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.
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VERY interesting.
Lavrov alleges that Trump is not being fully briefed on everything regarding the situation in Ukraine, and that bad actors are giving him information “through a filter” in order to coerce the Trump admin into supporting Ukraine.
pic.twitter.com/Z7N6m6EeDK— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) May 28, 2025
Insert finger meme here
“long-range weapons funded by Germany and produced in Ukraine could be ready within weeks, according to the German Defense Ministry.”
I guess that is the political fig leaf of plausible deniability - they are not German weapons (Taurus) striking Moscow and the Crimean Bridge, they are Ukrainian.
Turkey brings a lot of capability to the Drone War (Bayraktar). The international Drone Coalition is ramping up their spending this year, 50% more than last year.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Turkey and Belgium are set to join the international Drone Coalition supporting Ukraine, Latvia’s Defense Minister Andris Spruds announced on May 28 during the Drone Summit in Riga…
…”The international Drone Coalition is becoming increasingly stronger — we will be able to deliver more drones to Ukraine while simultaneously strengthening the defense industries of Latvia, the EU, and NATO countries,” Spruds said…
…With the addition of Belgium and Turkey, the Drone Coalition will grow to 20 member states. The coalition, officially launched in February 2024, includes countries such as the U.K., Germany, Canada, France, Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine, among others. Each new member must be approved by existing coalition states, according to the memorandum of understanding.
Since its inception, the coalition has committed a total of 4.5 billion euros ($5 billion) in aid to Ukraine over two years, including 1.8 billion euros ($2 billion) in 2024 and the planned 2.75 billion euros ($3.1 billion) for 2025.”
Scholz and Biden (well Jake Sullivan anyway) are no longer there restraining the use of long range weapons like ATACMS or Storm Shadows within Russia.
81 US Senators have now signed on as co-sponsors for SB 1241 (bone- crushing sanctions), a veto-proof majority.
Moscow Stock Exchange dropped 2.5% today.
“81 US Senators have now signed on as co-sponsors for SB 1241 (bone- crushing sanctions), a veto-proof majority.”
Yep, Trump will get 81 votes for those ‘sanctions’ (which, effectively, means the end of trade for the US with the rest of the world), IF TRUMP SUPPORTS it.
But if Trump doesn’t support it, your hero, Lindsey Graham, will do as well with getting those ‘sanctions’ past Trump as he did in 2016 when he ran against Trump.
Putin reportedly maintains his demand that Ukraine cede all of the four oblasts that Russia has illegally annexed but not fully occupied, even as Kremlin officials have signaled that Russia has territorial ambitions beyond these four oblasts. A Reuters source reportedly stated that Putin is less inclined now to make territorial compromises and continues to demand the entirety of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts — including the areas that Russian forces do not currently occupy.[8] The source stated that “Putin has toughened his position” about territory. Putin first demanded in June 2024 that Ukraine cede all of the four oblasts, and Russian officials have often reiterated this demand since.[9] The Washington Post reported on May 27 that Ukrainian military intelligence assesses that the Russian military command has deployed 125,000 personnel to the borders of Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts — two oblasts that Russia has not illegally annexed.[10] Russian forces have been conducting offensive operations aimed at creating a buffer zone in Kharkiv Oblast since May 2024.[11] Russian forces also recently launched attacks to create a buffer zone in northern Sumy Oblast, with Russian officials calling for Russia to seize Sumy City, likely to set conditions for Russia to annex the oblast.[12] Russia will likely struggle to seize the entirety of the four illegally annexed oblasts, especially as the seizure of the heavily fortified fortress belt in Donetsk Oblast and the forcing of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast will require significantly larger force groupings than the forces currently deployed in eastern and southern Ukraine. The Russian military command would have solely concentrated its efforts on seizing all of the four oblasts if the Kremlin's territorial ambitions were truly limited to the four oblasts, but the deployment of significant forces to attack in Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts suggests that Russia intends to increase its territorial demands. ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin maintains significant territorial ambitions in southern and eastern Ukraine, and Russian officials within Putin's innermost circle have even called for Russia to take control of most of the country.[13]
