Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 22 AUG 2023 23:59* - Russia Destroys Grain, Ukraine Destroys Military Targets (Patreon)

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This is Report 473, which is 49 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? Is it Crimea's fuel supply becoming critical? Russia taking radical steps to protect the Kerch (Crimean Bridge)? The radar stations and anti-ship battery at Olenivka destroyed? Take your pick!

What's the second story? Russia destroyed grain storage hangars at Izmail in a drone attack.

Bonus story? The Ukrainian 47th Brigade has started evacuating civilians from Robotyne, who have been in the village through all of it. Have a tissue.

Summary

•  Positional fighting continued in Kharkiv and Luhansk
•  Ukrainian forces made marginal gains in Klishchiivka and tactical gains at Andriivka
•  Russian sources claim that Russian troops in Pryyutne are at risk of encirclement
•  Fighting in the southeast corner of Robotyne continues as Ukraine starts to evacuate liberated civilians
•  The Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade released a video showing the successful demilitarization of their own tank
•  Another field grade officer of the 810th Naval Infantry was killed in action
•  Kryvyi Rih was hit by at least one Iskander ballistic missile
•  Rockets fired by HIMARS destroyed a Russian command and control post in occupied Tokmak
•  The International Atomic Energy Agency released an update about the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
•  The Russian corvette Cyclone, commissioned on July 12, 2023, is on its first combat patrol
•  Ukraine likely destroyed the Russian radar stations and anti-ship missile systems at Olenivka
•  Russian forces are preparing unconventional defenses for the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge
•  Occupation officials have made an emergency request to resorts, hotels, and inns to report on how much reserve  fuel they have for their emergency generators as fuel shortages expand 
•  Shahed-136 kamikaze drones attacked the Ukrainian ports of Izmail and Reni on the Romanian border
•  Ukrainian Beaver kamikaze drones attacked the Russian capital of Moscow 
•  A cargo ship carrying two 32-meter patrol boats for Ukraine crossed the Bosphorus Strait on its way to Romania - want to learn something interesting about the Montreux Convention
•  In cooperation with two NATO nations, Ukraine is producing thousands of 120 mm mortar rounds a month
•  Ukrainian pilots and technicians have already started training on the F-16 in Denmark
•  Croatia announced it was providing Ukraine with a 30 million euro military aid package
•  France reported that the “test batch” of SCALP-ER cruise missiles had been fully delivered to Ukraine
•  General of the Army Serhey Surovikin has reportedly been relieved of command of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS)
•  Russian soldiers with the 247th Parachute (VDV) Regiment rioted on August 20
•  Soldiers with the Russian 177th Naval Infantry Regiment abandoned their positions in Verbove
•  There was a fratricide incident between Russian soldiers with the 61st Separate Naval Infantry Brigade near Rybalche in occupied Kherson
•  Repeated Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow are disrupting military logistics
•  Russian Colonel Vladimir Kochetkov, commander of the Tartarstan Regiment No. 1232, died on August 17
•  Russian returned the bodies of 12 Ukrainian servicemembers who the International Committee of the Red Cross has documented as being prisoners of war
•  The number of Russian POWs in Ukrainian custody has grown so large that some Russian soldiers are being held by the Ministry of Justice
•  Ukraine and Poland will create joint border checkpoints that adhere to European Union standards
•  The BRICS New Development Bank has suspended its work with Russia due to international sanctions
•  17.7 million of Russia’s 75.6 million working-age population have defaulted on bank loans, a 23.3% increase from 2022

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