https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1714645074800164914
A beautiful sight!
Posted on 10/18/2023 7:21:04 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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82mm mortar hole
“so weird that this russian war crime of bombing a ukrainian hospital with a 500kg bomb did not get more outrage and media coverage than the Hamas failed rocket on the Baptist hospital in gaza ...”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1714573706419159346
Yep and his 7 cohorts - petty people turning the country against the GOP and making the USA even weaker, as the world rolls in the isle, laughing at us.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1714645074800164914
A beautiful sight!
Rybar says that elements from Ukraine's 35th and 36th Marine Brigades have captured the town of Poima and are fighting for Pishchanivka on the left bank of the Dnipro river in Kherson Oblast with the aid of artillery and FPV strikes.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1714433456283791564
Looks like Jordan had 22 Rs vote against him.
Increased from first round which was 20.
The House speakership will commence again right after the the Dems take the House in 2024, meanwhile stupid GOP clowns will continue to fight for media face time and personal revenge, not for the USA.
Xi Jinping invited Vladimir Putin to make peace with Ukraine. The President immediately invited Biden for pancakes
We were told about this proposal by two sources among diplomats and in the Kremlin, familiar with the progress of negotiations between the heads of Russia and China.
According to interlocutors, the Chinese leader told ours something like this: “You could achieve military success in Ukraine, but now there is almost no chance. It is in your interests to reconcile and try to keep Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence.”
In exchange for an attempt to reconcile with Ukraine, Xi Jinping promised to transfer Vladimir Vladimirovich’s peace initiatives to Joe Biden (we wrote about such a request from the President).
Let us note that it was precisely with the words of his Chinese colleague that Putin’s call, who, after communicating with Xi, suggested that Kiev cancel the decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia.
In addition, Vladimir Vladimirovich fully confirmed our insight published the day before. After Ukraine receives ATACMS missiles, he wants to intensify peace negotiations with the Americans.
“The President almost directly stated his desire to talk with Biden and invited him to come to us for pancakes. An intelligent person should understand such a hint. We are waiting for the Americans’ reaction,” said one of our interlocutors.
By the way, we wrote that Putin has been talking about a possible meeting with Biden since the beginning of autumn, and he named Russia as one of the likely places for negotiations.
What else Vladimir Vladimirovich and Xi Jinping talked about, we will tell you in more detail later, we will clarify the details.
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
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“Something needs to change, dear friend.” What Putin and Xi Jinping talked about
Four sources in the Russian delegation told us what Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping discussed at their meeting in China. We talk about the most important, in our opinion, moments.
Firstly, the Chinese leader called on Vladimir Vladimirovich to end the SVO (preferably by getting out of the situation with maximum benefit for Russia, if this is still possible) and try to improve relations with Ukraine.
And he expressed doubt that we would emerge victorious from the war. Let us additionally note that Xi said strange words to Putin on this matter: “Something needs to change, dear friend. The crisis can become unpredictable.”
In response to this, Vladimir Vladimirovich decided not only to almost directly declare the possibility of negotiations with the Ukrainians and Americans, but also to remind us of our military capabilities.
And he announced plans to patrol the Black Sea with aircraft equipped with Kinzhal missiles.
According to Putin, a reminder of the power of Russian weapons could be a factor that will influence the opponents’ willingness to negotiate.
Secondly, China will definitely not give us any lethal weapons.
At the same time, Xi expressed his readiness to help Russia with drones and other goods useful for combat operations.
In particular, we will not stop receiving from China parts necessary for the production of weapons, including chips for missiles.
Of course, we will get them, like drones, for money.
The Chinese side promises not to stop selling us the necessary parts and equipment (evil tongues claim that it makes good money from their resale).
Only US sanctions can stop this process. If, of course, they decide to introduce them against China.
Thirdly, Xi Jinping thanked Putin for his plans to expand the use of the Chinese language and eventually make it official in Russia.
