https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1827679133691699627
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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https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1827679133691699627
🎯The 🇺🇦 Ukrainian 4th Mechanised Battalion, Presidential Brigade made a 3-point drop of munition on 🇷🇺 Russian invader.
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1827701846074433963
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1827728279232557338
The radar's capabilities will allow the Alliance to cover a wide range of tasks, both in detecting surface and air targets.
With the arrival of F-16 fighters, this radar will significantly simplify the work of Ukrainian units in targeting such important areas as Crimea and the Kherson region." 👀
https://x.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1827748134413373584
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1827762355301699943
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1827744121965928928
Due to huge losses, the Russian Army removed from conservation and sent to the front 122 mm M-30 howitzers of the 1938 model - the Stalin-era gun was destroyed by an FPV drone
https://x.com/UkraineNewsLive/status/1827645261427982654
🇺🇸 US-supplied M1128 Strykers APC and 🇬🇧 British Challenger 2 tank were involved in the operation.
More than 20 Russian soldiers were captured, several destroyed.
https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1827780145450549756
11 Russian strategic bombers reportedly airborne right now and on their way to their cruise missile launch lines.
Looks like Putin is launching a temper tantrum cruise missile attack that will hit Ukraine after sunrise. He wants videos of the carnage for all to see.
F16’s have entered the AD chat.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 25, 2024
French authorities arrested Telegram founder Pavel Durov on August 24, prompting concern among Russian ultranationalist milbloggers about their ability to report freely on the war in Ukraine. ISW has not observed any direct evidence indicating that Durov’s arrest will affect Telegram operations in the near term, however. Western media reported citing sources in French law enforcement that French authorities arrested Durov (who has French citizenship) at the Le Bourget Airport near Paris as part of a preliminary investigation into multiple crimes involving inadequate Telegram moderation and lack of Telegram’s cooperation with law enforcement.[17] The Russian Embassy in France claimed that it immediately demanded that French authorities explain the reasons for Durov’s arrest but that French authorities have not responded.[18] Russian milbloggers broadly reacted by expressing fear about their continued ability to communicate on Telegram, with some worried about Telegram’s ability to continue operating without its head, while others expressed concern that Russian federal censor Roskomnadzor will block domestic access to Telegram.[19] Some milbloggers advertised newly-created or existing pages on Kremlin-controlled social media site Vkontakte (VK) as an alternative method to access their war reporting if Telegram suddenly stopped functioning or if Roskomnadzor suddenly blocked Telegram.[20] The Kremlin has long sought to compel Durov and Telegram into complying with Russian censorship efforts and to strengthen its control over Russian ultranationalist milbloggers.[21] Russian President Vladimir Putin and Durov were both in Baku, Azerbaijan on August 20, and Putin reportedly refused an invitation to meet with Durov for unspecified reasons.[22] Durov’s arrest does not necessarily portend significant changes to Telegram’s content moderation or access to Telegram in Russia and Ukraine, and ISW has not yet observed any changes in how Russian sources use Telegram to report on the war in Ukraine following Durov’s arrest.
The potential loss of Telegram within Russia would further hamper Russian milbloggers’ ability to speak relatively freely under the Putin regime. Russian ultranationalist milbloggers and other groups have routinely used Telegram to levy complaints about the Russian conduct of the war in Ukraine, Russian government policies, and even specific officials without being subject to direct censorship on Telegram.[23] Russian authorities have resorted to public arrests of prominent information space figures, quietly fostering a culture of self-censorship, and creating a group of Kremlin-loyal milbloggers to exert control over the ultranationalist information space on Telegram.[24] An exodus of Russian milbloggers and other groups from Telegram to VK would allow the Kremlin more direct control to censor such voices on the platform itself, as VK – though founded by Durov – is currently headed by Vladimir Kiriyenko, son of Presidential Office Deputy Head Sergei Kiriyenko.[25]
Russian milbloggers reacted to Durov’s arrest by focusing on how Russian soldiers rely on ad-hoc communications, including Telegram, for organizing operations in Ukraine and called on the Russian military command to establish an adequate official communication system. Milbloggers widely characterized Telegram as the main alternative to official communications for Russian military personnel in Ukraine and argued that it is now vital for the Russian military command to establish an official communications system.[26] The Russian milbloggers could not agree, however, whether the Russian military command has already created such a centralized communications system and that it is just poorly implemented or if there is no such system.[27] Russian forces have broadly struggled with effective communications throughout the war. Russian milbloggers have previously described official communications systems as overcentralized to the point of inhibiting Russian indirect fire operations, and more recently Russian forces have failed to establish adequate command and control (C2) structures to support their offensive in northern Kharkiv Oblast and defense in Kursk Oblast.[28] Russian forces have largely compensated for this lack of adequate official communications by relying on their insecure personal devices to organize frontline C2, logistics, and combat operations, and the Kremlin has recently temporarily sought to criminalize Russian forces’ use of these devices without offering a meaningful alternative.[29] The sudden uncertainty around Telegram’s continued ability to operate within Russia and any falter in Telegram operations will likely impact Russian frontline operations, and if blocked completely, degrade these operations in the near term. Russian military Telegram users may start migrating from Telegram, anyway, out of fear of the system being compromised while Durov is under arrest, and Russian forces may start decoupling from Telegram communications even if Telegram’s operations are not ostensibly or actually impacted by Durov’s arrest.[30]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-25-2024
Russian blogger:
Putin has ordered the creation of a fully Russian analogue of Telegram. He expects results in a month.
