Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 27 SEP 2023 23:59* - The Report You Almost Didn't Get
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SITREP 508 is 37 pages long.
As you were waiting for your SITREP yesterday, wondering if something happened, we were furiously editing. To say that everyone is in low gear today would be an understatement. Today's report was compiled, edited, reviewed (hope you notice A LOT less typos the last couple of weeks) and sitting on my computer screen. I turned off the lights, walked down the hall, and out the door. Had I not got a question about scripting the report, I would have never realized. It never got sent!
What's the big story? It is possible a major Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed.
What's the second story? The missile strike on Sevastopol on September 13, that destroyed the Kursk and Rostov-on-Don, was worse - a lot worse.
Summary
- In Luhansk, there were pockets of fighting near Dibrova
- Russian forces attempted to advance on Hryhorivka
- Fighting continued east and north of Klishchiivka
- There wasn’t any significant fighting in the Avdiivka area of operation (AO)
- Marinka was Marinka
- Fighting restarted near Pryyutne
- The operational pause in the Orikhiv area continued, with significant artillery strikes
- Russian artillery and the VKS continue to batter free Kherson
- A Russian fuel depot in occupied Hola Prystan was destroyed
- Open-source intelligence suggests a large Ukrainian ammunition depot was hit by Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in Kirovohrad
- Ukraine named three new deputy ministers of defense
- Ukraine doesn’t see a need to accelerate mobilization – for now
- Russian engineers are building a railroad line from Taganrog to occupied Donetsk, and that could be trouble for Ukraine
- Bulgaria will send expired S-300 antiaircraft missiles to Ukraine, which will be refurbished
- President Putin officially bans State Duma deputies from traveling to the occupied territories
- Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Volynkin was arrested for abuse of power and bribery
- The September 13 missile strike on the LLS Minsk and the Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don very likely wounded and killed crew members of both vessels
- Magyar used his magic pointer to make a Russian D-44 artillery piece vanish
- President Putin says to fix the oil crisis in Russia faster
Podcast
The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for September 27 includes the War Report and interviews with Zarina Zabrisky.
- 01:38 Today's Assessment
- 04:06 Luhansk
- 05:50 Northeast Donetsk
- 06:45 Southwest Donetsk
- 07:43 Zaporizhzhia
- 08:57 Temporarily occupied Crimea
- 10:18 Odesa and the Ukraine-Romania border
- 12:33: Kherson
- 13:13: Kherson update with executive producer and co-host Zarina Zabrisky
- 17:00 Central and Western Ukraine
- 17:30 Russian Front
- 18:36 Theaterwide events
- 25:30 Russia - Mobiks Mobilization and Mir
- 33:42 Zarina Zabrisky talks with award-winning Swedish foreign correspondent Johan Fredriksson at TV4 news about conflict journalism and a drone attack his news crew recently survived near the fighting in Zaporizhzhia
- 38:03 Recognized by Ukrainian President Volodmyry Zelenskyy, award-winning Ukrainian producer, and journalist Alexander Pavlov discusses his transition from documentarian to war correspondent and being injured near the front lines
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Comments
Kazakhstan is going to adopt the international sanctions against Russia - so another CSTO nation is starting to pull away.
2023-09-29 02:13:13 +0000 UTCEven more intriguing then. Putin is not stupid and I do not believe for a nanosecond that he thinks this is good economic policy. He must know too that his friends in the EU will not appreciate the move and I am looking forward to Ukrainian memes thanking Russia for the natural gas. Unless the restrictions are lifted soon I think it is possible to infer more economic turmoil inside Russia than we are outwardly seeing. As with Nagorno Karabagh, he seems to be choosing between bad options and the fallout with this Armenia situation is not over by any stretch of the imagination.
AnaR737
2023-09-28 21:43:36 +0000 UTCThe irony of the ban is that is impacts countries like Hungary and Serbia, who fought for exemptions to keep buying Russian fuel products harder. Another ironic twist related to natural gas. Europe has reached natural gas storage capacity two months early, but the gas from Russia that flows through Ukraine to Europe (irony) needs to go - somewhere. So it's building up now - in Ukrainian storage tanks. Russian natural gas will help keep Ukrainians warm this winter.
2023-09-28 19:29:35 +0000 UTCTalk about self-defeating. I am truly astonished by this development. We will have to see how it goes but export restrictions on your main source of hard currency is a bad economic recipe that I have seen play out again and again in my country. It does not lead to good things.
AnaR737
2023-09-28 18:34:23 +0000 UTC