The Chinese side did not raise any territorial issues (like in the spring).
At the same time, Xi asked Vladimir Vladimirovich to “more actively recruit Chinese for state-owned enterprises in Russia,” at least in the regions that border China. Putin promised to resolve this issue.
Part of the conversation between the two leaders took place behind closed doors, and now we do not know its content.
We will try to find out and tell you everything in the coming days.
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Yesterday, for a man similar to Russian President Vladimir Putin, apparently became the most responsible and significant day in his life.
The Double was accepted in China at the highest level.
During the day, the understudy met and communicated with many heads of state, who treated him like Vladimir Putin.
The Double’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping was the most exciting for the Double’s handlers, but it passed calmly and without incident.
Xi Jinping unobtrusively examined the “two” with interest, perhaps trying to find differences.
And despite the careful preparation of the understudy for the important meeting, the differences with the real Putin were still visible.
The fault is again with the Double’s “floating” cheekbones, which do not stay in place and move in different directions.
The Double initially had less expressive cheekbones, which, as a result of plastic surgery, were “enlarged” and made similar to Putin’s cheekbones, but it was impossible to make sure they stayed stationary in the right places.
So the understudy appeared in front of Xi Jinping with “wandering” cheekbones.
What Xi Jinping thought when he saw the Double of the Russian President is unknown; perhaps he was thinking about how to pat this “Putin” on the cheek so as not to permanently damage the fragile architecture of the newly created face.
This was the first, short-lived, acquaintance of the Understudy with Xi Jinping, but today negotiations are taking place in the format of personal communication, and these negotiations are much more important.
The Understudy held many meetings yesterday, but the most interesting was the conversation with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Usually the Double behaves with dignity, observing all standards of decency, but in some cases he allows himself to go beyond the bounds.
The Understudy had long been familiar with some of the incriminating evidence on Viktor Orban and during the meeting he behaved too relaxed and even defiantly with the Hungarian Prime Minister.
But Orban is not in a position to be offended; he is pleased that the meeting is taking place in China, and he was not forced to go to Moscow for a bow, as was expected.
The real President of Russia Vladimir Putin felt very bad yesterday, did not accept reports, did not participate in meetings, communicated only with doctors and servants.
https://t.me/s/generalsvr
“Схем published satelite images, showing the aftermath at Berdyansk airport. It looks like at least 6 helicopters are visibly damaged/destroyed as a result of the ATACMS attack yesterday.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1714708576495624422
“The fact that the other helecopters haven’t left suggests that they are severely damaged.”
That could be 9.
“Satellite pictures distributed by Radio Svoboda (from Planet Labs) show substantial damage of Russian hardware in the Berdyansk airfield caused by ATACMS the day before.
According to my initial assessment I see 6 totally destroyed choppers (red), 2 more at least heavily damaged (yellow) and one could be damaged as well (purple). There are scorch marks all over the place, especially in the north eastern parts and especially in fields. I assume that this was the ammunition or support equipment on the ground. “
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1714719953247473971
Sorry could be 11.
Seven helicopters were lost at the airfield in Berdyansk, more than 20 dead
Three sources - in the Aerospace Forces and the General Staff - informed us of the final data on the consequences of an enemy missile attack on the airfield in Berdyansk .
Were completely destroyed or seriously damaged Seven helicopters - Ka-52 and Mi-8
There is hope to repair the two damaged vehicles. appeared on the Internet Satellite photos showing five damaged helicopters.
According to one of our interlocutors, at the time the photos were taken, “the debris that remained from two more helicopters had already been removed.”
Unfortunately, 23 people died. These were mainly military guards and airfield employees; four pilots were also among the dead.
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The more Ka-52s, the better - a scarce resource with a lot of combat power.
Denys Davydov (a Ukrainian commercial pilot) looking at a satellite image of Berdyansk airfield, counted five Ka-52s (“Alligator” attack helicopters) burnt black, and four Mi-8s likely disabled. Others might be apparently intact, but disabled due to being shot though with fine shrapnel. Among the dead, reportedly, were four Ka-52 pilots.
