Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

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[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.

[PIF]

You do not understand ... Chinese culture demands the dead have a urn. Urns have to be bought - usually online from Alibaba. This has nothing to do with funeral homes - I saw her video some time ago. She pushes merchandise across several channels [ typical Chinese fraud ] and needs to sensationalize her videos to sell stuff.

[JonPreston]

Ukraine - The Battle Over Zelenski's Fate Is Still in Balance

An intense information operation has been launched to remove Ukraine's (former) President Vladimir Zelenski from office. Behind it are a cabal of Ukrainian opposition figures in coordination which western media and parts of the Trump administration.

The current campaign follows a earlier one which was directed against Zelenski's main advisor and head of the office of the president Andrei Yermak.

Vladimir Zelenski, Andrei Yermak

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Politico.eu introduced Yermak:

The game plan of Zelenskyy's powerful chief of staff - Politico.eu, Jun 3 2025

The once little-known lawyer and B-movie producer — now in the thick of triangular peace diplomacy with the Americans and Russians — is always reverently loyal to his boss. In an interview with POLITICO last year, he referred to him glowingly as the “president of the people.” What else could he say? Yermak has ridden Zelenskyy’s coattails to become the second-most-powerful figure in Ukraine — even a co-equal.

Then the U.S. version Politico.com set out to destroy him:

The Ukrainian official Washington loves to hate - Politico.com, Jun 19 2025

Speaking to allies in private, Yermak has accused Trump administration officials of being Russian assets, according to the first person familiar with the visit, including Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, who has met with Putin four times as Trump seeks to cajole Moscow to the negotiating table.

People familiar with the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and Kyiv’s backers in Washington fear that the friction wrought by Yermak could quickly spread to undermine his country’s standing with its most vital partner.

But Yermak survived the public relations onslaught and even managed to increase his control in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s political infighting gets nasty (archived) - Economist, Jul 6 2025
As Trump starves it of arms, there is turmoil inside the government

Three developments in June set the tone. On June 23rd, a deputy prime minister, Oleksiy Chernyshov—once tipped as a future prime minister—became the most senior Ukrainian politician ever charged with corruption. On government business in Europe, he initially delayed returning, creating the absurd image of a minister for repatriating Ukrainians planning his own self-exile.

At around the same time, the cabinet was warned of an imminent reshuffle, and the probable appointment of a new prime minister, the 39-year-old Yulia Svyrydenko. And a renewed attempt was made to remove Ukraine’s fiercely independent spy chief, Kyrylo Budanov—though it ended in failure, at least for now.

Multiple sources identify the shadowy hand of Andriy Yermak, who runs the presidential office but in reality is an unelected chief minister in all but name, as instrumental in all three plays.

Yermak survived and fought back successfully. But now the fight has turned directly against his boss or sidekick Vladimir Zelenski to whom he is bound by money and fate.

Within hours of each other the British outlets Financial Times and Spectator fired a full broadside against him.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused of authoritarian slide after anti-corruption raids (archived) - Financial Times, Jul 18 2025
Politicians, activists and diplomats accuse Ukraine’s leader of favouring loyalists and using wartime powers against critics

[blitz128]

So funny, if something isn’t pro pitin propaganda it’s biased, poor poor chap, been a bad couple of weeks

16 trillion in M1 expansion
Loans from China (with strings)
10 billion from your former hero

[gleeaikin]

From the video it was said most Chinese chose cremation rather than burial, thus the urns you mention, but apparently the funeral homes handle the cremation, thus probably supply the urns and have services/ceremonies for the families. Thus a doubling or more in one county of the number of funeral homes was used as an example of the much higher need for services for the dead.

[AdmSmith]

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 19, 2025

Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on July 18 to 19. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 12 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh, Kursk, and Rostov oblasts and occupied Crimea; eight Iskander-K cruise missiles from Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; and 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace over Saratov Oblast.[1] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched around 200 Shahed-type drones and 144 decoy drones from Bryansk, Kursk, and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasondar Krai. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 208 total projectiles, including 185 Shahed-type drones, seven Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, seven Iskander-K cruise missiles, and nine Kh-101 cruise missiles; and that seven cruise missiles and 129 decoy drones were “lost” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that five missiles and 30 drones struck 12 unspecified locations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the Russian strikes damaged critical infrastructure in Sumy Oblast and left thousands without power, and that Russian drones and missiles struck Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and damaged vital infrastructure.[2] Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration Head Serhiy Lysak reported that Russia's overnight strike was the largest combined strike package against Pavlohrad since Russia's initial push into Ukraine in February 2022.[3] Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck industrial, educational, and civilian infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Sumy oblasts.[4]

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko expanded the Belarusian government's ability to provide additional vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Belarusian forces during mobilization and wartime.[51] Lukashenko signed a decree on July 18 that authorizes the government to seize any “means of transport,” including state vehicles and privately leased vehicles, for military use during wartime. The decree defines “means of transport” as cars, trains, ships, small vessels, UAVs, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheeled tractors, and heavy road building equipment.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-19-2025

[AdmSmith]

Day 1,242 of the Muscovian invasion. 1,040 [average is 838/day], i.e. more than 43 Russians and Norks/h. Vehicles and fuel tanks more than 165% and artillery more than 110% above average. Motorcycles are not counted yet.

