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.

[AdmSmith]

On March 8 at 1:05 p.m., the Rescue Service received a report of the need for assistance in Lavrsky Lane, in the Pechersk district. Upon arrival at the scene, rescuers found that a cross had partially collapsed on the dome of one of the churches. To safely dismantle the structure, rescuers used a crane. They climbed up to the cross, carefully cut the wire, and lowered it safely to the ground.

https://kyiv.dsns.gov.ua/news/nadzvicaini-podiyi/riatuvalniki-zniali-obrusenii-xrest-z-kupola-xramu

To prevent further destruction, the cross from the Church of All Saints was dismantled, but it will be returned to its place in the near future after restoration. The reserve also said that such work is part of an international joint project of UNESCO and the Japan Trust Fund “Support for Ukraine in Culture and Education through UNESCO”, during which not only will the damage and protection of monuments be assessed, but also additional security measures will be taken. To this end, last week, UNESCO representatives supported the idea of ​​installing sensors to monitor the condition of the Church of All Saints, which, in particular, will track the impact of blast waves from Russian shelling.
https://ukranews.com/en/news/1069002-kyiv-pechersk-lavra-explains-why-cross-from-all-saints-church-was-removed

Кремлевская табакерка

“It wasn't our missile that shot it down.” The Church and the Ministry of Defense saw a bad sign in the fall of the cross in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

The fall of the cross from the dome of the Church of All Saints in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Ukraine, which happened the day before, caused negative emotions among many in the Russian Orthodox Church, including Patriarch Kirill. “This is a bad sign. Everyone knows that the Kiev regime has long been seizing the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, and we can do nothing about it. The fall of the cross, which is inextricably linked with the Russian Church, could symbolize the final loss of control of our Church over Ukraine. Our crosses are falling, the enemies will put their own in their place. And they will finally seize the holy place,” a source in the Russian Orthodox Church believes.

According to him, this opinion, in particular, is held by Patriarch Kirill, who has not yet found a way to return the church's control over Kyiv and all of Ukraine.

Andrei Belousov, who, as a true Orthodox person, does not like the fact that the Lavra and other holy places in Ukraine are “inexorably passing into the hands of schismatics,” cannot find such an opportunity either. “Andrei Removich gloomily joked that it was not our missile, unfortunately, that shot down this cross. It was not the power of Russia that was revealed in its fall. But the symbolism is very heavy,” said a source in the Ministry of Defense close to the minister. At the same time, he is glad that in Ukraine, apparently, they were also afraid of the fall of the cross and “are waiting for something bad.” “This makes it much easier to work with them,” said the channel's interlocutor, refusing to provide additional explanations.

https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/5388

[FtrPilot]

🇷🇴⚡️ Ukraine receives Romanian CA-95 air defense systems – Defense Express reports. The CA-95 is a copy of the Soviet Strela-1 system. While the exact number delivered is unknown, Romania has 48 in service.

https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1898662635794543026

Very effective against shaheds.

Limited effectiveness against cruise missiles.

[FtrPilot]

France will provide EUR 195 million worth of weapons to Ukraine - Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu @SebLecornu

The package will include 155mm artillery shells, AASM aerial bombs used by Mirage 2000 fighter jets, as well as AMX-10RC light tanks and VAB armored personnel carriers. The deal will be paid for with interest from frozen Russian assets.

Thank you, France! 🇫🇷 🇺🇦

https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1898720564606382123

[FtrPilot]

Ukrainian Mi-24V Hind helicopter gunship dropping flares on an attack run.

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1898625032391114978

The flares are most effective against MANPADs.

The flares prevent the MANPAD operator from locking onto the helicopter.

MANPADs do have a "flare reject" capability if missile is locked onto the helicopter at launch.

[JonPreston]

Coalition of the Willing Zeepers

[BroJoeK]

🍈 : "I'm still waiting for the photographic evidence of North Korean participation that you promised."

Then you are hallucinating again.

• "At least 10K North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk, Ukraine and US assess
  Washington says troops ready to enter combat, after Kyiv stated there there has already been clash with DPRK forces"
  Anton Sokolin November 5, 2024

  

• "Ukrainian forces post footage of dozens North Korean soldiers killed in Kursk Oblast"
  Roman Petrenko — Sunday, 15 December 2024, 14:30"

• "ISW: Russia denies North Korean troops in Kursk to mask military dependence
  US & Ukrainian sources confirm North Korean troops fighting alongside Russia in Ukraine’s Kursk Oblast."
  by Maria Tril December 18, 2024

• "North Korean troops suffer heavy losses in Kursk region - Ukrainian intelligence"
  Story by Daryna Vialko • December 26, 2024

• "Ukraine war latest: 'Irrefutable evidence of North Korea's involvement' — Ukraine says it captured 2 North Korean POWs in Kursk Oblast"
  The Kyiv Independent news desk
  Sun, January 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM EST

• "North Korean Troops Are Bleeding Out in Kursk"
  January 25, 2025 By: Stavros Atlamazoglou

• "On February 8, North Korea’s (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK) Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un issued his strongest statement of support yet for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  By vowing to “invariably support and encourage the just cause of the Russian Army,” Kim implicitly acknowledged North Korea’s direct participation in the Ukraine War...
  Despite mounting evidence of high North Korean casualties in Kursk, Russian officials and state-aligned commentators have engaged in a systematic deny-and-deflect campaign...

