Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 24 SEP 2023 23:59* - Ukrainian Forces Enter Verbove (Patreon)

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SITREP 505 is 59 pages long and a full report.

What's the big story? Ukrainian forces enter Verbove as another Russian brigade becomes completely destroyed.

What's the second story? Russia and Ukraine trade drone (and for Russia missile) strikes.

What's the bonus story? Geopolitics was absolutely wild today. Remember your EIC's analysis that Russia could get sucked into a quagmire in Africa? About that.

Summary

•  There are updates to the war map
•  There are updates to the Notes on Sourcing Information
•  The table of Russia vs. Ukraine heavy equipment losses has been updated using data from the Oryx Database through September 24, 2023
•  Storm-Z penal units have reappeared in the Luhansk region
•  Heavy fighting continued south of Bakhmut
•  Operational Command East claims that fire control has been established on parts of the T-513 Highway
•  Fighting increased in the Avdiivka area of operation (AO)
•  Ukrainian forces are fighting within Verbove with armored vehicle support
•  Tokmak was attacked multiple times by rockets fired by HIMARS
•  Russia is intensifying its defense of the Kerch (Crimean) Bridge and the entrance to the Port of Sevastopol
•  Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavskyi said the attacks in Crimea are subordinate to the ongoing offensive in Zaporizhzhia
•  Russia launched more than a dozen cruise missiles and 23 drones at Odesa, destroying an iconic but abandoned hotel and damaging the cruise ship terminal
•  Two people were killed and 11 wounded by Russian attacks on free Kherson
•  Moscow closed area airports twice due to reported drone attacks
•  Power was knocked out at Pulkovo Airport and in the Shushary District of St. Petersburg after an explosion
•  In Tula, Russia, local officials claim they shot down drones
•  In Kursk, Russia, the FSB headquarters building was struck by a drone
•  There were conflicting reports about a drone strike on Halino Military Airfield near Kursk
•  A drone-delivered IED struck a Russian military KamAZ truck in the village of Novy, Belgorod, Russia
•  Partisans vandalized a Russian troop war memorial in Pavlo-Fedorovka in Primorsky Krai, Russia
•  Near Kaluga, Russia, partisans destroyed four military trucks and semitrailers
•  Belarus sent groups of migrants to the border of Poland, where they harassed Polish troops
•  United States Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced he would not strip out military aid for Ukraine in two bills that are awaiting a vote in Congress
•  Germany will provide Ukraine with 50 uncrewed surface vessels
•  Ukraine and Poland announced they are creating a joint military-medical hub
•  Stealth mobilization of up to 20,000 men per month continues in Russia
•  Private Military Company Wagner Group’s memorial to mercenaries who died in Ukraine has more than 25,000 names on it
•  The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is lowering recruiting standards due to a shortage of men
•  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the CSTO Alliance “ineffective”
•  Up to 500 former Wagnerites may return to Ukraine, employed by a new Kremlin-controlled PMC
•  The Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade is likely destroyed
•  The first Russian MT-LB with a naval A-22 Ogon 140 mm multiple launch rocket system grafted to it has been destroyed
•  Russia is ending development of the previously announced Zmeevik intermediate-range missile due to resource and budget constraints
•  Igor Streklov Girkin was severely beaten in Lefortovo Prison
•  Former Ukrainian POW Orest Hrytsyuk accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of being a participant in Russian human rights abuses
•  The international human rights group Global Rights Compliance is preparing a dossier of Russian war crimes to present to the International Criminal Court
•  A Russian bombing of Beryslav caused significant damage to a hospital
•  The illegitimate leader of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, issued a decree of draconian laws and restrictions
•  The Tuareg and Azawad movement has declared war on the Mali junta government and PMC Wagner Group
•  Up to 140 Malian soldiers and PMC Wagner mecenaries were killed when a chartered Il-76 transport plane was shot down near Gao, in Mali
•  Serbia and Kosovo are on the brink of war (there is no way to explain this in a bullet)
•  In Ireland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had an unscheduled meeting with the Chairman of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burgan
•  PM of Armenia Pashinyan accused Russia of conducting hybrid warfare against his nation
•  German Chancellor Olaf Scholz accused Polish issues of issuing thousands of fraudulent work visas to Asian and African migrants

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The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for September 24 includes the weekend war report for Marina Yevshan.

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