[AdmSmith]

IT oligarch Sergei Matsotsky, who was arrested by the Basmanny Court at the end of the week, may develop into one of the most high-profile corruption investigations. Matsotsky paid bribes to the head of the Federal State Institution “Tax-Service” Roman Filimoshin for the fact that the Federal State Institution supplied Matsotsky’s company “Rubitech” with contracts for large sums. Filimoshin and Matsotsky are close friends of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who introduced them. Mishustin himself, as soon as he became Prime Minister, also organized profitable contracts for “Rubitech”. The fact that Matsotsky personally resolved issues regarding contracts with Mishustin is also indicated by hacked correspondence that ended up on the Internet.

https://t.me/rucriminalinfo/3330

[AdmSmith]

Azerbaijan has begun preparing documents to file a lawsuit against Russia over the passenger plane that was shot down in December 2024, states Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during a meeting with participants of the 3rd Shusha Global Media Forum.

Azerbaijan has not received any official response from Russia regarding the crash of the AZAL Embraer 190 passenger plane that occurred in December 2024 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, despite more than seven months having passed since the tragedy.

As Ilham Aliyev noted, Azerbaijan possesses evidence concerning the circumstances of the incident and is confident that the Russian side is also aware of what actually happened. The President of Azerbaijan firmly rejected the version suggesting that a Ukrainian drone was responsible - an explanation that had been unofficially circulated in the information space. “The idea of a Ukrainian drone is a story for kindergarten. The plane was attacked twice. Russian airspace had not been closed at the time of the strike - this is further evidence of responsibility,” he stated.

The Azerbaijani leader also reported that an international legal dossier is currently being prepared for submission to judicial bodies. The Russian side has also been warned of potential legal consequences. In Baku, they understand that the process may drag on for years but are prepared to wait as long as necessary - even decades, as was the case with the Malaysian Boeing shot down by Russian forces over Donbas in 2014. “We will neither forget nor forgive. We are ready to wait ten years, but the truth must be established and the guilty must be punished,” emphasized Ilham Aliyev.

The president also noted that delays in the investigation and the Kremlin's silence harm bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, leaving the situation unresolved.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/azerbaijan-s-president-warns-russia-of-legal-action-over-azal-plane-shot-down-over-donbas/ar-AA1IVrA9

[AdmSmith]

Кремлевская табакерка: Aliyev lost his temper because of Kadyrov

Ilham Aliyev said the day before that Azerbaijan plans to file a lawsuit against Russia over the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane. He complains that Azerbaijan allegedly has not received any clear answers about the causes of the tragedy. And he demands these answers from the Russian side.

In his address, Aliyev emphasized that Baku demands an admission of guilt, compensation for families, compensation for losses to AZAL and punishment for those who shot down the plane. And this is the key point. We have repeatedly written that Aliyev considers Ramzan Kadyrov guilty of the crash of the Baku-Grozny plane. And he demanded that he be punished. But such demands caused a sharp reaction in Moscow.

As we learned, about a week ago, Ramzan Kadyrov submitted a request to come to Baku and meet with the leader of Azerbaijan. This request went through influential people, but without the approval of the Kremlin. We all saw Aliyev’s reaction. In a dialogue with Moscow, the head of Chechnya argues that Aliyev is allegedly deliberately seeking to weaken him in order to strengthen his personal position in the Caucasus. And Erdogan is an active ally in this process.

https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/5944

[PIF]

And you imagine the funeral homes get all those urns from where? Oh yeah, they have to buy them - which leaves a record.

[blitz128]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y3onBGqcHHk

Interesting take on Crimea

[PIF]

That guy is so long winded I gave up before he got to his point whatever it was.

[blitz128]

lol disagree, some points take more than a meme and a sound bite to explain, but to each their own

I drive quite a bit each day so “long winded” is not an issue😂

[gleeaikin]

So are you suggesting that twice as many funeral homes would then buy half as many burial urns. What is the sense of building all these funeral homes, if more burial urns are not needed? Both kinds of figures should be examined. Also, are the burial urns made by large recorded companies, or also by small potters in community settings, especially if a lot of people are dying and shipping and manufacturing is being disrupted. A complicated question to answer, especially if China makes gathering information difficult. Population is a serious question which reputable sources should be examining, especial as that information effects major actions like financing our military budget, and making decisions regarding large, expensive war materiel.

[gleeaikin]

I watched all 15 minutes of that video. They key points are that Crimea is no longer a threat to Ukraine since the naval base is neutralized, and other military sites can be bombed at will. On the other hand, when Ukraine decides the time is right to eliminate Russian Crimea the best method would be siege, not attack. Cut off the few northern access points, the Kerch Bridge, and the mainland water supply. I suspect this would eventually lead to surrender by the troops on the ground as they ran out of food and water and had to deal with angry and hungry pro Ukranian residents, and even non military true Russians (many elderly who moved there for the improved weather). Moreover, Ukraine has driven Russian Navy out of the Black Sea so rescue and retreat are no longer an option for Russian military in a Crimea under siege.

[JonPreston]

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[JonPreston]

(bush)

[JonPreston]

"Who He?"

[JonPreston]

"Zelensky, you have no cards"