Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 06 AUG 2023 23:59* - Pure Evil

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What's the big story? Ukrainian missile strikes on Chongar and Henichesk further isolated Russian occupied Crimea, causing major damage to the road bridge at Henichesk and closing both road bridges at Chongar.

What's the second story? Ukrainian forces are expanding their presence on the left (east) bank of the Dnipro River and Russia is responding the only way they know how, killing civilians in the city of Kherson.

Editor's Note: This has been a rough 7 to 10 day run in the war crime section. Send a thought out to the team because everyone is pretty drained. It's been a long time since we've documented one atrocity after another. 

Summary

• The table of Ukrainian vs. Russian military equipment losses using information from the Oryx Database was updated on August 6, 2023
•  Russian forces maintained offensive operations in the area of Synkivka and Vilshana
•  Russian forces have not captured Novoselivkse, where fighting continued
•  Ukrainian forces advanced 1,000 meters in the direction of Kovalivka, retaking the heights that overlook the Zherbets River
•  Intense positional fighting continued in the Serebryanskyy Woods and the area of Bilohorivka
•  A Russian ammunition depot in Zaitseve was destroyed
•  Russian forces appear to be preparing to fall back east of the T-513 Highway by building new defensive networks
•  Fighting continued in the area of Avdiivka and Marinka
•  Ukrainian forces tried to cross the Mokri Yaly River west of Urozhaine
•  Russian forces reinforced their defensive positions at Pryyutne
•  Fighting continued in the Robotyne-Verbove area
•  The Ukrainian Air Force severely damaged the bridge that connects occupied Crimea and Zaporizhzhia at Henichesk and destroyed the gas pipeline using French SCALP-EG air-to-ground cruise missiles
•  The Ukrainian Air Force moderately damaged both road bridges that connect occupied Crimea and Zaporizhzhia at Chongar using French SCALP-EG air-to-ground cruise missiles
•  The attack on the bridges between Crimea and Zaporizhzhia occurred hours after the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed they destroyed the Ukrainian Starokostyantyniv Military Airfield
•  The Russian-flagged oil tanker SIG has developed a visible oil slick as repair efforts continue
•  Russia is struggling to keep the large landing ship Olenegorski Gornyak from sinking
•  An unknown drone was shot down near Moscow, suspending commercial air traffic at Vnukovo International Airport
•  A commissariat office in the Oryol region of Russia was firebombed
•  Tensions between Belarus and Poland continue to rise
•  Kyiv and Moscow denied a Wall Street Journal Report that Ukraine was ready to start negotiations even if Russian troops remained on Ukrainian soil
•  Russia is reportedly planning to build 18,000 to 24,000 medium and large drones in 2024 by expanding its manufacturing capacity
•  Ukraine became the first nation in the world to use heavy-lift uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV) to evacuate wounded soldiers from the front
•  Social Democratic Party of Germany member Andreas Schwarz called for the Scholz government to provide Ukraine with Taurus air-to-surface cruise missiles
•  A Russian milblogger reported that refurbished Russian main battle tanks (MBT) and medium-duty tanks (MDT) are arriving in Ukraine without Kontakt-1 reactive armor or empty containers, despite having certificates claiming it was installed
•  Members of the former 1st Army Corps of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) have taken to social media to complain that the Kremlin has withheld issuing state awards and medals to any of their fighters
•  Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the New York Times the upcoming 2024 elections in Russia are “a costly bureaucracy” as Russian President Vladimir Putin is destined to receive 90% of the vote
•  Up to eight people in their teens and twenties beat two disabled Russian soldiers in the Trans-Baikal Region of Russia, hospitalizing one, with two people in the mob arrested
•  PMC Wagner Group mercenaries who fought in the Donbas after May 10, 2014, are eligible for combat veteran benefits
•  Igor Strelkov Girkin’s wife provided a report on the conditions he is being held in at Lefortovo Prison
•  A graphic video has emerged showing Russian troops torturing a bound Ukrainian soldier with an axe while holding a rifle to his temple
•  Russia and Ukraine reopened the Pokrovka checkpoint between Sumy and Belgorod, with Ukrainian citizens who wanted to leave Russia now crossing the border into free Ukraine
•  PMC Wagner Group is deploying mercenaries to Niger as the ECOWAS deadline for the coup leaders to return power to the elected leaders of the west African nation passes

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