Posted on 11/08/2023 7:33:00 AM PST 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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Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4195146/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
Its almost comical.
“Russia Turns to Longtime Arms Customers to Boost War Arsenal”
“As it seeks to replenish the huge quantity of arms being used in Ukraine, Russia has asked for crucial helicopter engines from Egypt, Brazil, Pakistan and Belarus”
“Russia has sought to retrieve parts from defense systems it had exported to countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Belarus and Brazil, as it tries to replenish the enormous stocks of weapons being expended for the war in Ukraine.
Last April, a delegation of Russian officials visiting Cairo asked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to give back more than a hundred engines from Russian helicopters that Moscow needed for Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the incident said. Sisi agreed and deliveries of about 150 engines are likely to start next month, say the people.
An Egyptian government spokesman declined to comment.
Those talks were part of a larger Russian push to seek help from its longtime arms customers, who for decades bought Russian aircraft, missiles and air-defense systems, making Moscow the world’s second-largest arms exporter. Throughout the year, Russia held talks with officials from Pakistan, Belarus and Brazil to try to acquire engines for the Russian attack and transport helicopters its forces lost to Ukrainian defenses early in the war, one of those people and another former Russian intelligence officer said.
“Russia spent decades building its arms trade,” said a person with knowledge of the buybacks. “Now they’re going back in secret to their customers trying to buy back what they sold them.””
“Ukraine’s ambitions of joining the European Union received an important boost on Wednesday when the bloc’s executive body said detailed negotiations should begin next year.
The European Commission said in a report that so-called accession talks should finally start, nearly 18 months since the bloc accepted Ukraine as a candidate state. The same report recommended that the process should also begin with Moldova, which borders Ukraine.
On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “Today is a historic day, because today the Commission recommends that the Council opens accession negotiations with Ukraine and with Moldova.”“
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/world/eu-recommends-ukraine-accession-talks-intl/index.html
“It is reported that In Luhansk, the car of the former ‘head of the National Police Directorate of the LPR’ Colonel Mykhailo Filiponenko was blown up. Preliminary info states he died.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722160828592374237
A bit of blood was spilt.
“Russian media published photos of the car that hosted Filipenko.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722168275075846243
“Rheinmetall has received an order from the German government to supply Ukraine with ~100,000 rounds of 120-mm mortar ammo. The order, worth a figure in the lower-three-digit million-euro range, forms part of a recent €400 million military aid package.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722249277894950938
“A Russian TOR air defense system was destroyed by Ukrainian FPV’s.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722230021803450449
“US Congress took a step in transferring frozen Russian assets of the Russian Central Bank to Ukraine. The Committee on International Relations introduced a bill that would require the US administration to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722167611750781284
“Russian crew of UAV “ZALA” sent to hell - together with the drone itself and the ground station”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722238367210107052
“TWO Russian tanks (T-90M? “Breakthrough”, T-72B3?) and BTR-80 WERE DESTROYED by bomber-drone of the 24th Mechanised Brigade in Avdiivka direction, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722146163388829992
Is it true you said you’d like to nuke Moscow?
The bloodthirsty whackjob can’t deny it...This little nugget comes courtesy of Allegra:
“To: Travis McGee
I would rather the world end in nuclear war than yield to Little Pukin.
15 posted on 10/12/2022, 6:02:03 AM by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)“
talk about sick.
Reporting From Ukraine:
Note: other versions of this report are found elsewhere on FR, but this is guaranteed to be the complete transcript - unlike the others.
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[ No Antidote. Ukrainians SCALP Russian Bases Along the Shore ]
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Reporting From Ukraine, Section 1A:
[ Returns after being sick for weeks ]
Day 622: Nov 07
Today, there is a lot of news from the south.
Here, Ukrainians have been conducting a lot of HIMARS and Storm Shadow strikes and, over the last week, have targeted more than 20 Russian bases and forces concentrations.
First of all, today, local residents reported hearing a series of explosions near Taganrog, more specifically, from the side of the military airfield northwest of the city.
Geolocated footage from the region shows rising smoke in the distance, indicating that there was a strike.
Russian sources reported that the Russian air defense intercepted at least one Ukrainian rocket, and that the remnants of the rocket fell on the cargo meant to be transported by the heavy airlifter IL-76, and that the aircraft remained intact.
Interestingly, the governor of the region made the opposite claim to the mainstream media and said that the air defense was not working.
Simultaneously, a Ukrainian partisan group from Mariupol published footage of the Russian air defense near the airfield and claimed that as a result of their operations, the Russian air defense was unable to intercept Ukrainian missiles, leading to the explosions.
