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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 09 JAN 2024 23:30 PST - Ukraine Makes Small But Critical Gains

Added 2024-01-10 07:32:09 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 576 is 53 pages and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Ukrainian forces advance at Stepove and Novomykhailivka as the Russian attacks in Kupyansk approach their culmination point.

What's the second story? There's a storm brewing over military aid for Ukraine.

Summary

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There are map updates
There are minor assessment updates
There are rumor updates
Ukrainian forces have stabilized their defensive lines in the Kupyansk AO
Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
In the Siversk AO, Russian troops tried to advance out of Bilohorivka [Donetsk]
Fighting restarted in the Bakhmut AO
Positional fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
The number of Russian attacks in the Avdiivka AO is down by 50%
Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops out of the eastern part of Stepove
Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
In the Vuhledar AO, Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops further south of Novomykhailivka
It was more active in the Staromlynika AO
Russian occupiers are trying to build a gas pipeline to Mariupol
Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
Fighting continued in the Kherson AO, with Russian forces losing another company of motor infantry
On January 8, a wind generator was destroyed by a Russian drone near Odesa
In the Sumy Oblast, two Shahed-136 drones struck the Palace of Culture in Krasnopillya
The remains of a Russian Kh-32 cruise missile was found in a field in the Sumy Oblast and neutralized
RMOD claims air defense shot down four drones near Bryansk, Russia
Two Ukrainian drones struck a fuel depot in Oryol, Russia, destroying a storage tank
Over 150,000 homes in Moscow are without heat due to intense cold, collapsing civil infrastructure
Hackers knocked the Moscow Internet provider M9kom offline
The Ukrainian Air Force denies that a Shahed-238 turbine-powered UAV was shot down
Ukrainian officials said the only thing holding back additional drone production is funds
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine is severing ties with all companies owned by Lviv businessman Ihor Hrynkevich
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer
A NASAMS air defense system Canada purchased for Ukraine in March 2023 has not been delivered
The United Kingdom pledged to continue support to Ukraine, calling the ongoing war “the main challenge for our generation”
The Prime Minister of Estonia called on all E.U. nations to commit 0.25% of GDP to support Ukraine
Analysts warn that if Russia wins in Ukraine, it will end the United States’s status as a superpower
There has been no progress on a U.S. Omnibus spending bill for 2024 and a continuing resolution is likely to be passed
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell called for the House to pass a Ukrainian military aid package before January 19
Finland has started a petition to strip Hungary of its voting rights in the European Council
Hungary has signaled it is ready to release funding for Ukraine, with conditions
German defense company FFG will build a repair center in western Ukraine
Russian mobiks will not be demobilized unless they die, become disabled, or the so-called “special military operation” ends
The Russian State Duma called for relatives of mobiks to stop protesting in public
The Russian government ordered Facebook clone VK to remove web pages about new Russian SMERSH units
Political prisoner Alexi Navalny has been placed in a punishment cell
President Putin ordered the Klimovsky ammunition plant placed under state control
The leader singer of the band Puppies, Maxim Moiseev, was ordered to report to the commissariat
Since March 2022, 8,386 criminal cases for discrediting the Russian Federation Armed Forces have been filed
Russia is forcing teenagers as young as 16 to register with the military commissariat in occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
Russian missile attacks struck the children’s hospital in Kharkiv and a hospital in Pokrovsk
A German citizen who went to Russia as a tourist has disappeared after being detained by the FSB
Almost 10,000 trucks are stuck at the Poland-Ukraine border

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