Posted on 05/15/2022 7:37:30 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
A detailed list of the destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of both sides can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
NO UPDATES FOR NOW.
ORYX says: “I’m away for several days. The list won’t be updated in the meantime. But not to worry, all losses will eventually be incorporated into the list.”
Sorry, should say
“Real time update on equipment losses from both sides based on videos/photos. The invaders lost 0 additional tanks in the past 24 hours for a total of 671. US estimated 1200 total tanks at the onset of war.”
Back to my home computer and need templates updated.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, May 14, 2022
(’Orc ‘is associated with the various hoards of Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
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Bonus:
Ukraine Military intelligence chief, Major General Kyrylo Budanov: told Sky News defeat in Ukraine would lead to the removal of Russia’s leader and the country’s disintegration.
“It will eventually lead to the change of leadership of the Russian Federation. This process has already been launched and they are moving into that way.”
Does that mean a coup is under way?
“Yes,” he responded.
“They are moving in this way and it is impossible to stop it.”
He claimed Mr Putin is in a “very bad psychological and physical condition and he is very sick”.
The Russian leader has cancer and other illnesses, he says.
He dismissed suggestions he was spreading propaganda as part of the information war and was certain of his claims.
“It’s my job, it’s my work, if not me who will know this?”
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-military-intelligence-chief-optimistic-of-russian-defeat-saying-war-will-be-over-by-end-of-year-12612320
Other links to same story:
Kremlin coup rumours growing in Moscow: Disgruntled generals join FSB (‘Siloviki’) looking to oust Putin and end Ukraine war
https://www.cityam.com/kremlin-on-high-alert-as-coup-rumours-grow-in-moscow-disgruntled-generals-join-fsb-looking-to-oust-putin-and-end-ukraine-war/
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****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).
Watch: UAV records how M777A2 + Excalibur destroys Russian 152mm SPG
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2022/05/12/watch-uav-records-how-m777a2-excalibur-destroys-russian-152mm-spg/
Watch: Ukraine made custom mobile 4×4 station to launch (the British) Brimstone SSMs
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2022/05/15/watch-ukraine-made-custom-mobile-4x4-station-to-launch-brimstone-ssms/
Ukraine Might Get (the German) IRIS-T SLM Surface-To-Air Missile System: Reports
The deal could provide Ukraine with its first advanced western air defense system that would fill a role similar to that of the SA-11 Buk.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-might-get-german-iris-t-slm-medium-range-sam-system-reports
Russia Fires World’s Biggest Laser-Guided Mortar Round In Ukraine
Huge Smel’chak laser-guided mortars are being lobbed at Ukrainian fighters still holed up in the Azovstal steel plant.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-fires-worlds-biggest-laser-guided-mortar-rounds-in-ukraine
Impressive video of WWI trench warfare in Ukraine. 3.34 minutes
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1525556432959070208
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**DPR and LPR troops not allowed into Russia - will be shot if they try.
**Russian Oil Production and What Happened.
Peak oil production before war was 10.15 MMB/D, will be 9.8 MMB/D in May.
Expected to drop to 7.5 MMB/D in July/August/September time frame.
Likely to have impact on Oil Price. Current prices will sty high or go higher; with increased inflation.
Interest rates will go up to fight inflation, pushing world economy toward recession.
Summary: Quiet day
- no major action today
**WWI meat grinder stye fighting
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead - no changes.
- Lyman bridgehead
- no changes today or yesterday.
- Bilogorivka bridgehead: destroyed
1. Kharkiv: Ukrainian troops are slowly pushing Russian side out - no changes today.
**Buffer being held by screening troops.
Donbas Salient:
2. Izyum bridgehead. It is extremely dangerous penetration by Russian troops that potentially could lead to large pocket for Ukrainian troops west of Donetsk. No changes today.
**UA 14th B, 93 B, 81 B. 79 B beaten down.
3. Lyman bridgehead. No changes today.
Severodonetsk Salient:
4. Popasna, Rubizhne and Severodonetsk. Russian troops captured all of Rubizhne. Russian mercenaries - Wagner Group operates in Popasna, also Russian 57 brigade operates there as well. Confirmed capture of Popasna by Russian troops. Russian troops advanced north of Popasna to village Komyshevakha. No new advances today.
**UA 7th Motorized Infantry, 58th MI (refreshed), 80th Air Assault, and 128th Mountain Infantry, Also 17 TB, 56 MI, 57 MI, 46 B in reserve.
**~100 Orc armored vehicles destroyed at attempted bridging. No chance of Orc success
**Orcs might have success taking Severodonetsk
5. West of Donetsk: Avidyivka and Maryinka. Avdiyivaka - never ending attempts of the Russian side to break-through there. Russian troops captured all of or portion of Novobahmutivka.
