Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

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[SpeedyInTexas]

“In the Kupyansk area, Ukrainian forces targeted a Russian MSTA-S battery with (most likely GMLRS) counterbattery fire, destroying one SPH and likely damaging another.”

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1696513154140733602

[SpeedyInTexas]

Droned

https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1696518908470300966

[tlozo]

The UA got the latest Bradley M2A2 IFV

Were there enough Bradleys for everyone trained? Ukraine got a grand total of 109 Bradleys.

[FtrPilot]

Posted a couple of days ago...worth analysis.

NO PLACE TO HIDE: A deep strike interdicted a Russian 'Predel-E' radar station in RU occupied Kherson. The attack took place in Zaliznyi, on the Black Sea coast. Sources indicate the strike resulted in the first loss of this modern RU system.

The 'Predel-E’ is one of RU’s primer coastal surveillance radars. It is believed to be the first combat loss of such a unit. Also destroyed was a ‘Leer 2’ Electronic Warfare system (Right). Together, both units are assessed to cost >200 Million dollars.

https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1696230110863503372

Pictures of the $200 Million 'Predel-E'

Here's a youtube drone video of the attack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbSPN78-kQ

Drone video...possibly the Shark UAV.

Here's the location on Google Maps:

Google Maps - Zaliznyi

So, why would ruzzia forward deploy a $200 Million, over the horizon, coastal surveillance radar?

I believe RU is concerned about Ukraine's naval drones. They were trying to locate and attack the launch location.

[PIF]

Were there enough Bradleys for everyone trained?
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That question cannot be answered, unless the number of people trained is known. Still, you do not put people trained on one specific vehicles into some other with lesser abilities that they have not been trained on.

Last count there were 186 M2A2 ODS Bradleys sent

The Bradley is well armed with strong armor - the M113 is virtually defenseless and has weak armor.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Posted a couple of days ago...worth analysis.”

Thanks for the analysis!

[SpeedyInTexas]

Yep.

“Nearly 3 months of the most intense and brutal Russian propaganda, thousands of photos from hundreds of angles, and just 5 of 71 Leopards provided to Ukraine were destroyed, with no crew losses.”

[BeauBo]

Maybe her barking was to drive off an intruder, rather than to go out.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Up close and personal.

“Annihilation Orcs under the railway road to Bakhmut🔥

After crossing the railway road, Russian groups of soldiers were ambushed and destroyed.

Another example of why drones are important and soldiers cannot do without them.

Coordinated work of the 3rd Assault Brigade”

https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1696556133895287147

[FtrPilot]

Warehouses in Moscow are on fire.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1696546477546361243

[FtrPilot]

Another example of why drones are important and soldiers cannot do without them.

These drone videos will be studied at War Colleges for many years.

IMHO, winning the war requires winning the "drone" war.

The UKR counteroffensive is showing that UKR is slowly winning the drone war.

[FtrPilot]

Pechersk Brigade of Ukrainian National Guards destroyed yet another Msta-S self-propelling howitzer.

The driver of the howitzer tried to escape but...

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1696233324627251571

Drone video using thermal imagery.

[BeauBo]

“Russian tourists vacationing in Crimea”

This season’s volume was about half of last year, when the war was also underway.

[PIF]

All four nasty comments are removed.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“The driver of the howitzer tried to escape but...”

Love a happy ending.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Its time for him to be banned.

[FtrPilot]

Russians lost a rare 9S36M radar unit of a Buk-M3 air defense system by a HIMARS strike. The unit price is around $40 million and not many of these vehicles, which have been introduced in 2015, have been manufactured.

https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1696573529301414022

Here's a picture of the radar in transportation mode:

Here's a picture of the radar in use.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“The story behind this footage. In the east, AFU units spotted a group of Russians at night that were preparing an assault on Ukrainian positions. Ukrainians understood there would be at least one or two armored vehicles to support the assault. After a night of searching, they found a BMP-2 that was brought close, likely to support the infantry. Ukrainian SSO units raised an FPV drone and managed to destroy it with a single blow (requires real skill and training).”

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1696579685323342032

[SpeedyInTexas]

“The USA allocated a new $250 million aid package to Ukraine. It includes AIM-9M missiles for air defense, munitions for HIMARS, 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition, mine-clearing equipment, Javelin and other anti-armor systems and rockets, over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition, ambulances, demolition munitions for obstacle clearing, as well as spare parts, services, training, and transportation.”

[SpeedyInTexas]

“I’m posting this because it might be interesting and create more discussions. I have no opinion on how much of it is true or how close it is to reality yet. This has been translated by google translate.

The 108th Airborne Regiment of the RF Armed Forces lost from a third to a half of its personnel in two weeks of fighting in the Rabotino area

The 108th Guards Cossack Regiment of the Airborne Forces is based in Novorossiysk. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, he fought in the Kherson region, where in the fall of 2022 he suffered heavy losses, then the commander of the regiment Vitaly Sukuev died (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukuev_Vitaly_Vladimirovich).

In early August 2023, due to the lack of reserves in the Kopani-Rabotino-Verbovo area of the Russian Armed Forces, the 108th was transferred from the Kherson region to Melitopol, and from there near Rabotino-Verbovo. Z-propaganda told (https://t.me/swodki/292742) then about the heroic combat path of the paratroopers and their great success in destroying the Ukrainian army. In fact, the heroic path ended as soon as it began.

According to sources in neighboring units and in the 108th itself, during the transfer from the Kherson region, from 30 to 50 soldiers of the regiment deserted, not wanting to go to the front line, where heavy fighting was going on.

On the way from Tokmak to Novopokrovka (a village northeast of Verbovo), the regiment’s column was spotted by Ukrainian observers and came under heavy fire from HIMARS and artillery. As a result, according to various sources, from a third to a half of the personnel were killed and wounded - from 230 to 350 people, including officers. As the Russian military from other units say, the regiment is practically incompetent. The remnants of the 108th are now occupying positions in the Novopokrovka area.

The 108th Regiment is part of the 7th Air Assault Division. The 56th regiment, which is part of the division, is fighting in a neighboring sector, closer to Verbovo, which is still under the control of the RF Armed Forces.

As staff officers say, great hopes were pinned on the 108th regiment, the unit was supposed to counterattack in the Rabotino-Verbovo area, return the positions lost by motorized rifles and BARS, for this the regiment was given a lot of armored vehicles. Hopes were shattered by HIMARS and shells during another attempt by Russian generals to push troops in a column to the front line without camouflage and cover.

Russian troops are regularly exposed to such attacks. The biggest defeat was the defeat (https://bbc.com/russian/features-64631465) of a large column near Ugledar this winter. Then the Armed Forces of Ukraine let the tank columns and trucks go deep into the mines, made along the roadsides and in the fields, and then began a powerful shelling. As a result, tanks in an attempt to escape crushed trucks and were blown up by mines in the fields. The exact number of those who died during the defeat of that column has not been established so far. According to various estimates, then up to 33 tanks and up to 100 vehicles and armored vehicles were destroyed. Human losses ranged from 400 to 700 people killed and wounded.

The covert transfer of troops to the front line still remains one of the weakest points in the RF Armed Forces. “Because the transfer at night is now useless, everyone has thermal cameras (thermal imagers that detect heat emitters), drones see everything around the clock. It is too long and expensive to transfer in small groups and under the cover of artillery, under barrage fire, the father commanders need it right now and quickly, ”comments an officer of one of the units of the RF Armed Forces that fell under the Vuglodar rout.”

https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1696576782881714615