Posted on 08/21/2023 6:01:55 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. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles 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 a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's 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.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“More than three decades after Reagan left office, most Republicans still believe that America is a force for good.”
18 more tanks lost by the invaders!
Demilitarization, desatanization and denazification of RuZZia continues.
P*ss Off.
“Russia’s ambassador to Denmark criticized Denmark and the Netherlands’ decisions, announced Sunday, that they would donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
“The fact that Denmark has now decided to donate 19 F-16 aircraft to Ukraine leads to an escalation of the conflict,” Vladimir Barbin was cited in Russian press as saying.”
How many Leopards has Ukraine lost? 8 total.
2 Leopard 2A4
6 Leopard 2A6
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/10/how-is-russia-faring-against-nato.html
“Several Russian accounts are reporting that Robotyne has fallen (and is under Ukrainian control).”
https://twitter.com/raging545/status/1693537884031058263
“Damaged and abandoned 🇷🇺 Т-72B3 near the settlement of Urozhaine, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/lost_warinua/status/1693349249067450755
“Destroyed 🇷🇺 Т-72A (Т-72 Ural) MBT №911 with the “cope cage” near the city of Marinka, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/lost_warinua/status/1693351364061999324
You can do it Zpeedy, crank out about 20 more replies to nobody on the thread.
“Damaged and abandoned 🇷🇺 BMP-3 near the settlement of Volodyno, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/lost_warinua/status/1693350575973249356
“A very powerful Russian 2S4 Tyulpan 240mm self-propelled mortar was recently destroyed as a result of Ukrainian strikes near Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1693342071984181286
PIF’s daily update will be a bit late today.
But he will still post.
You two are close.... Have you put a ring on it yet or is it all just for fun to you?
“Europe’s Gas-Guzzling Days Are Fading”
“In a reality check for natural-gas producers, volatile prices are prompting European homes and factories to go green faster than expected”
“Last year’s hottest gas market has cooled, and some of the change will stick.
Demand for natural gas in Europe hasn’t bounced back despite lower prices. The region’s TTF benchmark price is down 85% compared with a year ago, when Europe was rushing to fill its gas-storage facilities for winter after Russia cut off supply.
Prices have fallen partly because Europe’s gas storage is already full. It hit a 90% capacity target last week, more than two months ahead of a schedule set last year by the European Union.
But underlying demand is also weak. According to think tank Bruegel’s European natural gas demand tracker, use of gas in the first quarter of this year was 18% lower than the 2019-2021 average, and 19% below in the second quarter. The declines have accelerated from the 12% fall recorded last year.”
Peak China.
“As China Falls Into Deflation, the Mood Turns Dark”
“Consumers and business owners say they feel paralyzed by despair, and their reluctance to spend and borrow is feeding what could become a dangerous cycle.”
“How Ukraine is exploiting Biden’s cluster bomb gamble”
“A few feet away from a pile of U.S.-made cluster bombs, an earsplitting boom goes off 50 times a day, marking the latest volley from a Ukrainian artillery crew seeking to hold back advancing Russian forces.
“When we start firing the cluster munitions, the Russians disappear under hard cover. They won’t even poke their noses out,” said Stanislav, a Ukrainian military official standing a few miles from the front line in a blackened forest still smoldering from Russian shelling.
The artillery crew first received U.S.-made cluster munitions a few weeks ago following President Biden’s decision to send the weapon in the most controversial arms transfer of his presidency. The bombs are outlawed in more than 120 countries under a 2008 international treaty, but not in the United States, Russia and Ukraine.”
“European gas stocks at nearly 100% of capacity two months ahead of heating season”
“European gas storage facilities are almost full, long before the onset of the winter heating season, according to the latest data from the Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI).
Most European countries’ storage is already at 90% capacity, with Spain’s facilities 100% full, the United Kingdom at 98% and Germany at 92%.
Across the European Union, the average is 91.05% of capacity, as the bloc works to end its reliance on Russian energy.
The EU had set a target of 90% of capacity by November 1, to avoid a scramble for supplies in the northern hemisphere’s winter months.
On Friday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that moves to secure supplies were “well ahead of schedule” in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“This will help us be safe this winter. Together, we are weaning ourselves off Russian gas. And we keep working in parallel on more diverse energy supplies for the future,” she added.
However analysts warn that a colder-then-expected winter or global supply disruptions could still impact the EU’s energy security.
“The risk of European natural gas shortages in the upcoming winter 2023/24 peak demand season is only marginal, with a mere 10% probability of serious shortages, even with little or no Russian supply,” said political risk consultancy Eurasia.
“Governments, suppliers, and consumers have successfully coordinated in accessing new supply, reducing consumption, and sending available gas to regions and sectors where there are no alternatives,” it added.
Eurasia noted reduced gas demand as well as “an aggressive switch to alternative supply, for instance by boosting North Sea offshore wind for industrial power supply has further helped reduce the EU’s reliance on imported gas.””
“Vladimir Putin will be notably absent from the BRICS summit this week. The Russian president’s no-show speaks volumes about Moscow’s isolation — and his shrinking horizons”
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