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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 11 DEC 2023 23:55 PST - You Promised As Long As It Takes

Added 2023-12-12 08:03:51 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 557 is 48 pages and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? It is extremely unlikely a 2024 military aid package for Ukraine will be passed by Congress by December 15.

What's the second story? We've entered a phase where "there were no changes to the line of conflict theaterwide" is as good as news is going to get.

Editor's Note: Going to pour a gin and soda and stare at the fireplace.

Summary

There are rumor updates
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk and Kreminna areas of operation
In the Siversk AO, Russian forces launched new attacks on Sprine
In the Soledar AO, Russian forces continued attacks on Vesele
In the Bakhmut AO, Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back Russian advances on the north flank toward Chasiv Yar
Ukrainian engineers have started building echelon defenses west of Bakhmut
Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
Russian forces launched a third wave of massive attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Avdiivka and Marinka AOs
Russian forces are increasing pressure on Novomkyhailivka and Vuhledar
Fighting continued on the Orikhiv AO of Zaporizhzhia
Ukrainian forces are maintaining their positions in Krynky, with Russian forces suffering heavy losses
Fuel shortages have restarted in occupied Crimea
Ukraine shot down nine of 15 Shahed-136 one-way drones and two Kh-59 guided missiles
Ukraine had to receive electricity from Poland and Romania to prevent rolling blackouts
The IMF will provide Ukraine with $900 million in additional support
Sweden announced a new 120 million euro winter aid package
Germany announced it would double its 2024 military aid to Ukraine from 4 billion euros to 8 billion
The U.K. and Norway announced they have partnered to provide Ukraine with two minesweepers
The United States will provide another military aid package to Ukraine before the end of 2023 – potentially the last
More than 100 deputies of the European Council signed an open letter to the U.S. Congress appealing to approve new military aid to Ukraine
Nothing is certain, but it is extremely unlikely Ukraine will receive a 2024 military aid package from the United States before the end of 2023
The lower chamber of the U.S. Congress will vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on the second to last day of the 2023 session
Polish truckers repeatedly blocked the Yagodin – Dorogusk border crossing after officials announced it would be open without restrictions
Russian Colonel Oleksandr Gal died in a September 24 drone strike on Kursk
Three Russian penal soldiers were arrested in occupied Melitopol for drug dealing
Soviet-style lines for eggs have returned to Russia
A family from Uzbekistan is facing deportation after their children threw snowballs at the Eternal Flame in St. Petersburg
In occupied Luhansk, the bodies of two civilians whom a Russian soldier executed were found
In occupied Crimea, two men detained by the FSB on November 3 have vanished
In occupied Kherson, the body of a man who disappeared on November 6 was found with signs of torture and bullet wounds
A court in Finland decided to continue to hold wanted war criminal and Neo-Nazi Jan Petrovsky
The leaders of the Hungarian communities of Transcarpathia appealed to Viktor Orban not to block Ukraine’s accession to the E.U.
The Polish Diet voted to make Donald Tusk the new prime minister

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