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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There is not a country on this planet that can claim borders since the beginning of time, only so far back, recentism
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Just imagine what Italy or Mongolia could claim ...
Yup as for Alaska, another analogy occurred to me
Say you sell your house to someone, then 20 years later you say you have historical claim to that house😂
Russian Mir😎🤡
🚨 WOW! Vladimir Putin, before his meeting with President Trump in Alaska, honors the USA-Soviet alliance during World War II against Germany and the Axis.
He laid flowers at the Heroes of ALSIB memorial.
A nice gesture before traveling to America.pic.twitter.com/QqvzY6wqIx
Now…— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 15, 2025
Putin, arriving in Alaska:
Customs: Name?
Putin: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Customs: Occupation?
Putin: No, just visiting.
Knee slapper
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Blessed are the Peacemakers
😂
Is this acceptable on FR? Just 🤔
The World holds it’s breath, waiting to see what comes from President Trump’s meeting today...
🚨 BREAKING: Vladimir Putin’s Russian delegation are now describing the meeting with Trump as “excellent,” saying it went “VERY WELL”
We might just be witnessing a landmark peace deal coming together! 🔥pic.twitter.com/qLHWRHhPt3— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 15, 2025
During the last week Russian forces managed to breach into the rear of the Ukrainian defense line:
During the last three days Russian forces achieved a major breakthrough. After the heavy bombardment of Ukrainian positions with over 1,300 FAB bombs Russian detachments moved north of the salient (green) they had built between the semi-encircled cities Pokrovsk and Konstantinivka.
They have reached and breached the well built second Donbas fortification line (in yellow) which had been dug over the last year.
biggerThe Ukrainian supply line along the T-05-14 road between Dobropilla and Kramatorsk has been cut. Beyond that line is open space.
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Prepared ditches and other positions are no longer manned. Russian troops can infiltrate through the thinly manned lines. Ukrainian drone units, which are supposed to cover the holes in the frontline, are getting suppressed by Russian bombing and counter drone forces. Confusion sets in once Russian diversion teams appear in the rear.The Ukrainian army has ordered parts of its 'elite' Azov forces from Izyum in the north towards the Pokrovsk area to counter the Russian breakthrough. They will be too little too late to make a difference.
At least six brigades of Ukrainian forces were pulled from other parts of the front in an attempt to check the Russian breach of the line. Some were ambushed while on the way others while taking up their new positions. Theose who arrived did not manage to change the map.
Pulling these forces from other parts of the frontline will leave holes in those parts for Russian forces to further attack through. The breakthrough will thus be repeated elsewhere. This process can be repeated and repeated until the whole Ukrainian defense breaks down and the army retreats in panic.
Only a few of the western defense analysts have seen this coming. One is Konrad Muzyka of Rochan Consulting. He has good relation with many Ukrainian officers and has regularly visited units at the frontline.
Below are excerpts from a long interview with him that was published yesterday in Rzeczpospolita, the Polish 'paper of record'.
Ukraine lacks troops, not equipment
Excerpts (machine translated, edited for clarity):
You recently returned from another visit to Ukraine. What is the current situation at the front?The Russians continue to maintain the strategic initiative along the entire length of the front. Apart from very local counterattacks, the Ukrainians are retreating. The Russian Federation forces are very strongly advancing on several axes, especially in the area of the Battles of Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, the village of Novosilka, and recently in Zaporozhia, that is, in the deep south.
It is worrying that Russia's territorial gains, especially in July, were quite significant and larger than in previous months. The Russians have advanced 10-12 km along several axes. This is something we haven't seen before. If there were any territorial conquests before, they were concentrated around one area. Now we have several areas where the front is starting to leak.
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What to expect in the coming weeks?
The Kremlin’s Quisling Fifth Column of supporters in the west always hated Reagan. They still don’t even hide it, obviously.
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