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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 24 OCT 2023 23:30 PDT - Ukraine Had A Very Rough Day
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SITREP 530 is 50 pages long.
What's Happening
What's the big story? The situation for Ukrainian forces in the Avdiivka area of operation has deteriorated much faster than any of our analysts expected because we underestimated the Kremlin's willingness to throw their ground forces into fortified defenses across unfavorable terrain.
What's the second story? Russian forces made advances in the northern and southern flanks of Bakhmut.
Editor's Note: We're changing up the format of the podcast a little bit tomorrow. Non-critical fighting in places like Marinka and Dibrova will be a quick summary.
Summary
- Pour yourself a nice alcoholic beverage if that is your thing
- There are map updates
- Take a drink
- The situation for Ukrainian forces in Avdiivka is deteriorating faster than most analysts expected
- The situation is stable in Kupyansk, Svatove, and Kreminna areas of operation (AO)
- Russian forces have pushed through Ukrainian defenses northwest of Khromove and made marginal gains
- Ukrainian forces made additional gains east of Andriivka
- Russian forces crossed the Siverskyi Donets-Canal west of Kurdyumivka in the direction of Bila Hora
- Russian attempts to advance in the direction of Novokalynove and Stepove were unsuccessful
- Ukrainian forces were pushed off the terrikon with Russian DRG units entering into the northern edges of Avdiivka
- Russian forces advanced west from Vodyane to the northern edge of Pervomaiske
- It was business as usual in Marinka and near Pobieda and Novomykhailivka
- Russian forces continued attempts to advance from Novomaiorske and Novodonetske and attacked Staromaiorske
- Russian troop movements through occupied Mariupol have slowed
- Russian and Ukrainian sources are stating that the Orikhiv AO has become a frozen front
- Missiles hit the city of Zaporizhzhia
- Missiles hit the city of Dnipro
- More explosions were reported in occupied Sevastopol
- Partisans attacked a Russian military base in Moscow
- Ukrainian air defenses intercepted Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and Kh-59 missiles
- The Russian VKS dropped 100 FAB-500S-E UMPK glide bombs in a single day
- The Kharkiv oblast military commissariat and the head of the medical board were arrested for accepting $1.6 million in bribes
- On November 8, the European Union will meet to assess the progress made by Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia toward launching the required reforms to join the economic bloc
- Ukraine has completed field testing remotely guided kamikaze robots and has started serial production
- Ukraine has taken older AIM-9M air-to-air Sidewinder missiles and converted them into surface-to-air antiaircraft munitions
- Sweden is widely expected to become a member of the NATO Alliance by mid-November
- The German defense company Rheinmetall has formally completed its agreement to form a joint venture with Ukrainian defense company Ukroboronprom
- Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have a heart attack
- You have to have a heart in order to suffer a myocardial infarction
- The Russian VKS took delivery of another batch of Su-35 multirole fighter planes
- Up to 30 Russian penal soldiers from the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic rioted in Rostov and refused to board an aircraft for deployment
- Satellite images show that Russia has started using Zindans at training camps in Orenburg and Volgograd
- Russia has set aside enough budget in 2024 to provide survivor benefits to 100,000 families
- The Kremlin has sent guidance to state media agencies to suppress stories about crimes committed by returning soldiers
- Four Ukrainian children were repatriated over the past week
- An analysis of transactions found that Dutch aerospace company Airbus, German GGP Metal Powder, French arms manufacturer Safran, and the Greek company Elval Halcor are still buying billions of dollars in raw metals from Russia
- President Putin came up with a novel way to prop up the rouble
Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for today is live.
Marina Yevshan covers the events that happened on and off the battlefield and Zarina Zabrisky reports from Kherson.
- 01:32 Today's Assessment
- 03:50 Kharkiv
- 04:30 The Donbas - Luhansk
- 05:20 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
- 06:23 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
- 08:20 Special Assessment: Russia is committed to capturing Avdiivka at all costs. How does Ukraine respond?
- 10:52 Zaporizhzhia
- 11:36 TOT Crimea
- 12:12 Kherson
- 13:50 Special Assessment: Is Ukraine preparing for a wet crossing of the Dnipro River
- 15:58 Russian Front
- 16:23 Theaterwide
- 17:18 U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute says the Alliance isn't doing enough - Marina Yevshan agrees
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Comments
There is no politics in russia. He is not a ‘strong’ leader, he is just a leader. I wrote it many times that pretty much nothing matters since whole apparatus in russia is built around rigid power structure, which is hardly influenced by external factors.
It is a mix of aerospaciale (french) messermith (German) and Casa (Spain) and the Head of the company is in amsterdam
Putin's power is impressive that after almost 2 years with hundreds of thousands of dead at his feet on both sides (on the one hand civilians, on the other his young people) he remains immovable and stable. and now more chopper, without even a pointing prigozin.
Airbus is a French corp, not a dutch one. Otherwise great reporting as usual