After the explosions, Russians were seen removing the remnants of their aviation from the airfield, realizing that it is not well-protected at the moment.
And this is extremely important because, according to satellite footage released by Planet Labs, Russians planned to make it the new main airbase in the south.
After Ukrainians conducted a devastating strike on the airfield in Berdyansk, destroying and damaging up to a dozen helicopters, Russians relocated 21 helicopters away from that region.
So, Russians gathered their helicopters on the Berdyansk airbase, thinking it was safe because it was out of HIMARS reach.
After 30% of the fleet was destroyed in an ATACMS strike, they relocated their helicopters to Taganrog, thinking it was safe because it was on Russian territory.
And today, they were forced to relocate them even further.
Such actions alleviated the pressure on the front substantially and gave Ukrainians more freedom of movement because Russian assault helicopters Ka-52 cannot respond to the demands in time.
But this is not the end.
Two days ago, a powerful explosion was caught on camera in the village of Sedovo, which is right in between the previously mentioned airbases in Berdyansk and Taganrog.
At first, some Russian sources claimed that it was a result of an electrical short circuit in a warehouse, however, as it turned out, it was a repair facility for the helicopters.
Some military bloggers admitted that several Russian helicopters arrived for maintenance just prior to the strike.
So, Russian aviation is having a really hard week.
Moreover, a day prior to the explosion in Sedovo, Ukrainians conducted a comprehensive strike on Crimea and used not only drones and Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, but also Neptune and decoy missiles.
The moment Russians detected that Ukrainian SU-24M took off, Russians immediately deployed smokescreens around the Kerch Bridge in anticipation of an attempt to destroy it.
Once Russians saw that missiles were heading in the direction of the bridge, Russians raised their jets to help intercept the missiles.
Ukrainians anticipated such a response, which is why they launched Neptune missiles from the other side of Crimea, where Russians suffered constant drone strikes.
According to Russian sources, Neptune missiles forced Russian aviation to prioritize these targets first, increasing the chances of the SCALP missiles to get through.
On top of that, multiple decoy and anti-radiation rockets were launched from the Kherson region, stretching the Russian air defense capabilities to the limit.
As a result, many missiles indeed hit their target, however, as it turned out, it was not the bridge - it was a ship factory.
Recently leaked footage shows how at least 3 SCALP missiles, one by one, hit the ship Askold. Askold was built in 2021 and was one of the newest and most modern ships in the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
It could carry and launch 8 Caliber missiles, it had its own air defense system Pantsir-M, and a reconnaissance system Orlan-10.
Judging by the footage of the damage, all analysts agree that the ship can be considered destroyed, as it is easier to build a new one than to repair this one.
And this is very good news because, according to Ukrainian Intelligence, Russians have been accumulating missiles in preparation for the massive strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Right now, Russians reportedly have approximately 900 missiles of various types - just like last year.
The fact that Ukrainians destroyed Askold means there are fewer carriers for those missiles, which should, in principle, decrease the scale of possible strikes, making them more manageable for the Ukrainian air defense.
In the meantime, Ukrainian HIMARS crews have been destroying Russian bases closer to the contact line.
Around the same time, Ukrainians decided to once again use the Bayraktar and HIMARS combo long the shore in the Kherson region.
The footage shows how the drone operator detects and gives the coordinates to the HIMARS crews of the stationary targets, such as howitzers and tanks, and destroys with its own rockets mobile targets, such as boats.
One of the most devastating strikes happened to the Russian Atal Battalion.
A part of the battalion was caught during their relocation to the front, and more than 10 vehicles with people burned to ashes.
Russian volunteers claimed that up to 120 soldiers were killed and wounded.
Overall, Ukrainians conducted a lot of successful strikes over the last week.
The main goal of most of these strikes was to reduce the Russian power in the air by chasing Russian helicopters so far from the front lines that they no longer can timely react to the developments on the front and by decreasing the number of strategic missile and rocket carriers.
By the way, it was recently confirmed that Ukrainians will finally receive ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km, so in a few months, Russians in the deep rear will have very big problems.
After Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with the sluggish progress of the Northern Military District and demanded to take control of the entire territory of the DPR ( we wrote about this ), Sergei Shoigu had a conversation with the president. The minister sharply criticized Valery Gerasimov.
“Sergei Kuzhugetovich told Vladimir Vladimirovich that Gerasimov had a bad influence on the situation at the front. That he wants to retreat, is not decisive enough, our operations are planned terribly. “I asked the president to do something about it,” one of the deputy defense ministers told us the essence of the conversation.
