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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 24 SEP 2023 23:59* - Ukrainian Forces Enter Verbove

Added 2023-09-25 08:41:13 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 505 is 59 pages long and a full report.

What's the big story? Ukrainian forces enter Verbove as another Russian brigade becomes completely destroyed.

What's the second story? Russia and Ukraine trade drone (and for Russia missile) strikes.

What's the bonus story? Geopolitics was absolutely wild today. Remember your EIC's analysis that Russia could get sucked into a quagmire in Africa? About that.

Summary

There are updates to the war map
There are updates to the Notes on Sourcing Information
The table of Russia vs. Ukraine heavy equipment losses has been updated using data from the Oryx Database through September 24, 2023
Storm-Z penal units have reappeared in the Luhansk region
Heavy fighting continued south of Bakhmut
Operational Command East claims that fire control has been established on parts of the T-513 Highway
Fighting increased in the Avdiivka area of operation (AO)
Ukrainian forces are fighting within Verbove with armored vehicle support
Tokmak was attacked multiple times by rockets fired by HIMARS
Russia is intensifying its defense of the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Sevastopol
Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavskyi said the attacks in Crimea are subordinate to the ongoing offensive in Zaporizhzhia
Russia launched more than a dozen cruise missiles and 23 drones at Odesa, destroying an iconic but abandoned hotel and damaging the cruise ship terminal
Two people were killed and 11 wounded by Russian attacks on free Kherson
Moscow closed area airports twice due to reported drone attacks
Power was knocked out at Pulkovo Airport and in the Shushary District of St. Petersburg after an explosion
In Tula, Russia, local officials claim they shot down drones
In Kursk, Russia, the FSB headquarters building was struck by a drone
There were conflicting reports about a drone strike on Halino Military Airfield near Kursk
A drone-delivered IED struck a Russian military KamAZ truck in the village of Novy, Belgorod, Russia
Partisans vandalized a Russian troop war memorial in Pavlo-Fedorovka in Primorsky Krai, Russia
Near Kaluga, Russia, partisans destroyed four military trucks and semitrailers
Belarus sent groups of migrants to the border of Poland, where they harassed Polish troops
United States Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced he would not strip out military aid for Ukraine in two bills that are awaiting a vote in Congress
Germany will provide Ukraine with 50 uncrewed surface vessels
Ukraine and Poland announced they are creating a joint military-medical hub
Stealth mobilization of up to 20,000 men per month continues in Russia
Private Military Company Wagner Group’s memorial to mercenaries who died in Ukraine has more than 25,000 names on it
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is lowering recruiting standards due to a shortage of men
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the CSTO Alliance “ineffective”
Up to 500 former Wagnerites may return to Ukraine, employed by a new Kremlin-controlled PMC
The Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade is likely destroyed
The first Russian MT-LB with a naval A-22 Ogon 140 mm multiple launch rocket system grafted to it has been destroyed
Russia is ending development of the previously announced Zmeevik intermediate-range missile due to resource and budget constraints
Igor Streklov Girkin was severely beaten in Lefortovo Prison
Former Ukrainian POW Orest Hrytsyuk accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of being a participant in Russian human rights abuses
The international human rights group Global Rights Compliance is preparing a dossier of Russian war crimes to present to the International Criminal Court
A Russian bombing of Beryslav caused significant damage to a hospital
The illegitimate leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, issued a decree of draconian laws and restrictions
The Tuareg and Azawad movement has declared war on the Mali junta government and PMC Wagner Group
Up to 140 Malian soldiers and PMC Wagner mecenaries were killed when a chartered Il-76 transport plane was shot down near Gao, in Mali
Serbia and Kosovo are on the brink of war (there is no way to explain this in a bullet)
In Ireland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had an unscheduled meeting with the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burgan
PM of Armenia Pashinyan accused Russia of conducting hybrid warfare against his nation
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Polish issues of issuing thousands of fraudulent work visas to Asian and African migrants

Podcast

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