Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 13 AUG 2023 23:55 - Cracks in Russian Defenses Have Turned Into Gaps

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This is Report 465, which is 48 pages, combat only.

What's the big story? Ukrainian forces are pushing through Russian defenses south of Orikhiv and we're cautiously optimistic.

What's the second story? The Russian Navy fired warning shots at a civilian cargo ship on the edge of Turkish waters, and boarded the vessel in the first enforcement action of the unofficial blockade.

Summary

•  Russian forces have not been able to make further gains at Synkivka despite using human wave attacks
•  Another 111 civilians evacuated from the Kupyansk raion
•  Fighting continued at Novoselivkse, Novojehorivka, and near Dzherelne
•  Russian forces launched a furious counteroffensive on Klishchiivka without success
•  Insurgents caused an explosion at the airport in Mariupol
•  Russian troops were fighting among themselves at the Santa Barbara Café in Mariupol
•  Fighting expanded south of Orikhiv, with Ukrainian forces consolidating gains near Verbove and advancing in Robotyne
•  Ukrainian troops went on the offensive at Kopani and Nesterianka, possibly breaching the first echelon of the Surovikin Line in a third location
•  Fuel shortages have spread to occupied Zaporizhzhia
•  The cargo ship Sukru Okan, which was bound for Izmail, Ukraine, was intercepted by a Russian warship and boarded near the territorial waters of Türkiye
•  Satellite images showed there was no new damage to the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge but revealed other problems
•  Odesa was attacked by 15 kamikaze drones and eight cruise missiles, with debris destroying a hypermarket
•  Seven civilians were killed, including a family of five, and at least ten were wounded by Russian artillery and bombing of free Kherson
•  The Ukrainian 39th Amphibious Assault Brigade has been transferred to Kherson
•  Drone or air defense missile debris damaged an apartment building in Belgorod, Russia
•  The commissariat office in Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk, Russia, was firebombed
•  Ukrainian forces have had to navigate minefields with up to five mines per square meter
•  Mine injuries are now the number two cause of Ukrainian casualties, behind artillery
•  Ukraine revealed its Furia uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV), which is being used in combat and has entered serial production

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