ate a lot of time today with the explosion at the hospital.
Summary
- There are minor map updates
- Fighting continues north and east of Kupyansk, with Russian forces suffering significant losses near Ivanivka
- Russian forces are probing Ukrainian defense lines west of Svatove
- The Russian Ministry of Defense reported glorious victory near Dibrova, Kuzmyne, and Shypylivka, but videos tell a different story
- There is no information on the missile strike on the Russian helicopter base near occupied Luhansk
- Fighting continued east of Klishchiivka
- A Russian missile hit the college of agriculture in Slovyansk
- The intensity of fighting in the Avdiivka AO declined, with no new advances by Russian forces
- It was the same in Marinka and Novomykhailivka
- Russian forces tried to advance on Prechystivka and Zolota Niva near Velyka Novosilka
- Russian forces launched a significant counteroffensive near Verbove, and it is going about as well as the Avdiivka offensive from last week
- Fighting continued west and south of Robotyne
- ATACMS missiles destroyed six helicopters and an ammunition depot in occupied Berdyansk
- Yes, Ukraine got ATACMS missiles, less than a dozen of M140 M39 munitions with a 165-kilometer range
- There are reports Ukrainian forces made a successful wet crossing of the Dnipro River and have occupied the left (east) bank of the Konka River at Poyma and near Peschanivka
- A Russian base in Kursk, Russia, was hit by Ukrainian drones, killing 18
- Ukraine has drilled a significant number of new natural gas wells through 2023 and has become less dependent on other nations for its own energy needs
- The United States, Japan, and South Korea are preparing a sternly worded letter to send to North Korea for sending munitions to Russia
- The last Wagnerites have left Belarus
- Ukraine has received the 31 promised M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks
- Lithuania is ready to repair combat-damaged Leopard tanks for Ukraine
Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for October 16 is live.
Marina Yevshan covers the events that happened on and off the battlefield.
- 01:41 Today's Assessment
- 04:22 Kharkiv
- 05:07 The Donbas - Luhansk
- 05:58 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
- 06:08 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
- 08:28 Zaporizhzhia
- 09:49 Russian Front
- 10:12 Theaterwide Events
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Comments
The truth matters, and thank you for defending the truth
The M270 isn’t HIMARS -it’s a tracked vehicle that carries twice the missile load of the M142 HIMARS. Slava Ukraini!
