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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Maybe he thought it was an allied drone?
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1930350130202370064
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1930357949274186116
It is likely no longer a secret.
Ukrainian Intelligence has penetrated Tupolev, the manufacturer and maintainer of Russia's whole fleet, and gotten everything they have.
Kyiv Independent:
"Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) has gained access to sensitive data of Russia's strategic aircraft manufacturer Tupolev, a source in HUR told the Kyiv Independent on June 4...
...According to the source, HUR's cyber corps accessed over 4.4 gigabytes (GB) of internal data, including official correspondence, personnel files, home addresses, resumes, purchase records, and closed meeting minutes.
"The significance of the data obtained cannot be overestimated," the source said. "Now, in fact, there is nothing secret left in Tupolev's activities for Ukrainian intelligence."
The intelligence includes detailed information about engineers and staff responsible for maintaining Russia's strategic bombers, such as the Tu-95 and Tu-160, which form a key part of Russia's nuclear triad.
"In particular, we have obtained comprehensive information about individuals directly involved in servicing Russian strategic aviation," the source added. "The result will obviously be noticeable both on the ground and in the sky."
Ukrainian cyber operatives also replaced the Tupolev website's homepage with an image of an owl clutching a Russian aircraft, likely referencing HUR's insignia and cyber warfare skills.
The source shared excerpts of internal data obtained during the breach, including what appeared to be internal documents and personnel files of staff, as proof. The combination of physical strikes on Russia's strategic aviation and now the exposure of its internal architecture marks a significant blow to Moscow's long-range aerial warfare."
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1930321643957825927
“I believe UKF have drone videos to validate all 41”
I would expect that as well - so they would know how many of each type of aircraft were struck (Destroyed would require the “after” photos as well).
Ukraine attacking the Su-30 base at Millerovo airbase right now
Are they checking for nail clippers, 4oz of shampoo…. Just like us after 9/11 chasing the past, let them disrupt their economy. Imagine Ukraine already has something new in mind
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Senate to delay voting on a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill (Bone-Crushing Sanctions), Republican Senator Roger Wicker said on June 4.
“I know that he (Trump) asked the leader (Senate Majority Leader John Thune) not to bring the bill to a vote this week,” Wicker said during a meeting of the Defense Writers Group in Washington.
All teed up, just waiting to time the shot.
"Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed the launch of natural gas imports via the Trans-Balkan pipeline, bypassing Russian supply and allowing Ukraine to draw gas from European sources, including liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported through Greece and Azerbaijani gas from the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
The Trans-Balkan pipeline, which historically carried Russian gas southward, has now been reversed to bring non-Russian gas northward into Ukraine...
...Ukraine ceased transiting Russian gas to Europe at the end of 2024, choosing not to renew a longstanding agreement with Gazprom. Kyiv has emphasized that no Russian-origin gas will be involved in this newly activated corridor...
...The corridor’s activation is both a geopolitical and infrastructure achievement, reinforcing Ukraine’s energy sovereignty amid war and instability...
...The launch of the Trans-Balkan route is the result of coordinated action among five national gas transmission operators—from Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. The route enables natural gas to flow northward from Greece’s Revithoussa LNG terminal through southeastern Europe into Ukraine, completely bypassing Russian supply channels. With an annual capacity of up to 1 billion cubic meters, the corridor is supported by preferential tariffs—25% lower than standard rates, and 46% lower for deliveries into Ukraine.
According to the Kyiv Post, the joint initiative not only enhances Ukraine’s access to diversified energy sources but also strengthens regional energy security and resilience heading into the 2025–26 winter heating season."
Russia has embarked on a massive hunt for former DJ Artem Timofeyev and his wife Ekaterina, an everyday erotic writer. This follows Sunday's massive attack on Russian air bases.
37-year-old Artem Timofeyev runs a haulage company in Russia and lives in the city of Chelyabinsk in the Russian Urals. Ekaterina has written the erotic short story “I fell into disrepair while you loved me” and has been active on social media until two weeks ago. The haulage company operated by Artem Timofeyev owns the trucks used to smuggle drones and explosives into the country. The attack took place on the couple's wedding day, reports the Russian exile site Baza on Telegram.
Drivers arrested
According to the exiled Russian news site Baza, they are both from Ukraine and Artem Timofeyev has had Russian citizenship since 2018. Russian authorities have called the attack a terrorist attack. After the attack, Russia responded with missile attacks on Ukraine.
source:
The alleged organizer of the terrorist attack celebrated his wedding anniversary on the day of the mass attack on Russian military airfields.
