https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788548845149860027
Awaiting confirmation this is not a duplicate claim.
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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“”The seventh arrival,” say eyewitnesses. But the local authorities say that “about 6 UAVs were suppressed, but some fell on the territory of the oil depot.” In the village of Yurovka, Krasnodar Territory of Russia , UAVs attacked an oil depot.”
https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1788383083030282662
RuZZian AD shot everything down. Just some fragments falling...
Nothing to see, move on.
“TASS:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack an oil depot in the village of Yurovka near Anapa using a UAV, the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar Territory reported.
❗️Six Ukrainian Armed Forces drones tried to attack an oil depot in the Krasnodar Territory. All were suppressed by the electronic warfare system, but some fell directly onto the tanks. A fire started. 🤣
62 firefighters and 20 pieces of equipment are working on the spot, including 25 specialists from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and 7 special vehicles from the department. The mayor of Anapa, Vasily Shvets, arrived at the scene of the incident in the village of Yurovka. Preliminarily, there were no casualties.”
https://twitter.com/V141NG/status/1788369552859918525
Congratulations on crossing the 2,000 tanks destroyed line!!
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
The complete transcript.
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[ Ukrainians Unleash Flying Machine Gins to Storm Russian Positions ]
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Day 805: May 08
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Avdiivka direction.
Here, Russians have paid a heavy toll in their attempts to cross the fields in front of Umanske.
After breaking through the Ukrainian defenses in the north and taking control over the settlement of Ocheretyne, Russians have slowly diverted their offensive actions towards their objectives in the North. This change of direction confused many analysts, as Russians had initially focused on the Ukrainian defenses to the West.
The ultimate Russian goal to the West is to take control over Pokrovsk, which serves as the main Ukrainian headquarters in this direction.
However, if we look at the developments in the fields in front of Umanske, we can better understand how the Russians have been forced to deprioritize their ambitious goal of taking Pokrovsk.
As you may remember, Russians had conducted a large wave of attacks in the fields between Umanske and Tonenke. Ultimately, these attacks failed due to a multitude of reasons.
Firstly, if we look at the geography of the region, we can see that Russian attacks through these fields are funneled together by the rivers to the north and south.
Additionally, the river branch stretching through the fields, condenses the funnel even further. This forces any Russian attack to follow a predictable path, making them far more manageable for Ukrainian defenders, as they can open fire on them from multiple directions.
Secondly, this direction was being defended by the Ukrainian 25th Airborne Brigade and the 53rd Mechanized Brigade. Both consist of experienced and well-equipped soldiers who are more than capable of fending off Russian attacks.
A Ukrainian military blogger stated that Ukrainian defenders had established well-prepared positions, utilizing the terrain to draw Russian assault groups into kill zones, before finishing them off with anti-tank mines, ATGMs, artillery, and FPV drones.
The Ukrainian blogger also stated that Russian assault groups lacked tactics in their attempted breakthroughs, being unprepared to dynamically face the Ukrainian defense.
After these failed assault waves, Ukrainian military bloggers shared satellite images showcasing the huge Russian losses in the fields in front of Tonenke. The military bloggers state that the fields in front of Tonenke had turned into a graveyard of Russian armored vehicles.
The images show the disabled and destroyed wreaks of 77 Russian armored vehicles, to only 5 Ukrainian vehicles. The military bloggers also stated that the satellite images only show the most intense and concentrated clashes between Russian and Ukrainian units.
Russian forces had also conducted numerous attacks with smaller assault groups consisting of one or two armored vehicles at a time. Adding these Russian losses to the total amounts to over 100 Russian losses in tanks and armored vehicles alone.
After these failed initial attacks, a Russian officer stated that Russian forces would ultimately be able to overload the Ukrainian defenses, if they only sent forward more waves of armored assaults. As it turns out, the Russian commanders followed his advice and immediately started a monthlong operation to cross the fields.
A Ukrainian soldier active in the area stated that throughout this operation, Russians conducted constant artillery preparations on Ukrainian positions with artillery, multiple rocket launch systems, and air strikes with “FAB” glide bombs and “KAB” guided munitions.
In response, Ukrainian drone operators undermined Russian close-fire support capabilities by targeting Russian mortar emplacements with FPV drones.
Russian forces attempted to hide these emplacements in the settlement of Tonenke. Still, they were constantly spotted, as the intensity of fighting here had left the settlement in ruins, leaving little cover for the Russian mortar teams or infantry.
