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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 07 FEB 2024 23:59* PST - Brace Yourselves

Added 2024-02-08 10:25:34 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 597 is 58 pages long and combat only due to how much battlefield activity is going on.

What's Happening

What's the big story? The truth? Ukrainian units are reporting they are completely out of artillery ammunition and Russia made significant advances in the Avdiivka, Marinka, and Vuhledar AOs.

What's the second story? We we're going to cover this yesterday, but missile attacks. Russia is getting completely ripped off by Iran.

Summary

There are map updates
There are assessment updates
There are rumor updates
Russian forces made tactically significant advances in three areas of operation
The situation in Avdiivka has deteriorated significantly
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
Ukraine confirmed that Russia used North Korean-source Kn-23 SRBMs to attack Kharkiv
Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
Fighting continued in the Lysychansk AO, with Ukrainian artillery units catastrophically low on ammunition
Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
Fighting has become light in the Klishchiivka AO
Fighting has been ongoing in the Toresk-Niu York AO on the end of Horlivka since January
In the Avdiivka AO, Russian forces failed to advance on Novobakhmutivka and Stepove
Russian forces continue to advance into northern Avdiivka and occupy 15% of the city
We analyzed another video from southwest and western Avdiivka that shows the situation has deteriorated
Russian troops are southeast of the Coke Plant and trying to cross the railroad tracks at the train and bus station
On the south flank of the Avdiivka AO, fighting continued
In the Marinka AO, Russian forces advanced into the eastern part of Heorhiivka
In the Vuledar AO, Russian forces advanced into the southeastern corner of Novomykhailivka
Russian missiles hit the settlement of Selydove
Light fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
The IAEA conducted its 16th inspector rotation, and Director General Rafael Grossi said all is well like the Russian told him to
Ya, that’s what we wrote because the truth matters, and the IAEA will get thrown out if Grossi doesn’t say what the Kremlin wants to hear
Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
At least two Shahed-136 drones hit Mykolaiv
At least one Shahed-136 drone hit Odesa
In the Dnipropetrovsk oblast, a Russian missile hit Novomoskovsk, and a Shahed-136 drone was shot down near Dnipro
In the Poltava oblast, Russian missiles hit near Myrhorod
In the Lviv oblast, the unexploded warhead of a Russian cruise missile was found
After yesterday’s missile attack on Kyiv, four were killed and 39 wounded
Russia used the 3M22 Zircon “hypersonic” cruise missile for the first time, but it didn’t achieve hypersonic flight
E.U. High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell had to go to a bomb shelter in Kyiv
In the Sumy oblast, strategically critical abandoned chicken barns in Yunakivka were destroyed by Russia
Ukrainian drones hit the KhBK-1 plant in Belgorod, Russia, damaging the boiler house and a metal works shop and wounding two
In the Udmurt Republic of Russia, a massive explosion at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant rocket engine test facility rocked Izhevsk
Russia attacked Ukarine with 17 Shahed drones and 11 were shot down
Someone change the sign; it’s been zero days since a Russian government official threatened nuclear war
Ukraine shot down a turbine-powered Shahed-238 drone and it has many Western parts
Hackers secured 220 pages of documents from Iran outlining the Shahed program and its agreements with Russia
Shahed-136 drones are ridiculously expensive – you think the Pentagon is bad
Russia is getting ripped off
There is a deep connection between Russia, Iran, attacks of Shaheds in Ukraine, and Russia’s interests in Africa
The United States told the U.N. Security Council that Russia has used North Korean SRBMs in Ukraine nine times
Russian hackers disabled the website of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada has summoned the head of the SSU to testify on his involvement in a wiretapping scandal
NATO and the Pentagon declared they have no say in the leadership decisions of Ukraine
Polish farmers are planning to block a border crossing with Ukraine
The Verkhovna Rada approved the first draft of its mobilization reform bill
Ukraine has developed its own version of the Russian Lancent one-way drone
Russian showed debris from a previously unknown turbine-powered Ukrainian one-way drone that was brought down within Russia
The E.U’s top diplomat, Borrell, toured Ukrainian drone production facility
Borrell also promised Ukraine will have 1.16 million 155 mm artillery rounds by the end of the year, but it’s not what you think
Ukraine’s artillery units are catastrophically low on ammunition, and the West, with or without the United States, can’t even come close to Russian-Iranian-North Korean production
Ukraine and Sweden reached a deal about CV-90 IFVs, but there were few details shared

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