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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 17 DEC 2023 23:55 PST - No US Aid Vote In 2023 - Ukraine Holds the Line

Added 2023-12-18 08:03:06 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 561 is 48 pages and combat only.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Russian forces suffered major losses in the Kupyansk and Avdiivka AOs.

What's the second story? One of the offices used by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny was bugged.

Summary

There is one map update
There are minor assessment updates
There are rumor updates
Tractability has become a significant problem for both combatants due to mud
Russian forces continue to suffer heavy losses north of Synkivka in the Kupyansk AO
Fighting continued in the no man’s land between Ivanivka and Yagidne
Low-intensity fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
Northwest and southwest of occupied Bakhmut, Russian forces continue to set conditions for an advance on Chasiv Yar
Flighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
Ukrainian forces were fighting on the edge of northwestern Horlivka
Over a 49-day period starting on October 10, Russia has lost over 210 armored and support vehicles in the Avdiivka AO
Russia is losing five to six ISR drones a day due to weather conditions
Fighting continued on the north flank of Avdiivka with no change in the situation
Fighting continued in the western part of the Avdiivka industrial district
On the south flank of Avdiivka, Russian forces suffered heavy losses north of Vodyane
Russian forces attempted to use a VBIED against Ukrainian troop positions
Ukrainian forces maintain control of the northwestern edge of Mariinka
Russian forces made tactically significant advances south of Novomykhailivka
Insurgents in Mariupol attempted to assassinate a Russian soldier
Fighting continued south of Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia
Russian occupiers are forcing Ukrainian workers at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to get Russian passports
Fighting continued in and south of Krynky, with Russian forces suffering “colossal” losses
Shahed-136 one-way drones attacked the city of Kherson
One person was killed in Odesa on the night of December 16 – 17 during a Shahed-136 attack
Law enforcement upgraded the charges against Keretsk Village Council deputy Serhiy Batryn after one person died due to the terrorist attack he allegedly carried out
One pensioner was killed in the Sumy Oblast due to Russian shelling
The Freedom of Russian Legion ambushed a Russian platoon in the Belgorod region of Russia
A Russian T-80 tank was destroyed by a mine in the Belgorod region of Russia
A Ukrainian drone attack on Morozovsk military airfield in the Rostov region damaged at least one Su-34 multirole aircraft
Russia launched 25 Shahed-136 drones over the last 24 hours, with air defense intercepting all of them
GUR head Kyrylo Budanov said that accelerated mobilization in Ukraine is going to be necessary
A listening device was found in an office that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, uses
Kyivstar continues to restore all its services after last week’s cyberattack
Ukraine debuted its new one-way drone, the AQ-400 Scythe
Russia shot down its own Su-25 close air support aircraft
Moldova conducted military drills close to the border of Ukraine and the breakaway republic of Transnistria
Polish truckers plan to block the Yagodin – Dorogusk border checkpoint – again
The United States Senate will not pass a Ukrainian military aid package in 2023

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