Over the next two weeks, Russians continued their mechanized assaults through the fields. Ukrainian forces released a multitude of combat footage showing how they repelled or destroyed these Russian attacks with guided anti-tank missiles and FPV kamikaze drones.
As the monthlong battle went on, and Russian armor losses kept mounting, Russian forces started decreasing the armored support of their infantry fighting in the fields. Ukrainian fighters in the area stated that Russians started using tanks more sparingly and from increasingly larger ranges as indirect fire platforms.
They also added that Russians had begun relying on all-terrain vehicles, buggies, and off-road motorcycles to reinforce their assault groups in the fields. Geolocated footage confirms this, as Ukrainian drone operators shared footage of them destroying numerous unarmored transports with FPV kamikaze drones.
As Russian infantry in the fields lost their armored support, a Ukrainian military blogger stated that the Russian assaults had devolved into mass assaults of infantry with little armored support.
To combat this increased concentration of infantry, Ukrainians began experimenting with new variants of drone warfare. Ukrainians mounted their heavy octocopter drones with machine guns to strafe Russian infantry assaults and fire into the trenches from above.
The operators of this drone also stated that Russians did not even try to shoot down these drones, likely in shock and understandable fear of this new tactic.
At the moment, the biggest issue that these drones deal with is the recoil. Some Ukrainian sources mentioned that certain drone teams are already developing and testing various stabilization systems.
If the issue is fixed, the drones will become far deadlier than ever before. Right now, Ukrainians are using two types of drones against the Russian infantry: grenade-dropping drones, and kamikaze drones.
Dropping grenades accurately is extremely difficult, especially if the infantry is moving, or if the infantry has electronic warfare kits that necessitate operating from a much higher altitude, further reducing the accuracy.
The kamikaze drones, in turn, can only be used once. The development of gun mounts, combined with thermal vision and machine aiming, will change the setting completely.
Overall, the heavy Russian losses in armor and infantry, with little territorial gains to show for it, likely deprioritized this direction in favor of Russian objectives to the North.
However, Russians did not decide to conserve their manpower and equipment by stopping these attacks; instead, they simply stopped reinforcing these assault groups with armored support.
This forced Russian assault groups to use higher concentrations of infantry along with unarmored transport vehicles, which Ukrainians exploited by testing a new and deadly drone variant.
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PS: Other pro-UKR channels are also under mass bot attack, aimed at shutting them down.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788548845149860027
Awaiting confirmation this is not a duplicate claim.
Moscow Marge
“They heckled her and shouted boos as she rose to speak, and some hissed at her — and those were the voices from the same side of the aisle as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
Greene tried to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from leadership on Wednesday, but Republicans overwhelmingly opposed her bid. And that effort proved to be the final straw for many of her GOP colleagues who have expressed a growing distaste for her antics during her three years in Congress. It even led to a rare admonishment by one of her most ardent supporters — former president Donald Trump.”
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 8, 2024
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-8-2024
Recent satellite imagery of depleted Russian military vehicle and weapon storage facilities further indicates that Russia is currently sustaining its war effort largely by pulling from storage rather than by manufacturing new vehicles and certain weapons at scale.
Newsweek reported on May 8 that a social media source tracking Russian military depots stated that satellite imagery indicates that Russia’s vehicle stores have significantly decreased from pre-war levels by nearly 32% from 15,152 in 2021 to 10,389 as of May 2024.
The military depot tracker noted that Russia has pulled most from its stores of
MT-LB multipurpose armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), which are down from 2,527 prewar to 922 remaining;
BMD airborne amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), which are down from 637 prewar to 244 remaining;
and BTR-50 armored personnel carriers (APCs), down from 125 prewar to 52 remaining.
The military depot tracker noted that Russia no longer has newer model BTR-60s, 70s, and 80s in storage and that only 2,605 remain - likely referring to vehicles currently fielded - from its prewar stocks of 3,313.
The military depot tracker noted that Russia is currently fielding 1,000-2,000 of its remaining MT-LBs in Ukraine.
Another open-source account on X (formerly Twitter) cited satellite imagery dated May 27, 2020 and March 26, 2024 and concluded that Russia has pulled roughly 60 percent of its artillery systems at an unspecified towed artillery storage base, reportedly one of Russia’s largest.
The source reported that about half of the remaining artillery systems at this base are likely unusable due to degradation while in storage and because many of the remaining systems are Second World War era artillery systems incompatible with modern ammunition
Russia is relying on vast Soviet-era stores of vehicles and other equipment to sustain operations and losses in Ukraine at a level far higher than the current Russian DIB could support, nor will Russia be able to mobilize its DIB to replenish these stores for many years.
