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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 12 OCT 2023 23:59* - Ukraine Makes the Impossible, Possible
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SITREP 518 is 43 pages long, combat only
What's Happening
What's the big story? In the face of the largest Russian offensive in Avdiivka since February 2022 and the largest artillery battle in Zaporizhzhia since June 4, Ukrainian forces made significant tactical gains in the Klishchiivka AO and marginal gains at Robotyne while holding Russian forces back theaterwide.
What's the second story? Wagnerites are back, and they're being used just as we assessed - cannon fodder.
Summary
- There are updates to the war map
- While fighting remains intense, the situation in Kupyansk is stable
- Fighting continued near Svatove and Kreminna in the Luhansk region, with no change in the situation
- Ukrainian forces have made tactical advances east of Klishchiivka and Andriivka and marginal gains towards Opytne, Zelenopillya, and Kurdyumivka
- Wagnerites are back in the Klishchiivka AO but fighting for Storm-Z and at the bottom of the pile in the who is in charge hierarchy
- Chechen Akhmat is also back in the Klishchiivka AO as blocking troops for Storm-Z units
- Near Krasnohorivka, Russian forces reached as far as the railroad tracks east of Stepove but were pushed back
- The E-50 Highway Bridge that was destroyed on October 11 will have a significant impact on Russian logistics
- Russian forces also reached the approach of the terrikon north of the Avdiivka Coke Plant but were pushed back to Vesele
- Russian forces used thermite and white phosphorus munitions on Avdiivka
- Russian forces are trying to bypass Sivierne by advancing in the direction of Lastochkyne
- Russian forces attempted to advance in the direction of Pervomaiske and Nevelske from Pisky, and it was a disaster
- The Russian offensive in Avdiivka is now the third-largest loss of armored vehicles in 72 hours since February 24, 2022
- Fighting continued in and near Marinka, Pobieda, and Novomykhailivka
- In occupied Mariupol, someone set fire to the barracks of combat engineers
- In Zaporizhzhia, Russia and Ukraine engaged in the largest artillery duel since June 4
- Fighting continued at Verbove and Novoprokopivka with no changes
- Ukrainian forces made marginal gains west of Robotyne
- A fifth Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone struck Romania
- Kherson continues to be destroyed bomb by bomb and shell by shell, with OVA Alexander Prokudin making a deeply personal appeal for civilians to evacuate
- Russian forces shelled the Children’s Hospital in Kherson
- Ukrainian drones struck a factory in Bryansk, Russia
- Former reporter Marina Ovsyannikova, who lives in Paris after fleeing Moscow, was potentially poisoned as part of an assassination attempt
- The GUR confirms that one of their commandos was captured in Crimea on October 4
- Ukraine has developed IMF-compliant short-range ballistic missiles and has started production
- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Türkiye had promised to ratify Sweden’s accession to the Alliance
- The United States is preparing to transfer a “significant” number of Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones to Ukraine
- The Netherlands will transfer 12 to 18 F-16s to Romania in the "next few weeks” to support Ukrainian pilot training
Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for October 12 is live.
Marina Yevshan covers the events that happened on and off the battlefield.
- 01:35 Today's Assessment
- 03:46 Kharkiv
- 04:15 The Donbas - Luhansk
- 05:15 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
- 05:49 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
- 10:23 Zaporizhzhia
- 14:21 Black Sea
- 15:23 Odesa
- 15:57 Kherson
- 16:55 Central and Western Ukraine
- 1804 Northern Ukraine - Sumy
- 18:51 Russian Front
- 20:29 Theaterwide Events
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Comments
No, and there are huge risks of accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian air defense missile or, worse, a drone or aircraft. But at some point, you would think Romania would send a message by downing a Russian drone in Romanian air space.
Could NATO decide that firing down Russian missiles and drones over Ukraine would be justifiable to protect NATO borders? I.e., could they legitimately help with Ukraine defense, possibly from NATO borders?
Russia does not seem to understand that Ukraine also has Golda Meir’s secret weapon
