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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Swedish text translated:
What is the ??pouring?? of Sweden? Can Ukraine use the weapons that we have handed over to attack targets on Russian territory?
I put the question to the Minister of Defence, Päl Jonson, and receive this written answer:
“Ukraine is exposed to an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression by Russia. According to international law, Ukraine has the right to defend itself through hostilities directed against the enemy’s territory as long as the hostilities comply with the laws of war. Sweden stands behind international law and Ukraine’s right to defend itself.”
This is welcome news. The limits of Ukraine’s defense should be set by international law, not by self-imposed restrictions on Ukraine’s allies that cost Ukrainian lives.
The Swedish government should argue for this position against other Western countries, not only behind closed doors but also publicly. This is how you form opinion, move the debate and get states to abandon unreasonable positions.
Alex Voronov
Plan has merit: both Stalin and Lenin are quite old, and still receiving visitors.
Explosions in Crimea.
“Explosions in Crimea.”
Happy Memorial Day!
“Russians reports that the probable target of the UAV in the Orenburg region was the Voronezh M over-the-horizon radar
📡 The radar is located 30 km from Orsk and 1,600 km from the border with Ukraine. In local publications, some write that one UAV reached the target.”
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1794813865349554543
“The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets [positions] in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we’ll destroy all of them.”
Nukes off the table for Vlad.
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“Black Colonel” V. Alksnis, 05/26/24
https://t.me/blackcolonel2020/1388
As for the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on our missile attack warning system and the disabling of two radars of this system, I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that there will be no retaliatory strikes.
Firstly, there is practically nothing to respond with, with the exception of tactical nuclear weapons.
Secondly, our leadership in this regard completely lacks political will and determination to go to the end.
And thirdly, during V. Putin’s recent visit to China, President V. Putin and Chairman Xi in the final documents recorded the inadmissibility of the use of nuclear weapons.
And it seems to me that behind these agreements, first of all, lies Chairman Xi’s ban on such use, and President V. Putin was forced to take on such an obligation.
New Mystery Weapon Mentioned
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Colonel Shuvalov, 05/26/24
https://t.me/shouvalov/204
War is not a goal, but only a tool for achieving geopolitical goals using military force. Likewise, the purpose of military exercises is not just to “see if it will boom or not and where it will fly,” but to develop effective solutions.
The exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces are not about pulling up equipment somewhere and firing somewhere - it is about working out the mechanism for a strategic breakthrough in combat operations, which would bring a significant improvement in the solution of geopolitical goals.
I know it’s boring. But without such basics - nothing. Because when it’s “not boring” there are corpses, blood, guts and new cemeteries. Not only the military, by the way.
Now - to the tests of non-strategic nuclear forces themselves.
Right under them we had another small incident - another radar from the missile attack warning system was destroyed.
Clause 18, paragraph III “Conditions for the transition of the Russian Federation to the use of nuclear weapons” of the “Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence” was violated again, without a reaction, but now everyone reacted more calmly: well, they hit our nuclear deterrent forces, and so What? But we are conducting exercises.
In general, any teaching is good. Because there are almost no casualties and destruction (if there are exercises of nuclear forces, then there can be no casualties at all), but there are a lot of victorious reports, new stars, bonuses, pride in a wide circle of narrow specialists.
Exercises and parades always smell a little festive, like a public toilet at the end of a big fair in the regional center.
Moreover, the exercises are very convenient: we are already using Iskanders during the SVO. And what was used in the exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces? The same Iskanders, still without the nuclear part, we still shoot and see what happens.
We simply change the enemy to a fictitious enemy and shoot where the real enemy does not roam. Or we don’t shoot, but pretend that we did. A simulated shot at a real enemy while he is methodically plowing our nuclear deterrent system, without any snot, exercises or consequences.
At the same time, it was recently stated that not even nuclear forces are our main weapon, because we invented something so new on new principles of physics that we were ahead of everyone else. I won’t say the name, because it was suddenly erased from any mention with the arrival of the new Minister.
And if it suddenly turns out that not only the name, but also the weapon itself is missing, then we can conclude that we frightened the adversary with what we don’t have. They were holding a trump card in their hand, and it turned out to be not a trump card, or even a card, but some organ, but not a cat, for which it is customary to hold a cat. In general, there are some difficulties.
And if this is so, then threatening the adversary with a miracle weapon is not very correct. Therefore, the minced meat must be put back into the meat grinder. And who is to blame for everything, choose in advance.
Today it is Ivan Ivanovich (and not at all conventional) and a scattering of those for whom it is no longer offensive. And tomorrow there will be an article for many, many others. And for me, by the way, there may also be one. At least we know how to do something, so we can identify the culprits - and in any quantity.
