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Russia-Ukraine SITREP for 20 FEB 2024 23:59* PST - Definitely Not Going to Plan

Added 2024-02-21 10:28:09 +0000 UTC

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SITREP 606 is 53 pages long and a full report.

What's Happening

What's the big story? Russian bases are hit by rockets fire by HIMARS and drones, killing dozens of Russian soldiers and destroying barns full of Russian equipment.

What's the secondary story? Russian milblogger Murz went too far, and paid the ultimate price.

Summary

There are minor map updates
There are assessment updates
There are rumor updates
Fighting continued in the Kupyansk AO
A Russian drone attack killed Ukrainian civilians in Petropavlivka
Fighting continued in the Kreminna AO
Fighting restarted in the Siversk AO
Fighting continued in the Bakhmut AO
Fighting continued in the Klishchiivka AO
A video from Kurdyumivka suggests that Ukrainian forces made an advance southeast of Andriivka
Kramatorsk was hit by two Russia Kh-22 cruise missiles, wounding at least six
Fighting continued in the Avdiivka AO
Assessment: New York Times claim of 850 to 1,000 Ukrainian POWs in Avdiivka
Russia conducted a false-flag attack on occupied Donetsk, and this one was very poorly executed
Fighting continued in the Marinka AO
Fighting continued in the Vuhledar AO
In occupied Trudivske, at least 65 Russian soldiers were killed in a rocket attack, and there’s proof
Fighting continued in the Staromlynivka AO
A spectacular video showed multiple Ukrainian one-way drones destroying a Russian base in occupied Staromlynivka
Near Mariupol, insurgents documented hundreds of pieces of damaged Russian military equipment being hauled in the direction of Crimea
Fighting continued in the Orikhiv AO
Fighting continued in the Kherson AO
No, Russia did not retake Krynky, and Russian milbloggers had another meltdown
A Russian Lancet one-way drone killed three generations from the same family in the Sumy Oblast
Debris from a Russian Kh-101 missile that crashed on February 15 was found in the Volgograd region of Russia
Ukrainian-based Russian propagandist Dmytro Korniychuk was charged with "justification of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants”
Four members of the Ukrainian International Legion from Columbia were killed
Ukraine expects to sign security agreements with the Netherlands and Denmark in the near future
Sweden confirmed it was sending a $683 million aid package to Ukraine
Bulgaria is delaying the shipment of 100 BTR-60 APCs – again
Russian milblogger Thirteenth joined the growing chorus of voices speaking out against Minster of Defense Sergei Shoigu
Russian soldier and milblogger Murz killed himself after being threatened with arrest for posts critical of the Kremlin
Russian soldiers executed three Ukrainian POWs near Robotyne
The E.U. declared there is no interest in extending natural gas contracts with Russia that expire for most member nations at the end of this year

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