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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 24-26 DEC 2023 23:55 PST - Storm Shadow Missiles Strike Occupied Feodosia

Added 2023-12-27 08:28:48 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 566 is 61 pages long.

What's Happening

What's the big story? A lot more information on the Storm Shadow missile strike on occupied Feodosia.

What's the second story? Russia is accused of using chemical weapons.

What's the bonus story? There is some strange news in the Putin's Purge section.

Summary

There are map updates
There are assessment updates
The table of Ukrainian vs. Russian heavy equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database has been updated through December 26, 2023
There are rumor updates
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
In the Kreminna AO, Russian forces made a tactically significant advance in the direction of Terny
Intense fighting was ongoing in the Serebryanskiy Woods
In the Soledar AO, Russian forces made new attempts to advance on Vesele
In the Bakhmut AO, Russian forces made marginal gains north of Bohdanivka
Russian forces made tactically significant advances toward Ivanivske
Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
Fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO, where Ukrainian forces stabilized their defensive lines
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Zaluzhnyi, issued a somber assessment
General Zaluzhnyi reported that Ukrainian forces withdrew from Marinka
Geolocated video showed that fighting continued in Marinka
Fighting continues south and east of Novomykhailivka
Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
Russian forces are accused of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops in Robotyne
Fighting continued in and south of Krynky in Kherson
Russian forces are constantly attacking the civilian population of free Kherson
A Storm Shadow Missile strike on the occupied port of Feodosia sank the large Russian landing Ship Novocherkassk, the training vessel UTS-150, and damaged the seagoing tugboat MB-304
Russian air defenses were active in the Krasnodar Krai and Rostov regions
The self-declared President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, felt compelled to remind the world that he has Russian nukes stored in his country
Over the last three days, Russia has launched 65 Shahed-136 one-way drones at Ukraine
Part of Ukraine’s military objectives for 2024 is to hold existing defensive lines and inflict as many casualties as possible
General Zaluzhnyi reveals what he got wrong in 2023
Zaluzhnyi vows to learn from the mistakes of 2023 and to fight differently
The Verkhovna Rada is considering legislation to conscript up to 500,000, reduce the minimum age for conscription to 25, and cap mobilization at 36 months
Zaluzhnyi vows to end the practice of sending undertrained troops to the frontline to preserve human capital
The first group of Ukrainian pilots have completed basic F-16 training in the United Kingdom and have started advanced training in Denmark
Russian commander Alexander Khodakovsky carefully criticizes the Russian “special military operation”
Russia continues to round up recently naturalized citizens for military service
A wounded Russian soldier didn’t get his 3 million roubles or medical care, but he did get something for his disability
Almost $175 million in scope and gun sights from mostly the United States have been transferred to Russia through straw purchases
The Russian 1st Army Corps Cascade drone company is reportedly being disbanded
Alexey Navalny has been sent to the most remote penal colony in Russia – Polar Wolf
Russia is refusing to recognize the presidential candidacy of Putin's opponent, Ekaterina Duntsova
Retired GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov was fined 50,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian army and is facing new charges
Russian actress, blogger, and TV host Nastya Ivleeva is under criminal investigation and facing a one-billion rouble lawsuit for her naked party in Moscow
Russian rapper Vasio has been arrested and is being held for 15 days for his participation in the naked party
In Moscow, 16 people were arrested for participating in an orgy at a shopping mall bathhouse
The acting director of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Vaccines and Serums was arrested
Russian propagandist Anton Krasovsky, who is in the hospital allegedly after being poisoned, is under criminal investigation after the body of actor Alexei Chernykh was found in his apartment
Ukraine publicly published a list of Russian POWs who are in custody that Moscow will not acknowledge are alive
Russia shelled the Kherson train station as 140 civilians waited to evacuate the city
The Commission on International Affairs of the Parliament of Türkiye approved the ratification protocol on the admission of Sweden to NATO

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