You can, of course, buy coloring maps of Ukraine, or at least an outline coloring map of a couple of regional centers. And we will periodically paint them in different colors, but so that there are more of our colors.
But this is not about winning. And not about goals, even military ones. And victory and defeat are determined by just one criterion: the achievement or failure to achieve the goals for which the fighting began.
If “the fighting was successful, but no set goals were achieved,” this is not a victory, but a defeat.
Although, if the goal was to move the NATO borders from 1997, then the goal was successfully accomplished. NATO’s borders have shifted, and they have shifted seriously.
Not where we planned and not where we wanted. But our army has finally been handed over to civilians, and it’s easier for civilians with accounting: there will be a victory, just a negative one.
And I don’t mind. It’s just that we have unity of command, so now let the civilians plan, command, and fight. Go, fight, solve problems. Follow the globe, you can’t go wrong.
Viktor Imantovich Alksnis, people’s deputy of the USSR, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of two convocations
OT:
SpaceX Flight 4 (with Ship 29 and Booster 11) launch window announced for June 5th - pending approval.
Someone needs to be executed for the failure.
“North Korea said its recent attempt to launch a new rocket, reportedly carrying its second military spy satellite, failed after an engine exploded mid-flight and crashed into the nearby water.
North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said it launched the satellite on a new rocket from its northwestern space center. The agency said it blew up soon after liftoff and the issue was suspected to be an engine problem, The Associated Press reported.”
I’m sure FR will be in the middle of it.
“Russia is flooding Europe with disinformation. The U.S. elections are next.”
“In 2022, European monitors who track Russian disinformation spotted an ambitious online influence operation they called Doppelganger. The Moscow-run effort cloned the websites of legitimate newspapers, magazines and news services, including Britain’s Guardian and Germany’s Bild, posted replicas under similar domain names and filled them with Kremlin propaganda.
The campaign was not shocking, given Russia’s kitchen-sink efforts to manipulate Western public opinion. More surprising is that, at least two years after they were detected, Doppelganger’s phony sites continue popping up around the internet like mushrooms after a cloudburst, despite ongoing efforts to close them down.
The sites’ persistence reflects the flood of Russian interference — and the near-impossibility of monitoring it, let alone stopping it — ahead of elections next month for the European Parliament. They’re also a foretaste of what Americans can expect in the fall’s presidential contest, in which Moscow will try to amplify the venomous clamor of U.S. politics.”
But if the Columbian ‘judge’ in NY gives DJT 6 months, then all bets are off.
“Alleged first footage coming out of Luhansk airport which was struck by ATACMS missiles an hour ago.”
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1795205023275655246
” HIMARS 🇺🇸 were used by Ukraine 🇺🇦 to destroy the Higher Military Aviation School of Navigators in 🇷🇺-occupied Luhansk.”
https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1795174113301934097
“The 🇺🇦Ukrainian K-2 Battalion of the 54th Mech. Brigade destroys foreign mercenary, presumably from🇳🇵Nepal in the East of Ukraine.”
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1795052641044557856
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
The complete transcript.
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[ Russia’s Turtle Tanks Shattered by Mines and Drones! ]
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Day 824: May 27
Today, there are a lot of updates from the Kurakhove direction.
Here, following the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Novomykhailivka due to intense Russian pressure after half a year of heavy fighting, Russian troops are now attempting to seize the next tactically valuable position: Kostyantynivka.
Capturing this location could enable them to achieve their primary objective in this direction - to bypass the Ukrainian stronghold of Vuhledar.
After initial unsuccessful attempts to capture Kostyantynivka with attacks from the west and southwest of Novomykhailivka, Russian forces decided to take a brief tactical pause to bring in reinforcements and prepare better for the upcoming battle.
Kostyantynivka, a key transportation hub in the region, is crucial for any side that controls it.
Prominent Russian military bloggers have noted that controlling Kostyantynivka would complicate Ukrainian logistics along the Vuhledar-Mariinka highway and create conditions for encircling the Ukrainian army group around Vuhledar.
The next logical step for the Russians was to commit significant forces to operations aimed at breaking through the Ukrainian defense line near Novomykhailivka.
According to a Ukrainian commander in the area, the Russians have concentrated approximately 10 units, including 2 brigades and several regiments, conducting over 10 daily assaults with infantry and heavy equipment.
These attacks follow the same two main vectors: one directly to the west and another heading southwest.
The assaults are supported by strikes with guided aerial bombs and the continuous use of Lancet loitering munitions against relatively small targets, such as individual mortars, to undermine Ukrainian defensive capabilities.