  ...As these denials were increasingly implausible, some Russian commentators made a complete 180-degree-pivot and hailed the purported battlefield successes of North Korean troops.
  Russian ultranationalist media outlet Tsargrad hailed North Korea’s delivery of camouflaged MLRS systems and claimed that it learnt from innovations by Iran-aligned militias in Iraq and Syria.
  Russian commentators rushed to congratulate North Korean troops for their triumph over Ukraine in Plekhovo.
  War correspondent Vladimir Romanov described the North Korean victory in especially propagandistic terms, declaring 'They passed through like a hurricane, did not take prisoners. The enemy lost more than 300 servicemen,' and boasting that North Korean Special Operations Forces won in two hours."
  By: Samuel Ramani February 19, 2025

• "Russian and North Korean forces have made significant battlefield advances in recent days in the Kursk region of Russia, threatening Ukraine’s supply lines and its hold on a patch of land it hopes to use as a bargaining chip in future negotiations, according to Ukrainian soldiers, Russian military bloggers and military analysts.
  By Marc Santora, Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
  Published March 8, 2025 Updated March 9, 2025, 12:52 a.m. ET

• "Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers warn Kyiv’s hold on the region is more tenuous than ever, with Russian troops backed by North Korean forces launching incessant attacks.
  CNN is unable to independently verify battlefield reports but such bloggers have previously provided an accurate account of the fighting."
  Published March 9, 2025 12:41 am By Maria Kostenko, Christian Edwards and Sophie Tanno, CNN

Photos said to be North Korean troops:

Clearly, there are a lot of people, including Russian mil-bloggers and the US government, who think North Koreans are fighting in Kursk.

Regardless, the Russian government and its paid propagandists continue to deny, deflect and deny.

[PIF]

1. Regardless, the Russian government and its paid propagandists ( 🍈 ) continue to deny, deflect and deny. And so 🍈 continues to reflect the Party line. What else can he/she/it do?

2. Also the Russians do not care if the NK troops live or die , as long as they advance.

3. To admit that they have large scale troops from another country aiding them, would reflect badly on Russian troops and their inadequacies.

[JonPreston]

MSNBC guest’s message to Americans who don’t want billions of their tax dollars going to Ukraine:

“Ukranians are more American than we are.”

What???

pic.twitter.com/6UpWh6TvaS— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 9, 2025

[JonPreston]

That looks like Elon Musk to me, besides where's the proof that picture is from the Ukraine?

Please do better

[JonPreston]

as long as they advance

Speaking of advancing, have you seen the mapping from Kirsk?

it's a disaster and the fault lies at the feet of Zelensky and his American cheerleaders who support him.

[FtrPilot]

🔥 A FPV drone operator from the 🇺🇦 NGU's Svoboda Battalion scored a triple kill with one FPV drone 💀💀💀

https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1898746313199505630

[JonPreston]

From Churchill to "obstacle." My guess, UK hopes to roll out Zaluzhny.

UK Sunday Times: Last autumn a British minister described Zelensky to me as “an obstacle to peace”. That such a thing was said on background, rather than for quotation, and is not an isolated opinion in… pic.twitter.com/GnAwuUsMc3— Alex Christoforou (@AXChristoforou) March 9, 2025

[ETCM]

"Poland must pursue the most advanced capabilities, including nuclear and modern unconventional weapons. This is a serious race - a race for security, not for war."

Donald Tusk - Prime Minister of Poland, 7 March 2025

I think nuclear proliferation in Europe is a terrible idea, particularly without the conventional deterrent of NATO. Poland won't be the only country wanting a nuclear deterrent to Russia.

[FtrPilot]

Meanwhile, Russian taxpayers are gradually catching on to the glaring truth. Their rubles go up in smoke alongside equipment, ammo, and soldiers, merrily morphing into ash and premium fertilizer for the fields. Who could’ve guessed that war doesn’t come with a bargain-bin price tag?

https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1898812115411939460

[JonPreston]

🚨Update: President Trump will not restore military aid to Ukraine even if a minerals deal is reached until Zelensky agrees to a peace deal directly with Russia!

pic.twitter.com/ofA30YVHqY— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) March 9, 2025

[PIF]

There was a post earlier about Germany looking into Nukes

[JonPreston]

Europe Regularly Supplies Ukraine With Outdated and Defective Weapons

How Does This Affect Course of Conflict?

by Jakub Wrona | Mar 7, 2025

Reports have increased in recent months that European states send obsolete weapons to Ukraine, including those that are known to be unreliable and ineffective in combat. These facts raise certain concerns about the quality and effectiveness of the assistance provided by the West to Ukraine. Let’s look at some examples that have become known through open sources and reports from the battlefield.

