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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 20 NOV 2023 23:59* PST - General Bezdorizhzhia Has Arrived

Added 2023-11-21 09:27:15 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 538 is 47 pages and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Bezdorizhzhia, also known as roadlessness, has arrived with a vengeance in Ukraine, snarling tractability in almost every operational area.

What's the second story? Russia is redeploying and repositioning reserves across Ukraine.

Summary

There are map updates
The chart of Russian versus Ukrainian heavy equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database was updated on November 20, 2023
A significant change in weather patterns has brought bezdorizhzhia to Ukraine
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO, where Russian forces are starting to withdraw reserves for redeployment to Avdiivka
A Russian breach of OPSEC resulted in a logistics node in occupied Kreminna being shelled twice
Fighting continued south of Bakhmut near Klishchiivka and Andriivka
Fighting also continued near the approaches of the Krasnohorivka Plateau and the southeastern edge of Avdiivka
A Russian military commander reported that hospitals in Horlivka are receiving “massive arrivals” of wounded from Avdiivka
Fighting continued in western Marinka and near Pobieda
Russian forces made marginal gains south of Novomykhailivka
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Ukrainian forces were fighting in northwestern Verbove
A Russian counteroffensive near Robotyne was unsuccessful
Fighting continued on the left bank of the Dnipro and Konka Rivers, with Ukrainian forces slowly pushing back Russian troops away from free Kherson
Russia has moved up to two brigades of reserve forces to the Krynyk area of Kherson
The Ukrainian Air Force was able to bomb Russian targets in occupied Kherson near Tarasivka, 35 kilometers from the Dnipro River
Severe weather kept the Black Sea Fleet in port and closed the Kerch Strait Ferry crossing
Severe weather also damaged Russian defenses built near the intertidal zones of occupied Crimea
Ukrainian drones damaged two radars in the Kursk region of Russia
Ukrainian air defense shot down 10 of 11 Shahed-136 kamikaze drones and a ballistic missile
Almost 11,000 Points of Invincibility were opened across Ukraine
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine exposed a $1.7 million embezzlement scheme involving the leadership of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and other Ukrainian defense officials as part of an unannounced visit
The U.S. Department of Defense announced a $100 million military aid package for Ukraine
Two Russian officials from the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic were severely injured in a car bombing
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the creation of the Africa Corps
The International Committee of the Red Cross and Ukrainian officials accused Polish border guards of blocking humanitarian aid from entering Ukraine
The bodies of 94 Ukrainian servicemembers were repatriated from Russia
Finland will seal its border with Russia on the night of November 21 – 22, as border tension involving undocumented migrants escalates
Armenia has requested the CSTO Alliance to remove the documentation that would provide the country with mutual protection in future conflicts

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