A spokeswoman for Alexander Novak, the Deputy Prime Minister, confirmed that Russia is banning all gasoline exports for six months, starting March 1. "In order to offset excessive demand for petroleum products, it is necessary to take measures to help stabilize prices in the domestic market."
Ukraine conducted a series of highly targeted drone strikes, damaging and destroying vacuum and atmosphere distillation towers and damaging one hydrocracker. The strikes reportedly reduced Russia's...
2024-02-27 10:47:20 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 611 is 65 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-27 10:19:16 +0000 UTC
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The Hungarian Parliament overwhelmingly approved Sweden's accession into the NATO Alliance, paving the way for the 32nd member of the defensive pact.
Hungary had previously stated that it would approve Sweden's membership after Türkiye and then dragged out the process for another month. An attempt by the minority party in Parliament to accelerate the vote in early February was thwarted.
On Friday, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson quietly visited Budapest, a key demand by Pr...
2024-02-27 01:42:29 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 610 is 54 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-26 10:25:52 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 609 is 132 pages long, a full report with a special section - two years of war.
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2024-02-24 17:39:33 +0000 UTC
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It was the morning of February 23, 2022 in Ukraine. Less than 24 hours earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rambling unhinged speech, recognizing the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics as independent states, and outlining reasons for expanding his war against Ukraine.
TikTok user gar_moniya posted this video from Novoluhanske, on the northern edge of the DNR. The 1st Army Corps, a defacto part of the Russian Armed Forces, was shelling the settlement despite no ...
2024-02-24 07:47:20 +0000 UTC
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Update: Literally after hitting send, analysts confirmed a video showing Russian air defense shooting down their own aircraft. That solves the mystery of how this happened.
A Russian A-50U, one of only eight AWACS aircraft remaining in the entire VKS, was shot down over the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia, near the Azov Sea. Absolutely confirmed by local reports and numerous videos.
Russian milblogger Fighterbomber, who appears to have had a strong talking t...
2024-02-23 23:19:03 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 608 is 61 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-23 10:32:15 +0000 UTC
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There is growing chatter that on February 28, the ruling Council of Transnistria will make a formal request to President Vladimir Putin to recognize the breakaway republic of Moldova and start an annexation process.
You've probably noticed this has no mention in the Situation Reports. We're very well aware of the chatter, and we are going to add it to the rumors section.
Romanian officials are unconcerned but admit it could be possible. In my assessment, this falls into the "the c...
2024-02-22 23:12:13 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 607 is 49 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-22 06:52:21 +0000 UTC
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The lack of ammunition for Ukraine has reached a tipping point. Russian forces captured Pobieda, with Ukrainian troops withdrawing for force preservation. The small village withstood 10 years of war.
We also adjusted the map at Novomykhailivka, bringing the line of conflict to the eastern edge of the settlement. The bulk of the fighting has moved east.
Novomykhailivka is now in a salient, currently a stable one. A Russian advance south from Pobieda to Kostyantynivka is somew...
2024-02-22 00:35:36 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 606 is 53 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-21 10:28:09 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 605 is 61 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-20 09:40:57 +0000 UTC
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Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who defected to Ukraine in August 2023 with a Mi-8 helicopter, was found shot dead in the Spanish village of Villajoyosa. Kuzminov became internationally famous after speaking out against Russia's war of aggression and Ukraine, arranging to have his family exit Russia in coordination with his defection. He was also featured in a September 2023 documentary.
He was found in an underground parking garage after being shot multiple times and was living in Spain ...
2024-02-19 21:10:20 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 604 is 60 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-19 08:31:53 +0000 UTC
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Yes, you're getting a Saturday update.
No, World War III did not break out, and you don't need to panic build your bunker.
Around 02:00 hours PST, based on pictures and videos that were geolocated by the Euro team, we were all convinced that Ukraine was doing a complete withdrawal from Avdiivka. That withdrawal is complete, including the Avdiivka Coke Plant. The 2024-02-17 23:21:08 +0000 UTC
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Alexei Navalny, 47, died at the IK-3 "Polar Wolf" Penal Colony in Kharp, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, where he was incarcerated. Navalny was a political prisoner serving a 30.5-year prison sentence and was considered a rival of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the 2010s.
The Federal Penitentiary Service claimed that after going on a walk, Navalny reported he felt unwell, collapsed, and died.
Navalny was born in 1976 near Moscow and was a graduate of the Peoples' Frie...
2024-02-16 22:21:50 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 603 is 45 pages long and is combat only.
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2024-02-16 09:14:29 +0000 UTC
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Three things from the United States. One that directly impacts Ukraine. One that partially impacts Ukraine. One that impacts Americans.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Ending Congressional Session for 13-Day President's Day Break
As someone who works 12 to 14-hour days five days a week and another four to six hours on my Friday-Saturday "weekend," and as someone who has been repeatedly told to go into politics, maybe I should. Life as a Congresscritter is cushy.
The subh...
2024-02-15 23:40:55 +0000 UTC
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The map is not updated (yet)
In Avdiivka, Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the Zenith Air Defense Station and the Water Treatment Plant (not to be confused with the Sewage Treatment Plant by the terrikon). The tactical withdrawal was a success, with minimal casualties and very few resources abandoned.
Good news? How is this good news?
This was the right call.
Due to catastrophic ammunition shortages and the establishment of Russian air supremacy, these positi...
2024-02-15 21:54:11 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 602 is 58 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-15 10:33:09 +0000 UTC
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One thing that didn't make our list was space-based nuclear EMP, electromagnetic pulse weapons, to disable satellites. We didn't consider this because it is a really bad idea.
In the 1960s, the United States did five nuclear tests in or at the edge of space. The most famous one was 1962's Starfish Prime. A 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead was lifted to 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth near Johnson Atoll and detonated. The EMP was much stronger than anyone expected.
The blast imme...
2024-02-15 01:34:54 +0000 UTC
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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH), released a statement on Twitter (also known as X) that Russia poses a serious national security threat and requested the White House declassify the information.
"Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat."
"I am requesting that President Biden declassify all informati...
2024-02-14 22:18:46 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 601 is 41 pages long and combat only.
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2024-02-14 10:01:36 +0000 UTC
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Update: Seconds after publishing, the U.S. House impeached Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas 214-213.
Russian forces have crossed the Industrial Prospect Road south of the Avdiivka Coke Plant. While they have not reached the intersection of the T-542 Highway, the main ground line of communication into Avdiivka is severed. The dirt road to Sieverne is still accessible, but due to somewhat improved weather, it is subject to near-continuo...
2024-02-14 00:42:41 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 600 is 52 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-13 07:46:29 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 599 is 82 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-12 09:17:50 +0000 UTC
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Is the Tide Turning for Further U.S. Aid to Ukraine
When is the last time you remember a bi-partisan envoy of United States Congresscritters visiting Kyiv? Meeting with government officials? Promising that aid would continue?
It's been a long time. Right?
Four members of the House Intelligence Committee, Republicans Mike Turner and French Hill and Democrats Jason Crow and Abigail Spanberger, are in Kyiv. They met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. After the private meetin...
2024-02-10 00:20:06 +0000 UTC
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SITREP 598 is 55 pages long and a full report.
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2024-02-09 11:22:18 +0000 UTC
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President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dismissed the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, after weeks of speculation. Zaluzhnyi's number two, the Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, Colonel General Alexander Syrskyi, has been named the new CiC.
The rift between Zelenskyy and Zaluzhnyi is well-known and spilled into the public domain in November. Zaluzhnyi published an essay in The Economist, declaring that the ongoing war against Russi...
2024-02-09 00:18:21 +0000 UTC
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