Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

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[JonPreston]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukrainian-troops-face-being-ejected-from-the-russian-province-of-kursk/ar-AA1wJlph?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ASTS&cvid=f25b868916a04ba394992e573fe01e7f&ei=13

Ukrainian troops face being ejected from the Russian province of Kursk

Ukrainian troops face being ejected from the Russian province they invaded earlier this year - in a major blow for their country.

The Western-backed forces are on the brink in Kursk after months of fighting, US officials revealed.

They fear the Ukrainians could be encircled should they remain there for more than a few months.

According to reports, US officials hope Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will retreat sooner rather than later, to prevent loss of life.

Russian forces have also made huge gains on Ukraine’s eastern front, seizing six times as much territory there in 2024 as they did in 2023.

[AdmSmith]

Rangers of the 6th Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, through offensive actions, captured a settlement in Russia’s Kursk region that had been held by Russian forces along with fighters from North Korea.

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1874036974262378696
1.5 min video

[FtrPilot]

🔥The 🇺🇦 Armed Forces repelled a 🇷🇺 Russian mechanised attack in Donetsk region.

The unsuccessful attack ended with a Russian tank destroying its own assault group that had occupied the building.

The tank itself was finished off with FPV drones.

☠️x7 - KIA🐷
x1 - BMP
x1 - tank

https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1873783562866147480

[Does so]

I hasn’t looked this list for many months.

Try scrolling through Russia’s heavy losses of tanks and other equipment. It’s a long, astonishing, list.

Ukraine is still capturing Russian tanks “for recycling”?

[FtrPilot]

💥 Russia: Ukrainian drone strikes on oil depots in Smolensk and Orlov regions.

https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1873933121374347557

Smolensk on Google Maps

Of course, all the drones were shot down.

[Mr. Lucky]

110 Rubles to the Dollar is so yesterday.
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[ansel12]

All I posted out was that NATO gained 17 new ice breakers with 3 more planned when Finland and Sweden joined NATO.

[AdmSmith]

Spotlight on the Shadow War: Inside Russia's attacks on NATO Territory

Map of Russian sabotage attacks and active measures against Europe and the United States since February 2022, compiled by the US Helsinki Commission.

https://www.csce.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Spotlight-on-the-Shadow-War-Website.pdf

[BeauBo]

“110 Rubles to the Dollar is so yesterday.”

113 today.

What is happening to the ruble?

Time to call a priest?

Ruble Deathwatch intensifies.

[BeauBo]

Ukraine will cut off Russian gas at 7 a.m. Kyiv time, depriving Moscow of about $5-7 billion in revenue a year.

7 AM in Kyiv, is midnight on the US East Coast, so something else to toast tonight.

[blitz128]

And Gazprom did so well it lost 7 billion last year

[FtrPilot]

And since Gazprom is doing better than the previous year, maybe they will only lose 6 billion (dollars) this year.

[AdmSmith]

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 31, 2024

Russian forces gained 4,168 square kilometers, largely comprised of fields and small settlements in Ukraine and Kursk Oblast, at a reported cost of over 420,000 casualties in 2024. Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on December 30 that Russian forces suffered 427,000 casualties in 2024.[1] ISW has observed geolocated evidence to assess that Russian forces advanced 4,168 square kilometers in 2024, indicating that Russian forces have suffered approximately 102 casualties per square kilometer of Ukrainian territory seized. ISW previously observed that Russian forces gained 2,356 square kilometers in exchange for an estimated 125,800 casualties during a period of intensified Russian offensive operations in September, October, and November 2024.[2] Russian forces made 56.5 percent of their 2024 territorial gains during the September through November 2024 period. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev claimed on December 24 that 440,000 recruits signed military service contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) in 2024, suggesting that Russia is likely recruiting just enough military personnel to replace its recently high casualty rates one for one.[3]

Russian advances have slowed in December 2024, however. ISW has observed geolocated evidence to assess that Russian forces gained 593 square kilometers or 18.1 square kilometers per day in December 2024, while the number of daily Russian casualties in December 2024 remained similar to the estimated daily casualty rate in November 2024. The Ukrainian General Staff reported a daily Russian personnel casualty average of 1,585 in December 2024, marking a fourth all-time high of Russia's daily casualty rate following reports that Russia's average daily Russian personnel casualty reached a new all-time high of 1,523 casualties per day in November 2024.[4] Russian forces were advancing at the notably higher rate of 27.96 square kilometers per day in November 2024.[5] Syrskyi stated on December 30 that Russian forces have suffered 1,700 casualties per day over the past week (since December 23), indicating the Russian forces may have suffered an even higher casualty rate in the last few weeks of 2024 even as Russian advances slowed.[6] The Russian military command likely tolerated record levels of personnel casualties from September through November 2024 to facilitate larger territorial gains, but it remains unclear if the Russian military command will be willing to sustain such casualties if Russian forces’ rate of advance continues to decline as Russian forces continue to advance on more heavily defended settlements such as Pokrovsk.

