Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 18 AUG 2023 23:55 - Podcast is Coming Back (Patreon)

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This is Report 470, which is 44 pages combat only with a special report.

We are very hopeful that we will be able to introduce a new host for the podcast within the next 7 to 10 days, with it restarting in September. Thank you to everyone for your support and patience. It is deeply appreciated. 

What's the big story? The New York Times and Washington Post released stories today, and we explain why both stories are problematic.

What's the second story? There is a real problem that neither publication covered, and that is the quality of individual first aid kits being issued to Ukrainian troops. We explain what the controversy is.

Summary

•  Podcast restarts by the second week of September
•  About the stores in the New York Times and Washington Post today
•  Positional fighting continued in Kharkiv and Luhansk
•  Fighting south of Bakhmut continues with no changes
•  Russian forces renew offensive efforts near the Krasnohorivka plateau
•  Marinka has been erased from the face of the earth, but fighting continues
•  A Ukrainian attack east of Urozhaine catastrophically fails
•  Large convoys move through Mariupol
•  Ukrainian forces control an estimated 75% of Robotyne based on geolocated videos
•  The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs building in occupied Enerhodar was heavily damaged, with casualties
•  Bulgarian Minister of Defense warned that Russian aggression in the Black Sea could result in a direct conflict with NATO forces
•  Russia claims it shot down a Ukrainian S-200 antiaircraft missile modified for a ground attack over Crimea
•  Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, reported that 11 sections of the “upper part” of the Kakhovka Dam were destroyed
•  At least one Shahed-136 kamikaze drone struck near a civilian area in Khmelnytskyi
•  In Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, someone raised the Ukrainian flag over the FSB headquarters building
•  Special report – individual first aid kit controversy
•  Did we mention podcast restarts the second week of September

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