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

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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“Exclusive: House ethics probe of Gaetz seeks information from DOJ and woman who allegedly had sex with congressman as a minor”

“The House Ethics Committee investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz has reached out to the woman whom the congressman allegedly had sexual relations with when she was a 17-year-old minor, according to a source familiar with the committee’s work.

The outreach, which has not previously been reported, is a sign that the GOP-led committee’s investigation into the Florida Republican has recently expanded to include questioning around allegations of sex crimes.

Sources said the committee also has reached out to the Justice Department requesting materials from its investigation into Gaetz, which included allegations of lobbying violations, sex-trafficking and possible obstruction of justice. The federal probe, which also included allegations he had sex with a minor, concluded in 2023 with no charges brought against the congressman.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/politics/house-ethics-matt-gaetz/index.html

“House investigators scrutinize Rep. Matt Gaetz’s defunct federal criminal sex trafficking probe”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-house-ethics-probe-sex-trafficking/

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At least 40 military personnel were killed in the DPR - the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit a cluster of drone operators

On Wednesday, January 24, the enemy attacked a training ground near Ilovaisk (DPR). At that moment, drone operators of the Doomsday project of the Sudoplatov battalion were being trained there.

Our source confirmed information about the strike. According to our data, at the time of the strike there were about fifty military personnel at the training ground.

At least 40 of them died. These include drone operators, instructors and designers.

Previously, there was a leak of information about the location of the training. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at least three missiles from the HIMARS MLRS.

The leadership of the Sudoplatov battalion is trying to hide the fact of such serious losses. Among military officers they say that one of the course leaders could have thoughtlessly sent the coordinates of the training ground to unknown people, which caused the tragedy.

We believe that such cases of death of military personnel deserve the attention of the command and need to be investigated.

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Shoigu was going to fight for the Arctic and Alaska

It sounds fantastic, but the Ministry of Defense, against the backdrop of the Northern Military District, decided to prepare a plan to return Alaska to the Russian flag. It would seem that it sounds like sheer nonsense in the current situation, but it is worth considering in more detail.

Shoigu decided to prepare and present to the president a plan for a blitzkrieg to Alaska in the coming months. Among the arguments is that by helping Ukraine, the United States is weakening, so it will be easier to return Alaska after the completion of the Northeast Military District.

Another important region is the Arctic. The interests of both Russia and the United States intersect here. The president has repeatedly spoken about the need to develop the region and increase military infrastructure.

Shoigu instructed to develop a plan for the next 10-12 years, the result of which will be total control of the region by Russia, as well as a significant reduction in the American presence in the Arctic. Such an ambitious plan will be a response to the expansion of NATO and the entry of Finland and Sweden (in the foreseeable future).

Shoigu plans to receive budget funds for all this, as well as implement partnership infrastructure programs with China.

They say that it was Shoigu who advised Medvedev to threaten the Americans about Alaska. One of these statements was made just a few days ago.

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THE BATTLE FOR THE ARCTIC - May 14, 2022

Against the backdrop of the active phase of the confrontation between Russia and the West, which resulted in military actions on the territory of Ukraine, another zone of conflict of interests between the United States and Russia - the Arctic region - somehow remained on the sidelines.

It would seem, who is interested in the Arctic now? And here is the most interesting thing. The hypothetical entry into NATO of countries such as Finland and Sweden will change the balance of power in the region.

Obviously, we are talking about the naval military component. In this regard, Sweden is a solid ally, which has a fleet and is probably ready to join in the joint development of icebreakers to strengthen the NATO group. Following Sweden, Norway may join the projects.

The second important focus is aviation. Over the past ten years, Russia has restored numerous airfields in the region, which should (and do) house both fighters and strategic bombers. However, the Russian Federation lost a significant part of its aircraft fleet in the war in Ukraine, and it is not over yet.

Why is the Arctic important?

Firstly, resources.

Secondly, the Northern Sea Route, in the work of which China is also interested (it is an ally of Russia).

Thirdly, it has military significance - surveillance of enemy aircraft and other military installations.

According to our sources, despite the sanctions and military losses in Ukraine, Russia does not intend to curtail the Arctic development program and will continue to invest in the military infrastructure of the region.

“The socialist experiment in Russia during the twentieth century was more than a failed attempt at central planning. The Soviet experience was a lie — a crumbling façade — that required routine maintenance by a vast empire of politicians, journalists, and academics (especially economists) who believed that the New Nation was one step closer to utopia. Exploding this lie was left to daring journalists, writers, and political dissidents who risked life and limb to uncover the atrocities of Stalin’s purge and the horrors of forced collectivization.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland and based on a true story, Mr. Jones (2019) depicts a young Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, as he travels into the Ukrainian hinterland in the early 1930s to investigate the results of Stalin’s farm collectivization. Jones’ report gave the West its first glimpse into the hellish landscape of the Ukrainian famine.

