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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 30 NOV 2023 23:59* PST - Ukraine Digs In

Added 2023-12-01 10:08:35 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 547 is 47 pages and is a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? With dwindling ammunition, more delays in previously promised aid, and growing uncertainty, President Zelenskyy orders Ukrainian troops to dig in.

What's the second story? Ukrainian forces are making the impossible - possible - in the Avdiivka AO.

Get to bed by 01:00 hours I said. Hard line in the sand I said.

Summary

There are map changes
Ukrainian forces are holding defensive lines in the Kupyansk AO
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyy traveled to the frontlines in Kharkiv
Fighting continued near Stelmakhivka and west of Kreminna on the Luhansk-Donetsk administrative border
Russian forces continued attempts to advance on Bohdanivka, northwest of Bakhmut
Fighting continued northeast of Klishchiivka, where reports suggest Russian forces were pushed back
Fighting continued east of Andriivka
Russian forces are trying to push Ukrainian troops back from the northwestern edge of Horlivka
In the industrial district of southeast Avdiivka, Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops back
Fighting continued along the south flank of the Avdiivka AO
Ukrainian forces were reportedly on the offensive in Marinka
A Russian missile strike on Novohordivka killed three and wounded ten
South of Orikhiv, fighting continued near Verbove and Robotyne
The Russian VKS has bombed Krynky flat, leaving a near barren moonscape, as fighting continues south of the village
In occupied Crimea, Russian air defenses near Skadovsk were destroyed
Russian claims that they destroyed a Su-25 with a ZALA Lancet drone are false, unless you count decoys
The Baikal-Amur Highway Train Tunnel in the Buryatia region of Russia, which connects to China, was damaged by a train fire
Partisans in Moscow destroyed two critical railway junction boxes, snarling passenger and cargo train service
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ordered the construction of defensive lines
Ukrainian air defenses shot down five Shahed-136 one-way drones
A Forbes article stated the already known, and people are panicking about the Abrams M1 tank in Ukraine
United States military aid continues to trickle into Ukraine, but the funds are running out
The White House is pushing its $61 billion 2024 military aid package again
The delivery of GLSDB rocket-assisted glide bombs launched by HIMARS is delayed until mid-2024
France pledged to increase ammunition supply to Ukraine
Russian Major General Vladimir Zavadsky, Deputy Commander of the 14th Combined Arms Army, was killed in Ukraine
Ten mobiks were killed and 15 wounded in a training accident near Rostov-on-Don
Thirty-nine percent of Russia’s 2024 fiscal year budget is slated for military spending
Russian milblogger Thirteenth has upset Chechen Akhmat with his online white nationalist views
Russia’s hybrid warfare campaign to force the West to demand a cease-fire in the Russia-Ukraine War backfired
In Kazakhstan, a former PMC Wagner Group mercenary was

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