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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A Russian airplane is shot down by a Chinese defensive system in Sudan.
This makes me wonder if today we have a situation like the 10 year treaty Germany and Russia signed before WW2. Both countries are competing in Africa. A place where we incidentally seem to have conceded the competition to our potential loss. China could conclude that taking back former territory now in weakened Russia would be a lot easier than attacking Taiwan.
What an ugly story. With commanders like that, I wonder how many actually get “fragged” as occasionally happened in our wars. No wonder they are making plans to send large quantities of their demobilized soldiers to projects in Siberia.
The 42+ minute video linked below describes the gradual but suffocating tightening of Russian access to Kaliningrad via a land bridge. your comment illustrates the danger to Russian ports on the Black Sea. Now Russia’s economic fragility is further highlighted by this breakdown of this Belarus/Lithuania corridor to Russia’s Baltic Sea Port facilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUaeCZtjmA
This logistic disaster did not happen all at once but illustrates a growing desire for independent action by Russia’s former friendly Belarusan dictator. Would Lukashenko be daring to do this if he still feared Russian strength. Nobody involved seems to be talking about this. Has L become more courageous now that Putin has him storing some nuclear weapons in Belarus. Now let’s see what AI has to say about this gradual but severely consequential logistic breakdown.
AI Overview:
Russia’s land bridge to Kaliningrad did not stop working all at once, but has been repeatedly disrupted, notably by Lithuania’s partial blockade of sanctioned goods in June 2022, and more recently by Belarus closing border crossings in October 2025. While the 2022 blockade was lifted a month later, it demonstrated the vulnerability of the route, and the 2025 closure of Belarusian crossings effectively severed the land bridge for hundreds of trucks.
* June 2022: Lithuania began blocking the transit of EU-sanctioned goods by rail to Kaliningrad, though the blockade was lifted a month later. This was the first major, and widely reported, disruption to the land route.
* Transit restrictions: June 2022: Lithuania, citing EU sanctions over the Ukraine invasion, banned the transit of sanctioned goods like steel, coal, and construction materials through its territory to Kaliningrad. July 2022: Lithuania lifted the rail restrictions on most sanctioned goods after the EU clarified that transit could continue if it stayed within certain limits.
* September 2022: Transit became more difficult as the bank servicing the payments announced it would refuse to accept payments from Russian entities, making it harder for Russian entities to pay for transport services.
* Since 2022: Transit remains possible via sea, but the land “land bridge” through Lithuania is significantly restricted compared to previous years.
Power grid disconnection:
* February 2025: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnected their power grids from the Russian and Belarusian systems, including those supplying Kaliningrad.
* Method: The countries sequentially disconnected their remaining transmission links.
* Status: After the disconnection, the Baltic power systems operated independently in a test phase to ensure stability before reconnecting to the European grid.
Other restrictions:
* November 2022: Poland began constructing a barrier along its border with Kaliningrad due to fears of potential hybrid warfare, such as attempts to facilitate illegal migration.
* October 2025: Belarus abruptly shut down multiple border crossings, severing the land route to Kaliningrad and trapping hundreds of Russian supply trucks.
* Ongoing Vulnerability: Due to its geography, all land links between Kaliningrad and mainland Russia must pass through EU and NATO members like Lithuania and Poland, making the land bridge inherently vulnerable to transit restrictions.
I find this a particularly interesting development as my maternal grandparents emigrated from this area called East Prussia around 1890. My grandmother’s remains were sent back for burial, possibly even in Kalingrad. I had hoped to visit the graveside before I die. Now maybe it will be possible.
I know how NATO is retaliating by fencing off Kaliningrad/ Well done! And soon Rus will only be able to supply outpost Kaliningrad by sea and air.
THIS!!!!>>>>>>
February 2025: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania disconnected their power grids from the Russian and Belarusian systems, including those supplying Kaliningrad.
* Method: The countries sequentially disconnected their remaining transmission links.
* Status: After the disconnection, the Baltic power systems operated independently in a test phase to ensure stability before reconnecting to the European grid.
loaf of bread on the bottom of the basket, smart.
Russia has plenty of North Koreans, Indians, and sub-Saharan Africans to run through.
Another night, another Russian refinery struck - Volgograd.
Last month, the USA produced the most oil ever.
Seven new LNG plants are under construction, to double US LNG output, by the end of President Trump”s current term.
We need to take Russia’s natural gas market share as well as oil, just to keep supply and demand in balance.
Saudi Arabia just announced a significant oil price cut for customers in Asia, to compete for market share.
Since April this year, OPEC+ has lifted output targets by around 2.9 million b/d, approaching the total volume of Russia’s seaborne crude oil exports (around 3.6). Non-OPEC+ producer increases cover the rest.
Conditions all set to replace Russian supply, for good.
What Lukoil doink?
Having its bones crushed by sanctions.
Lukoil, Russia’s largest private company (normally over $100 Billion/year revenue, $10 Billion profit), is attempting to conclude a $22 Billion sale of its many overseas subsidiaries to Gunvor, before the effective date of President Trump’s Bone-crushing sanctions, on 21 November.
Those subsidiaries had a total purchase price to Lukoil of about $500 Billion, and are a major source of foreign hard currency income not only for the company, but also for Russia as a whole.
The two companies just sanctioned, Rosneft and Lukoil, account for over half of Russia’s seaborne crude oil exports.
It is likely that if the Gunvor sale is concluded, that the proceeds will be frozen in escrow, rather than paid to Lukoil, because of the sanctions. Lukoil will however immediately lose the income stream from those subsidiaries, reducing profits past the point where it will likely no longer be a source of tax revenue to the Russian State (unless further new taxes are levied upon it). Lukoil is a high fixed cost business, that lacks a lot of flexibility to absorb revenue losses, except from profit.
Free cash for unbudgeted expenses, like repair of drone, missile and sabotage strikes; is being removed exactly on schedule with the advent of sustained sub-zero temps in the Western Siberian oil fields, the increase in global oil supply reaching the level of Russia’s seaborne oil exports, and Ukraine’s domestic production of long range strike weapons achieving the capacity to do the job.
It took a lot of vision and concerted effort to bring all those factors together, to enable a truly Strategic result.
Speaking of power centers like refineries being struck, below you will find a 41 minute link evaluating the results, reactions, and effectiveness of last Night’s Moscow blackout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWWqTpuG27Y
Russians were particularly upset because apparently this disaster that spread far and wide surrounding Moscow came from a single strike. I was not clear if they were talking about a single drone or a single target location. To spread and build effectiveness from node to node, was a great distress to officials as it meant Ukraine had far better inside information than they would have thought. The people fled to the internet trying to find out what was happening. They had been told Moscow was safely far from danger. Although officials tried to stop the spread of news, information still leaked out and spread to an unprecedented scale.
Not only Russia is troubled about this. NATO and European leaders now must consider their own vulnerabilities in light of this new form of warfare. Moscow’s myth of invincibility has been broken. Energy experts throughout the world have examined this new form of warfare, with considerable worry, especially how this would affect Russia’s behavior. Also they worry how this development will affect future inflation and stability. Russia’s allies now have to reconsider their relationships and dependencies regarding Russia. Many concerns covered during these 41 minutes.
Here are another 39:30 minutes further describing the state of the disregulation in Kaliningrad. The rail and truck systems are especially struck and unhappily stuck. It is even possible that not only did Belarus disrupt the passage of Russian shipping, but that some Russian equipment may have remained IN Belarus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBatgkE3cY
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