Gareth Jones made his name as one of the first journalists to interview Adolf Hitler when he rose to power in 1933. Jones’ intrepid pursuit of the truth led him to investigate a tip he received from a fellow journalist of a potential famine in the Ukraine.

New York Times reporter Walter Duranty is also portrayed in the film. Known as “our man in Moscow,” Duranty spun Stalin’s collectivization efforts as a “dizzying success,” to use Stalin’s own words to describe the First Five-Year Plan. Duranty, and the journalists who surrounded him, encapsulated the wishful thinking of Western elites who believed the Marxist future was finally in sight.

The Ukrainian Famine of 1932–33 (the Holodomor) wasn’t an isolated tragedy, as many sovietologists assert even today. Some scholars argue that a poor harvest caused the famine. Other scholars pinned the mass starvation on Soviet attempts at crushing Ukrainian independence. None of these explanations, however, point to the fatal information and incentive failures that central planning generated. One paper by Natalya Neumenko illustrates that Stalin’s collectivization policy ultimately drove the famine. She writes that “weather explains [only] up to 8.1 percent of excess deaths, while collectivization explains up to 52 percent of excess deaths, so weather cannot be the main cause of the famine.”

Under Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan, the share of rural households in collective farms soared to roughly 70 percent in 1932, up from 3.8 percent in 1928. The mortality rate just after the height of the Ukrainian famine in 1933 spiked to 56 people per 1,000, comparable to mortality figures during the Second World War. In addition to the estimated three to five million Ukrainians who perished during the famine, an additional two to three million are estimated to have died in the North Caucasus and Lower Volga regions. Soviet officials themselves confirmed a population deficit of 15 million people, but only after these figures were revealed to the world in 1990.

By nationalizing industries and centralizing command across the Soviet economy, Stalin believed that War Communism had prepared the state for an efficient execution of grain requisitioning. As one scholar writes, “where War Communism had failed, reasoned Stalin, was not because the peasant was stronger than the state but because the state was not yet strong enough to subordinate the peasant.”

The ineffective and wasteful grain procurements that were imposed during this period caused a peasant revolt, which Stalin quickly crushed, thwarting any black market activities that could have relieved the famine. Meanwhile, Stalin’s propaganda machine controlled foreign correspondents such as Duranty like they were his puppets, blinding Western media to the human-generated famine ravishing millions of Ukrainians.

One might excuse Western sovietologists and intellectuals for believing in the Soviet propaganda, which denied the existence of any famine whatsoever. But journalists like Walter Duranty, Louis Fischer, and others who had a direct though restricted window into Soviet life, catastrophically failed to report the truth. They chose to perpetuate the lie. It was left to brave journalists like Gareth Jones and Fred Beal to uncover the bleak reality of the Soviet economy, even at the cost of their lives and careers.

Living the lie during the Soviet era didn’t just hold back a generation of Soviet citizens. The lie killed millions, froze an economy, a country’s spirit, into submission. The cold gaze of Stalin still haunts Russia today.

Not until the 1980s did the New York Times finally acknowledge Duranty’s crooked journalism. The New York Times Company states on its website, “Collectivization was the main cause of a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine, the Soviet breadbasket, in 1932 and 1933 – two years after Duranty won his prize.” Yet the NYT hasn’t apologized for, nor revoked Duranty’s prize. “The Pulitzer board has twice declined to withdraw the award, most recently in November 2003, finding ‘no clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception’ in the 1931 reporting that won the prize.” Clearly, living the lie hasn’t lost its luster, even after 100 years of Russian evidence to the contrary.

Socialism not only hollows out economies, but also makes truth the enemy of the people. And when silence overwhelms a nation, the few who are brave enough to speak can shape history.

In his 1970 Nobel Prize speech, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn explained that art is the antidote to living a lie. “Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence,” he said. To break this cycle, let art drive the human heart past the land of lies. For “falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.” But the forms of that art are varied, with each one, when done well, speaking powerfully to the human need for truth and flourishing. Good economics is just as much an art form as it is a science. With good economics, we conquer falsehood. With bad economics, we are doomed, because we submit to the lie that power and ideology can force people into prosperity.

The day before his 30th birthday, Soviet secret agents murdered Gareth Jones on a reporting mission in Mongolia. His bravery and fearless pursuit of the truth ultimately cost him his life. But not before the world would read about Stalin’s famine.”

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