**Orc capture of Novobahmutivka only progress for the day.
** Avidyivka has coal plant
6. Vugledar is in Ukrainian hands. No changes today.
** Vugledar being shelled
7. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. Ukrainian strongholds are towns of Gulyaypole and village of Velyka Novosilka. Russian 19D is operating there. Russian troops are consolidating their gains.
Also, 42D has been spotted in the area. Russian troops caputred village Vremivka attached to Velyka Novosilka from west and separate by small river.
The most northern group of Russian troops has been stopped before village of Vilne Pole. Ukranian side brought its 128 brigade and regiment Azov Kyiv to stop Russian advance there. No changes today.
**Balance of power about equal.
**Vilne Pole heavy shelling
8. Kherson bridgehead: no changes.
**Orcs on strategic defensive, protect Kherson and the fresh water supply for Crimea
“UK Defense Ministry: Russia likely lost one third of its ground forces in Ukraine.
Russia’s Donbas offensive has lost momentum and is unlikely to accelerate its pace in the next 30 days, the ministry said.”
IMHO Putin made a catastrophic bad decision when he chose to invade Ukraine. He could have achieved his goals by announcing that any further expansion of NATO, a military alliance hostile to Russia, on his borders would be a causus belli. With this invasion he has negated whatever progress he had made leading Russia out of the cultural and economic devastation of nearly ninety years of communism.
You also seem to take great delight in the deaths of Russian soldiers. Yet have you ever considered the debt that Americans owe to Russia? When Hitler attacked Russia, despite incredible suffering and horrendous casualties, the Russians kept fighting. Eventually they destroyed the best of the German army. Try to imagine the casualties America would have suffered if it attempted to liberate Europe with the German army largely intact? Many Americans alive today would not exist since their fathers and grandfathers would have never returned and would have been buried in Europe.
IMHO you would do well to recognize that this unnecessary war is a tragedy for the common Ukrainians and Russians who have suffered greatly in the recent past from incredibly poor leadership and corruption. Sadly the consequences of such poor leadership and malfeance is being experienced right here in America. You will not be able to tally the toll in the coming hunger wars.
“Ukrainian soldier says that the Ukrainian side used freshly delivered American M777 howitzers to smash 70+ Russian military vehicles to pieces as they tried to cross the Siverskyi Donets River on May 9th.”
That was in one of my links I believe
https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture/status/1525677618053324802
The battle of Kharkiv has been won by #Ukraine, with Russian forces withdrawing to the north & east. Today, analysis on what is next for Ukraine’s military as it exploits a faltering Russian eastern offensive. 1/25
2/ The war in the east, and the war in #Ukraine more generally, is approaching an important turning point.
3/ The Ukrainian success in the battle for Kharkiv is significant. It sees the recapture of Ukrainian territory and will ensure the city is out of Russian field artillery range. These are important humanitarian & political achievements for #Ukraine.
4/ It also gives the Ukrainian Army another huge morale & confidence boost. As they did in the north, they have shown again that they can defend, and then go on the offensive to recapture their land from the Russians. They continue to out-think and out-fight the Russian Army.\
5/ Despite the Russians recently reorienting their operational design on eastern Ukraine as its main effort, they have yet to make significant gains. Indeed, they have been fought to a near standstill by the Ukrainians.
6/ Not only are the Russians in trouble in the east, but the entire Russian campaign in Ukraine is also close to culminating. I would highlight – this is not the same as a Russian defeat. It just means that Russia may shortly be unable to conduct offensive operations.
7/ Russia, theoretically, might construct some last gasp offensive out of Crimea or elsewhere in the south. But this would be akin to the WW2 German Ardennes Offensive – tactically dangerous for a short time but ultimately operationally and strategically futile.
8/ Ukraine now has several options for what they might do in the wake of success in the Battle of Kharkiv. Issues such as forces available, logistics, air support and geography will be important. But there are probably two over-riding considerations: timing & exploitation limits.
9/ Timing. The Ukrainians got their timing just right for their north east offensive around Kharkiv. Now, they have to pick the right moment for a potential wider counter offensive in the east.
10/ This means they must balance continued attrition of the Russians during their current offensive and attacking a culminated Russian force before they can establish a well-developed scheme of defensive maneuver in the east.
11/ The region to the east of Kharkiv is vulnerable to a Ukrainian advance. Not only are the majority of Russian forces further south and east of this area, seizing this region (to the east of the Donets) poses a threat to ground supply routes for Russia’s eastern offensive.
12/ It will be an attractive option for Ukraine. While the ground is better suited for the defender (Russia), it is always better fight over the worst ground than through the greatest concentration of enemy. This, in many respects, has been Ukraine’s approach throughout the war.
