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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 26 FEB 2024 23:59 PST - Ukraine Continues to Fall Back From Avdiivka

Added 2024-02-27 10:19:16 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 611 is 65 pages long and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Russia is making significant gains west of Avdiivka due to critical ammunition and personnel shortages and inadequately prepared static defenses.

What's the secondary story? European leaders met to discuss how to support Ukraine better, but the biggest thing needed - ammunition - is nowhere in sight.

What's the bonus story? Constructing gulags, state control of factories, and arresting oligarchs. Putin's purge is plunging Russia into the abyss.

Today's Summary

There are map updates
There are assessment updates
There are rumor updates
Fighting intensified in the Kupyansk AO
Russian attacked another grain storage facility near Kharkiv
Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
Ukraine vowed that Russia would not have an “easy walk” to Chasiv Yar
Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
Fighting continued in the Toretsk-Niu York AO
Intense fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
Russian forces captured Stepove and advanced in the direction of Berdychi
Russian forces were attacking Orlivka from three sides
Russian forces, advancing from the east, captured Sieverne
The situation in Tonenke is critical, with fighting in the village
Publicly available satellite images show that Ukrainian static defenses west of Avdiivka are inadequate
A second fuel depot in occupied Makiivka exploded
Intense fighting continued in the Marinka AO
Russia destroyed an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank
Intense fighting continued in the Vuheldar AO
Russia is continuing to build the Mariupol to Crimea railroad connection
Fighting continued in the Hulyaipole AO – maybe
Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
ATESH claimed that significant numbers of “dark-skinned” mercenaries were being sent to occupied Kherson
Russia bombed Yunakiv in the Sumy Oblast, killing two people as they slept
Moldova denied that Russian drones flew over its airspace
Multiple unnamed sources claimed that the illegitimate Republic of Transnistria would not request Russian annexation
The hybrid warfare operation on the Polish border expanded to Germany and is poised to include Lithuania
Polish truck drivers say they will join the protests on March 1
The Lithuanian Association of Grain Producers said they do not support the Polish protests and will not participate
Latvian officials call for the banning of Russian grain sold to the E.U.
Russia said three people were killed in Belgord, neglecting to add the part where they were working on Russian military defensive structures
Ukraine believes it can produce infantry mobility vehicles cheaper than importing from other providers
Up to 20 nations, including Canada and the United States, participated in the Paris Summit to find more ways to support Ukraine
Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and First Deputy Minister of Defence, Valery Gerasimov, graced the world with his presence
Russia is projected to build 2.7 million artillery rounds in 2024
Russia may have received up to 1.5 million artillery rounds from North Korea, but the failure rate is high
Ukraine passed a law demobilizing conscripts
People fighting in the ranks of the Foreign Legion of Ukraine and their families can apply for citizenship
President Zelenskyy warned that without further U.S. aid, Ukraine won’t be able to defend itself
Germany announced another military aid package
Denmark announced it will provide Ukraine with infantry fighting vehicles and tanks
France announced it would provide Ukraine with 250,000 fully autonomous one-way drones
Hungary approved Sweden’s accession to NATO
Candidate for Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, said he now supports continued aid to Ukraine
The Federal Chancellor of Austria called for Russia and Ukraine to open peace negotiations led by BRICS
German Chancellor Scholz said Ukraine would not receive Taurus cruise missiles
Zelenskyy asked France to provide Mirage 2000 fighter jets
U.S. President Joe Biden is holding an emergency meeting with Congressional leaders to try and break the budget impasse
President Putin signed a decree dissolving the Western Military District and restructuring the military
Drunk Russian forces are shooting each other in occupied Luhansk
A Russian soldier was too busy making a video for social media to notice the drone coming at his squad
The T-62 tanks that were in occupied Yevpatoria have left by train toward occupied Kherson
Russia has started construction of the first Stalin-style gulag in the Kaluga region
The body of Alexei Navalny was returned to his mother, with a funeral planned for February 29
GUR head Budanov said that Navalny died of natural causes
Russian oligarch Yuri Antipov was arrested, and Moscow took full control of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant
Russian journalist Oleg Orlov told a Russian court that the country had become a dystopia during his sentencing for spreading fakes about the Russian military
Russia is weaponizing human rights watchdog organizations, as it accuses Ukraine of being non-responsive about the exchange of POWs
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had to cut a visit to Mykolaiv short after a Russian drone chased her convoy
Another warning that Europe is on the brink of a nuclear arms race
Bulgaria ejected two Russian intelligence officers living under fake names

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