The British International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank reported on February 12 that Russia is likely able to sustain its current rate of vehicle losses (over 3,000 armored fighting vehicles annually) for at least 2 or 3 years by mainly reactivating vehicles from storage.
The IISS also estimated that Russia has lost over 3,000 armored fighting vehicles in 2023 and close to 8,000 armored fighting vehicles since February 2022, and that Russia likely reactivated at least 1,180 main battle tanks and about 2,470 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers pulled from storage in 2023.
Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported on February 4 that the Russian defense industrial base (DIB) can produce 250-300 new and modernized tanks per year and repair an additional 250-300 tanks per year.
Russia will likely struggle to adequately supply its units with materiel in the long term without transferring the Russian economy to a wartime footing - a move that Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to avoid thus far.
More fragments fell.
“It is reported that Ukrainian UAVs also attacked the Salavatnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Bashkiria in Russia, some 1400km from the Ukrainian border.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788496758395281632
Happy Victory Day!
More Chinese golf carts. Second Army of the Universe.
Maybe it’s by design. China is sending golf carts to RuZZia instead of IFVs so RuZZian Boys will die. When RuZZia’s military is depleted, China can swoop in and seize Siberia.
“A Russian crew in a golfcart got immobilized and ran off.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788474696503091408
A fragment fell on that tank.
“One big oil tank visually taken out.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788461497443627332
“Russia’s Declining Satellite Reconnaissance Capabilities and Its Implications for Security and International Stability”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2024.2330848
” Russia’s reconnaissance satellite program is plagued by continuous failures, delays, and satellite-poor life cycles. This persistent decline and the increasing gap [with the] US & allies stem from pervasive corruption, an aging workforce and brain drain, and low...investment”
“The split of documented Russian tank losses by platform:
T-54/55: 8
T-62: 136
T-64: 92
T-72: 1441
T-80: 840
T-90: 136
unknown tank: 347
“EU agrees to arm Ukraine using profits from Russian state assets”
“Belgium’s central securities depository Euroclear expected to start transferring money to bloc in July”
“EU countries have agreed to use an estimated €3bn in profits arising from Russia’s frozen state assets to jointly buy weapons for Ukraine.
The deal struck by the bloc’s 27 ambassadors on Wednesday only targets profits made by Belgium’s central securities depository Euroclear, where about €190bn of Russian central bank assets are held. Western nations immobilised Russia’s state assets abroad in 2022, in response to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The European Commission expects Euroclear to hand over about €3bn a year which will be transferred to the bloc’s funds biannually, with a first payout expected in July. The measure will apply to profits Euroclear starts accruing as of mid-February 2024.
Of that, 90 per cent would be used for buying arms and military equipment for Kyiv’s forces, while the remaining 10 per cent would be used for reconstruction. That split assuages concerns by militarily neutral EU countries Austria, Malta, Cyprus and Ireland who want a share of profits to finance non-military purposes.”
https://www.ft.com/content/10d3f259-44fe-4361-b322-2a485a0efe45
Such rotten luck/s
Is China or others helping out, seems likely
Believe China is playing both sides, making money off selling their golf carts and other electronics….. , while watching Russia bleed and licking lips to regain “stolen” lands
Good for the goose good for the xi
Meanwhile, in Crimea another sort of May 9th celebration took place:
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Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
In Crimea, on the night of Victory Day, seven of our soldiers were vilely killed
According to sources in the General Staff and among the military personnel located on the peninsula, the emergency occurred on the night of May 9 “in one of the field camps” near Simferopol.
Unknown saboteurs snuck into the tent where seven special forces soldiers were sleeping and killed them in their sleep. All the soldiers died from stab wounds to the heart.
The criminals acted quickly. How they got into the camp and how they escaped unnoticed is still unclear.
“We are sure that non-humans attacked the guys specifically on the night of Victory Day. We will definitely find them and punish them,” said one of our interlocutors. He refused to provide other details of this vile murder.
Here's a picture of celebrations in the village of Yurovka, Krasnodar Region.
Major Кучаев Дмитрий Вячеславович (Kuchaev Dmitry Vyacheslavovich) from Chuvashia, chief of staff and deputy commander of the howitzer artillery division, was eliminated in Ukraine on 4 May ’24, when he and five other soldiers were shot by Yuri Galushko.
https://twitter.com/KilledInUkraine/status/1788483710955774154
Chief of staff and deputy commander...Well done Yuri.
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