Putin continues to demonstrate his willingness to achieve his war aims militarily through a prolonged war in Ukraine during which Russian forces would continue to only make gradual, creeping advances. One of Reuters’ sources reportedly stated that Putin will try to use military victories to show Ukraine and Europe that “peace tomorrow will be even more painful” if Putin is unable to secure his desired terms in a peace deal.[14] The source stated that Putin would take advantage of any tactical battlefield opportunities to advance further into Ukraine and that Putin believes that Russia can fight for years in the face of any sanctions or other economic measures the West might place on Russia in the future. ISW has long assessed that Putin holds a theory of victory that assumes that Russian forces will be able to continue gradual, creeping advances indefinitely and to outlast and overcome Western military aid to Ukraine and Ukraine's own efforts to mobilize.[15]
Russia will likely be able to continue its current tactics that are resulting in gradual, creeping advances as long as Russia is able to replenish its losses on the frontline. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev claimed on May 28 that almost 175,000 people have arrived at military units and that more than 14,000 people have joined volunteer units since the start of 2025, for a total of roughly 1,285 people per day.[16] Medvedev also reiterated Putin's May 13 claim that 50,000 to 60,000 people voluntarily join the Russian military per month.[17] Putin's claimed recruitment rate is notably higher than Medvedev’s, and ISW cannot independently verify these claims. Reports from the Ukrainian General Staff about Russia's daily losses indicate that Russian suffered a daily loss rate of 1,550 per day in January 2025; 1,261 in February 2025; 1,312 in March 2025; 1,219 in April 2025; and 1,140 between May 1 and May 28.[18] Medvedev’s May 28 claim that 175,000 soldiers have joined Russian military units since January 2025 indicates that Russia is replenishing its units at about a one-for-one ratio to its loss rate. ISW continues to assess that Ukrainian forces, supported by Western aid, can inflict higher personnel loss rates on the battlefield that could push Putin to make difficult decisions and force Putin to engage in good-faith negotiations to end the war.[19]
The Kremlin continues to promote its long-standing false narratives that the threat of NATO expansion forced Russia to invade Ukraine in 2022, and that NATO continues to threaten Russia's security. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that Russia is alarmed by the accumulation of NATO troops along Russia's border and that NATO's eastern expansion and discussions to bring Ukraine into the alliance triggered Russia into launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.[20] Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov claimed that NATO has deployed 34,200 troops on its “eastern flank” — which runs from Finland to Turkey — since February 2022.[21] Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in June 2024 that Russia had deployed over 700,000 Russian soldiers to Ukraine, in contrast.[22] NATO had not significantly progressed Ukraine's path to membership in the years since the 2008 Bucharest Declaration, in which NATO promised Ukraine and Georgia paths to membership but took no formal steps toward Ukrainian membership in late 2021 and 2022.[23] Putin explicitly admitted in December 2024 that former US President Joseph Biden offered in 2021 to postpone consideration of Ukraine's membership to NATO for 10 to 15 years — demonstrating that Ukraine's NATO membership was not an immediate prospect and undermining the Kremlin's attempts to blame NATO for Russia's 2022 invasion.[24] ISW continues to assess that Putin did not invade Ukraine in 2022 because he feared NATO but because he believed that NATO was weak and aimed to destroy the alliance.[25]
more + maps
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-28-2025
Can the Ukrainian Armed Forces launch 300-500 drones daily?
The increasing number of attacks on Moscow and the European part of Russia as a whole remain one of the main topics of discussion among the elites. Some major businessmen wonder how long the enemy will be able to carry out strikes with such intensity? Interlocutors in the Ministry of Defense admit that repelling drone raids is becoming increasingly difficult due to their increasing number. “We believe that at their peak this summer, the enemy will be able to launch from 300 to 500 long-range drones per day. We are already taking measures to minimize the consequences. But in many ways, the result will depend on the ability of the military-industrial complex to repair and produce air defense systems,” the source said.
He suggested that the main targets would be military-industrial complex enterprises and Moscow, as the country's main city and in many ways a symbolic target.
