Posted on 06/13/2023 7:18:34 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
“Ukraine’s Winnable War”
“Why the West Should Help Kyiv Retake All Its Territory”
“In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an attempt to conquer the country and erase the independence it had gained after the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades earlier. Given the vast disparities in size and strength between the belligerents, almost nobody gave the defenders much of a chance. Pessimists thought Kyiv would succumb in days or weeks. Optimists thought it might take months. Few believed Ukraine could ever beat back its attacker.”
““A satisfying victory is likely out of reach,” wrote the Russia experts Thomas Graham and Rajan Menon in Foreign Affairs a month after the invasion began. “Ukraine and its Western backers are in no position to defeat Russia on any reasonable timescale.” Around the same time, the political scientist Samuel Charap agreed: “Ukraine’s brave resistance—even combined with ever-greater Western pressure on Moscow—is highly unlikely to overcome Russia’s military advantages, let alone topple Putin. Without some kind of deal with the Kremlin, the best outcome is probably a long, arduous war that Russia is likely to win anyway.” Three months into the war, the historians Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage argued that “a full-scale Ukrainian military defeat of Russia, including the retaking of Crimea, verges on fantasy.” Four months after that, the political scientist Emma Ashford upgraded a Ukrainian victory to a “dangerous fantasy.”
Just as Russia has surprised everyone by its poor military performance, however, Ukraine has surprised everyone, as well, punching far above its weight throughout the conflict. Russia’s attempt to take the capital was thwarted, and then its attempts to consolidate gains in the east and the south were disrupted. Russian troops were forced to withdraw from the Kharkiv region and Kherson. A brutal Russian air campaign against civilian infrastructure stiffened Ukraine’s will instead of breaking it. Recent Russian offensives in Bakhmut and elsewhere gained little ground at vast cost. And now, with Russian forces softened, Ukraine is launching a counteroffensive to take back more territory.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraines-winnable-war
“U.S. Set to Approve Depleted-Uranium Tank Rounds for Ukraine”
“The Biden administration is expected to provide Ukraine with depleted-uranium rounds following weeks of internal debate about how to equip the Abrams tanks the U.S. is giving to Kyiv, U.S. officials said Monday.
A senior administration official told The Wall Street Journal there appear to be no major obstacles to approving the ammunition.
The Pentagon has urged that the Abrams tanks the U.S. is providing Ukraine be armed with depleted-uranium rounds, which are regularly used by the U.S. Army and are highly effective against Russian tanks. Fired at a high rate of speed, the rounds are capable of penetrating the frontal armor of a Russian tank from a distance. “
“‘Just the Beginning:’ Hardened Ukrainian Units Go on Attack in Country’s East”
“The Ukrainian 68th Jaeger Brigade spent the past year defending trenches in the country’s east against Russian onslaughts. Last week, they went on the attack.
On Saturday, three platoons from the 68th took the village of Blahodatne from a larger Russian infantry force after a methodical firefight. Men from the Jaeger, used to fighting in fields and hills, said they had trained themselves in house-to-house combat and described using their American-made armored vehicles to blast open a Russian strongpoint. The last Russian defenders ran away through their own minefield. Few made it.”
“Europe wants to use Russia’s assets to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction — here’s how it might work”
“The European Union is getting closer to brokering a detailed plan on how to use frozen Russian assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine, a senior official told CNBC.
The EU has confirmed that there are more than 200 billion euros ($215.5 billion) and a separate 20 billion euros ($21.5 billion) in assets across the bloc that belong to the Russian central bank and to Russian private individuals, respectively. These assets were frozen by European authorities in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to sanction the Kremlin for its aggression.
“We have had quite lengthy discussions on [how to use these assets to pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine],” Sweden’s Anders Ahnlid, who chairs the discussions among the 27 EU member states on this topic, told CNBC Thursday.
“And we are now, I hope, in a position to soon bring forward ideas on how to use at least the the proceeds of these immobilised assets,” Ahnlid said.”
“Putin’s Economic Forum Puts Russia’s Isolation on Display”
“Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum in St. Petersburg was a magnet for global politicians and investors until his invasion of Ukraine. Now it’s become a measure of Russia’s deepening isolation.
Organizers have struggled to attract major political figures, according to the program for this year’s event that opens Wednesday, as even some leaders of Russia’s former Soviet neighbors have opted to stay away.”
Warms the heart.
“Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner chief, released the photos of the targeting of Wagner mercenaries by #US Army forces in Deir Ez zor in 2018 in #Syria. And accuses the Russian Defense Minister of not carrying out his duties.”
https://twitter.com/metesohtaoglu/status/1668561891659055105
“destruction of Russian equipment and BC in the Zaporizhzhia direction”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668597142787702785
“Ukrainian forces from the 35th Marine Brigade released footage of the liberation of Makarivka, Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1668490204695482368
“A Russian Kamaz Typhoon, bizarrely trying to drive headlong into Ukrainian forces, is ambushed at short range by a Ukrainian soldier with an AT weapon”
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1668493955162406912
“Russian Armour destroyed by Ukrainian Marines in #Zaporizhzhia Oblast during the ongoing counteroffensive; three BMP-2 IFV (Two of which with 675-sb3KDZ add-on armour), an MT-LB and a tank.”
https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1668488902951182336
“In Staromayorske, #Donetsk Oblast, the Ukrainian “Omega” unit destroyed a Russian T-80BV tank using a FPV loitering munition, with the ammunition inside cooking off. Two more previously destroyed tanks can be seen nearby as well.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1668612403058311171
“Authorities of Khakassia, russia, have stopped publishing obituaries of russian military who died in the war in Ukraine, sources close to regional authorities said to Sibir Realii. Reason: publications in Mediazona and BBC, where death toll is counted through obituaries”
“The last obituary about the death of the deputy of the Supreme Council Dmitry Ivanov was published on April 26. According to sources of the publication, the request to refuse publications came from the Ministry of Defense.”
https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/1668537907005607937
“Russian mass media report that near Avdiivka, the famous company commander of the infamous battalion of fighters from ORDLO “Somalia”, a lover of interesting gestures with his right hand, Roman Vorobyov, was eliminated.
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https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668598671405924354
Lots of POWs as Ukraine’s offensive rolls on
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668595173096402945
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668595598235148291
“A direct hit into a dugout with infantry from a D-30 howitzer is corrected by RUP Shershen“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668568503366950912
“Aerial recon unit Pumba from the 53rd mechanized brigade and 155mm projectiles are a deadly cocktail.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1668612523724099584
“Hitting a T-72B3 anti-tank missile by an Excalibur projectile. Kherson region.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1668567282681798656
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