The weather in the northern part seems to be dropping below freezing in the coming days. This might have an affect on both morale and the operational conditions.
Svatove
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Stel'makhivka and Dibrova. Wargonzo have previously reported AFU advances in the forest south of Kreminna, the statement today by GSUA seems to indicate continued AFU presence in the area of Dibrova-Kreminna.
I think the area south of Dibrova and Kremmina might be tricky to advance in, the AFU would get squezed between RU held high ground south of the SD river and the two towns.
Bakhmut
The Ukrainian general staff reports continued offensives in the Bakhmut area.
The AFU repulsed attacks in the area of Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Bakhmuts'ke, Bakhmut and Optyne.
Donetsk
Same story as usual. The local inbreds attacked in the area of Pervomais'ke, Mar'inka, Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka. RuAF are accumulating units for an attack in this area.
According to this post by @RALee85 RU 155th Naval Infantry Brigade had a 1:1 KIA:WIA ratio, which is terrible. The ratio is usually 1:3 or 1:4. This indicates inadequate medical training and equipment in the RuAF.
Based on recent videos of RU soldiers being apathic while being bombed by drones and the bad state of their medical training/equipment I suspect this winter will kill about the same of Russian soldiers amount as the Ukrainians will.
I'm not going to report about Kherson region unless there is some significant change or something relevant is happening there.
My opinion about Kinburn is that it's mostly artillery battles and that there might possibly have been a SOF raid at some point. I think the OC south wording is intentionally vague.
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š§µA dive in to the importance of Luhansk as a logistics hub for the Russians.
I will provide some though on why Luhansk city is a key location for the Russian logistics apparatus with the help of some very high resolution satellite images and a few maps.
Luhansk is located roughly at the mid point of the active frontline, just out of HIMARS range. Technically it's just in range, but it would require the AFU to shoot from an active combat zone, and that would be too risky.
This is Yuvileine, on the outskirts of Luhansk. About half of the town consists of an industrial area with a large coal mine. This area functions as a logistics hub for the Russian Armed Forces.
The red dots illustrate vehicles. The numbered orange areas are image locations.
Orc life part 1
Orc Casevac in Mayrosk, Donetsk
This might explain why they have a 1:1 WIA:KIA ratio
Location: 48.39767, 37.96694
Source: t.me/ukwarzone/9531
Russian forces continue to build defensive lines around Svatove. I have been able to identify over 50km of defensive lines north and south of Svatove and they are still expanding it.
I mapped these trenches using Sentinel 1 SAR to give an overview of where they are being built.
I used these SAR images from November 23rd and compared with older SAR images to see changes in the area.
Here is a link to EO Browser with the relevant area: apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoā¦
The amount of shelling locations reported by the UA general staff was higher than usual today. We can see the hot spots are Svatove, Bakhmut and Donetsk.