“Kadyrov may be gone in a year. The entire Caucasus is at risk of great bloodshed”
This was stated by a military source close to the commander of the special forces “Akhmat” Apti Alaudinov. This is how he commented on the video about Ramzan Kadyrov’s illness, recently published by the Chechen leader. “Ramzan Akhmatovich is really very seriously ill, he may be gone in a year. It is painful to say this, but an era is ending. Great trials lie ahead,” our interlocutor claims.
He fears that Ramzan Akhmatovich’s son Adam Kadyrov will lead Chechnya. “He is a completely inexperienced person, but with great ambitions, an immoderate love for himself. And completely talentless. Some even say that the devil has possessed him. If he leads Chechnya, there will be great bloodshed. And not only in the republic, but throughout the Caucasus,” the source is sure. In this regard, he, with the help of our channel, addressed Vladimir Putin and asked him to choose a “good, smart and strong successor” to Kadyrov. And “under no circumstances to allow Adam to come to power.”
We wrote earlier that Alaudinov sees himself as Kadyrov’s successor and even competitor. Our source refused to comment on this information.
Passengers waiting at a railway station in Moscow region are given a morning flypast from Ukraine’s visitor. Free entertainment!
https://bsky.app/profile/twmcltd.bsky.social/post/3lq7z6zq77k2y
22 s video
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lqavja4b422x
1 m video Eng sub
https://x.com/Q0MT6pFmbVqynsM/status/1925992826145239156
13 s video
13APR2022: 13 Russian mobile crematoriums in Mariupol burn bodies of Ukrainians
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, following widespread international publicity of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in Bucha, Russian troops have begun using mobile crematoria. In particular, 13 mobile crematoria have been reported in Mariupol to clear the streets of the bodies of dead civilians. The ‘Kafirs’ (Russkies - ed.) are trying to identify all potential witnesses to the atrocities using filtration camps in order to wipe them out.
Ukrainian military intelligence has repeatedly recorded the use of mobile crematoria in the Chernihiv region. The Russians’ mobile crematoria have been recorded operating in Novoaidar, in the Luhansk region. Intelligence notes that these crematoria are also used by the Russian military to conceal casualties.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/13/7339258/
Development of the mobile crematorium: 26AUG2013: Testing of a unique installation for thermal destruction (incineration) of biological waste - the mobile crematorium IN-50.1K, which has undergone major repairs and extensive modernization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6L0jiMloO8
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s April 20 proposal for a temporary moratorium on long-range strikes against civilian infrastructure, declined Zelensky’s offer to extend Putin’s own 30-hour Easter truce, and attempted to justify recent Russian strikes against civilian targets in Ukraine. Zelensky stated on April 20 that Ukraine and Russia achieved a long-range strikes ceasefire between April 19 and 20 and during the day on April 20 and proposed a temporary ceasefire on long-range missile and drone strikes against civilian infrastructure for a minimum of 30 days, with the opportunity to extend the ceasefire beyond 30 days.[1] Putin announced the end of the Easter truce on April 21 and rejected Zelensky’s proposed temporary moratorium on long-range strikes against civilian infrastructure while speaking to journalists, stating that Russia would need to “sort out” the proposed civilian infrastructure strikes moratorium.[2] Putin attempted to soften his rejection of Zelensky’s ceasefire proposal by claiming that Russia and other unspecified actors need to study strikes against civilian targets where military personnel are operating and “make appropriate decisions.” Putin did not suggest the possibility of creating independent monitoring mechanisms to determine the legitimacy of such strikes, and Russian officials have previously expressed disinterest in Western-led monitoring mechanisms as a condition of future ceasefires in Ukraine.[3] Putin also attempted to justify Russia’s recent missile strikes against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and to obfuscate his ongoing rejection of US and Ukrainian ceasefire proposals. Putin acknowledged that Russian forces recently struck civilian infrastructure in Sumy City — likely referring to the April 13 Russian missile strike against Sumy City — but suggested that the reported presence of Ukrainian military personnel in Sumy City constituted a legitimate military target.[4] Putin claimed that Russian forces also targeted Ukrainian military personnel during a recent Russian strike against Odesa City.
