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

ORYX ^ | Since February 24, 2022 and daily | ORYX

[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.

[JonPreston]

STARMER: UK TROOPS COULD DEPLOY TO UKRAINE

Keir Starmer:

"The UK is ready to play a leading role in accelerating work on security guarantees for Ukraine.

It also means being ready and willing to contribute to security guarantees to Ukraine by putting our own troops on the ground if necessary.

I do not say that lightly. I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with potentially putting British servicemen and women in harm’s way.

Any role in helping to guarantee Ukraine’s security is helping to guarantee the security of our continent and the security of this country.

The end of this war, when it comes, cannot merely become a temporary pause before Putin attacks again.”

Speaking ahead of a Paris summit, he warned against cutting Ukraine out of talks, comparing it to the U.S.-Taliban negotiations.

Military leaders estimate 100,000 troops may be needed, but who’s actually signing up?

Meanwhile, UK generals are demanding more defense spending, since Britain’s army isn’t exactly overflowing with resources.

Source: The Telegraph

[PIF]

DOGE Audit Reveals All Fort Knox Gold Replaced With IOUs

[JonPreston]

🚨Hello Friends: THE 155 MILLION DOLLAR PHOTO... Mitch McConnell got $89 million in kickbacks while Chuck Schumer had $66 million of our tax dollars to Ukraine ( Zelensky ) laundered into his pocketbook, says top Ukrainian official.
pic.twitter.com/1bfoVmIi4S— Hammer (@hammer432) February 15, 2025

[JonPreston]

BREAKING: €700 billion for Ukraine!?!?

The EU is working on a huge package for Ukraine, which should have been made public after the elections in Germany.

But German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock couldn’t keep the secret and made it clear that it could be about 700 billion euros!

"We will launch a large package that has never existed in this dimension before”

Baerbock on the sidelines of the Munich meeting.

-> They wanted to hide it, so it will not interfere with the elections! But now you know, European taxpayer money will go to Ukraine in unprecedented sums.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Donald Chamberlain Trump is making Obummer and Biden’s foreign policy look robust.

How the GOP has fallen.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the Ds capture the House in Nov of 27 and Trump gets impeached for a 3rd time.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Republican introduces bill to make Trump’s birthday a federal holiday”

Lets pass Trumps shoes around the Congressional offices, so people can kiss/lick them.

How the GOP has fallen.

What an embarrassment.

[Darksheare]

Thought you said you were leaving.

[JonPreston]

FULL CLOWN

[JonPreston]

Donald Chamberlain Trump

It's so good to see the NeverTrump come spilling out of you both.

[GBA]

What a day. The anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s death, “Peace in our times” and Putin is now sitting on top of the world and no one dare say otherwise. Winning?

Not only has Putin vanquished all of his political and military rivals and enemies, and silenced all of his loudest critics in Russian media and entertainment,

and simultaneously transformed Russians and Russia’s economy back to being on a war footing, again, with greatly increased production of ammunition, missiles, glide bomb, drones, war improved tanks and every other weapon system, just like it was last century, …

Putin has apparently just been given the defeat of his two greatest enemies, too, Ukraine and NATO, as Trump seemingly will pull the US military and support out of Europe, while demanding that Ukraine pay the US back all that’s been given/loaned/donated, whatever to Ukraine while fighting against Putin’s invasion.

Peace by Trump looks like total surrender to Putin and giving him whatever he wants, but hey, an American in a Russian prison gets to comes home. Winning.

[BeauBo]

Maybe this is what it takes to get the Europeans to step up, and pay their fair share of the Military cost of freedom.

Otherwise they would prefer that America subsidize them for a hundred years.

[AdmSmith]

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that Iran continues to increase its monthly production of enriched uranium to near weapons grade and time is running out to reach an agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference that Tehran is increasing its monthly production of 60 percent enriched uranium by almost sevenfold. “Iran will have about 250 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent by the time the IAEA’s next report is presented in the coming weeks,” Grossi said on February 14 in an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the conference” “It's clearly a sign that should be taken very seriously. So this is why I believe that we shouldn't be wasting more time. I hope that we can refocus on Iran,” he said.

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nuclear-grossi-trump-munich-uranium/33315666.html

Meanwhile news from Muscovy:
February 18. /TASS/. Moscow is ready to help Tehran solve problems related to Iran's nuclear program, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“Moscow attaches great importance to good relations with Iran and intends to develop them comprehensively, including providing assistance in solving the main problems, including the nuclear program,” he said in an interview with the IRNA news agency. According to him, the start of US-Russian talks will not affect the further cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.

https://tass.com/politics/1914713

[AdmSmith]

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 17, 2025

The Russian delegation participating in Russian-American talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 18 does not include one of the members of Russian President Vladimir Putin's innermost circle who had been reported as a likely negotiator.[11] The Russian delegation includes Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov, and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that the talks will focus on “restoring the entire complex of US-Russian relations” and preparing for possible future discussions about the war in Ukraine between US President Donald Trump and Putin.[12] Peskov added that Lavrov and Ushakov “will be able to send urgent reports” to Putin while in Riyadh — suggesting that the Russian delegation's purpose is to convey messages and inform the Kremlin, rather than to negotiate on Putin's behalf.[13]