The Russian government will deprive prisoners who volunteer to fight in Ukraine of a one-time enlistment bonus starting January 1, 2025, marking another instance of Russia trying to cut the mounting short- and long-term costs of war.[81] Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on December 28 that removed the right to a one-time enlistment bonus for Russian prisoners who sign military service contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD). Some Russian federal subjects (regions) increased one-time enlistment payments to prisoners up to 505,000 rubles ($4,786) in Fall 2024, and Russian authorities have increased such monetary incentives in hopes of recruiting additional troops to serve in Ukraine.[82] The decree notably follows Russian President Vladimir Putin's controversial decision to change Russian policy in November 2024 guaranteeing a one-time payment of three million rubles ($28,434) to all Russian servicemen who have been wounded in combat in Ukraine since March 2022 and instead offering only an enhanced compensation of four million rubles ($37,912) to servicemen officially deemed “heavily wounded” in combat.[83] The Russian government originally introduced high enlistment bonuses for prisoners and compensation for all wounded servicemen to incentivize military recruitment after Putin decided against declaring general mobilization in Spring 2022. Financial incentives became the key pillar of the Russian military's recruitment campaign and personnel retention efforts over the past nearly three years, and ISW continues to assess that the reversal of such incentives indicates that this system is becoming economically unsustainable for the Kremlin.[84]

The Russian MoD’s Main Directorate of Combat Training is reportedly failing to properly train new recruits, likely because the Russian military command urgently needs reinforcements to support grinding assaults in eastern Ukraine. A Russian milblogger claimed that the MoD’s Main Directorate of Combat Training offers a recruit training program for less than 30 days instead of the recommended 45 days.[85] The milblogger observed that the training program and its timeframes are not mandatory and that Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has not issued a decree formalizing a training program for recruits in order to avoid launching new bureaucratic processes. The milblogger noted that the lack of a formalized training program creates an environment in which training varies based on the orders of individual grouping of forces (GOF) commanders. The milblogger added that on average Russian servicemen receive about 14 to 16 days of training and that the amount of time allocated for training depends on the military command's deadline for reconstituting units and preparations for offensives. The milblogger noted that Russian units along the frontline typically look like a combination of poorly trained infantry, heavily damaged equipment, a lack of junior commanders, and greatly reduced planning capabilities.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-31-2024

[AdmSmith]

1,250 Russians and Norks last 24 h

compare the figures with the losses a year ago:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4042550/posts?page=5746#5746

[blitz128]

Yup, happy days are here again, chicken in every pot and a lada er ah geely in every driveway😎

[JonPreston]

happy days are here again, chicken in every pot and a lada er ah geely in every driveway

translation please.

[PIF]

Video of North Korean scenes described in post 10,152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUg8-Jh-oI
FPV drones tracking North Koreans fighting Ukrainians. Who proceed to waste them.

More videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuqdsYT5rFqw0L5oO_HwvgA/videos

[blitz128]

Perhaps for some here, English may not be first language 🍈

[BeauBo]

“a lada, er, a geely in every driveway”

“translation please”

China has massively taken over the auto industry in Russia, since 2022 - both manufacturing facilities within Russia, and sales inside Russia. Chinese now own it. They have taken over most, if not all of the facilities formerly operated by other foreign auto manufacturers, and a big chunk of what were Russian.

Four out of five of the best selling car brands in Russia (like Geely), are now Chinese, up from zero in 2021.

It has been a sudden and widespread takeover of the Russian economy by China - not just the automotive industry and market.

Business to business financial transactions in Russia are now primarily conducted in Yuan, up from 3% in 2021.

Putin did that.

[JonPreston]

Aren't you the guy who said Speedy was likely dead, all the while he was in the process of leaving here and registering at the local #NeverFreeper website?

With takes like that why would anyone pay attention to you?