Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 01 SEP 2023 23:59* - The Accelerating Offensive at Orikhiv

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This is Report 484, which is 52 pages and is combat only.

What's the big story? Russian forces are under tremendous strain from Robotyne to Verbove, and we have a deep analysis of why things are working and what we believe is next. 

What's the second story? Glum Russian milbloggers are starting to report there are problems theaterwide, especially at Staromlynivka, where GSAFU has locked down operational security, and Russians believe conditions are being set for a subordinate operation.

Did we mention the podcast restarts on September 6?

Summary

•  The table of Russian vs. Ukrainian equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database was updated on September 1
•  Russian forces suffered heavy losses during a failed August 31 offensive on Novojehorivka
•  Ukrainian Special Operational Forces (SSO) captured 21 Russian soldiers near Bilohorivka [Luhansk]
•  Russia has moved new units comprised of Storm-Z penal soldiers and hastily assembled mobiks to Luhansk
•  A Ukrainian attack in Svatove destroyed 12 Russian tanker trucks full of fuel
•  Ukrainian forces advancing from the west and the center of Klishchiivka
•  A Russian logistics and supply node in occupied Dolomitne was destroyed
•  Russian forces in Novomaiorske, Novodonetske, and Kermenchyk have been constantly attacked by artillery for four days
•  Ukrainian forces made marginal gains toward Novoprokopivka and are expanding the breach of the Surovikin Line west of Verbove
•  Fighting continues in Klishchiivka, Andriivka, and Kurdyumivka
•  Ukrainian forces are flanking Novopokrovka from the south
•  Russian sources are reporting they are retreating from south of Robotyne and are outgunned by Ukrainian artillery
•  Russian attempts to flank the Orikhiv salient at Nesteryanka and Kopani have ended
•  Fuel shortages are spreading through occupied Zaporizhzhia and have become critical in Melitopol
•  International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors were successfully rotated at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
•  IAEA inspectors were still blocked from inspecting some areas of ZNPP and observed Russian military trucks parked in Turbine Hall 1
•  Russian Ministry of Defense (RMOD) claims that three Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) attempting to strike the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge were intercepted
•  Vinnytsia Oblast Administrative and Military Governor (OVA Serhiy Borzov reported three people were wounded in Vinnytsia by a Russian missile strike
•  Four people were wounded in Seredino-Budsk after tubed and barrel artillery attacks and an airstrike
•  At least 152 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia in August, almost double the number from July
•  A Ukrainian drone did not strike the Russian electronics factory in Lyubertsy
•  Belarus accused Poland of violating its airspace
•  The Russian RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile entered service ten months after Russia said it had entered service
•  Former Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District and Russian State Duma Deputy Viktor Sobolev advocated for the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine
•  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a Stavka that included a secret briefing by the head of the Main Defense Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov
•  The head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, Oleksii Danilov, said that the names of doctors who provided fake medical exemptions and the recipients will be made public
•  Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleskii Reznikov, has been hit with another scandal, with an investigation determining that a contract was approved for one-million rations worth $11.6 million that did not meet the legal standard for food
•  Ukrainian company Metinvest has created portable anti-drone cages for self-propelled howitzers (SPGs)
•  NSDC head Danilov said Ukraine had developed weapons with a 1,500-kilometer range
•  Ukraine is receiving 110 Slinger anti-drone systems from the Australian company Electro Optic Systems

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