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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 29 SEP 2023 23:59* - Another Border Incursion into Romania

Added 2023-09-30 10:23:08 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 510 is 42 pages long.

Housekeeping

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What's the big story? A Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone crossed into Romania and may have traveled as far as 21 kilometers into the nation's airspace. Additionally, Romania has accused Russia of jamming GPS signals in their territorial waters.

What's the second story? Our skepticism that Russia would announce mass mobilization in September was well placed, with the autumn conscription calling for 130,000 draftees.

Summary

There wasn’t any significant ground fighting in Kharkiv or Luhansk
Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka area of operation (AO)
There was positional fighting in southwest Donetsk
The Paradise Hotel in occupied Horlivka was destroyed by rockets fired by HIMARS while government officials and Russian troops were meeting
Heavy fighting continued in the Orikhiv area of operation
Russian air defenses shot down their own aircraft near Tokmak
The International Atomic Energy Agency signed a resolution calling for Russia to withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
A Russian Shahed-136 kamikaze drone violated Romanian airspace up to 21 kilometers deep
Romanian military leaders reported that Russia is jamming GPS signals in Romanian territorial waters
Russian launched 40 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones, with 30 shot down and one likely violating Romanian airspace
A Russian ballistic missile likely hit a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the Vinnytsia region
A Ukrainian drone destroyed an electrical substation in Kursk, Russia
A Kasta mobile radar system was destroyed in Kursk, Russia
Ukrainian DRG assault teams conducted border raids in Bryansk
Former senior Pentagon official Gregory Weaver wrote a paper for NATO saying the Alliance should be prepared for conflict with Russia, including nuclear war
Ukraine will start manufacturing its own air defense systems
Two men in the Kyiv region were arrested for hiding a Tor-1 air defense system with missiles retreating Russian troops left behind in March 2022
The autumn conscription has started in Russia, with 130,000 to be drafted – there was no mobilization order
Lieutenant Colonel Irek Magasumov, awarded Hero of Russia by President Putin on August 3, was arrested for the murder of an 18-year-old girl in Luhansk
Members of the Russian 34th Brigade are submitting dozens of complaints a day about not being permitted to go on leave or rotate
Russia is blocking multiple VPN services
Starting on October 3, Norway will ban the entry of cars with Russian vehicle registration

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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