Picture of health and happiness, he celebrates the new year, Russian style, cheek and chin implants sagging ... again
Posted on 12/24/2023 12:20:02 PM 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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Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Kadyrov entered the game, and Kirkorov will still go to the front. Our forecast about the tough fight against LGBT people in Russia is confirmed
The beating of journalist Pavel Lobkov (who suffered for being openly gay) confirms what we warned about. The fight against sexual minorities in our country is becoming truly tough.
It’s interesting that the Kremlin doesn’t even hide this fact. “We directly warned through your channel that there will be deaths ( you can read more about this here - ed.) if gays do not calm down.
Those who do not believe in the seriousness of the warnings, let them look at Lobkov’s broken face,” a source close to Vladimir Putin frankly told us. He noted that he wants “as many representatives of sexual minorities as possible to see this warning.”
Our interlocutor also said that “Ramzan Kadyrov began to become more actively involved in the fight against perverts, so it’s time for gays and other lesbians to come to their senses. Until this game becomes too dangerous for them.”
“If Lobkov had publicly repented of his sexuality, believe me, no one would have beaten him,” the source added.
Another interlocutor in the Kremlin hopes that “many representatives of sexual minorities will come to their senses when they see Philip Kirkorov in the army at the front.”
Plans to send the singer to fight after his participation in Ivleeva’s “naked party” remain serious. Although Kirkorov himself is trying to avoid being sent to the SVO zone, using all his connections to do this.
Let’s be honest, we didn’t want to publish such blatant threats. But our sources very much asked us to convey this warning. This is the case when we could not refuse them.
See here for graphic detailing averages of strikes, engagements, casualties & equipment, missile interceptions.
https://twitter.com/ragnarbjartur/status/1741377824433250578
This is what the former Black Sea Fleet Headquarters in Sevastopol looks like right now. Destroyed and abandoned.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1741446374275580151
I'm still wondering who is the new Black Sea fleet commander.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1741439926019752170
This picture illustrates it well! Fuel on your back! Fuel on your doors!
BMP-1 "pressurecooker!"
Camouflage did not help the Russian 😁
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1741387114976072111
The rifle that one mobnik carried was long barreled with a suppressor.
Possibly a takedown of a sniper team.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1741220192653660647
Marcus...please ping me with any updates.
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1741457719540728190
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1741372166069735663
Most were aimed for front line defensive positions.
Very interesting...possibly a sign that artillery, helicopters, and fighter aircraft cannot support ruzzia's wave attacks.
“Ukraine, Stalled on the Front, Steps Up Sabotage, Targeting Trains”
“The saboteurs managed to place four explosives on a Russian freight train carrying diesel and jet fuel, roughly 3,000 miles from the Ukrainian border. But more important than the destruction of the train, Ukrainian intelligence officials said, was the timing of the blast.
They needed it to blow up as the 50 rail cars were traveling through the nine-mile-long tunnel through the Severomuysky mountains, the longest train tunnel in Russia.
The Ukrainians were hoping to compromise a vital conduit for weapons being shipped to Russia from North Korea, at a moment when Ukrainian forces on the front are struggling to stave off relentless Russian assaults. Trains can be replaced and tracks quickly repaired. But serious damage to this tunnel, which took decades to build, might not be so easy to fix.
Russia and Ukraine continue to battle on a large scale, both on the ground and with aerial strikes. Russian officials accused Ukraine of attacking a Russian city, Belgorod, on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 100 others, in apparent response to a huge Russian missile barrage on several Ukrainian cities the day before.
But guerrilla tactics — including sabotage, commando raids, targeted assassinations and attempts to blow up ammunition depots, oil pipelines and railways — have taken on added importance as the two sides fail to make substantial advances at the front.
So at 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 29, a fire ripped through the tunnel, Russian Railways reported. Russian media broadcast footage of flames around the tunnel entrance, and officials said the explosion was caused by “the detonation of an unidentified explosive device.”
The extent of the damage is unclear. Each side gave diverging assessments of the explosion’s impact. But a second explosion on an alternate train route nearby followed within 48 hours. Combined with other acts of sabotage in Russia and behind Russian lines in occupied Ukraine, the explosions signaled Kyiv’s increasing reliance on irregular tactics to assist conventional forces desperately defending against intensifying Russian assaults.”