I have not heard any damage assessment from the other strike in Luhansk.
https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1714797845457350817
I would suggest to Speedy to also post on today's thread.
Still at it.
It’s over. In the next 6 months there will be a deal worked out. Now the “interests” in the West who wanted this will want it to end: elections 2024 and Middle East, dropping poll numbers for the wars support. Even if there is no official deal, it’ll just sort of fizzle out.
But, Ukraine will have lost 18% of its land: https://arcg.is/09O0OS (scroll down to the most up to date map) and Russia will have taken what their objectives were: seize those areas in the East where you have a largely ethnic Russia population.
Ukraine will have lost an industrial area: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Ukraine_economy.jpg/1280px-Ukraine_economy.jpg Nationally the most important one.
Ukraine will have lost a major port city and iron works as well: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Volodymyr-Shatokha/publication/275027603/figure/fig1/AS:294648884023296@1447261176330/Location-of-major-enterprises-of-iron-and-steel-sector-dotted-line-approximates-contact.png
Ukraine will have suffered a population implosion, going from 41 to 28 million living there: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/15533 But what’s even worse is that you now have a horrible birth rate of 1.3 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Ukraine_2023_population_pyramid.svg/1024px-Ukraine_2023_population_pyramid.svg.png) and post war Ukraine will have tens of thousands of invalids to deal with, cripples that will cost them for a generation. Many of the folks that left Ukraine for Western Europe and the US will not return.
A massive economic decline in GDP (and this is with US and EU aid): https://d39raawggeifpx.cloudfront.net/styles/16_9_desktop/s3/articleimages/Ukraine_GDP_quarterly_growth_y_y_1.png (In net, the GDP has shrunk about 37% since wars begin and that is with US and EU aid). Do you really think that Western business and financial institutions want to invest in a war zone? This isn’t a repeat of 2014 which was fairly clean. Western economic interests may have pushed Ukraine into this war because they wanted it all, NATO and EU, but now that Ukraine is a basket case you’ll just get some help until the next big thing gets all our attention.
It’s currency has significantly devalued: https://g.co/kgs/nLWpWd (look at it over 5 years) In July 2022 it took a dump and since then has stayed down: https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/ukraines-central-bank-devalues-hryvnia-by-25-against-us-dollar-2022-07-21/
It’s infrastructure is damaged and you have areas that are heavily mined: https://www.energycharter.org/fileadmin/DocumentsMedia/Occasional/2022_09_30_UA_sectoral_evaluation_and_damage_assessment_Version_II.pdf Here’s another 2022 assesment: https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-energy-infrastructure-damage-situation-overview-10-24th-october-2022 Even away from the “front” you have areas in Ukraine today with unreliable electric power, running water, bridges/rail lines that are blown, roads that are cratered, etc.
They are massively in debt: https://tradingeconomics.com/ukraine/external-debt
And worst of all, the political goal and cause for this war, NATO membership, will not have been actualized: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/politics/ukraine-nato-western-dilemma/index.html Now you’ll get excuses, but it won’t happen.
But to add insult to injury, EU membership which was well in Ukraine’s reach BEFORE the war will have slipped through their fingers because the Europeans won’t want to be responsible for this liability now: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-leaders-wont-make-exceptions-for-ukraine-membership/a-61103193 This is not going to happen for a while, and you could have had it easily before the war.
And you have imaginary casualties and wonder weapons to make it sound like you’ve won.
No worries dude. We’ll give you a feel good movie when it’s all done. We always win in our movies.
https://movieweb.com/vietnam-war-movies/
What do you mean by “over”? Will genocide of the Ukrainian nation start tomorrow? Because that’s what Putin wants to accomplish - destroy the Ukrainian nation as an independent entity. For him, the Ukrainians are just “bad Russians”.
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