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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UKRAINSKA PRAVDA: Czechia finds funding to purchase 800,000 shells for Ukraine
“Ukraine’s allies have provided almost all of the funding ($1.5 Billion) required to carry out the Czech initiative...
...Czech President Petr Pavel stated at the Munich Security Conference that the Czech Republic had found up to 800,000 projectiles of NATO standard calibre that it could send to Ukraine in a few weeks if it received the funding for delivery.
The Czech Defence Ministry stated earlier that it was coordinating efforts and seeking previous commitments from Canada and Denmark, as well as other countries that preferred to remain unnamed.
The Netherlands publicly announced its participation after allocating €250 million for ammunition procurement, as did Belgium, which will donate €200 million. France, Germany and Latvia also expressed support.”
Video: Russian infantry in occupied Zaporizhzhia promoted to cosmonauts. Boom!
https://twitter.com/vik8867dn/status/1765712199274688865
Full translation of the German call intercepted by Moscovians. (I was going to post the entire conversation, but its too long):
Euromaidan Press’ translation of the intercepted conversation of German military commanders
Reporting From Ukraine:
Note: other versions of this report are found elsewhere on FR, but this is guaranteed to be the complete transcript - unlike the others.
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[ Ukrainians Catch & Destroy a Huge Warship ]
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Day 742: Mar 06
Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from Crimea.
Here, Ukrainian forces conducted a comprehensive multi-stage operation, which resulted in the destruction of a large Russian patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet.
It is important to note that these operations take weeks, if not months, to conduct, and most sources miss the scale and complexity of these operations by reporting on just the last thing that happens.
Ukrainian forces do not have a fleet, and Russian warships are careful enough not to get in the range of Ukrainian anti-ship systems as well as sea mines, so as you can imagine, it is extraordinarily difficult for Ukrainians to destroy the Russian fleet.
Right now, Ukrainians have only two means to destroy Russian warships: with Storm Shadow missiles and with marine drones.
When it comes to Storm Shadow missile strikes, they have become increasingly difficult because Russian forces made a series of adjustments, such as relocating their fleet to ports outside of the missile range and being constantly on the move within the missile range.
When it comes to marine drone strikes, they are difficult to conduct because most Russian ships are not only on the move, but also have radar, machine guns, and aviation support at their disposal to detect and destroy the approaching drones. So, catching the Russian ships involves a lot of planning.
The first stage of the operation started on the first of March. Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted a series of strikes against Russian targets near Sevastopol, Yevpatoria, Saky, and Simferopol.
According to Russian military analysts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces once targeted Russian Aerospace Forces airfields. In order to complicate the interception of the missiles and confuse the Russian air defense operators as to which missiles to prioritize, Ukrainians made sure to launch decoy missiles.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that all missiles were intercepted, and the airfields remained intact. And judging by the lack of geolocated footage, it seems like this is true. This is not surprising, as in a previous strike, Ukrainians managed to hit Russian airfields, so it was expected that Russian forces would adjust.
However, given the scarcity of air defense systems, Ukrainians understood that by improving air defense in one region, Russian forces necessarily created a hole in another region. That is why, two days later, Ukrainians launched a completely different strike in a completely different region.
The second stage of the operation involved a massive drone attack in the central part of Crimea. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians launched 38 drones of various types. What is interesting is that all drones were targeting the same area - Feodosia.
Now, as you might still remember, Russian forces have relocated a substantial portion of their Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Feodosia to increase the distance and complicate Ukrainian strikes.
However, the town is still within the range of S-200 missiles, and given that Ukrainians launched so many drones in this direction, Russian forces understood that Ukrainians were purposefully unloading and overloading the Russian air defense to open the sky for the missiles.
In anticipation of the missile strike, Russian forces started moving their ships, as it is the easiest precautionary measure against missile strikes. However, by avoiding keeping ships in the bay, Russian forces necessarily exposed their ships to marine drone strikes, which is exactly what was the next Ukrainian move.
