Posted on 05/11/2023 6:33:29 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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Ukraine is working hard to put a brave, heroic face on a bad situation. While the battle over Bakhmut continues to dominate the attention of Western pundits and politicians, the war in Ukraine is raging in other locations, including Zaporozhye, Maryinka, Avdyevka, Petrovskoye and dozens of other cities and hamlets. Russia has ample supplies of men, tanks and ammunition. Ukraine does not. Russia is choosing to fight a war of attrition rather than large scale maneuver. I realize this is frustrating for those arm-chair generals longing for a General Patton to break out of hedge row country and go scampering across France. Apart from the whining complaints from Prigozhin, there is no sign of panic, fear or frustration on the Russian side. The essential question remains — how long can Ukraine hold out?
Ukraine SitRep: Delayed Counteroffensive, Russian Defense Lines, Weapon Efficiency
Ukraine does not have the personnel to sustain a longer war. Nor does the 'west' have any spare weapons that could give the Ukraine a 'decisive advantage'.
Magyar seems to have gone quiet.
Perhaps there will be a lot of drone video once the counteroffensive starts.
Over the past several weeks, we have seen videos of trench warfare. My guess is that drone pilots are, in fact, communicating directly with the infantry soldiers.
Sure is nice to know when the enemy has run out of ammo.
To me the biggest questions on Russian reaction to counteroffensive is will the average Russian/merc/convict fight or run and second will the Russians risk their remaining planes and pilots to try and stop the offensive and expose them to concentrated AA fire
It is all to common these days to denigrate the Russian military as inept, corrupt, 19th century doctrine with some modern weapons, tanks are a joke….., but this is recent. Before the Russians had to put up or shut up I would say nearly all “experts” put the Russian military as a serious threat. First 10 years of my military career was Cold War stuff. We trained hard for NBC. the weapons systems were designed to fight soviets in Europe
I was just as blind to their deficiencies as any expert was(though I think I have a better excuse, never claimed to be an expert)
I almost feel sorry for them and to a very small way to feel something for the average conscript who is being sent to slaughter.
How this war ends, to me the only way is regime change, though that is problematic or breaking up of Russian federation leaving only ethnic Russia to carry on and I don’t think they have the resources
Without this even if pushed to original borders I think they keep shelling and bombing .
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
“If Russia allows political considerations to drive operations, it may decide to reinforce Bakhmut to prevent Ukraine from quickly recapturing its flanks, but that could leave its forces more vulnerable elsewhere where Ukraine has better prospects for achieving a breakthrough.”
“Agree. UA seems to be attacking with forces that are unlikely to be related to the main effort, hence hoping to fix Russian units at Bakhmut and roll back gains over the past few months, while setting the conditions for a major offensive that probably will take place elsewhere.”
https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1656782728422105088
“Girkin earlier predicted that Ukraine’s main effort would be in Zaporizhzhia with secondary efforts in Kherson and maybe Donetsk. He says MoD units sent to defend Bakhmut’s flanks were only equipped to man rear area checkpoints”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1656743670912090112
“Yevgeny Poddubny says that Ukraine appears to be using a new EW system that is having some success jamming Lancet loitering munitions.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1656724676394074112
“A possible Russian “friendly fire” incident - we will wait for the info about the target.”
“Looks like one more Russian aircraft go to HELL!”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1656714352072744961
I also suspect the Bakhmut effort is to fix Russian troops away from the counter offensive targets. I’m sure Pigrozhin would love it if Ukraine would throw troops into central Bakhmut so he can be on the other side of the meat grinder, but I doubt Ukraine has any intentions of doing so. If the flanks around Bakhmut do collapse, I think Wagner will bail. Of course I’m a sailor and twidget, not a grunt, so there is that...
Putin is genius.
Food for some positive wondering.
A statement from the Russian Defence Ministry tonight: “Claims spread by certain Telegram channels about ‘defences being broken through’ on various parts of the contact line are not true”
As they say, don’t believe anything until Russia denies it.
They could launch over water. Bringing it closer from Odessa.
This is wild.
https://twitter.com/albafella1/status/1656397533227171843?s=20
“Full video. Yesterday, near Bakhmut, a unique event of historic proportions took place.
First, one of the “liberators”, wounded by drops from drones, committed suicide by putting a grenade under his head.
The occupier, who was watching all this from his hole, mad with fear and hopelessness, seeing how all his comrades died in the trenches from UAV strikes in a few hours, decided to surrender to the drone. Seeing a drone ready to destroy him, he raised his hands and showed that he was ready to surrender.
💪The fighters of the CODE 9.2 group, already recognized all over the world as virtuosos in destroying occupiers using drones, decided to save his life and, with the assistance of the crew of the ACHILES UAV company, transmitted instructions on how and where to go [for occupier] by dropping the package from the drone .
The invader read the instructions and went to surrender. His commanders, seeing from their drone that their soldier was surrendering, tried to destroy him with an artillery strike, but did not hit. Drone operators escorted him and handed him over to the valiant warriors of the 3rd Battalion of the 92nd Brigade.
Now the invader, originally from the Pskov region, is safe. He, unlike thousands of others, will not be left to rot on Ukrainian soil and got a chance to be useful - to be exchanged for one of Ukrainian Defenders.”
“Ukraine does not have the personnel to sustain a longer war.”
They have more than they did in WWII.
Correction the Ukrainians don’t have the manpower to sustain a Soviet er ah Russian style meat grinder offensive, but since they are smarter than that they will be fine meanwhile the soviets crap did it again meanwhile the Russians are on their third or fourth mobilization and still don’t have the manpower to sustain the smo
A topic sometimes raised is that the manpower needs for Ukraine are limited to their lines and their country while Russia (got it right this time) has a vast federation to defend and thanks to pooty with Finland joining NATO a much larger border now. theirs is not a manpower need to defend against external threats(well maybe against their unlimited Chinese “friends” to the east) but the internal threats to a federation held together by force and intimidation. Without those forces to keep the federation in line the locals are getting restless and more bold
Your beloved genocidal friends are in the process of being encircled in the south as your Hero Prigozhin abandons the flanks and the 72nd surrenders of runs away.
Before the Russians had to put up or shut up I would say nearly all “experts” put the Russian military as a serious threat. First 10 years of my military career was Cold War stuff.
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Not sure when your career was, but in the 60s, the Russians were numerically superior to the point that losing 1 or 2 Armies of 100,000 each during the opening day was no big deal to them, after the use of tactical nukes.
They were, by all estimates, once they crossed through Fulda Gap, 72 hours from the English Channel.
“... it may decide to reinforce Bakhmut to prevent Ukraine from quickly recapturing its flanks, but that could leave its forces more vulnerable elsewhere where Ukraine has better prospects for achieving a breakthrough.”
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The forces elsewhere are all the PMC troops in Soledar. Which, if used, will leave the UA only 11km from the city with only light opposition.
“Claims spread by certain Telegram channels about ‘defences being broken through’ on various parts of the contact line are not true”
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The original info was spread by the same MoD that now denies the validity.
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