According to Baza, Artem Timofeev, who is wanted by the special services, celebrated his 9th wedding anniversary with his wife Ekaterina on June 1, 2025. Preliminary, the couple was no longer in Russia on that day - according to available information, Artem and Ekaterina left for Kazakhstan a few days before the terrorist attack.
At the same time, Artem’s wife, like himself, was born in Ukraine. They also got married there in 2016. Ekaterina’s mother and her younger brother still live in Kyiv.
According to preliminary data, investigators have already questioned Artem’s relatives who live in the Chelyabinsk region. In addition, several more of Timofeev’s cars have been declared wanted.
The Kremlin is fixating on recent train derailments in Russia in order to further long-standing Kremlin narratives claiming that Ukraine is an illegitimate negotiating partner that is uninterested in peace, likely to distract the broader information space from recent Kremlin officials’ statements about Russia's own disinterest in a negotiated settlement.
Kremlin officials have long alleged that the current Ukrainian government is “illegitimate,” and Putin previously questioned on March 27 how Russia can negotiate with Ukraine as “neo-Nazi formations” are allegedly ruling the country.[3] Putin has also repeatedly used questions about Ukrainian force generation and Western weapons deliveries to reject Ukraine's previous ceasefire proposals.[4] Putin's June 4 claims that the Ukrainian government is a “terrorist organization” with which Russia cannot negotiate, and which will exploit any longer-term ceasefire, is the latest iteration of this Kremlin effort to justify delaying the negotiation process and prolonging the war by attacking Ukraine's sovereignty as a legitimate negotiating partner. The Kremlin is likely linking its messaging surrounding the train derailments and Ukraine's alleged perpetuation of “terrorism” in order to distract from Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev’s claim on June 3 that Russia needs the negotiations in Istanbul to result in Russia's “swift victory and the complete destruction” of the Ukrainian government and not a “compromise[d] peace on someone else’s delusional terms.”[5]
Putin also used his June 4 phone call with Trump to further falsely portray Ukraine as an illegitimate negotiating partner that is uninterested in peace. Ushakov stated that Putin talked with Trump about the May 31 train derailments in Russia, the June 1 Ukrainian strikes against Russian military air bases, and the June 2 Ukrainian-Russian negotiations in Istanbul.[6] Putin alleged to Trump that Ukraine was responsible for the train derailments. Ushakov claimed that Russia “did not succumb” and attended the Istanbul negotiations despite Ukraine's “provocations.” Putin's statements to Trump are also likely aimed at distracting from Russia's own disinterest in negotiations and continued preparations for a prolonged war effort so as to avoid possible future US sanctions by painting Ukraine as a bad actor.[7]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to express Ukraine's willingness to negotiate with Russia to establish a just and lasting peace. Zelensky stated on June 4 that the Ukrainian delegation to Istanbul has not received a response to the ceasefire proposal it presented during the June 2 Ukrainian-Russian talks.[8] Zelensky also proposed that Ukraine and Russia implement a comprehensive ceasefire until Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Zelensky in order to demonstrate a mutual commitment to de-escalation.[9] Zelensky stated that Ukraine is ready to negotiate with Russia any day and that Russia can choose the location of negotiations. Zelensky said that he is willing to meet with Putin even without a ceasefire in order to prove Ukraine's willingness to negotiate.
Ukrainian and Western officials and open-source analysts continue to clarify the battlefield damage resulting from Ukraine's “Operation Spider's Web” long-range drone strike series against Russian air bases on June 1. Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) published new footage on June 4 from Operation Spider's Web showing Ukrainian drones approaching the wings, sides, tops, and underbellies of Russian fixed-wing aircraft at various airfields.[10] The SBU reported that the footage shows first-person view (FPV) drones striking A-50 airborne early warning and control (AWACS) aircraft, Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers, Tu-22 supersonic bombers, An-12 transport aircraft, and Il-78 aerial refueling tankers at Belaya Air Base in Irkutsk Oblast; Olenya Air Base in Murmansk Oblast; Dyagilevo Air Base in Ryazan Oblast; and Ivanovo Air Base in Ivanovo Oblast. Some of the clips in the video show aircraft on fire. The SBU stated that Ukrainian drones struck 41 Russian aircraft. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the SBU stated that Russia will be unable to restore half of the Russian aircraft that Ukraine struck or that it will take Russia years to restore them.[11] A senior NATO official reported to Ukrainian news outlet Suspilne that Operation Spider's Web damaged 40 Russian aircraft and confirmed that the operation destroyed 10 to 13 aircraft.[12] The official also stated that Russia may respond to the loss of its strategic bombers, which Russia uses to launch cruise missiles against Ukraine, by adjusting strike packages to include more drones and ballistic missiles and fewer cruise missiles. Russian opposition outlet Meduza reported that a NATO official stated that Russian forces previously used the destroyed aircraft to launch over 3,000 cruise missiles that have struck critical infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine since February 2022.[13]
Maxar satellite imagery collected on June 4 indicates that Ukrainian drone strikes destroyed at least two Tu-22 bombers and three Tu-95 bombers at Belaya Airbase (see embedded imagery below). Ukrainian open-source intelligence (OSINT) group AviVector posted satellite imagery on June 4 that indicates that Ukrainian drones destroyed four Tu-95MS bombers and one An-12 transport aircraft at Olenya Airbase.[14] AviVector assessed that Ukrainian forces destroyed seven Tu-95MS bombers, four Tu-22M3 bombers, and one An-12 transport aircraft and likely damaged a Tu-95MS bomber at Olenya and Belaya airbases.