Today, Ukrainian forces conducted a marine drone strike on a large Russian patrol ship near Feodosia. Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate reported that they successfully attacked the warship using Magura V-5 naval drones, inflicting severe damage on the port and starboard sides of the ship, killing 7 sailors, and wounding 6.
Moreover, Ukrainian sources noted that the warship had either a Ka-29 or Ka-27 helicopter on board, which Ukrainian forces destroyed along with the ship.
A Russian insider source claimed that after the initial naval drone strike, Russian forces tried to tow the ship back to port, but that the damage was so severe that the ship sank 5 kilometers off the coast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Center for strategic Communications reported that Ukrainian forces had disabled about 33% of the Black Sea fleet’s warships, including 24 four ships and one submarine.
The Marine drones are improving day by day and the success rate of these strikes has significantly increased over the last year.
Ukrainian forces have discovered a major weakness in certain types of Russian warships, more precisely most of them are inadequately equipped to defend themselves against such attacks.
By improving the speed and stealth of the drones, Ukrainians are delaying the detection, and leaving Russians much less time to engage the drones from machine guns or request support from aviation.
The destruction of the ships is important, not only for achieving the long-term objective of liberating Crimea, but also for the medium-term objective of forcing Russians to split their military budget, and spend money and resources on fixing or building ships, instead of other military equipment that would be more useful on the front.
So in the medium term the destruction of Russian warships reduces the pressure on the front lines, because Russians are allocating resources to ship instead of the front.
Eyewitnesses questioned the official version, "Ostorozhno, novosti" said. "If the authorities do not tell the truth, they do not tell it not only now, but also in other cases important to you," one of the locals wrote. Local publication Cherepovetskaya Pravda writes that the real cause of the explosion was a drone attack on the plant.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1765704536293822533
The authorities of the Vologda region confirmed that it was a UAV, by the way, the distance from Ukraine to the place of arrival is about 1,000 km.
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1765765838181675436
Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
A bomb exploded at the Severstal plant in Cherepovets. There are dead, drones that were made for the front are lost
The incident that occurred at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant was associated with the detonation of an explosive device planted at the enterprise. Sources in the FSB and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Vologda Region informed us about this.
According to the information at our disposal, the explosion disabled one of the plant’s units.
Also, the workshop for the production of FPV drones for the front was almost completely destroyed; according to various estimates, from 100 to 200 units of almost finished and finished products were lost.
The drones were produced by a private company that rented premises here and entered into a contract with the Ministry of Defense.
Two people, security guards of the enterprise, were killed.
At first there were rumors that the plant had been hit by an enemy drone. Our sources denied this information, despite the fact that it was ultimately chosen as the official version.
Among the versions of the crime are the actions of enemy saboteurs or unscrupulous competitors of drone manufacturers. Unfortunately, this has already happened in our country.
“The drone manufacturers are on good terms with one of Shoigu’s deputies, which is why they received such a rich platform. They say that drones were purchased from them at inflated prices, but this information still needs to be verified,” a source in the government of the Vologda region told us.
Kremlin snuff box
Shoigu gave the generals a thrashing because of the leak of data on losses in Avdiivka
The publication of information about the real losses of our army during the battles for Avdiivka caused a wide resonance not only in military, but also in political circles. We cannot say whether these figures reached Vladimir Putin, but we know for sure that this caused an extremely angry reaction from Sergei Shoigu.
According to our information, the Minister of Defense gathered 7 high-ranking generals and demanded that they determine where the information was leaked to the press.
In our publication, we recall that we said that the capture of Avdiivka cost us 14.5 thousand dead and another 42,000 wounded soldiers. Over 200 tanks, 100s of armored vehicles and artillery systems were also lost.
Rumor has it that Shoigu decided to significantly reduce the official data and put figures several times lower on the president’s desk. Now it will be more difficult to do this.