13/ By attacking Russian rear areas, weakly defended locations and logistic hubs / convoys, the Ukrainians have forced Russian withdrawals in the north and northeast.
14/ While Russian forces in the east are stronger than those faced in the north and northeast, any interference with their supply lines will have a significant impact on Russian combat operations on the Izium axis of advance.
15/ Of course, Ukrainian success in any offensive is not guaranteed. Operational outcomes range from a Russian collapse followed by withdrawal; they fight each other to a standstill, followed by stalemate; or, potentially, a Ukrainian defeat. In war there are no certainties.
16/ Summarising, Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of time to assemble the forces & support if they are to conduct another counter offensive in the east. They have to strike before the Russians shift to a defensive posture. The Russians will be much harder to push back if that occurs.
17/ Exploitation limits. There has been speculation about how far the Ukrainians might carry their offensives. In particular, might the Ukrainians advance on Belgorod in Russia? This is probably unlikely for several reasons.
18/ First, the Ukrainians have already proved that they can out fight, outthink and defeat the Russian Army. They don’t need to go into Russia to re-prove that.
19/ 2nd, President Zelensky has gained global influence as President of a country that has been invaded. For him to engage in similar behaviour would have an impact on his influence in the outside world.
20/ 3rd, as Russia has found, invading another country is much harder than defending your own. The motivation for soldiers ‘invading’ another country is different to the motivation when defending one’s own nation. The Ukrainians are clever enough to understand this.
21/ Finally, any Ukrainian incursion into Russia would (for Putin) validate the sense of external existential threat that Russia is under, and that Putin described in his Victory Day speech. The Ukrainian President (as well as the US & NATO) would want to avoid this.
22/ Within Ukraine’s borders, do they seek to only recapture ground taken by Russia since 24 February, or something more? The Ukrainian President will balance reclaiming Ukrainian territory, retaining Western support & not pushing the Russians to us
23/ A window of opportunity is opening for Ukrainian operational design in the east. While defending the Kharkiv region they have just re-secured, they may be able to conduct an operational level strike across the Donets and into the rear of Russia’s axis of advance on Izium.e chem / nuclear weapons.
24/ With their recent experience, home ground advantage & western support, there is no one in the world better at making such a decision than the Ukrainian high command. It will be their decisions, not Russia’s, that could result in an important turning point in this war. End
If US equipment is getting the job done, why the need for $43B which we tax payers have to pay? Why isn’t this amount $43B, if necessary, equally paid for by all of NATO countries?
Because we want to make sure it stays “done”. It is not over til it is over. This is a bargain in making sure Russia is defeated and stays defeated. Russia needs to change and a massive defeat would bring abut the catalyst “hopefully” to do this.
From Sky News Australia:
“Russians are ‘hammering the hell’ out of Ukraine”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1RQswDU_bs
The Battle of Kyiv - WON by Ukraine
The Battle of Kharkiv - WON by Ukraine
The Battle of Donbas - in progress
The battle of Kharkiv has been won by #Ukraine, with Russian forces withdrawing to the north & east. Today, analysis on what is next for Ukraine’s military as it exploits a faltering Russian eastern offensive. 1/25
3/ The Ukrainian success in the battle for Kharkiv is significant. It sees the recapture of Ukrainian territory and will ensure the city is out of Russian field artillery range. These are important humanitarian & political achievements for #Ukraine.
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This is a rather shallow or hollow victory, since the RGF withdrew its forces to the south, leaving only Ukrainian forced conscripts to slowly withdraw, giving the illusion that UA is fighting Orc troops.
Walking into empty towns is hardly the stuff of a great victory, rather its is merely an Orc concession - albeit temporary, if they can get more troops, even conscripts from a mobilization.
Russia has a lot of troops in the Izyum area they have not committed yet - besides the bulk of the Kyiv forces they are trying to reconstitute.
The big plus, which is never mentioned, is that none of the Orc troops are going to get new equipment - short of cannibalizing them from other units across Russia, they cannot make more because of the sanctions on chips.
All the other countries are contributing. And ‘getting the job done’ is not the job done. Ukraine is almost flat broke as are its people. Would you have them starve and die of simple medical issues?
If you don’t like what is happening, point to the and quit whining on this board about other issues.
You know damn well if that money was not going to Ukraine it would be spent, by the Unelected Biden Regime and colluding Congress critters, on stuff that does nothing, helps no one.
You know damn well if that money was not going to Ukraine it would be spent, by the Unelected Biden Regime and colluding Congress critters, on stuff that does nothing, helps no one.
You word that as if we actually had the money.
You word that as if we actually had the money.
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gave up on that horse 40 years ago. Stop beating it.
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