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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Why on earth do you defend BlueSky material being posted here?
Not defending just asking a question, if BS Is the enemy then why hasn’t Jim banned it?
The number of pacifists in Russia is growing. How is this possible?
Recent data from closed opinion polls have shown that there are more and more people in Russia who not only do not support the war, but also oppose it. The results of such polls should be perceived with a significant adjustment, because in the conditions of war, not all opponents of the NWO are ready to talk about it directly. Sociologists have recorded that more and more Russians are not ready to take part in the NWO “for any money.” According to interlocutors in the Kremlin, this figure was influenced by at least several factors.
“It is one thing when we are talking about a short victorious war. And when the hostilities have been going on for four years, and you feel it more and more on your own skin - then it is perceived differently. In this regard, even the Chechen war was not felt so close,” the source said.
A source in the political bloc of the Presidential Administration stressed: “More and more people in one way or another are becoming not spectators, but direct participants in the events. These are the military, their families, friends, loved ones. People die, get injured, return home with amputations. Whether we like it or not, there are more and more such people on the streets.”
This, according to the interlocutors, affects the perception of war as something terrible and terrible, but this vision needs to be changed. “The war is going on for a reason. We have a specific goal, and to achieve it, we need to pay a high price. It is very sad that not everyone understands this,” a source in the Kremlin said.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/6259
They are not pacifists, but simply do not want to sacrifice their lives for the little Tsar.
Notably, damper payments to oil refiners amounted to only 30 bil, compared to 80 billion in August and 146 bill in September last year. The government didn't pay the damper for gasoline at 30-50 bil rub.
https://x.com/evgen1232007/status/1974046761137148060
The government provides damping payments as subsidies to oil companies to restrain domestic fuel prices during periods of high export netbacks.
Oil companies also received payments from the Russian budget for the excise tax on crude oil in December amounting to 137.6 billion rubles. For 2024, the total reached 1.624 trillion rubles compared to 1.173 trillion rubles for 2023, 971.3 billion rubles for 2022, 564.6 billion rubles for 2021, 221.6 billion rubles for 2020 and -142.4 billion rubles for 2019.
The reverse excise tax on oil is paid from the budget as one of the measures to support the oil refining industry. It provides for a tax rebate based on oil excise duties depending on the volume of fuel production, the location of the refinery, the modernization of the plant and other factors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues attempts to deter the US from sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine by linking improvements in the US-Russian bilateral relationship to concessions from the United States on the war in Ukraine. Putin claimed in an interview published on October 5 that US provisions of Tomahawk missiles would “lead to the destruction” of the “emerging positive trend” in US-Russian relations – linking the prospect of improved US-Russian relations with limits on US support for Ukraine.[1] Putin is continuing to dangle the prospect of incentives that are unrelated to the war in Ukraine to extract concessions from the United States about the war in Ukraine. ISW continues to assess that Putin has been trying to facilitate US-Russian rapprochement, including by pressuring the Trump administration to engage in arms control talks, to secure Russia's desired demands in Ukraine.[2]
Putin has been promoting various rhetorical lines to try to deter the Trump administration from providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles. Putin threateningly warned the United States against selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine on October 2, claiming that American military personnel would have to directly participate in Ukrainian Tomahawk strikes.[3] Putin also claimed that such strikes would mark a “new stage of escalation” but would not change the battlefield situation. Putin made similar arguments when the United States was considering sending Ukraine ATACMS missiles, F-16 jets, and Abrams tanks. Putin appears to be trying different approaches – from threatening worsening bilateral relations to downplaying the missiles’ usefulness – to influence US decision-making.
The Kremlin is trying to prevent the United States from providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine in order to retain the sanctuary that Russia enjoys in its rear. Ukrainian forces are able to conduct long-range drone strikes against a significant portion of Russia's rear, but the payloads on these drones are limited and not suitable to destroy specialized objects. Ukraine's ability to launch missile strikes deep into Russia's rear with larger payloads would allow Ukraine to significantly damage – if not destroy – key military assets in Russia, such as the Shahed drone factory in Yelabuga, Republic of Tatarstan, or the Engels-2 Air Base in Saratov Oblast from which Russia sorties strategic bombers that fire air-launch cruise missiles at Ukraine. Russia has been able to significantly scale up its Shahed drone production by expanding the factory in Yelabuga, allowing Russia to launch increasingly large and more frequent long-range drone strikes against Ukraine. Russia's nightly strike packages in September 2025 featured an average of 187 long-range drones (many of which are Shahed-type drones) per night, whereas similar strike packages in January 2025 only featured an average of 83 drones, for example. Russia notably started launching overnight strike packages that included over 500 drones more frequently in September 2025. ISW assesses that there are at least 1,945 Russian military objects within range of the 2,500-kilometer variant Tomahawk and at least 1,655 within range of the 1,600-kilometer variant. Ukraine likely can significantly degrade Russia's frontline battlefield performance by targeting a vulnerable subset of rear support areas that sustain and support Russia's frontline operations.[4] Ukraine has reportedly launched mass production of its new, domestically produced FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile with a 3,000-kilometer range and 1,150-kilogram warhead, but the system remains unproven, and Ukraine will need time to scale up production.[5]