At the end of 2023, the gas monopoly sold about 69 billion cubic meters of gas for export - the lowest volume since 1985, according to Reuters calculations.
Compared to 2022 (100.9 billion cubic meters), the volume of gas pumped abroad decreased by another third, and if compared to pre-war levels - three times.
Supplies to Europe fell to 28 billion cubic meters - the level of the second half of the 1970s. China purchased a record 23 billion cubic meters through the Power of Siberia pipeline this year. This, however, compensated for only one-eighth of the former exports to the European Union (180 billion cubic meters).
📰 The Moscow Times
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1741464723336437934
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1741526220150567292
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1741532012932960444
“air defense turned out to be practically powerless” (in Belgorod, Russia)
I think that most of Russia is poorly defended from such attacks, because Ukraine and Moscow get all the priority for the remaining AD systems.
That part of the country (broadly) is where the biggest volume of Natural Gas originates. Novy Urengoy, at the base of the Yamal Peninsula (with one of the world's largest Natural Gas fields - Zapolyarnoye) is the last stop on the railroad, but the start of the Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod pipeline. On the map below, it is roughly the origin of the thick green line for the Natural Gas pipelines to Europe.
From Wikipedia:
"The (Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod) pipeline runs from Siberia's Urengoy gas field through compressor plants in Pomar, Mari El to Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine. From there, the natural gas is transported to Central and Western European countries... In Ukraine, it takes gas to the Uzhhorod pumping station on the Ukrainian border with Slovakia and to smaller pumping stations on the Hungarian and Romanian borders."
There was rumored to be a sabotage campaign planned against Russian hydrocarbon production this Winter (while secondary effects from freezing would magnify the damage, and hamper repair). This part of the country is likely where some of the most critical infrastructure is located. The average daily low temperature in Novy Urengoy in January, is -22 Farenheit.
“Russian gas exports collapse to 1985 levels.”
“At the end of 2023, the gas monopoly (Gazprom) sold about 69 billion cubic meters of gas for export “”
According to IEA, Russia exported over 250 bcm in 2021. It is almost down to a quarter of the pre-invasion total export volume.
“China purchased a record 23 billion cubic meters through the Power of Siberia pipeline this year. This, however, compensated for only one-eighth of the (lost) former exports to the European Union (180 billion cubic meters).”
China’s increased volume through the POS pipeline is nothing unusual, and it did not compensate for 1/8th the reported loss in exports - that loss was net of all increases and decreases in exports, including to China. Also, 23 bcm was the total of sales through that pipeline, not the increase in sales over the prior year. The increase in POS volume from 2022 (15 bcm) to 2023 (23 bcm) was just 8 bcm - offsetting even a smaller fraction of the larger declines in other natural gas exports.
The POS pipeline project was designed to ramp up capacity over several years, and is just on track.
From Wikipedia:
“Gas supply to China from the Power of Siberia 1 pipeline reached 4.1 billion cubic meters in 2020, 10.4 bcm in 2021 and 15 bcm in 2022. For 2023, volumes are expected to reach 22 bcm.”
POS capacity is planned to peak at 38 bcm in 2025, but that depends on construction of an extension, that is currently delayed. The larger POS2 pipeline project seems to be at a complete standstill, and would not start shipping until 2030 under the original plan. The Arctic 2 LNG project also seems to be getting killed by sanctions.
It seems that Europe has effectively replaced sources for natural gas, and that the withdrawal of those Russian supplies from the world market has not driven prices unaffordably high (unlike the case would be with oil).
So it seems like time to start demolishing the Russian natural gas infrastructure for good. Russia has shown that it can not be trusted with the revenue, and must be disarmed and impoverished, for the safety of all. Nordstream won’t have to die alone.
Putin has brought this doom on Russia.
The fool that killed the goose, that laid golden eggs.
Looks like a nice target
Hey, its Crazy Ivan!
That guy is hard to kill.
“at 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 29”
This was a month ago. I wonder how effective it was in damaging the tunnel?
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