Politico reports that the package’s expected value has risen to 20 billion euros, and may grow even larger as countries dig for equipment.
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1893154597390151801
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
Politico reports that the package’s expected value has risen to 20 billion euros, and may grow even larger as countries dig for equipment.
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1893154597390151801
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1893307754065879471
The smoke will impact video equipped drones, but should not impact drones with thermal cameras.
Upon seeing the video of their own work, the operators from the Ivan Franko Group decided to share their perspective, showing the battle through the eyes of the drone that was involved.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1893292296520528241
Ukrainian fiber-optic drones cut right through their jamming.
Looks like another batch of "unmatched" technology just went up in smoke.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1893276006959448434
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1893250862710960198
Once again, demonstrating poor COMSEC by the ruzzians.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1893232961631162649
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1893333472896549028
🤬 Russia does not want to exchange Ukrainian Azov and Marines prisoners and take back its soldiers from captivity, — Coordination Headquarters
❗️The occupiers are mostly interested in exchanging their conscripts and Chechens, and Russia “doesn’t care” about the rest.
https://bsky.app/profile/theukrainianreview.bsky.social/post/3lirfyafojk2b
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
Reporting From Ukraine Uncensored Combat Footage (from this and past Reports) is found on Telegram:
https://t.me/RFUEnglish or @RFUEnglish
[ You need to have the Telegram app to view the larger videos. ]
The complete transcript.
—
[ Extensive Russian Rescue Mission Failed ]
Today [ Feb 22, 8 pm ], there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kursk direction.
Here, after spending too much time fighting alongside North Korean troops, the Russians have started borrowing their tactics in a desperate attempt to break the siege on their stranded allies in Nikolske.
But as they charged forward in human waves, draped in Soviet flags and straight into Ukrainian fire, their rescue mission quickly turned into yet another battlefield catastrophe.
The goal of the Russian forces in this area is to reach the village of Nikolske and relieve the North Korean soldiers stuck on the outer edges of the settlement, left over from the previous assaults. This is because Ukrainians maintain strict fire control over all supply lines ot Nikolske, leaving the North Koreans completely cut off from resupply for over a week now.
To prevent Ukrainians from capturing a large part of the North Korean contingent, Russians attempted to link up with their allies by launching a massive mechanized assault over the fields. The Russians hoped that the mechanized assault units would be able to provide enough of a firepower advantage through their tanks and BMP infantry fighting vehicles, to expand their area of control, and relieve the North Koreans.
The main advantage of the Russian forces in this area is the extremely cold weather that has caused the ground to freeze solid, enabling Russian armor to move freely across the fields instead of being restricted to the heavily mined roads.
Furthermore, if we look at the topographic map, we can see that the Russian approaches are largely shielded from Ukrainian firing positions by a hill ridge, which shields them against targeting by Ukrainian ATGM positions for a large portion of their journey.
However, the Russian forces are severely disadvantaged once they cross the ridge, as they are directly exposed to Ukrainian fire on the hill ridge in the east, firing on top of the armored assault groups. Furthermore, the lack of tree lines in this last part of the journey gives Russians no cover for the most dangerous portion of their assaults.
Unfortunately for Russians, Ukrainians decided to make this already deadly kill zone even worse for the Russian armor. Ukrainians used remote mining techniques with drones and artillery to scatter a large number of landmines across these fields and, in the process, extending the minefield from around the roads to now filling entire fields.
Additionally, the clear weather allowed Ukrainians to increase their drone surveillance in the area, allowing for the Russian assaults to be detected even before they crested the hill.
Geolocated combat footage reveals how Russian forces launched mechanized assaults using several BTR armored personnel carriers and tanks. However, the column quickly came under attack by Ukrainian precision strikes, including kamikaze drones, landmines, and artillery fire.
Notably, Russian soldiers adorned their tanks and vehicles with Soviet flags, attempting to recreate the mass-charges of the past. However, as many of the Russian armored personnel carriers and tanks were rapidly being disabled, Russian soldiers resorted to advancing across open fields on foot.
These human wave formations, similar to previous North Korean assaults, ended in a complete disaster for the Russian infantry. The Russian vehicles that survived the initial ambush pressed forward, but were also quickly disabled and destroyed by Ukrainian precision fire, leaving dozens of wrecked vehicles scattered across the fields near Nikolske, as the besieged North Koreans could do nothing but watch the disaster unfold.
Overall, the Russians conducted a disastrous assault on Nikolske in the hope of relieving the cut-off North Korean forces, only for their plan to backfire, due to Ukrainians meticulously preparing a kill zone to efficiently deal with the Russian assault. These losses only further drain the already limited Russian reserves, while Ukrainians maintain powerful defensive positions that stand despite the intense pressure.
As the attempt to resupply the North Koreans stuck in Nikolske failed, the survivors of the latest Russian assault will only add to the supply issues, with more mouths to feed and wounded to take care of.
Russian forces continue to deploy wounded and medically unfit soldiers to the frontline in an effort to address personnel shortages. A Russian milblogger published a video on February 21 showing injured personnel of the Russian 150th Motorized Rifle Division (8th Combined Army [CAA], Southern Military District [SMD]) complaining that the Russian command is sending them to conduct infantry assaults despite their injuries.[48] The soldiers claimed that they are members of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division's “150th Motorized Rifle Regiment” — which ISW has not observed engaged in combat in Ukraine or Kursk Oblast. The soldiers claimed that frontline Russian commanders removed them from their original units after they were injured and that they are in Kursk Oblast to prepare for redeployment into combat. It is unclear if the injured soldiers are currently in Kursk undergoing medical treatment or if the Russian military command intends to introduce elements of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division into combat in Kursk Oblast. ISW has recently observed reports that the Russian military command is redeploying elements of the 150th and 20th motorized rifle divisions from the Kurakhove direction to the eastern Pokrovsk and Toretsk directions but has not observed discussions of these formations redeploying to Kursk Oblast.[49]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-22-2025
It is amazing to now see the melon portraying our peerless leader as a traitor or a spy of the KGB as he negotiates a peace. Perhaps he is not a direct Moscow troll but rather works with some other group of anti Ukraine Russians. At any rate an interesting change in focus. I wonder if JR has noticed what appears to be a shift away from Trump support by him.
Poland & Thatcher, amongst others, knew that Russia's leaders never change Whether Tsar, Secretary General or President, their callous disregard for Russian lives remains a constant - as does their insatiable desire to dominate and conquer their neighbours.
https://x.com/RafHM/status/1892646279752130610
2 min video
This was told to us by philosopher Alexandr Dugin. This is how he commented on the channel's information that the “Kukushka” project, within the framework of which women will give birth to children for the state, will start at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. Alexandr Gelyevich previously called Vladimir Putin's participation in the project and the conception of “special” children necessary. “ You wrote that you have no information about Vladimir Vladimirovich's participation in the project. Nonsense! I am reporting (information from extremely informed sources) that the president will be one of the first participants in “Kukushka”! He will have at least ten children. Good, special, truly Russian state children. And I hope more,” Dugin claims.
He also reported that progress is being made on his proposal to remove Lenin's body from the Mausoleum and free up the building “for the future” for the current president ( see https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4219673/posts?page=11328#11328 ).
It should be noted that sources in the Kremlin have not yet refuted, but have not confirmed these statements by Dugin.
Project “Kukushka”. Some women may start giving birth to children next year specifically for the state https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4291059/posts
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1893632328108220538
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1893589596396490982
Ten Shahed drones made it to their target.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1893638529919414512
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
