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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 23 OCT 2023 22:30 PDT - It's Hell
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SITREP 529 is 44 pages long, and combat only.
What's Happening
What's the big story? It is absolute Hell in Avdiivka as Russia switches tactics again and goes full World War I, jump over the wire and charge.
What's the second story? It has become impossible to ignore - something appears to be brewing in Kherson. But it is a deception?
Summary
- Fighting continues in the Dibrova area
- Russian forces are continuing attacks in the direction of Bohdanivka from the Berkhivka and Khromove
- Ukrainian advance confirmed east of Andriivka
- Russian advance toward Stepove
- Russian forces are using human wave tactics in Avdiivka, exceeding anything previously seen
- Assessment: Ukraine must hold the Avdiivka AO
- Russian forces are throwing wave after wave of light infantry at the terrikon north of Avdiivka Coke Plant
- Fighting continued at Marinka, Pobieda, and Novomykhailivka
- Russian forces continued to try and advance from Novomaiorske and Novodonetske
- In the Orikhiv AO, Russia launched counterattacks at Verbove, Robotyne, and Novoprokopivka
- Russian Engineering teams in Tokmak, building new defenses, hit by Ukrainian artillery
- Russian commanders have transferred multiple units to the left bank of the Dnipro River
- Ukraine announced a mandatory forced evacuation of all settlements on the bank of the Dnipro River east of Kherson to Beryslav
- Ukrainian forces expanded their positions on the east bank of the Dnipro River
- Assessment: it is getting hard to deny that something is brewing in the Kherson region
- Partisans blew up an electrical substation in the Ufa region of Russia, causing major damage
- Errors and Omissions - Theaterwide
- U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute states the obvious – Ukraine has received enough “not to lose” but not enough “to win”
- Our analysts have been saying that the tank coalition was announced
- President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the protocol on the accession of Sweden to the NATO Alliance in June 2023 and has forwarded it to Parliament for a vote
- Hungary blocked a European Union 500 million euro military aid package for Ukraine
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.
- 01:33 Today's Assessment
- 03:51 Kharkiv
- 05:47 The Donbas - Luhansk
- 06:49 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
- 07:32 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
- 10:34 Zaporizhzhia
- 10:58 Odesa
- 11:30Kherson
- 13:28 Russian Front
- 14:46 Theaterwide
- 17:11 Zarina Zabrisky reports from the war-torn city of Kherson and shares how secret theaters maintain a sense of normalcy and demonstrate the unbreakable spirit of Ukrainians
- 21:03 Zarina Zabrisky interviews a Kharkiv resident about the Russian missile strike on the Nova Poshta distribution center
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Comments
AnaR737
I have been listening to the podcast. Zarina gives you an on the ground view of what is happening in Kherson that I don't find in any other source. I only realized why that was when you said a while ago that there are only 2 journalists left in Kherson. The world is NOT paying the attention, and that is a tragedy.
Some of you have written us saying you miss the in-depth analysis, so we're shifting our editorial to focus more on the battlefield and relevant issues and providing the battlefield analysis you're missing. We are NOT ending coverage for mobiks, war crimes, economics, and geopolitics, but will pull back from some of the more detailed coverage. After an internal assessment due in part to your feedback, we can see that we have skated dangerously close to opinion (not to be confused with snark). I would also ask you to revisit the podcast (if you haven't). Zarina has pivoted in her coverage and in the last couple of pods, in particular, is finding her voice.
