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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 10 DEC 2023 23:59* PST - The Word Betrayal Starts to Come to Mind

Added 2023-12-11 10:54:58 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 556 is 65 pages and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Russian forces made tactically significant gains in multiple areas of operation, and Ukrainian troops have been forced to ration ammunition.

What's the second story? Although Ukrainian officials aren't officially saying they were Kh-47 Kinzhal air-to-surface ballistic missiles, it looks like Patriot air defense systems in Kyiv went eight for eight against Russia's wonder weapon.

What's the bonus story? The whole world is a chessboard, and Ukraine is a pawn for multiple nations - geopolitics spanning four continents with continued aid from the E.U. and the U.S. on the brink.

Summary

There are assessment updates
There are map updates
There are operational objectives updates
There are rumor updates
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
Russian forces made marginal gains toward Yampolivka
Ukrainian forces made marginal gains west and southwest of Dibrova
Russian forces made tactically significant gains south of Kuzmyne
In the Soledar AO, Russian forces made tactically significant gains near Rozdolivka and marginal gains near Vesele
Russian forces attacked in the direction of Hryhorivka
Russian forces made tactically significant gains at Bohdahnivka, Khromove, and in the direction of Ivanivske
Russian forces attacked in the direction of Chasiv Yar
Fighting continued for control of the 215-meter heights of Klishchiivka and east of Andriivka
Russian forces attempted to advance from Novobakhmutivka
Russian forces attempted to advance on Stepove and the Avdiivka Coke Plant
Russian forces advanced into the dachas east of the Avdiivka sewage treatment plant
Russian forces continue to fight for control of the industrial district in southeast Avdiivka
Fighting continued in the Vodyane no man’s land and near Pervomaiske
Russian forces raised another flag in western Marinka
Russian forces attempted to advance on Pobieda
Russian forces reached the eastern edge of Novomykhailivka and suffered heavy losses before retreating
Russian forces attempted to advance on the Vuhledar coal mine complex
Russian forces attacked west of Verbove
Russian forces made tactically significant gains south of Robotyne
Ukrainian forces reportedly landed in Bilohrudove on the left bank of the Dnipro River
Fighting continued on the southern edge of Krynky, with Russian forces suffering significant losses
Zarina Zabrisky recorded Shahed-136 one-way drones over Kherson
Russia launched eight ballistic missiles at Kyiv – all were intercepted with debris wounding seven people
Russia launched 18 Shahed-136 one-way drones with debris landing in Mykolaiv Oblast
The GUR evacuated 315 people from the Gaza Strip, including nine Moldovans and two Ukrainian spies
General Micael Bydén, Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces, conducted a frontline inspection of the Ukrainian 45th Separate Artillery Brigade
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said Ukraine’s accession to the E.U. will take some time
NATO hopes to have Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and the Balkan states join the alliance “in the coming years”
There’s a global shortage of gunpowder
A Polish M120 SPG was spotted in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Germany pledges to provide 200,000 155 mm artillery rounds to Ukraine in 2024
UK defense company BAE Systems announced that it will be able to produce 1.5 million artillery shells “in the near future”
On Sunday, Representatives of the PM of Hungary, Viktor Orban, met with anti-Ukrainian Congresspersons hosted by the Heritage Foundation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the U.S. Senate, House Speaker Johnson, and President Biden over the next two days as U.S. aid approaches its end
President Putin has ordered Russian troops to capture the Kupyansk and Avdiivka AOs by March 13, 2024
Russian military police arrested a deserter in Armenia
Russia is looking for a Syrian mobik they sought to deport who is now on the run
Mobiks from the Republic of Tatarstan have been imprisoned after rioting against their commanders
A mother of a Storm-Z penal solider has gone public about his unit’s maltreatment
Video shows fresh Russian contract soldiers from Cuba arriving in Ukraine
PM of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu left a War Cabinet meeting to take a phone call from President Putin
Finland has refused to extradite accused Russian war criminal Jan Petrovsky to Ukraine, and he will likely be deported back to Russia
Twenty-thousand adult civilians and almost 20,000 children are illegally detained in Russia and the occupied territories
Former illegal child deportee Bohdan Yermokhin talked about his time under Russian control
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged four Russians with war crimes for the extreme torture of a non-combatant U.S. citizen in April 2022
The body of a 15-year-old girl killed by Russian soldiers in March 2022 was returned to Ukraine
Nine more children, one with their guardians, were repatriated to Ukraine
President Zelenskyy attended the inauguration of the President of Argentina, Javier Milei
Zelenskyy met with the presidents of Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador
Zelenskyy and Orban had a chat on the floor of the Senate of Argentina
Incoming PM of Poland, Donald Tusk, vowed to end the border blockade where 3,500 trucks are currently stuck
Ukrainian truck drivers launched a counterprotest, blockading car traffic at the Polish border
The Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia announced they will blockade the Ukrainian border at one crossing
Hungary told Ukraine they would prevent a planned border blockade
A Saudi Prince with ties to the Saudi GIP and President Putin died a day after Putin visited Riyadh
Moscow rejected a “significant offer” to exchange Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan
Sweden and the U.S. signed a joint defense agreement
Türkiye continues to block Sweden’s accession to the NATO Alliance
The White House warned that the U.S. only has $1 billion left to replenish its own ammunition stocks
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres found a new way to anger Ukrainian officials
A German-owned tanker with Russian oil products arrived in Norfolk, Virginia, despite sanctions

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