One example is Spain, which sent a batch of CETME L submachine guns that were withdraw from service more than 20 years ago and known for their reliability issues. Experts question their effectiveness in modern warfare despite being upgraded before shipment.

Another example is France, which sent artillery pieces that have failed in battle, raising questions about their ability to provide effective support. The French CAESAR self-propelled howitzers, which were hailed as high-tech weapons, have proven to be far from perfect. According to Ukrainian military sources, these systems are prone to frequent breakdowns and suffer from insufficient shooting accuracy, which is especially critical considering the significant role artillery plays in the current conflict.

Moreover, about a thousand mortar shells supplied by Bulgaria and Romania have been found to be defective. Some Ukrainian military reports say, some of these shells fail to explode and others misfire, which not only reduces the effectiveness of combat operations, but also creates additional risks for military personnel.

Such cases are not exceptions, but rather the norm. Western countries are actively disposing of outdated and withdrawn weapons by sending them to Ukraine. However, Kyiv has little choice but to accept what the allies offer, despite the fact that the quality and effectiveness of these weapons leave much to be desired.

Why is this so significant? Firstly, due to obsolete and defective weapons, the combat readiness of the Ukrainian military and its efficiency on the battlefield have significantly decreased. In light of a conflict with Russia, which possesses advanced weaponry, this is a crucial factor. Secondly, faulty weapons and ammunition increase the risk of accidents and injuries among personnel. At the same time such assistance erodes Ukraine’s confidence in its Western allies and may lead to a reevaluation of its cooperation strategy, including the exploitation of natural resources from Ukraine’s territory after the conflict concludes, which the United States currently monitors closely.

In spite of the immense efforts and assistance from the West, Ukraine faces increasing challenges in its confrontation with Russia. Obsolete and ineffective weapons only exacerbate the situation.

If we look at the situation objectively, it would be beneficial for the West to dispose of decommissioned weapons. This issue is not only political, but also economic. For Western companies and defense contractors, these supplies can be a convenient way to save money on disposing of old weapons, while creating the illusion of support for Ukraine. However, these actions are not enough for the Ukrainian side to make a significant difference in the war. Maybe it’s time to have a serious discussion about a peaceful resolution. War can’t last forever, and sooner or later, the two sides will need to sit down and negotiate. The current situation with arms supplies could be an opportunity to start peace talks. The question remains: are the parties ready for compromises, or will the conflict continue until resources are completely depleted? Only time will show.

Jakub Wrona is an open-source intelligence journalist from Poland. His key interests are arms smuggling and human trafficking all across Europe.

[PIF]

Now beginning to understand where 🍈 the 🦠 has been coming from wit hall those quickly made memes: AI

40 AI-Driven Censorship Techniques to Control Narratives and Suppress Dissent

Major Headers:
1. Content Manipulation & Suppression
2. AI Moderation & Narrative Enforcement
3. User Disruption & Psychological Tactics
4. Covert Algorithmic Bias & Steering Techniques
5. Discrediting & Undermining Dissent
8. Conclusion: AI as a Tool for Government Censorship
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4303191/posts

[JonPreston]

🍈

GROK, define "military cauldron"

In military terms, a "cauldron" (Russian: котёл, kotyol) refers to a strategy where forces encircle an enemy, trapping them in a confined area to cut off their supplies, reinforcements, and escape routes, ultimately aiming to destroy or force their surrender.

This tactic has deep roots in Russian and Soviet military doctrine and is not unique to them—it’s a variation of encirclement strategies used globally, like the German Kesselschlacht ("cauldron battle").

The Russian version often involves creating a large, strategic-level trap (a "cauldron") or smaller operational pockets ("sacks" or meshok), depending on the scale of the operation. Historically, it’s been paired with heavy artillery barrages and mobile units to exploit the encirclement.

A classic example is the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where Soviet forces turned the tables on the German Sixth Army, encircling and annihilating it. More recently Russian forces have used this tactic in places like the Donbas, with smaller cauldrons around Sievierodonetsk to exhaust Ukrainian defenders through relentless shelling and isolation.

The tactic’s effectiveness hinges on coordination, firepower, and the enemy’s inability to break out. Posts on X and web sources suggest Russia has adapted it in ongoing conflicts, sometimes successfully collapsing Ukrainian positions (e.g., near Kurakhovo in 2024), though it’s not foolproof—failed attempts, like the early 2022 Donbas encirclements, show it can falter against determined resistance or logistical overreach. Critics argue Russia’s reliance on artillery in these operations masks broader weaknesses in ground maneuverability, but when it works, it’s a slow, brutal grind that leverages their strengths.

Grok: Use cauldron in an sentence

Grok: "Zelensky has put 10,000 members of the Ukranian army in a cauldron."

[blitz128]

🍈 is obsessed 😂