Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 232
RuZZian Tank losses Running Total: 1831
March 2023 - 52
February 2023 – 118
January 2023 – 61
December 2022 – 76
November 2022 – 105
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 545
March 2023 - 20
February 2023 – 41
January 2023 – 31
December 2022 – 19
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
I’m back in the U.S.A.
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S.A.
Another (daily) thread where the OP or a handful of Uke harpies respond to themselves over and over... doing their daily duty - and trashing the place in the process.
The Wagner Group is advancing on all fronts around Bakhmut and has fire control of key roads the Ukrainians need for resupply. Warming temperatures are turning the fields to the west of Bakhmut into mud, making vehicle access or egress very difficult for Ukrainian forces. The Wagner Group, with massive support from the Russian Army’s logistics command, has a decided advantage in artillery, shells, rockets, Anti-Tank Guided Missiles, medical support, food, electronic warfare and man power.
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Bakhmut is just one component of a broader military strategy and plan. Russia’s defense industry is running full tilt and is producing the artillery shells, tanks, missiles and planes that Russia requires to destroy the Ukrainian military. Ukraine, even with Western support, has no answer for this.
Update on conflict in Ukraine for March 13, 2023;
- Bakhmut continues to be encircled by Russian forces;
- The Western media is reporting conflicting claims by Ukraine and Russia regarding steep losses inflicted on opposing sides;
- The West claims Ukraine is inflicting huge losses on Russian forces and that Bakhmut has little strategic value;
- The Western media, however, also admits Ukraine is outgunned between 3:1 to 4:1 in terms of artillery and despite claims that Russia has lost 20,000-30,000 troops around Bakhmut alone, the BBC’s own project verifying Russian losses says as of March 2023 Russia’s 1 year total losses stand at 16,000;
- A counteroffensive by Ukraine may lead to temporary gains, just as in Aleppo, Syria in 2016, however the fundamentals leading to Bakhmut’s encirclement have not been addressed, therefore any gains risk being reversed;
- A Ukrainian counteroffensive on any major scale will divert troops meant for Kiev’s spring offensive, diminishing the combat potential of other upcoming offensives;
- Poland’s military build-up is being hyped by the Western media, however Polish ambitions would see the creation of a military force roughly the size of Ukraine’s military at the beginning of 2022;
- Poland’s build-up will take years to complete;
STRIKE PACKAGE: @Euan_MacDonald reports that Tu-95 strategic bombers have sortied & are orbiting over the Caspian Sea. Tu-95s and Tu-160 bombers have taken off from Engels-2 air base in Russia, and four MiG-31Ks, possibly w/ Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, are over Bryansk, Russia.
@DarthPutinKGB 12h
Day 383 of my 3 day war. 160,000 of my soldiers are dead. I did get a raccoon though, so they didn’t die for nothing.
I remain a master strategist.
Repost from Yesterday’s thread. Just so every one is caught up is all
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
-—> Combined Arms Breach, what UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
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Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
••Day 382.
Today there are a lot of developments in the east.
Here, Russian forces concentrated their efforts on expanding the buffer zone to the north of Bakhmut to protect their flanks in the face of the imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive.
They started pushing along the highway and even got notable results, but because they got too far from their air defense and were operating on a very narrow front, Russian losses have doubled and continue to stay at more than 1000 killed per day.
Last time I told you that one of the main axes of the Ukrainian counterattack was recently revealed by Russians because the concentration of Ukrainian forces in Minkivka and neighboring settlements has substantially increased.
I also told you that, in response to this development, Wagners focused more than a third of their forces on this 5 km front line in order to create a buffer zone as fast as possible.
The freshest reports provided by the Ukrainian Spokesman of the Eastern Group of Forces noted that the intensity of fights around Bakhmut increased even more.
After establishing control over Dubovo-Vasykivka, Russian forces struggled to move directly to Orihkovo-Vasylivka because of a natural barrier in the form of another hill.
Russian forces shifted their fire on the Ukrainian strongpoint near the highway, and after they breached it, they could approach Ukrainian positions on this hill along the tree lines.
Such a development exposed Ukrainian positions in Orikhovo-Vasylivka, and, according to Russian sources, Ukrainians had to retreat from 2 checkpoints inside the village out of 4 due to the overwhelming crossfire.
The main goal of the Russians is to get to Minkivka, exactly where Ukrainians have their forces concentrations.
The idea here is to start attacking them before they launch a counterattack - this way, Ukrainians will get entangled in positional fights, which will complicate offensive actions significantly.
The second thing that Wagners are doing is trying to breach the most fortified area inside Bakhmut - the AZOM industrial area.
Some sources reported that Wagners have already entered the northern part of the industrial area, however, reports with recently made geolocated footage only confirmed that Russians maintain positions no closer than 800 meters from this complex.
The main idea of attacking the most formidable defenses is that, if Wagners somehow manage to breach it, then Bakhmut will fall very rapidly, and there would be no point in making this massive counterattack. But such a risky and aggressive approach comes at a great cost.
