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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

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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To: PIF

What exactly just hit 4 russian airfields and destroyed over 40 strategic bombers? THIS 👇👇👇 13/15 inch FPV Kamikaze drones. At $430 a piece you can take out a strategic bomber worth $100 MILLION DOLLARS.

https://x.com/frontlinekit/status/1929155428505485371
22 s video

not this but a similar


16,461 posted on 06/01/2025 11:36:17 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

Two interesting points raised in this article (extracted below) on OilPrice.com.

1. A significant aspect of the proposed Bone-Crushing Sanctions Bill (The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, SB 1241), is that they would institutionalize sanctions/secondary sanctions in an enduring way than Executive Order - more reliably supporting significant business investment in transitioning off of Russian energy longer term.

2. Relying on the price cap to marginally reduce Russian revenue, disproportionally benefits China (India and Turkey) with a cheap energy competitive advantage in global commerce. Secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian energy is both more effective in reducing Russian revenue, and removes any advantage for China.
OilPrice.com reports:

Why hasn’t Trump Hit Russia With More Sanctions?

- President Trump has cited concerns about affecting potential peace negotiations.

- The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, proposes primary sanctions on Russian banks and secondary sanctions on entities supporting the war in Ukraine.

- Concerns exist about the impact of financial sanctions on the dollar’s role in global trade and the effectiveness of existing measures like the oil price cap.

“Trump has threatened to use “devastating” measures against Russia if he feels the time is right. But he has repeatedly said that time has not yet come, voicing concern that imposing new sanctions could undermine his push for peace by hardening President Vladimir Putin’s stance.

“Only the fact that if I think I’m close to getting a deal,” he told reporters at the White House on May 28 when asked what was stopping him from hitting Moscow with new sanctions. “I don’t want to screw it up by doing that. You have to know when to use that.”

When and if that time comes, what could new US measures look like?...

...Another round of sweeping sanctions would come at an inopportune time for Moscow, with Russia’s economy slowing sharply amid falling oil prices and prohibitively high interest rates. It could be headed for a “hard landing,” a term used to describe a bad recession, London-based consultancy Capital Economics warned earlier this month...

...For the moment, at least, the chief focus of decisions about potential new US punishments is a bipartisan bill spearheaded by Senators Lindsey Graham (Republican-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (Democrat-Connecticut).

The Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025 (Bone-Crushing Sanctions) would hit Russian banks and other entities supporting Moscow’s war on Ukraine with primary sanctions, while using secondary sanctions to slap penalties on countries, companies, and individuals worldwide that do business with the targeted entities.

In addition, it would impose tariffs of at least 500 percent on imports from any country that “knowingly sells, supplies, transfers, or purchases oil, uranium, natural gas, petroleum products, or petrochemical products that originated in the Russian Federation,” according to the text.

China, India, and Turkey are among the biggest buyers of Russian energy exports.

The senators have said the bill aims to “hold China accountable for propping up Putin’s war machine by buying cheap Russian oil from the shadow fleet” — hundreds of often aging vessels of opaque ownership that Moscow uses to evade Western sanctions on its most lucrative product. Oil exports account for about a third of Russia’s federal budget revenue.

Primary and secondary sanctions on Russian banks would be a major step to hamper the country’s economy, Rachel Ziemba, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security, a Washington-based think tank said...

...Chinese financial institutions are among the foreign firms still working with Russian banks...

...It (the Bone Crushing Sanctions Bill) may also be aimed at enshrining sanctions into law. Some of the sanctions it would impose had already been put into force by Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden.

“The incremental effect [of the bill] might not be that great in the near term, and would perhaps be more impactful as a means of making it more difficult for the Trump administration or any administration to lift sanctions in the future,” Ziemba said...

...To punish Russia for scuttling peace talks, the G7 has proposed lowering the oil price cap from $60 a barrel to $50. The Financial Times reported this week that the Trump administration blocked the proposal. That decision may reflect Trump’s preference to hold off on new Russia sanctions for the time being, but it is also possible that the US president doesn’t like the price cap because it benefits US competitors like China and India, Ziemba said. (they get cheaper oil from Russia, than the rest of the world is paying)

She also said there is little point in the G7 lowering the price cap if its members do not widen sanctions against the shadow fleet.

Ramping up sanctions on Russia’s oil industry, including the shadow fleet, could deliver “a very tangible blow to Putin” if he drags his feet on peace negotiations, Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute, told RFE/RL in an interview earlier this month. “This may move him toward at least contemplating peace seriously.”