The president gave this order in connection with the arrest of Pavel Durov in France, which could create serious problems for us. In particular, the army (we wrote about what exactly these problems are).
According to our sources in the Kremlin, all officials, military personnel, and special services employees will have to switch to the new messenger. A number of ministries and departments have received the order to develop it, in particular, the Ministry of Digital Development, the Ministry of Defense, the FSB, Roskomnadzor, and the FSO Special Communications Service.
Vladimir Vladimirovich expects the first results in a month. “We need to work quickly. Develop and launch everything, and if there are any problems, we will fix them along the way. The situation with communications could become critical in the near future,” one of the interlocutors in the Kremlin explained.
11 trillion rubles.
This is the figure for the scale of the theft of funds in the Defense Ministry during the reign of the previous Minister Shoigu, which was named by an expert mathematician in the State Duma at a closed meeting during a discussion of strategic planning issues (it was voiced by State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin on July 12).
Once again. 11 (eleven) trillion. The total expenditures of the Russian budget in 2022 and 2023 amounted to just over 31 trillion rubles. That is, this is more than a third of the country's annual expenditures. “If you lay out this amount in 5,000-dollar bills, you will get a tower 27,500,000 centimeters high, or 275 km. The border of space or the Karman Line is 100 km. Therefore, the expression “corruption on a cosmic scale” acquires absolutely real confirmation.
11 trillion rubles is:
~ 3,700 SU-57 fighters,
~ 22,000 T-14 Armata tanks,
~ 11 million Lancet-3 attack UAVs,
~ 220 million FPV drones ... “, - noted Vitaly Averyanov.
With this money it was possible to provide closed digital communications to all units of the RF Armed Forces several times “around”. And also the Russian Guard, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the FSO, the Ministry of Emergency Situations... And there would be enough for all the private security companies. If those 11 trillion had not been stolen, the Russian Armed Forces would have had enough forces and resources to protect our border. And we would not be guessing now where the enemy, having accumulated reserves, would strike next - in the Kursk, Bryansk, Zaporozhye regions, at the Crimean post, etc. And there would have been no breakthroughs in principle.
If those 11 trillion had not been stolen, the Russian Armed Forces would have had hundreds of times more new military equipment, UAVs - and now the enemy would already be pressing against the Polish border (in the best case for him). Those who stole those 11 trillion actually did everything to steal our victory in the war for the right to the continued existence of Russia. In fact, this is the most vile and disgusting treason possible. And for this crime without a statute of limitations, the harshest possible punishment must follow.
These 11 trillion most likely left Russia long ago. But the probable plunderers, apparently, have not yet.
Considering Russia’s huge reaction to the arrest of Pavel Durov and the quick statement that they will develop their own alternative to Telegram, one can probably assume that Telegram is part of the Russians’ information gathering.
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Drones reportedly struck Russia’s Saratov Oblast overnight on Aug. 26…
…The drones reportedly targeted Saratov and Engels, home to a Russian air force base (from which Strategic bombers routinely fly, to launch cruise missiles into Ukraine). There was no immediate information on damage at the base which is often used by Russia to attack Ukraine.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defence systems destroyed nine drones over the Saratov region, which lies some 900 kilometres (560 miles) away from the border with Ukraine.
Three more drones were allegedly downed over Kursk region, and several over Belgorod, Bryansk, Tula, Orel, and Ryazan oblasts. The Kyiv Independent couldn’t immediately verify this information..
Not understanding the tech and infrastructure necessary to create , launch and have it be functional my immediate thought is 1 month is extremely optimistic
Kyiv Independent:
“Explosions were heard in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on the morning of Aug. 26, as Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack, killing at least four people.
Air raid sirens sounded across the country just before 6 a.m. and an alert was still in place in the capital at midday.
Kyiv Independent reporters heard explosions in the city shortly before 8:30 a.m, with several more a few minutes later. More were heard just after 9:00 a.m. shortly after Ukraine’s Air Force said Russian MiG-31s, used to launch Kinzhal ballistic missiles, were in the air.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were power outages in “several districts” of the capital, and later added there were problems with the water supply on the right bank of the city…
Ruslan Kravchenko, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, said infrastructure facilities in Kyiv Oblast had been hit, adding authorities were setting up “points of invincibility,” communal station points that provide phone charging facilities and internet access for residents affected by power cuts.
…Shortly after 9:00 a.m., DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, said emergency power shutdowns were in place across Ukraine.
“The desire to destroy our energy sector will cost the Russians dearly for their infrastructure,” Ukraine’s Presidential Office head, Andriy Yermak, said in a post on Telegram.
Explosions were also heard in Kharkiv, the city’s mayor Ihor Terekhov reported.
Explosions were also reported in Odesa, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Kremenchuk, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Kropyvnytskyi, and Kryvyi Rih, as well as in Lviv, Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said a total of 15 oblasts had come under attack. “The energy infrastructure has once again become the target of Russian terrorists,” he said, adding: “Unfortunately, there is damage in a number of oblasts.”
Damage to infrastructure facilities was reported in Kyiv, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, and Vinnytsia Oblasts…
…Ukraine’s Air Force initially reported the activity of 11 Russian bomber aircraft, as well as numerous kamikaze drones, heading towards cities across the country.
It then reported the launch of multiple groups of missiles of various types.
Later it said another six Russian bomber aircraft were in the air.”
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