In any case, we hope that Vladimir Vladimirovich will be aware of the real losses of our army, because taking the city by the time of the elections is largely a political decision.
Kremlin snuff box
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Is it true that they almost hit Zelensky in Odessa?
In the first half of the day in Odessa, a targeted strike was carried out on the port infrastructure. At this time, Vladimir Zelensky was in the Odessa port - he held a meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece. We have learned some details of this story.
Firstly, both Zelensky and his foreign guest remained alive. Iskander-M ballistic missiles were used for the strike. One of them reached the port, another was shot down on approach.
Secondly, the shelling was essentially a response from our authorities to the raising of rates by the West.
It is no secret that in the coming days they are planning to receive Emmanuel Macron in Kyiv, who has recently made a sharp turn in his rhetoric and even advocates the introduction of foreign troops into the territory of modern Ukraine.
Thirdly, none of the interlocutors in the special services will admit where we got the information about Zelensky’s visit to Odessa. The fact that the leak could have occurred on the part of the guests cannot be ruled out, but this time the reconnaissance really showed the level.
It’s a shame we didn’t hit it.
Overall, it is clear that this incident is a clear signal to Western leaders and an upping of the ante by Moscow.
According to rumors, Nikolai Patrushev personally set the task of killing Zelensky before the elections. But in general, killing the leaders of states, even of warring countries, is an extremely difficult matter.
Tanks: 2803
destroyed: 1840
damaged: 149
abandoned: 277
captured: 537
Towed Artillery: 350
destroyed: 203
damaged: 42
abandoned: 5
captured: 100
Self-Propelled Artillery: 688
destroyed: 534
damaged: 39
abandoned: 7
captured: 108
Multiple Rocket Launchers: 353
destroyed: 265
damaged: 32
abandoned: 2
captured: 54
Total artillery destroyed: 1,002
“Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.”
“The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin’s efforts to spread false and misleading narratives.”
“Into the depleted field of journalism in America, a handful of websites have appeared in recent weeks with names suggesting a focus on news close to home: D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle.
In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.
While Russia has long sought ways to influence public discourse in the United States, the fake news organizations — at least five, so far — represent a technological leap in its efforts to find new platforms to dupe unsuspecting American readers. The sites, the researchers and officials said, could well be the foundations of an online network primed to surface disinformation ahead of the American presidential election in November.”
As I've said many times, the MSM did this to themselves, and to us. They destroyed American's trust, falsely reported on important issues, ignored important stories, and inserted themselves into politics. They forced their agenda on us and claimed neutrality. They forced people to seek alternative sources for news and information. That China, Russia nd others were there waiting to fill the void, should be no surprise. And it's not just foreigners. The Alex Jones's, Stew Peters, Tucker Carlson's and others were also ready to take advantage. What amazes me is just how many people will believe anything these folks say, regardless of how ridiculous it is.
Well, what is Johnson waiting for?
“Biden: If anyone thinks Putin will stop with Ukraine, I assure you he will not
Johnson: Nods”
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1765928180399976810
Babylon Bee summarizes the State of the Union Address:
“Dementia Meds Meet Their Match”
Sweden is the 13th nation to join NATO during Putin's tenure (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland and Sweden).
Putin is hereby nominated for the NATO recruitment lifetime achievement award.
Ukraine unveils Sea Baby “Avdiivka” naval drone
Ukraine showed Sea Baby “Avdiivka”, the first of 35 crowdfunded naval drones designed to target Russian assets in the Black Sea.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/03/06/ukraine-unveils-sea-baby-avdiivka-naval-drone/
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1766073641714717126
Khanty-Mansiysk is a long way from Ukraine. Most likely sabotage or vodka induced.
Just Warms The Heart
“Grim footage from the battlefield in Ukraine. A broken down Russian column was recorded by Code 9.2, a unit within the 92nd Assault Brigade. Lots of destroyed heavy equipment and killed Russian infantry can be seen. Likely the Bakhmut direction. “
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1766084793643487725
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