According to him, Shoigu also told Putin about Gerasimov’s intentions to “surrender” several settlements to the enemy, including Tokmak and Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
And he stated that the Chief of the General Staff “wants to finish the Northern Military District without victories, if only as quickly as possible.”
He also blamed Gerasimov for the problems of our army in the Kherson region. In particular, he spoke about the facts of friendly fire (by the way, our insights that the Russian military kill Russians from time to time, and that the situation is now especially difficult in the Kherson region, are confirmed by information from other sources. [ GREY ZONE Below ]
Colleagues even wrote about some of them before us. We wanted to hide this fact so as not to demoralize the fighters, but the military asked us to publish the information. They hope that something will change).
Putin, according to a source in the Kremlin, listened carefully to Shoigu. According to our interlocutor, the president is now not ready to dismiss Gerasimov. But he instructed to “closely monitor his work.”
“Shoigu accused Gerasimov of treason, let’s call a spade a spade. Of course, we must check these signals,” said a Kremlin source.
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
As for the video with the death of our (Russian Armed Forces) group of fighters, which was published by the enemy, and then by the familiar military correspondent of “Romanov Light” @romanov_92 , I have to subjectively assume that this situation was the result of friendly fire.
In fact, I and my comrades who are on the ground and in control of the situation are almost completely and completely confident in this. Only then did the enemy drop FOGs on our wounded from another quadcopter.
The death of our servicemen was captured by the enemy in the Krynok unit at the coordinates
(46.7301348, 33.0773147). The enemy in this area of the settlement does not have firing points that could kill the group. There are simply no houses on the first line of houses in this area.
In addition, it is clear that the group runs across in single file without encountering any resistance, exactly until the moment it begins to enter the forest belt where only we are moving (the enemy knows this).
But who leaves the populated area is a big and big question for our firing points, but more on that in the paragraph below. Here we also see that our fighters are trying to hide behind a fold of terrain on the side of the road and hide not from fire from the side of the populated area, but from the fire from the forest. Unfortunately, this is the result.
Now once again briefly about the problems that lead to such consequences:
• lack of proper interaction, sometimes you can say that it simply doesn’t exist
• lack of communication between units and understanding of who is where, who is leaving where and who is trying to reach the firing lines (the result of this is the above-mentioned video)
*ps fortunately, some of these problems are solved at the level of the junior command staff, which establishes interaction ON PERSONAL, as well as by placing their representatives in the allied units involved in the sector
Further:
• there is no counter-battery warfare, but there won’t be one, therefore in any analysis from this or that sector of the front, we will mention this problem, and there is no solution in sight for now
• the temporary shoulder for hitting targets has a significant run-up, as well as unnecessary links in the chain from submitting a target for destruction, making a decision on it and inflicting fire damage, because it happens that one small target can circulate on the air for half an hour and no one knows who and when it will be hit, and also to which parquet office this information must be conveyed so that the target is destroyed
• the work of electronic warfare here tends to improve, but is still clearly inferior to the enemy, at least we have at least begun to fly properly and raise our copters to look around and adjust, but it is not yet possible to counteract the enemy in aerial reconnaissance
• lack of a coastal defensive line, which makes it difficult for us to build strongholds and gain a foothold
• aviation - few, by
Guys’ comments on interaction:
• no, no, yes, I meet guys here who went through their combat career in the ranks of the Wagner Group, and they universally note that the level of battle management and interaction between units is catastrophically low
• no one knows what to do - today we secured a position in the village, and tomorrow we learned that the infantry had retreated from their positions
*ps guys also ask to add that these are not questions for the infantry, marines or special forces, these are questions for the command, otherwise how can it be that the enemy, surrounded on all sides, is still not only not destroyed in the vastness of half the village, but also organizes the supply of ammunition, human reserves and conducts evacuation (after working in Bakhmut this seems impossible to them)
It’s better to remain silent about losses...
Perspective:
• the enemy is carrying out a number of reconnaissance activities to organize a bridgehead at the Cossack Camps and Golaya Pristan, as well as its expansion on the existing site in the Antonovsky Bridge area
• the enemy undertook a series of foot reconnaissance and sabotage exits north of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station along the “dry bed” of the Dnieper, but had no success
So far no significant changes. The situation is consistently difficult.
https://t.me/grey_zone/21631
more than a hundred engines from Russian helicopters
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The irony is that Russian helicopters are now forced to be stationed do far from the front as to be ineffective.
Jon Boy!
Strikes on Taganrog, Mariupol and Sedovo airfields!
I am wondering about the damage done.
Probably some Ka-52 Attack Helicopters, but that is just a guess. It is getting far from the front lines, and Taganrog is in Russia itself.
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