Ukrainian special services reportedly used artificial intelligence (AI) to direct drones during Operation Spider's Web. The SBU stated on June 4 that it used “autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and manual operator intervention” to conduct the June 1 strikes against Russian air bases.[15] The SBU stated that some drones lost signal during flight and switched to performing their missions using AI along a preplanned route. ISW recently assessed that Russia and Ukraine have demonstrated some integration of limited AI capabilities into drone operations but have not deployed them at scale on the battlefield.[16] Promises of an immediate AI and machine learning (ML) drone revolution are premature as of June 2025, even in the wake of Operation Spider's Web, given that both Russian and Ukrainian forces will need to allocate more time, testing, and investment to deploy these drones on the frontlines en masse.
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https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-4-2025
Many Russian pensions in Russia are paid from the National Wealth Fund, which has been massively depleted over the course of the last three years of war.
At current rates of expenditure, Russia will run out of the remaining liquid buffer in that fund, this year. Hard financial adjustments will have to be made.
They will likely try to distribute the pain across several areas (e.g. some more taxes here, some more spending cuts there) but the likely biggest replacement to National Wealth Fund contributions to funding Russia’s deficit spending on the war (and indeed, pensions), will likely be increased lending to the Government from the Russian Central Bank (i.e., expanding the money supply more rapidly, AKA “printing money”), which will further accelerate inflation in Russia.
“Russia’s External Debt Has Increased to $312.4 Billion
Russia’s external debt reached $312.4 billion by April 1, 2025, up 7.6% from the beginning of the year.”
That’s about a $22 Billion increase in the first quarter. Four quarters like that would increase Russia’s External debt by $88 Billion, but many expenses in Russian accounting, are not booked until the end of the 4th quarter. So a $100 Billion increase for 2025 would still be a conservative estimate. The rate of external debt accumulation has accelerated sharply. I would be interested to learn who they owe it to, and for what.
Those Q1 results are from before the oil price crash, so there is significant further upside risk to Russia’s External Debt for 2025 - far above the $61 Billion increase in their budget planning. Add to that risk the likelihood of the National Wealth Fund exhausting its capability to continue contributing to defraying budget deficits this year, to the degree it has been during the three prior war years (about $35 Billion/year).
Bigger budget shortfall equalization measures will be required as this year progresses, than has been the case in the three years prior. As challenging as those were, more of the reserve buffers and easier alternatives (like raising the Government’s taxes on oil and gas companies) have been or are approaching exhaustion, while the war requirements continue growing.
A financial train wreck seems to growing more likely in Russia this year.
All of Europe will be Orthodox.” Putin was offered to issue an ultimatum to the Pope
Philosopher Alexandr Dugin is unhappy with the fact that Vladimir Putin had a “friendly” conversation with the new Pope Leo XIV. And he suggests that the authorities “be tougher with the Vatican.”
Alexandr Gelyevich said this in a commentary to our channel. “The Pope supported the Kiev regime several times, even Zelensky thanked him for his support . Moreover, he is the face of the Catholic religion, which is alien to us. We need to be tougher with him,” the philosopher is sure. In his opinion, the only possible language for Vladimir Vladimirovich to talk to the Pope is ultimatums.
“I think Putin can tell the Pope that, if we want, all of Europe will be Orthodox soon enough. The basis for this is the power of our weapons and the readiness of millions of Russians to shed blood for the sake of Victory. Therefore, Leo simply needs to choose – to condemn the Kiev regime or watch the Orthodox army carry the True Religion to the West, all the way to Rome. I will definitely pass on this advice to our president,” Dugin summed up.
The Kremlin refused to comment on this proposal. However, some of our sources noted that in Alexandr Gelyevich’s words “there is a rational grain that not everyone can see behind the radical formulations.”
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1930530126355128406
Located by a UKF ISR drone.
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