Newt Gingrich, a Republican who was speaker of the House of Representatives in 1995-99, said the Trump administration should not just focus on economic sanctions. He called for the United States to “dramatically” increase the quality and quantity of military aid to Ukraine.

“Putin will only stop if he has no choice. Any other strategy is wishful thinking which will extend the war and cost more innocent lives,” Gingrich said in a post on X.

What steps Trump takes to press Putin, if any, may become clearer in June.

“We’re going to find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not, and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently,” Trump told reporters at the White House on May 28. “But it will take about a week and a half, two weeks.”


16,462 posted on 06/01/2025 11:38:21 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

KSA has announced increased oil production, perhaps not only due to upcoming activities regarding Iran.


16,463 posted on 06/01/2025 11:45:09 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: AdmSmith

OSINTdefender@sentdefender

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reports that the estimated cost of the damage to the Russian Air Force’s fleet of long-range bombers and other strategic aviation, caused by today’s large-scale drone attack, dubbed Operation Spiderweb, is believed to surpass $7 Billion USD.

No link provided


16,464 posted on 06/01/2025 11:53:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: AdmSmith

“KSA has announced increased oil production”

I think that it is part of a Grand GeoStrategic deal that President Trump has arranged, to de-fang Russia and Iran, and weaken China.

That is likely why his first foreign trip was to KSA, UAE and Qatar; and why they met it with such fanfare. They will be big beneficiaries.


16,465 posted on 06/01/2025 11:56:27 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Today is the day of the Military Transport Aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Transport_Aviation LOL!


16,466 posted on 06/01/2025 12:01:56 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: PIF
the damage to the Russian Air Force's fleet of long-range bombers and other strategic aviation... is believed to surpass $7 Billion USD.

Tis But A Scratch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmInkxbvlCs

16,467 posted on 06/01/2025 12:04:54 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: FtrPilot
Absolute anti-record: the 🇷🇺Russian Federation attacked 🇺🇦Ukraine at night with 472(!) drones.

In total, the following were shot down:
▪️382/472 Shahed-type strike UAVs and simulator drones;
▪️0/3 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles
▪️3/4 Kh-101, Iskander-K air- and ground-based cruise missiles.


https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lqkiqhuodc2d

16,468 posted on 06/01/2025 12:11:05 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: BeauBo
1. A significant aspect of the proposed Bone-Crushing Sanctions Bill

Used properly, this bill could allow Trump to play the "good cop", rather than directly threatening Putin, which he seems unwilling to do. The bill can only advance with back channel support from Trump (and obviously his signature), Trump can certainly offer to kill it in return for Russia making a deal with Ukraine.

16,469 posted on 06/01/2025 12:13:15 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: BeauBo
A little red to today's black smoke from burning Russian bombers...
At least 6234 Russian officers have been eliminated in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since 24 February 2022. Weekly update: +80 newly registered.
Sources: public Russian obituaries and graves.

https://x.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1929203249480892499

16,470 posted on 06/01/2025 12:17:30 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: BeauBo; blitz128
Nice job, boys

🚨

U.S. SAYS IT WAS UNAWARE OF UKRAINIAN DRONE STRIKE THAT DESTROYED 40 RUSSIAN BOMBERS

Ukraine confirmed it destroyed 40 Russian military bombers in a large-scale drone attack deep inside Russia, just before new peace talks are set to begin in Istanbul.

Security officials…

https://t.co/fSSiQva4tQ pic.twitter.com/GeomZj5FPE— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 1, 2025


16,471 posted on 06/01/2025 5:15:56 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: AdmSmith

...and that’s not including the officers who will be eliminated after the political commisars pin responsibility for the aircraft losses on them.


16,472 posted on 06/01/2025 5:23:31 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: AdmSmith

The dollar amount is irrelevant, much of this cannot be replaced, but even more costly is the fact that Ukraine was able to do this at all

Lots of heads will roll, but the damage is done to the Russian mir


16,473 posted on 06/01/2025 5:30:11 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: FtrPilot

I wouldn’t let anyone know either, rats everywhere


16,474 posted on 06/01/2025 5:35:52 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: AdmSmith

“Terrorist attack” Russian mir is amazing


16,475 posted on 06/01/2025 5:38:42 PM PDT by blitz128
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To: FtrPilot; ETCM

“🔥 A powerful explosion and secondary detonation in Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast.”

Jason Jay Smart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dnhFUBgH0), reports that a nuclear submarine was hit there, as well as extensive damage to the port facilities (Northern Fleet Nuke Sub Base), during Operation Spiderweb.


