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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 30 SEP 2023 23:59* - Ukraine's Terrible, Awful, Lousy Day
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SITREP 511 is 55 pages long.
Housekeeping
I haven't shared the situation with my mother for months, and if you're new, she's in California, 93, and has been in and out of the hospital since late May, and June was wretched with my daughter, son, and mother in the hospital in three different states at the same time for different reasons. I had a pre-planned business trip to San Francisco next week, and mom has taken a turn for the worse. To the point that Dr. Mrs. Malcontent is joining me. At the most, bullet reports are on Monday and Tuesday. Thank you for your understanding.
What's Happening
What's the big story? It's temporary - for now - but United States Lend-Lease and additional military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine has ended, and Slovakia elected a pro-Russia isolationist prime minister.
What's the second story? Russia has shifted its tactics with drone and missile strikes, and Ukraine's capability to defend its airspace is fading.
Summary
- The table of Russian versus Ukrainian heavy military equipment losses, using information from the Oryx Database, has been updated through September 30, 2023
- Russian attack knocked out power to 28,000 homes in Kharkiv
- Russian counterattacks at Klishchiivka continue to fail
- Kramatorsk was attacked by missiles, striking a dormitory
- Kostyantynivka was bombed by the Russian VKS, damaging buildings and wounding two
- Russian forces launched attacks from the Krasnohorivka plateau, north of Avdiivka
- The Russian VKS destroyed a critical bridge in Velyka Novosilka
- There was a massive explosion in Russian-occupied Volnovakha
- Ukrainian artillery strikes increased significantly in Zaporizhzhia
- In the Hulyaipole area of operation (AO), Russian forces have been conducting offensive operations near Krasnoselivka
- Heavy fighting continued south of Orikhiv and near Kopani and Nesteriyanka
- The eastern edge of the city of Zaporizhzhia was hit by two missiles that struck “critical infrastructure”
- The International Atomic Energy Agency released an update on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- President Zelenskyy said Ukraine is the first nation in the world to create a fleet of naval drones
- The mayor of the Romanian city of Galati complained about air raid alerts
- Operational Command South of Ukraine stated it would be policy not to intercept drones or missiles that enter other country’s airspace
- The prime minister of Romania said that drone debris from Saturday’s border incursion has not been found
- Fighting continues on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson
- Russia continues to target civilians and civilian infrastructure in free Kherson, dropping 166 bombs in the last week
- An oil pipeline in the Ivano-Frankivsk region exploded, wounding nine, five critically
- A Russian radar station was destroyed in Kursk, Russia
- Ukrainian drones struck the city of Sochi, Russia
- Ukrainian drones struck the city of Smolensk, Russia
- Someone gave a microphone to the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, and it was what you expected
- The navy and GUR rescued two Ukrainian soldiers who had been behind enemy lines for 18 months
- Russia has damaged or destroyed 37 Ukrainian weapons factories since February 24, 2022
- The United States government passed a 48-day temporary spending bill that ends Lend-Lease and does not provide additional funding for military or humanitarian aid for Ukraine
- The Minister of Defense of France announced a new military aid package for Ukraine
- The Minister of Defense for the U.K. said London is considering moving British troops to Ukraine to provide military training
- The Czech Republic granted a license to Ukraine for the production of CZ BREN-2 assault rifles and supporting ammunition
- Baykar reported it was investing $100 million in Ukraine, and the planned drone factory will open within 18 months
- 119 Cuban nationals are in occupied Ukraine, receiving military training
- The GUR completed Operation Barinya, which facilitated the defection of a Russian military officer
- A Chechen soldier released a graphic video showing his maggot-infested wounds
- A squad of Russian soldiers made a video on September 19 stating if the video is released, “things went wrong”
- Russia is painting decoy Tu-95 bombers on the tarmac at Engels-2
- A monument to Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared in Tver at the plane crash site
- Russia is actively erasing its 1939 to 1941 World War II history
- Ukrainian war photographer Volodymyr Myronyuk was killed near Klishchiivka
- Belarus is holding meetings with foreign diplomats on the issue of deported Ukrainian children
- The United Nations will provide $123 million in humanitarian assistance
- Russia is wondering why it hasn’t received an invite to the November APEC summit in San Francisco
- Pro-Russian former Slovakia Robert Fico won reelection and has already established a coalition
- Finland has been quietly building defenses on its border with Russia
- Hungary said that Ukraine’s offer to suspend OTP Bank from the list of Russian war sponsors doesn’t go far enough and will not support any further EU military or humanitarian aid
Podcast
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for September 29 includes the War Report and Zarina Zabrisky
- 01:36 Today's Assessment
- 03:59 Kharkiv
- 05:08 Luhansk
- 05:34 Northeast Donetsk
- 06:17 Southwest Donetsk
- 08:19 Zaporizhzhia
- 09:02 Black Sea
- 10:23 Temporarily occupied Crimea
- 10:44: Kherson
- 11:45 Central and Western Ukraine
- 12:42 Russian Front
- 13:33 Belarusian Front
- 14:06 Theaterwide events
- 17:04 Russia - Mobiks Mobilization and Mir
- 20:08 War Crimes and Human Rights
- 23:08 Geopolitics
- 24:21 Zarina Zabrisky reports from Kherson
- 25:18 The 82nd anniversary of the Babyn Yar
- 26:17 Rabbi Yosef Y Wolff, Chief Rabbi of Kherson, on community support, Jewish life, and life under occupation
- 36:43 At the start of Russia's expansion of its war of aggression in Ukraine, there were widespread reports of racism - and just as fast as the reports appeared, they vanished. Canadian reporter Adam Zivo has focused on antisemitism, racism, and aggression against minority communities in Ukraine in his reporting and provides his insights on what is reality and what isn't.
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Comments
A slippery slope of providing medical diagnosis via video, so let me take off my journalist hat and put on my just-me hat. Further, none of this is the official position of Malcontent News, the board, or its analyst team. Strictly my opinion with assistance. Dr. Mrs. Malcontent, a real doctor, looked at it. I also did search and rescue for eight years and was trained (admittedly a lifetime ago) in outdoor medicine. It is impossible to make a full diagnosis on video alone. Our first thought on the hand wound was the maggots were being used to clean it out. The last wound on the leg, the deepest and worst one, shows significant signs of spreading deep infection. It is red and inflamed, and there are red bands starting to radiate from the wound site. That is not a good sign. Maggots are still used in a clinical setting in modern medicine, and there are sterilized "medical maggots" and they're very good at debridement of certain wounds, including with ongoing infection. But we kept going back to that third wound, and all the red radiating from it.
Those maggots may be saving his life. They can be used to clean wounds
Sad to hear about your mother’s health. Also sad about the developments in Ukraine. Wishing your family and Ukraine strength on this difficult times.