Geolocated footage has emerged online, showcasing some of these attacks and their typical unfolding.
In the first clip, published by Russian sources, an armored group is seen advancing against a Ukrainian position along a tree line in front of Paraskoviivka, a suburb of Kostyantynivka.
Russian artillery provides suppressive fire against the defenders. Paraskoviivka is considered tactically important by the Russians due to its location just east of Kostyantynivka, with both settlements separated by a small lake.
To advance into the village from the south of this water obstacle, the Russians need to capture the suburb on the north side, as failing to do so would leave their flank vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattacks.
To support these multi-directional assaults, the Russians have conducted several heavy bombardments on Paraskoviivka.
Ukrainian soldiers from the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade, responsible for the defense of this region, have released several videos showing in detail how they are countering Russian attempts to gain ground.
These elite forces are engaged in relentless day-and-night operations, prioritizing the destruction of enemy armored vehicles.
The first Russian vector of attack is through the farms located north of Novomykhailivka and east of Paraskoviivka. A Turtle Tank is leading the attack, but explodes after hitting an antitank mine.
Once it is disabled, the rest of the assault group, consisting of T72B3 and T80BV tanks, is also targeted with FPV drones and Javelin-guided missiles, until all vehicles are destroyed.
Simultaneously, the Russians also started another attack southwest of Novomykhailivka in an attempt to outflank the defenders in Kostyantynivka and attack them from the south.
Here, their assault group consisted of several T-62M tanks, BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, which tried to cross the open fields at high speed, but were quickly spotted and destroyed by the Ukrainians.
Although the published videos show only a fraction of the destroyed equipment, they highlight the resurgence of powerful Javelin anti-tank guided missiles, now widely available to the Ukrainians due to new aid packages from the United States.
After neutralizing the armored vehicles in both vectors of the attack, the Ukrainians quickly shift their focus to the enemy infantry and the surviving crews.
Their drone operators documented how they finish off enemy soldiers in trenches, tree lines, and various hideouts, using drone dropped grenades, and working together with artillery crews with cluster munitions.
This multifaceted approach highlights their adaptability and tactical progress in dealing with with the ongoing Russian offensive.
The firm Ukrainian resistance has led to heavy casualties for the Russian forces.
Military analysts have reported that based on confirmed geolocated footage alone, the Russians have suffered at east 32 damaged and destroyed armored vehicles in this first wave of renewed attacks following the brief pause.
Even the extensive use of so-called Turtle Tanks has not yielded the anticipated results for the Russians.
One video from the area shows such a Tank attempting to spearhead an assault before hitting a mine.
While the welded metal plates provide some protection against FPV drones, the Tank’s ability to perform actual combat tasks is limited to breaking through Ukrainian lines like a battering ram.
The video concludes with a lone surviving Russian tank crew member running for cover, underscoring that despite the Tank’s impressive appearance, their additional defenses are ineffective against anti-tank mines artillery shells and modern guided missiles.
Overall, after their initial unsuccessful attempts to storm Kostyantynivka, following the capture of Novomykhailivka, the Russians were forced to take a brief tactical pause.
However, the Ukrainians provided no respite, compelling the Russians to launch another series of attacks in an attempt to exploit what they saw as a final window of opportunity, before the US Aid reached the front line.
The Ukrainian defenders, anticipating such actions, concentrated all their efforts not only on thwarting Russian offensives, but also on undermining them by conducting extensive mining.
In this context, we must remember that it took the Russians half a year of active operations and heavy casualties to take the tiny village of Novomykhailivka alone, and it is only the first one in a massive chain of settlements.
So at the current rate of progress they have zero prospects of achieve with any significant breakthrough in the region, especially considering that the effective Ukrainian resistance not only bought the defenders valuable time, but also set the stage for future counterattacks, demonstrating their strategic preparedness and resilience in the face of continued aggression.
Kremlin snuff box,05/28/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
The enemy struck Lugansk. More than 20 special forces soldiers died
The attack by ATACMS missiles occurred on the evening of Monday, May 27. It looks like the shelling was carried out on a tip.
Enemy missiles hit a disguised special forces base of the Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), which was preparing to be sent to one of the hottest areas of the front. “We have 26 dead, 4 pieces of equipment lost. More than 20 people were wounded,” a source at the General Staff told us.
According to another, locals “who were wandering near the place where the guys died” are suspected of directing enemy missiles at the special forces base. Or traitors in the army. An investigation is underway.
Another source said that enemy missiles hit a military equipment repair and storage base. But other interlocutors did not confirm this information.
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