Posted on 04/11/2023 7:36:13 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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“(Our so-called Ally) Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says”
“President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret ‘to avoid problems with the West’”
“How Ukraine Won the War to Keep the Lights On”
“Russia was determined to break Ukrainians’ will by plunging them into cold and darkness. Its failure, in the face of Ukrainian resilience, offers lessons as winter has released its icy grip.”
“Electric trams are running again in Kyiv, and electric scooters dot the sidewalks. With curfew extended to midnight, the streets are bright and buzzing. Portable generators, nearly impossible to find as they flew off the shelves in December, are being sold at half price.”
“Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse”
“War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict“
“A demographic tragedy is unfolding in Russia. Over the past three years the country has lost around 2m more people than it would ordinarily have done, as a result of war, disease and exodus. The life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 fell by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti. The number of Russians born in April 2022 was no higher than it had been in the months of Hitler’s occupation. And because so many men of fighting age are dead or in exile, women now outnumber men by at least 10m.
War is not the sole—or even the main—cause of these troubles, but it has made them all worse. According to Western estimates, 175,000-250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the past year (Russia’s figures are lower). Somewhere between 500,000 and 1m mostly young, educated people have evaded the meat-grinder by fleeing abroad. Even if Russia had no other demographic problems, losing so many in such a short time would be painful. As it is, the losses of war are placing more burdens on a shrinking, ailing population. Russia may be entering a doom loop of demographic decline.
The roots of Russia’s crisis go back 30 years. The country reached peak population in 1994, with 149m people. The total has since zig-zagged downwards. It was 145m in 2021 (that figure, from the un, excludes the 2.4m people of Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014 and incorporated into its national accounts). According to un projections, the total could be just 120m in 50 years, if current patterns persist. That would make Russia the 15th-most-populous country in the world, down from sixth in 1995. According to Alexei Raksha, an independent demographer who used to work for the state statistics service, if you look just at peacetime years, the number of births registered in April 2022 was the lowest since the 18th century. April was a particularly cruel month, but it was a revealing glimpse of a chronic problem.”
“As spring offensive nears, Ukraine is drafting reinforcements”
“The men in uniform could show up almost anywhere, any time.
They knock on civilians’ front doors and randomly stop them on street corners, handing out draft papers that can turn lives upside down.
Ukraine needs more soldiers — and fast. Kyiv is preparing for an imminent assault on Russian occupying forces, and while Ukraine does not disclose its casualty counts, commanders in the field have described large losses. In February, a German official said Berlin believed at least 120,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed or wounded since the start of the invasion.“
Lend-Lease is the backup plan if Congress doesn’t appropriate more money. The RuZZian Boys who think Rs in Congress will prevent assistance to UA are wrong as usual.
“Why Biden hasn’t loaned weapons to Ukraine”
“The Biden administration has yet to use its Lend-Lease authorities to send weapons to Ukraine, senior administration officials and lawmakers told NatSec Daily.
The U.S. under President JOE BIDEN has committed nearly $35 billion in security assistance for Kyiv since Russia’s invasion, all of it coming from drawdowns of U.S. military stocks or future weapons production. But Congress also gave Biden Lend-Lease authority last year, allowing the U.S. to cut through bureaucratic red tape and gift weapons to Ukraine with the expectation of reimbursement down the line.
To date, the administration has chosen not to use that option, mainly because the congressionally approved pot of money that hasn’t been zeroed out yet.
“We are prioritizing security assistance that they would not have to pay us back for,” a senior administration official said on the condition of anonymity to detail sensitive internal discussions. However, the official added that the administration is “certainly open to using it in the future.” The focus right now is on “other existing authorities that Congress has authorized.””
“Denmark will transfer 100 Leopard-1 tanks to Ukraine. at. Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen
“We will start deliveries of Leopard to Ukraine by the summer. Looking ahead, I hope that it will be possible to deliver about 100 Leopard-1 tanks, this will be a significant help to the Ukrainian army,” said Poulsen.“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1645468551233273856
HIMARed
“A Russian Tigr IMV, Remdiesel Z-STS “Akhmat” armoured vehicle and at least two Ural fuel trucks were destroyed by a Ukrainian HIMARS strike against a military staging point near Marinka, #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1645500394812973072
“Fighters of the Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi discovered an enemy stronghold in the Novopavlovsk direction.
Accurate hits from 60-mm and 82-mm mortars destroyed a machine gun position, an AGS and an RPG with ammunition.“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1645450759079616512
“A moving Russian KamAZ-5350 transport truck was destroyed by a Ukrainian FPV loitering munition strike on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Dnipriany, #Kherson Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1645728664150056960
“Two Russian tanks (Presumably T-72/T-80 series) were destroyed- as claimed, by HIMARS strikes. A Ukrainian Leleka-100 UAV was used for observation.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1645700390283796480
Can someone inform Kazan?
“When realisation kicks in, even on Russian propaganda shows. “Russian losses are bigger than Ukrainian losses, and that seems to be true”.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1645681905361121281
“More than twice as many Russian troops as Ukrainians have been killed in Putin’s war, leaked estimates show”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/12ifqnj/more_than_twice_as_many_russian_troops_as/
“War is young men dying and old men talking
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
One old man particular, F Putin.”
“My little cousin just turned 22 last week. He is partially Ukrainian and left America almost exactly one year ago to fight. I found out a few hours ago he was killed, but the details haven’t been disclosed. The embassy is trying to send his body/remains back but we don’t know what to expect. I’m so proud of him, but so conflicted on losing him. I just need to tell someone, as my family isn’t talking about it yet. I hope this doesn’t conflict with the rules of this sub, I just needed to get it out before I spiral. He goes by Eli if anyone wants to know”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/12i9695/i_dont_have_words/#
Just wondering if the Russians took into account that even if they “win” the war, they will be dealing with rebels in Ukraine for decades, further adding to the human and material losses they have already suffered.
“GRU officer defects to Ukrainian side”
“Vladyslav Ammosov, a former officer of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, has defected to Ukraine and is working to establish a Siberian volunteer battalion to fight his former compatriots, Radio Liberty reported on April 10, citing sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
https://english.nv.ua/nation/gru-officer-defects-to-ukrainian-side-war-news-50316914.html
What blows my mind is how many males between the ages of 18 and 35 have left Russia, when I say they left Russia, this means they are dead, they fled Russia, or they’re in hiding. Their estimating more than 50% of the male population in Russia have disappeared in this age group, if these people are really gone then Russia is in dire straights not just today but for the next 50 years.
They’re saying if this population is really gone, their entire pension and retirement system is going to collapse and those are the people that were supporting Putin and that will lead to either a new elected leader or a failure of the Russian state.
They thought they would take Kyiv in 3 days.
Now, they are just trying to avoid a devastating defeat.
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