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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 15 OCT 2023 23:59* - Not a Goodwill Gesture, but Something Else

Added 2023-10-16 10:49:31 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 520 is 40 pages long and combat only.

What's Happening

What's the big story? We've gone from it's a goodwill gesture to a withdrawal to more strategically advantageous positions to we never were conducting an offensive in the first place.

What's the second story? How could we have all possibly died at the same time? Huh. Explain that. The salmon mousse. (your EIC is utterly exhausted so you're getting tired brain soundbites)

Summary

There are no war map changes, and the widespread Russian offensives have provided new intelligence, enabling our team to improve the accuracy in many locations
Fighting intensified around Kupyansk
In Luhansk, Russian forces started offensive operations near Novoiehroivka, and fighting continued east of Makiivka
Was there a missile strike on a Russian training base near Luhansk?
The Russian 200th Arctic Brigade in Dubovo-Vasylivka might be experiencing some ammunition shortages after their supply was destroyed
Ukrainian forces continued to make marginal gains toward the T-513 Highway from Andriivka and Klishchiivka
Russian troops are reporting they’re experiencing artillery, command and control, and communication issues in the Klishchiivka AO
Intense fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
We had the “goodwill gesture” and “withdrawing to more strategically advantageous positions,” and now Russian President Vladimir Putin has provided a third explanation for a failed offensive
There are more reports of Russian morgues and hospitals in occupied Donetsk being overwhelmed
Near Stepne, a Russian TOS-1A MLRS system has been playing peek-a-boo with Ukrainian artillery – it lost
Insurgents in Mariupol claim that 26 Russian soldiers died and 15 were hospitalized from a sudden and shall we say – planned – case of food poisoning
Fighting continued south of Orikhiv
The IAEA reported that Rosatom is bringing a second reactor at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to hot shutdown
Russian forces continue to systematically destroy free Kherson
Three Russian soldiers have been arrested in occupied Kherson and are under investigation for murder
Russian missiles and drones struck Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Kirovohrad
A Russian transformer farm was struck by a Ukrainian drone in Belgorod, Russia
Ukraine is leasing air defense systems from allied nations through the winter months to better defend critical infrastructure

Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for October 15 is live.

Marina Yevshan covers the events that happened on and off the battlefield and Zarina Zabrisky provides an in-depth update on the Horza missile strike and the Kremlin's obsession with all things neo-Nazi.

01:37 Today's Assessment
04:14 Kharkiv
05:58 The Donbas - Luhansk
06:57 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
07:12 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
12:42 Zaporizhzhia
16:23 Black Sea
17:34 Kherson
19:10 Russian Front
19:35 Theaterwide Events
25:48 Executive producer and co-host Zarina Zabrisky - Hroza missile attack update with Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Kazantsev
32:03 Executive producer and co-host Zarina Zabrisky - the Kremlin's neo-Nazi obsession and why Ukraine's Jewish population is left out of the conversation with Canadian journalist Adam Zivo

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