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

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.

Tax and Burn (the money in war). Smells like crisis brewing.

Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget

Kyiv Independent (16 July):

“Moscow needs to urgently raise more money as shrinking oil and gas revenues and a worsening economic outlook continue to strain the federal budget, a senior Russian lawmaker warned on July 16.

Anatoly Artamonov, chair of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, cautioned that Russia’s financial situation is becoming more serious and that immediate steps are needed to stabilize it. “We need to use all available resources to increase the revenue base,” he said, according to the Moscow Times.

One step, he suggested, could be reducing the number of tax exemptions. Artamonov said these exemptions currently make up about a third of the federal budget...

...He also pointed to the widespread issue of shadow employment—undeclared work often paid in cash—to avoid taxes...

...Artamonov also criticized the Russian government’s hesitation to move forward with privatization efforts. Selling off certain state-owned assets, he argued, could provide much-needed funds to help fill budget gaps.”

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 20, 2025

Russian officials continue to publicly reiterate that Russia is uninterested in a near-term solution to ending the war in Ukraine that does not acquiesce to Moscow's demands. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed on July 20 that Russia is ready to “move quickly” with peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine but that Russia must achieve its goals, which Peskov claimed are “obvious” and “do not change.”[1] Kremlin officials have consistently claimed that any peace settlement must eliminate the alleged “root causes” of the war and repeated Russia's original war aims to “denazify” and “demilitarize” Ukraine – terms the Kremlin has used throughout the war to call for regime change in Ukraine, Ukrainian neutrality, changes to NATO's open-door policy, and the removal of Ukraine's ability to defend itself against future Russian aggression.[2] Peskov’s July 20 statements underline the Kremlin's continued uninterest in good-faith negotiations with Ukraine and efforts rather to prolong the war — as ISW continues to assess.[3]

German and Ukrainian officials assessed that Russia continues to expand its production of Shahed-type drones in order to launch even larger long-range drone strike packages that include up to 2,000 drones in a single night. Russian forces may be able to strike Ukraine with up to 2,000 drones in a single night by November 2025 should the current pattern of growth in nightly Russian drone usage continue. The head of the German Ministry of Defense's Planning and Command Staff, Major General Christian Freuding, assessed on July 19 that Russia plans to further increase its drone production capacity with the goal of launching 2,000 drones in one overnight strike package against Ukraine.[4] Freuding stated that Ukraine and its international partners must consider cost-effective ways of countering Russia's large strike packages, as traditional air defense methods, such as those that use expensive Patriot interceptors, are not well-suited as an anti-drone air defense strategy. Commander of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces Major Robert Brovdi stated on July 4 that Russia could launch 1,000 drones in a single strike package due to increased production and stockpiles.[5] Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) assessed on June 9 that Russian can produce roughly 170 Shahed-type drones per day and that Russia plans to increase production capacity to 190 drones per day by the end of 2025.[6] Russia has been rapidly increasing the number of Shahed-type strike drones and decoy drones in its overnight strike packages in recent weeks, with Russia's largest drone strike package thus far including 728 drones on the night of July 8 to 9.[7] Russia's increased production capacities in recent months have allowed Russia to dramatically increase its strike packages in a relatively short period of time. Russia rarely launched more than 200 drones per night between January and May 2025 but then increased the peak number of drones launched in one night from 250 in late May 2025 to over 700 in early July 2025. Russia's use of one-way attack drones in nightly strike packages grew at an average monthly rate of 31 percent in both June and July 2025. ISW assesses that Russia may be able to launch up to 2,000 drones in one night by November 2025, should this current growth trend in drone usage continue. This forecast will be invalidated if the monthly Russian drone usage growth rate either increases or decreases from 31 percent. Russian forces will likely not be able to sustain such large strike packages every night but will likely launch large strike packages followed by days of smaller packages as they are now. Western investment in Ukraine's interceptor drone development and production remains critical for Ukraine's ability to counter large-scale Russian strike packages and protect its civilian population.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-20-2025

When I met President Dzhokhar Dudayev in Chechnya 30 years ago, he told me that the war waged for the purpose of restoring the empire would last for another 50 years. At the time, I didn’t believe his prediction, but life has proven otherwise. Dudayev was right: until Russia is defeated in the imperial wars it has initiated, none of its neighbors — nor the free world as a whole — can feel safe. A ceasefire with them does not bring peace. Russia has proven this through its behavior since the fall of the Soviet empire. As is well known, Putin called that the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. To paraphrase: the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century would be the restoration of the Russian empire.

https://x.com/markomihkelson/status/1947016571269915012

The first president of the Chechen Republic, Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944-96), was evidently an oracle. He predicted with alarming precision the developments in Moscow and Ukraine.
https://x.com/FaneFlugt/status/1775776291570020707
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