16,476 posted on 06/01/2025 6:44:14 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Man, a lot of pro-Russia freepers are losing their minds today, as if Ukraine attacked American airfields. How dare Ukraine destroy the bombers that are launching cruise missiles at their cities.


16,477 posted on 06/01/2025 9:53:45 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: gleeaikin
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 1, 2025

Russia will likely struggle to replace the aircraft that Ukrainian forces damaged and destroyed. Forbes reported in September 2023 that a single A-50 aircraft costs roughly $500 million, and the Kyiv Independent reported on June 1 that Russia has less than 10 A-50s in operation.[12] Ukrainian military observer Yuriy Butusov stated on June 1 that Ukrainian forces destroyed some strategic aircraft that Russia does not currently produce.[13] A Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger claimed that Russia no longer produces chassis for the Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers and noted that the chassis are impossible to replace.[14] The Economist reported on June 1 that Russia likely has fewer than 90 operational Tu-22, Tu-95, and Tu-160s in total.[15] Ukrainian sources have recently noted that Russia is increasingly using Sukhoi aircraft — and not strategic bombers — to launch cruise missiles.[16] Russia likely turned to Sukhoi aircraft so as to not risk their strategic bombers, suggesting that Russia is concerned about its limited quantities of strategic bombers.

Russian officials and milbloggers continue to blame Russian leadership for failing to defend Russian military infrastructure from Ukrainian drone strikes — a widespread complaint throughout the war after successful Ukrainian strikes. Russian State Duma Deputy and former Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District (SMD) retired Lieutenant General Andrei Gurulev (who has previously criticized the Russian MoD and whom the Duma subsequently voted to remove from his position on the Duma Defense Committee) blamed Russian special services for not sufficiently protecting the air bases and allowing the trucks to move close to the targets.[17] Russian milbloggers claimed that Russian senior military leadership continues to disregard the need to protect military facilities and has been relying on the fact that many critical military infrastructure facilities are located far from Ukraine.[18] Milbloggers claimed that this attitude has repeatedly led to “massive” failures and Ukraine's ability to violate Russia's borders and airspace.[19] Milbloggers specifically criticized the Russian military command‘s decision to store strategic aircraft in open-air facilities with insufficient defenses.[20] Milbloggers have repeatedly complained about the Russian military's failure to adapt to repeated successful Ukrainian strikes against Russia and to learn from wartime mistakes.[21]

Russian state media and milbloggers attempted to frame Ukraine's strikes against legitimate Russian military targets as undermining Russia's nuclear stability and as grounds for a Russian nuclear response — mirroring the Kremlin's repeated nuclear saber-rattling throughout the war that has aimed to prevent Western support for Ukraine. Moscow-based state media outlet Moskovsky Komsomolets amplified claims from Russian political scientist Sergei Markov that the Ukrainian strikes against the air bases in Russia are grounds for the use of nuclear weapons under Russia's nuclear doctrine because the strikes targeted Russia's strategic nuclear potential.[22] Many Russian milbloggers, including Kremlin-affiliated milbloggers, made similar claims about Russia's doctrinal nuclear use and explicitly called for Russia to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine in response to the strikes.[23] Russia has attempted to use nuclear rhetoric throughout the war in order to influence the West to limit aid to Ukraine or limit Ukraine's ability to develop its own strike capabilities.[24] Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's updated nuclear doctrine in November 2024 after the United States greenlit Ukraine's long-range strikes into Russia, and ISW assessed that these doctrinal updates were part of Russia's efforts to push Western decision makers to shy away from providing additional support to Ukraine.[25] ISW continues to assess that Russia's changes to its nuclear doctrine did not represent a substantial change in Russia's nuclear posture, doctrine, or the threat of the employment of nuclear weapons and that Russian nuclear use in Ukraine remains unlikely.[26] Ukraine has notably previously destroyed Russian strategic bombers and conducted long-range strikes against Russian air bases that house strategic bombers and strategic bomber production enterprises.[27]