Since Wagner forces launched this highly attritional westward expansion, Russian losses have spiked once again, and if last week Russians were losing approximately 600 soldiers, then over the last 3 days Russians are losing almost twice as many soldiers.
[UA reports that the total Russian forces killed, wounded is 641,720: with 160,180 dead, 477,270 wounded, 1,000 POW. On pace to reach 1,000,000 by the end of the year, using UA numbers.]
Russian sources report that Wagner’s advances are constrained by artillery and mortar strikes as well as airstrikes.
Because Wagners are advancing along the very narrow line to the north of Bakhmut, Ukrainians are engaging their artillery units not only from Kostiantynivka but also Siversk.
Ukrainian mortar units are shelling Russians from safe positions behind the canal in Novomarkove.
Advancement along such a narrow line also means that Russians are getting too far from their air defense, which makes them vulnerable to airstrikes.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Ukrainians are freely engaging up to 6 fighter jets to bomb Russian strong points.
Today it was also reported that 3 helicopter gunships are operating at low altitudes for the long-running battle for Bakhmut. With that in mind, the spike in Russian losses is not surprising.
In order to compensate for such levels of losses, the Head of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin, doubled down on expanding recruitment efforts in Russia.
At first, they were opening recruitment centers at sports clubs, but lately, Wagner Group has also started focusing on youth.
Wagner Group has recently opened six recruitment centers in schools.
Russian Ministry of Education in Apatity included Wagner personnel at a career guidance lesson to tell “heroic stories” and promote the service in the Wagner Group.
The Wagner Group likely aims to recruit more impressionable recruits through these youth-focused campaigns and instill in them Prigozhin’s extreme ideology.
Some Russian officials are even advertising contract service in unusual places, for example, it was recently revealed that a Moscow-based psychiatrist is calling on suicidal men to join army and die for a good cause.
Overall, Wagner forces are trying to cancel the Ukrainian counteroffensive at any cost.
Prigozhin understands that right now, the success of his 7-month-long campaign is at stake, and no matter the losses, he must somehow prevent it.
Many analysts are saying that Ukrainians will likely launch their counteroffensive on Monday or Tuesday.
However, Ukrainians are still controlling the positions on the biggest hill in the area, which does allow Wagners to even clear the village, so Ukrainians should still have a little time to wait for the ground to dry up in order to increase the chances of their success.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0
Denys says:
••Bakhmut:
Leopard 2 tanks all being send to Cahsiv Yar areas for the coming counter attack this week, according to Russian social media & “independent” journalist accounts, plus Russian soldier reports. All of these counterattack & force buildup reports {from Chasiv Yar, Sloviansk, Silversk} are not confirmed.
UA forces in the areas far out number Wagner troops.
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Last year when social mends wads reporting UA counterattack in Kharkiv region, Russian command did not listen. This same scenario is happening again, seemingly. All of this information exists in Russian media but clearly they are panicking - a good sign.
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Footage of Russian soldiers being transported to the front in cattle cars. [This train footage was preceded by that looked like several T-14s on the same train.]
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Rumor that SU-34 pilots are willing to fight for PMC just to get away from their command.
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Russia protestors in Moldova:
Wagner troops were flown to Chisinau, Moldova to take part in the protests. Several of the PMC troops captured.
Jason Jay Smart@officejjsmart
Wagner Arrested In Molodova
The arrest was reported on March 12 by the Molodova border police. The man was detained at the airport in Chisinau immediately after arrival. During a search, cops found a military ID and that he is a member of the Wagner Group. He was deported.
https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1634893059942158336?cxt=HHwWgMDUue6kp7AtAAAA
https://news.yahoo.com/wagner-mercenary-company-representative-detained-111100158.html
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Russians using their limited supply of gliding bombs in Donetsk region - on of them fell on their captured territory.
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B-52 flew close to Iran.
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Lukashenko, fresh from trip to China, went to Iran - he’s negotiating some thing for Russia.
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PLA’s new defense minister is Lee Shan Fu who is under Western sanctions.
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Russia uses the Kh-23 Grom for the first time. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-23_Grom]
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French ex-deputy Commander of NATO forces in Europe, Michael Yakovleff.
NATO needs to prepare for the collapse of Russia. Yakovleff says the collapse of Russia is inevitable and will be much bloodier than the collapse of the USSR.
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1634839490744430593?cxt=HHwWgsDR6dz2jrAtAAAA
The new Ukrainian Offensive Guard (Counter Attack Corps) is assembling - equipped and trained. The 14 Polish Leopards have already been delivered in Country.
@bayraktar_1love 3h
🐆 Leopard news 🐆
1. Ukrainian soldiers wrap up Leopard 2A4 tank training in Spain. Spain is set to deliver six mothballed units of Leopard 2A4 to Kyiv this spring. - Reuters https://reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-soldiers-wrap-up-leopard-2a4-tank-training-spain-2023-03-13/
2. After several weeks of intensive training in Germany, Ukrainian soldiers are now ready to deploy the Leopard 2 main battle tank. The Ukrainian soldiers are due to return home with the 18 Leopard tanks in March. - Zeit
