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