Putin reiterated his rejection of the full ceasefire that Zelensky and the US have offered. Zelensky reiterated on April 20 Ukraine’s readiness to agree to a full and unconditional ceasefire for a minimum of 30 days.[5] Putin rejected the full ceasefire proposal on April 21, claiming that Ukraine was attempting to “seize the initiative and talk about expan[ding]” the ceasefire, and alleging that Russia would need to “carefully evaluate everything.”[6] Ukraine and the United States initially proposed a full ceasefire on March 13, and Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly rejected the proposal over the past five weeks.[7] The US Department of State told Reuters on April 20 that the United States would welcome the extension of the Easter truce, however.[8] US President Donald Trump expressed hope on April 20 that Russia and Ukraine would make a deal this week, possibly referring to a general ceasefire agreement that would precede future peace negotiations.[9] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov appeared to respond to Trump’s statement by stating that the Kremlin is not ready to discuss a time frame to end the war.[10] Putin’s continued rejection of the US-Ukrainian March 2025 proposed general ceasefire and the Kremlin’s refusal to commit to any time frame to end the war highlight Putin’s disinterest in ending the war via peace negotiations in the near term.[11] Putin’s continued rejection of US and Ukrainian ceasefire proposals runs counter to Trump’s stated approach of first establishing a ceasefire and then negotiating a broader peace agreement and to Trump’s goal of achieving a lasting peace in Ukraine.
Russian state media amplified Kherson Oblast occupation head Vladimir Saldo’s calls for additional territorial concessions from Ukraine in areas to which Russia has not yet laid formal claim. Saldo stated on April 21 to Kremlin newswire TASS that the “return” of the west (right) bank of the Dnipro River is “fundamentally important” and an “absolute priority” for Russia.[12] Saldo claimed that Ukrainian forces will continue efforts to use the east (left) bank of the river as a “lever of pressure” against Russia and that the presence of Ukrainian forces on the west bank hinders the resumption of shipping along the river. Saldo concluded that “the segment of the [Dnipro River] that passes through Kherson, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts must be completely under [Russian] control” so as to guarantee the development of infrastructure “associated with the river.” Russian forces only currently occupy positions on the east bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, yet Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently demanded since June 2024 that Ukraine cede all of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts to Russia.[13] Saldo appears to be calling for additional Russian territorial claims along the river in central Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — an oblast that Russia has not formally claimed or illegally annexed. It is unclear how much territory along the banks of the river in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Saldo is claiming must be under Russian control or if Saldo is implying that Russian forces must occupy extensive territory east and northeast of the river such that Russia “completely control” the river and its immediate surrounding areas. Russian forces may want to control a minimum 25 kilometers of territory on both banks of the Dnipro River so as to prevent Ukrainian forces from conducting tube artillery strikes against the area.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-21-2025
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lqcp3hggjc2r
2 m video
Muscovian equipment cannot be hidden.
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lqb7bble5k2n
due to this
Only about two more weeks at this rate, to a million Russian casualties.
You must be thrilled and delighted, as much as you endlessly cheer on Russia’s endless aggression.
However, all things come to an end eventually, and so must Putin and Russia’s aggression. So enjoy the carnage while your side can keep up its attacks, because it can’t go on forever.
Zalensky’s personal ego and hubris accompanied by Biden and the EU’s goading will result in the loss of Ukraine to Russia. The Ukrainian people deserved better. Textbooks will ignore what really caused it but a withdrawal to the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson regions would have likely been negotiable. Soon Ukraine will be gone forever.
https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3lq4g63zzpc2q
Since the beginning of 2022, numerous Russia-related people, particularly businessmen and officials, have died under what some sources suggest were suspicious circumstances. Incidents include individuals who have suspiciously fallen out of windows, killed themselves, and died unexpectedly in accidents.
List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022
And an advisor to Putin recently argued that the Soviet Union in fact still exists...
https://x.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1928060510466986481
pootin's hero.
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