Updated: Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 20 AUG 2023 23:59* - Now with 100% More SITREP

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This is Report 471, which is 44 pages and is a full report. 

Announcement

The Russia-Ukraine War Report Podcast will restart by September 5, 2023. We are finalizing the details this week.

What's the big story? F-16s are coming to Ukraine, and the first six could arrive before the end of 2023.

What's the second story? Ukrainian forces continue to make progress in the Robotyne Operational Area.

Summary

•  The target date for the restart of the Russia-Ukraine War Report Podcast is September 5
•  Positional fighting continued in Kharkiv and Luhansk
•  Recently released videos and pictures show a series of Russian attacks from July 23 to August 2 at Spirne catastrophically failed
•  The Ukrainian 92nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade has been reconstituted and is fighting on the southern edge of Bakhmut
•  The August 19 Russian attack on Klishchiivka catastrophically failed
•  Ukrainian forces made marginal gains south of Andriivka
•  Positional fighting and harassment attacks continued in the Avdiivka and Marinka areas of operation (AO)
•  Ukrainian forces are on the offensive from Marfopil to Nesterianka in Zaporizhzhia
•  Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting for control of the southern edge of Robotyne
•  The Shahed-136 kamikaze drone strike near Shpychynsti on the night of August 18 – 19 targeted a Soviet-era ammunition depot
•  On August 19, a Shahed-136 kamikaze drone hit a small oil depot in Lidivka in the Zhytomyr region
•  Russian forces used an Iskander-K ballistic cruise missile in its attack on Chernihiv and programmed it to explode while still in the air
•  Two Ukrainian drones targeted a Russian military base in Rostov
•  The drone attack on the Soltsy Military Airfield in Novgorod, Russia, destroyed one Tu-22M3 bomber and damaged a second one
•  Moscow was hit by severe flash flooding for the third time this summer due to thunderstorms, closing area airports, and train stations
•  Sources in Belarus confirmed that many Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner Group mercenaries have left due to pay disputes
•  The Netherlands announced that it would provide Ukraine with up to 42 F-16A Block 20 modification fighter planes
•  Denmark announced that it would provide Ukraine with 19 F-16A Block 20 modification fighter planes, with the first six available by the end of 2023
•  The Ukrainian Military Media Center reported that Ukrainian pilots have already been training to fly the F-16 for the last 70 to 90 days and that the first batch of pilots included women

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