Russia launched its largest combined drone and missile strike against Lviv Oblast on the night of October 4 to 5 with 163 combined projectiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 53 missiles, including two Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the airspace over Lipetsk Oblast; 42 Iskander-K/Kh-101 cruise missiles from Samara, Kursk, and Bryansk oblasts; and nine Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea.[6] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched 496 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones from the directions of Bryansk, Oryol, and Kursk cities; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; and occupied Kacha, Crimea. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces downed 439 drones, one Kinzhal missile, 32 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, and six Kalibr missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that eight missiles and 57 drones struck 20 locations and that debris fell on six locations. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that six missiles did not reach their targets either because they were “lost in location” (likely referring to Ukrainian electronic warfare [EW] interference) or because Ukrainian authorities were still specifying their impact location as of 1400 local time. Lviv Oblast Military Administration Head Maksym Kozytskyi reported that Russian forces launched 140 Shahed-type drones and 23 cruise missiles against Lviv Oblast, killing four civilians, injuring eight, and damaging civilian and energy infrastructure.[7] Lviv City Mayor Andriy Sadovyi reported that Russian strikes disrupted power supplies in the city and damaged the Sparrow civilian industrial park.[8] Ukrainian officials reported that Russian strikes also killed one civilian and injured 10 others in Zaporizhzhia City and disrupted power supplies in Zaporizhzhia City and Zaporizhia, Sumy, and Chernihiv oblasts.[9]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian state-owned gas operator Naftogaz Board Chairman Serhiy Koretskyi noted on October 5 that Russian strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure are a deliberate attempt to deprive Ukrainian civilians of heating ahead of Winter 2025-2026.[10] Russia's October 4 to 5 strikes targeting Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure are the latest in Russia's long-standing campaign to degrade Ukraine's energy security ahead of Winter 2025-2026 and demoralize the Ukrainian populace. ISW recently assessed that Russia had likely been stockpiling ballistic and cruise missiles throughout September 2025 to conduct a few large-scale drone and missile strikes on select intermittent days.[11]
Ukrainian Air Force Spokesperson Yuriy Ihnat stated on October 5 that Russia has modified its ballistic missiles to fly on quasi-ballistic trajectories and approach targets from multiple directions, decreasing the effectiveness of Ukraine's Patriot air defense systems.[12] Ihnat’s October 5 statement confirms recent reporting from the Financial Times.[13]
The pro-Russian Georgian Dream party secured widespread majorities in municipal elections in Georgia on October 4, sparking mass protests that Georgian Dream officials tried to blame on Ukraine. Georgian security forces clashed with protesters in Tbilisi following local elections in which the Georgian Dream party won majorities in every municipality.[14] Kremlin officials, Georgian Dream officials, and Russian milbloggers baselessly accused foreign intelligence services of organizing the protests to launch a coup and destabilize the country.[15] Georgia's State Security Service claimed that it confiscated weapons and explosives that protestors planned to use for sabotage missions on election day and that a Georgian representative of an unspecified Ukrainian military unit supplied the weapons.[16] ISW will continue to monitor the ongoing protests as the situation continues to develop.
Russia is likely leveraging its close relations with Serbia and Republika Srpska to threaten to destabilize the Balkans and undermine European cohesion. Former President of Republika Srpska (the Serbian political entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina) Milorad Dodik claimed on October 5 that the United Kingdom (UK), France, and Germany are planning to stage a “color revolution” in Serbia to destabilize and dismember the country and to weaken Serbia and the entire Balkan region.[17] Dodik claimed that European officials are misrepresenting the recent spate of unidentified drone incursions into European airspace to discredit Russia and promote confrontation.[18] Dodik claimed that the West is forcing Republika Srpska to hold illegitimate snap elections in order to undermine the US-backed Dayton Accords (which ended the 1992–1995 Bosnian War).[19] Serbian President Alexsandar Vucic claimed on October 5 that NATO's decision to require each member state to allocate five percent of their GDP to defense spending is an indicator that the world is preparing for war and stated that Serbia would like to avoid such confrontation.[20] Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) recently claimed that European officials were preparing to stage a “color revolution” in Serbia, mirroring Russia's rhetorical attempts to justify its invasions of Ukraine and aggression towards NATO members.[21] ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is attempting to undermine the Dayton Accords to destabilize the Balkan region and undermine European cohesion.[22]
Amid the economic crisis that has fueled the largest recent exodus from Cuba, this seems to have become a way out for those who didn't have enough money to reach the United States or to try their luck in another country. However, many of those who have gone claim to have been deceived. “They all claim not to understand the seriousness of war once they face it,” says Zablotskyy. At first, they are told they will be going to work as construction workers, laborers, or security guards.
President Donald Trump's administration is mobilizing U.S. diplomats to lobby against a U.N. resolution calling on Washington to lift its decades-long embargo on Cuba, in part by sharing details of Cuba's support for Russia's war in Ukraine, according to an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters.
As part of the administration's campaign, U.S. diplomats will tell countries that the Cuban government is actively supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine with up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Moscow's forces.
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