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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 23 OCT 2023 22:30 PDT - It's Hell

Added 2023-10-24 05:41:58 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 529 is 44 pages long, and combat only.

What's Happening

What's the big story? It is absolute Hell in Avdiivka as Russia switches tactics again and goes full World War I, jump over the wire and charge.

What's the second story? It has become impossible to ignore - something appears to be brewing in Kherson. But it is a deception?

Summary

Fighting continues in the Dibrova area
Russian forces are continuing attacks in the direction of Bohdanivka from the Berkhivka and Khromove
Ukrainian advance confirmed east of Andriivka
Russian advance toward Stepove
Russian forces are using human wave tactics in Avdiivka, exceeding anything previously seen
Assessment: Ukraine must hold the Avdiivka AO
Russian forces are throwing wave after wave of light infantry at the terrikon north of Avdiivka Coke Plant
Fighting continued at Marinka, Pobieda, and Novomykhailivka
Russian forces continued to try and advance from Novomaiorske and Novodonetske
In the Orikhiv AO, Russia launched counterattacks at Verbove, Robotyne, and Novoprokopivka
Russian Engineering teams in Tokmak, building new defenses, hit by Ukrainian artillery
Russian commanders have transferred multiple units to the left bank of the Dnipro River
Ukraine announced a mandatory forced evacuation of all settlements on the bank of the Dnipro River east of Kherson to Beryslav
Ukrainian forces expanded their positions on the east bank of the Dnipro River
Assessment: it is getting hard to deny that something is brewing in the Kherson region
Partisans blew up an electrical substation in the Ufa region of Russia, causing major damage
Errors and Omissions - Theaterwide
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute states the obvious – Ukraine has received enough “not to lose” but not enough “to win”
Our analysts have been saying that the tank coalition was announced
President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the protocol on the accession of Sweden to the NATO Alliance in June 2023 and has forwarded it to Parliament for a vote
Hungary blocked a European Union 500 million euro military aid package for Ukraine

Malcontent News Russia Ukraine War Podcast for today is live.

Marina Yevshan covers the events that happened on and off the battlefield and Zarina Zabrisky reports from Kherson.

01:33 Today's Assessment
03:51 Kharkiv
05:47 The Donbas - Luhansk
06:49 The Donbas - Northeast Donetsk
07:32 The Donbas - Southwest Donetsk
10:34 Zaporizhzhia
10:58 Odesa
11:30Kherson
13:28 Russian Front
14:46 Theaterwide
17:11 Zarina Zabrisky reports from the war-torn city of Kherson and shares how secret theaters maintain a sense of normalcy and demonstrate the unbreakable spirit of Ukrainians
21:03 Zarina Zabrisky interviews a Kharkiv resident about the Russian missile strike on the Nova Poshta distribution center

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