Sergei Lavrov has served as the Russian foreign minister since 2004, but has reportedly been left out of previous key Kremlin decisions relating to the Russian invasions of Ukraine.[14] Sources in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) told the BBC in August 2023 that the MFA had no previous knowledge of the Kremlin's ultimatums to the US and NATO in late 2021, and the Financial Times (FT) reported in February 2023 that Lavrov learned about the full-scale invasion a few hours before it started.[15] Russian milbloggers also claimed that the Kremlin did not notify Lavrov of Putin's June 2024 press conference at the MFA during which Putin demanded that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the remaining territories of four Ukrainian oblasts.[16]

Yuri Ushakov has served as Putin's foreign policy aide since May 2012.[17] Ushakov was Russia's ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 1996 to 1998, served as the Russian Ambassador to the United States from 1999-2008, and became Deputy Head of Government Staff from 2008 to 2012.[18] Ushakov publicly dismissed US and Western intelligence about the impending Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine as “hysteria” and “absurdity” in early February 2022.[19] Ushakov reportedly participated in early ceasefire talks with Ukraine shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.[20]

Kirill Dmitriev has been CEO of RDIF, a Russian sovereign wealth fund meant to develop foreign direct investment in Russia, since its creation in 2011 and also holds positions on the supervisory boards of the state-owned Gazprombank, Transneft, and Russian Railways.[21] Dmitriev studied economics at Stanford and Harvard universities in the 1990s and spent his early career working as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and Goldman Sachs and later ran the Ukrainian investment fund Icon Private Equity from 2007 to 2011.[22] Dmitriev enjoys close ties with Putin's family, and Dmitriev’s wife, Natalia Popova, is reportedly a close friend and former classmate of Putin's daughter, Katerina Tikhonova.[23] Dmitriev has extensive experience working with Middle Eastern countries, as the RDIF’s partners include the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia. Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the exchange, reported on February 14 that Dmitriev recently played a key role in negotiations with US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff to free American Marc Fogel from Russia.[24] Dmitriev accompanied Putin on his visits to Abu Dhabi and Riyadh in 2023 and Beijing in May 2024.[25]

A key Putin ally will be notably absent from the meeting. Bloomberg reported on February 14 that sources familiar with the matter stated that Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Head Sergei Naryshkin would participate in the Russian delegation going to Saudi Arabia – reports which ended up proving false.[26] Naryshkin is Putin's close ally who reportedly participated in Russia-Ukrainian negotiations shortly after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 and discussions with former CIA director William Burns in Ankara in November 2022.[27] Putin has also stated that he decided to launch Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014 after consulting with only the “leaders of [Russia's] special services and the defense ministry.”[28] None of the members of the Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia appear to be among the closest inner circle that Putin would likely empower to engage in serious negotiations on his behalf, but Putin may intend to include more trusted individuals in future rounds of talks or may have more confidence in these individuals in these particular talks.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-17-2025

I'm not revealing any state secrets when I write that the SVR is as confused about what happened last week as everyone else. They haven't thought about what's happening now so it will take a while before anything concrete comes out. No one in the delegation sent has any mandate to decide anything, it is a "fact finding mission".

[AdmSmith]

1,170 i.e. more than 48 Russians and Norks/h. Vehicles and fuel tanks more than 100% and artillery systems more than 120% above the average.

[JonPreston]

Donald Chamberlain Trump...How the GOP has fallen....Wouldn’t be surprised if the Ds capture the House in Nov of 27 and Trump gets impeached for a 3rd time.

g'morning Speedy @ PIF. Your NeverTrump sentiments have never been clearer. If anything, Trump's Peace position is in line with the majority of today's GOP, so the House appears safer than ever.

Here's a picture of some of your cohorts. Perhaps you'd be interested in attending?

[blitz128]

I will withhold serious comment till I see how this plays out.
Appears that Russian delegation is not exactly full of heavy weights of Russian politics.

[JonPreston]

Dance, sing, rejoice!!

Peace is at hand

The United States and Russia are proposing a three-stage peace plan to end the war in Ukraine:

1- Ceasefire

2- Elections in Ukraine

3- Signing a final agreement

Source: Fox News pic.twitter.com/xqYJZxHIhi— Clash Report (@clashreport) February 18, 2025

[PIF]

Meanwhile, ‘Back in the USSR’ Again:

Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests
‘Discrediting’ Armed Forces, Calling to End the War, Backing Sanctions Become Crimes
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/07/russia-criminalizes-independent-war-reporting-anti-war-protests

[PIF]

Europe Debates Sending Troops To Ukraine
European countries are figuring out what role they are willing to play in any peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.twz.com/news-features/europe-debates-sending-troops-to-ukraine

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Ukraine Appears To Have Destroyed Its First Russian S-350 Air Defense System
A Ukrainian reconnaissance brigade has released a video showing the destruction of one of Russia’s prized S-350 Vityaz air defense systems in the Donetsk region.
https://www.twz.com/land/ukraine-appears-to-have-destroyed-its-first-russian-s-350-air-defense-system

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Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman In Greece For Repairs Following Collision
How long the USS Harry S. Truman is set to stay in Souda Bay will depend on a full assessment of the damage from the collision.
https://www.twz.com/sea/aircraft-carrier-uss-harry-s-truman-in-greece-for-repairs-following-collision

[PIF]

Donald Chamberlain Trump gets impeached for a 3rd time.

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Noooonoooo!!! He’s a god you cannot do that. MAGA, you know. Audit everything. Save money. Get the US out of the UN & out of Europe. Ukraine is part of Russia.

Donald Chamberlain Trump is god-like. Isolationism Pays! Invasion Pays! Xi smiles!