Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 27 SEP 2023 23:59* - The Report You Almost Didn't Get (Patreon)

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SITREP 508 is 37 pages long.

As you were waiting for your SITREP yesterday, wondering if something happened, we were furiously editing. To say that everyone is in low gear today would be an understatement. Today's report was compiled, edited, reviewed (hope you notice A LOT less typos the last couple of weeks) and sitting on my computer screen. I turned off the lights, walked down the hall, and out the door. Had I not got a question about scripting the report, I would have never realized. It never got sent!

What's the big story? It is possible a major Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed.

What's the second story? The missile strike on Sevastopol on September 13, that destroyed the Kursk and Rostov-on-Don, was worse - a lot worse.

Summary

•  In Luhansk, there were pockets of fighting near Dibrova
•  Russian forces attempted to advance on Hryhorivka
•  Fighting continued east and north of Klishchiivka
•  There wasn’t any significant fighting in the Avdiivka area of operation (AO)
•  Marinka was Marinka
•  Fighting restarted near Pryyutne
•  The operational pause in the Orikhiv area continued, with significant artillery strikes
•  Russian artillery and the VKS continue to batter free Kherson
•  A Russian fuel depot in occupied Hola Prystan was destroyed
•  Open-source intelligence suggests a large Ukrainian ammunition depot was hit by Shahed-136 kamikaze drones in Kirovohrad
•  Ukraine named three new deputy ministers of defense
•  Ukraine doesn’t see a need to accelerate mobilization – for now
•  Russian engineers are building a railroad line from Taganrog to occupied Donetsk, and that could be trouble for Ukraine
•  Bulgaria will send expired S-300 antiaircraft missiles to Ukraine, which will be refurbished
•  President Putin officially bans State Duma deputies from traveling to the occupied territories 
•  Russian Lieutenant General Oleg Volynkin was arrested for abuse of power and bribery
•  The September 13 missile strike on the LLS Minsk and the Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don very likely wounded and killed crew members of both vessels
•  Magyar used his magic pointer to make a Russian D-44 artillery piece vanish
•  President Putin says to fix the oil crisis in Russia faster

Podcast

The Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for September 27 includes the War Report and interviews with Zarina Zabrisky.

• 01:38 Today's Assessment
• 04:06 Luhansk
• 05:50 Northeast Donetsk
• 06:45 Southwest Donetsk
• 07:43 Zaporizhzhia
• 08:57 Temporarily occupied Crimea
• 10:18 Odesa and the Ukraine-Romania border
• 12:33: Kherson
• 13:13: Kherson update with executive producer and co-host Zarina Zabrisky
• 17:00 Central and Western Ukraine
• 17:30 Russian Front
• 18:36 Theaterwide events
• 25:30 Russia - Mobiks Mobilization and Mir
• 33:42 Zarina Zabrisky talks with award-winning Swedish foreign correspondent Johan Fredriksson at TV4 news about conflict journalism and a drone attack his news crew recently survived near the fighting in Zaporizhzhia
• 38:03 Recognized by Ukrainian President Volodmyry Zelenskyy, award-winning Ukrainian producer, and journalist Alexander Pavlov discusses his transition from documentarian to war correspondent and being injured near the front lines

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