Russian officials blamed Ukraine for the collapse of two bridges and subsequent train derailments in western Russia on May 31, likely as part of efforts to justify the recent launch of Russian offensive operations in Sumy Oblast and the Kremlin's disinterest in peace negotiations to end the war. Two railway bridges in Bryansk and Kursk oblasts collapsed on the night of May 31, causing two trains to derail.[28] Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation Head Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko responded to the derailments, stating that Russia may be conducting false flag operations to disrupt the peace process and prolong the war.[29] Russian officials and milbloggers largely blamed Ukraine for the collapsed bridges but did not provide any evidence to support these claims.[30] Russian State Duma Deputy Andrei Kolesnik claimed that Russia should respond harshly and not limit its response to the train derailments.[31] Chairperson of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Andrei Klishas claimed that the derailments indicate that a “terrorist group” controls Ukraine, which Klishas claimed has turned into a “terrorist enclave” without borders or legitimate authorities.[32] Klishas called for Russia to create a “vast” buffer zone in Ukraine to protect Russia from Ukrainian attacks and for Russia to “denazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine and “reestablish” the Ukrainian state (a reference to Russia's original war aims to replace the current legitimate Ukrainian government with a pro-Russian proxy government and to prevent Ukraine from being able to defend itself in the future). A Russian milblogger responded to Klishas, claiming that Russia should establish a “buffer zone” that extends to western Ukraine and that Ukraine should exist as a rump state with its capital in Lviv City.[33] The milblogger’s claim mirrored Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev’s recent call for Russia to control a buffer zone encompassing nearly all of Ukraine, apart from a relatively small part of Volyn and Lviv oblasts.[34]

Ukrainian authorities recently reported that Russia has deployed 125,000 personnel to the borders of Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts — two oblasts in which Russian forces are conducting offensive operations that Russian officials have framed as part of efforts to create buffer zones in Ukraine.[35] ISW continues to assess that Russian offensive efforts in Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts demonstrate that the Kremlin's territorial ambitions are not limited to the seizure of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts and that Russia is attempting to delay negotiations and prolong the war in order to make additional battlefield gains.[36] Russian officials appear to be claiming that Ukraine is responsible for the train derailments at least partly in order to justify Russia's recent launch of offensive operations in Sumy Oblast as necessary and defensive in nature. Russian officials may be trying to frame Ukraine as the party that is not interested in peace negotiations and to justify Russia's prolongation of the war in order to achieve its original war goals.

Russian forces conducted their largest combined drone and missile strike of the war that included over 400 drones against Ukraine on the night of May 31 to June 1. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched three Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Kursk and Voronezh oblasts and four Kh-101 and Iskander-K air and ground-based cruise missiles from unspecified directions.[37] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched 472 Shahed and decoy drones from the directions of Kursk, Oryol, and Bryansk cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kransnodar Krai. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed three Kh-101/Iskander-K missiles and 213 drones over northern, eastern, southern, western, and central Ukraine and that 172 drones were “lost” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW). Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Odesa oblasts and damaged civilian and military infrastructure.[38]

Ukrainian forces were notably unable to down any of the three ballistic missiles that Russia launched overnight.[39] Ukrainian forces have struggled to intercept ballistic missiles due to the limited supply of US-made Patriot air defense systems and interceptors.[40] ISW continues to assess that Russia's ballistic missile strikes are forcing Ukraine to make difficult decisions about which areas of Ukraine to protect with its limited Patriot systems.[41] Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson Colonel Yurii Ihnat stated on May 24 that Ukrainian forces are struggling to use Patriot air defense systems to down modified Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles due to recent Russian improvements, including enhancements that enable the missile to change trajectory and perform maneuvers rather than flying in a straight line.[42] The Economist reported on May 25 that Ukrainian government sources estimate that the Kremlin has a stockpile of 500 ballistic missiles.[43]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-1-2025

16,478 posted on 06/01/2025 10:19:13 PM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: FtrPilot
UK, further increasing spending on defense, appears to be looking to add to their nuclear capabilities with a nuclear capable aircraft. Rumor is they want to buy the F-35A, which is certified to carry the B-61-12 gravity bomb.

If they buy the F-35A they will likely seek to either acquire some B-61 weapons from the USA or, as they have done in the past, build a UK weapon that uses a US design, probably with US help. The US probably already has nuclear weapons for our oun F-35A fighters stationed at RAF Lakenheath. But the UK, having their own (limited) nuclear deterrent, is not a party to NATO's Nuclear Sharing Agreement (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey), so allowing them to use US owned weapons would require a new agreement. Of course, Russia's placement of nuclear weapons in Belarus opened that door a bit. UK eliminated its air and land based nuclear weapons in the 1990s, and their current sea based deterrence is wholly insufficient.

Britain is exploring the potential return of air-delivered nuclear weapons, in what officials are describing as a response to a “new era of threat” posed by Russia.

16,479 posted on 06/01/2025 11:04:05 PM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ETCM

Just replace their “America first” rhetoric for Russia first and it makes sense.


16,480 posted on 06/02/2025 3:22:21 AM PDT by blitz128
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