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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The approximate cost of the complex is $100 million.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1828536689922580932
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Fires broke out at two separate oil depots in Russia’s Rostov Oblast in an apparent drone attack on the region, local Russian media reported overnight on Aug. 28.
Residents in the region reported hearing explosions around 3 a.m. local time, local Russian state-controlled media outlet Rostov Novosti claimed. The explosions were followed by thick black smoke rising from depots near the community of Kamensky.
Rostov Oblast’s Governor Vasily Golubev claimed that four Ukrainian attack drones had been shot down over the region.
Social media videos of a fire filmed by a local resident depict a large blaze and black smoke rising from the apparent oil depot...
...In nearby Proletarsk in Rostov Oblast, Satellite images obtained by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty suggest that an oil depot fire keeps spreading at the Kavkaz oil and petroleum storage facility. The fire has been ongoing for at least ten days...
...Rostov Novosti claimed that the severity of the fires caused by the alleged overnight attack on Aug. 28 also poses a significant risk of the fire spreading to nearby holding tanks.”
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 27, 2024
Russian officials attempted to use International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi’s visit to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) to falsely portray Ukraine as threatening a radiological incident, likely to undermine Western support for Ukraine by stoking unfounded fears about Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Oblast. Grossi stated on X (formerly Twitter) on August 27 that the situation at the KNPP is “serious” and that “attacking any NPP is unacceptable, no matter the location.”[19] Grossi reportedly stated that the KNPP is particularly vulnerable because its reactor has no containment vessel and is located in an “ordinary building,” leaving it vulnerable to shelling or drone strikes.[20] Russian government-affiliated news outlets claimed that Grossi stated that he saw evidence of “nearby” combat operations including drones and drone debris.[21] Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev claimed that Russian authorities presented evidence of Ukrainian strikes against the KNPP and claimed that “there can be no ambiguity about who conducted these strikes.”[22] Kremlin newswire TASS also purposefully misrepresented Grossi’s previous statement about his plans to visit the KNPP, claiming that Grossi stated that Ukrainian forces’ actions endangered the KNPP.[23] The IAEA acknowledged that Russia informed the IAEA that it found drone debris at the KNPP, but the IAEA did not provide any assessments from where the drone came or verifications of Russia’s claim.[24] ISW previously noted that Ukrainian forces have consistently demonstrated capabilities to conduct rear area strikes within Russia and occupied Ukraine at distances exceeding the roughly 60 kilometers between the KNPP and the international border or the roughly 30-40 kilometers from the current Ukrainian FLOT within Kursk Oblast, suggesting that the Ukrainian military command has deliberatively avoided striking the KNPP.[25]
The Kremlin routinely attempts to portray Ukraine as endangering the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and extended this information operation to the KNPP shortly after Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk Oblast.[26] Russian government-affiliated media has also purposefully misrepresented IAEA statements to cohere with Russian information operations aimed at portraying Ukraine as threatening the ZNPP and legitimizing Russia’s occupation of the ZNPP.[27] The Kremlin likely also attempting to obfuscate its own routine endangerment of the Russian-occupied ZNPP - through its routine militarization of the ZNPP - by drawing focus onto Ukraine’s alleged endangerment of the KNPP. Russian forces fired at the ZNPP during their seizure of the ZNPP in March 2022 and have since stored and operated military equipment within the territory of the plant.[28]
more + maps https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-27-2024
Alarming situation with oil depots
The past night was difficult again for the Rostov region. In particular, an oil depot near the village of Molodezhny in the Kamensky district was attacked . And this is against the background of the fact that for the 11th day in a row, the already virtually destroyed oil depot in Proletarsk has been burning.
Sources in the government do not hide the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have inflicted serious damage on the oil and gas sector over the past six months. “First, they hit the oil refineries. The problem here was that it was impossible to tightly close all processing facilities even in the European part of the Russian Federation. No air defense would be enough, given the length of the front and the need to also cover airfields and other military facilities,” the source explains. According to him, all forces were thrown into repairing the already destroyed infrastructure, but the enemy also increased the intensity and range of the strikes.
“We don't understand where we will be burning tomorrow morning. And this is a big problem. Now they are knocking out oil depots and hubs that are important to us. For example, the sunken ferry in the port of Kavkaz is a serious blow, despite the presence of the Crimean Bridge,” the source emphasized.
The Defense Ministry declined to comment on whether the strikes on oil depots affect fuel supplies to the troops. However, they noted that not only fuel is burning, but infrastructure is also being destroyed. And its restoration will require not only funds, but also time. Which could create problems in the conditions of the SVO [invasion of Ukraine].
The VChK-OGPU has received information that local customs officers, with the support of security forces, came to the mothballed base of the Wagner PMC in the Rostov Region. According to the source, the FCS officers visited the military company's mothballed equipment parking lot, where Mitsubishi L200 vehicles are stored. These vehicles were used by the Wagners in Africa, and later for movement in the combat zone in Ukraine.
The FCS justifies its visit by saying that the vehicles “did not undergo the appropriate customs procedures”, and therefore it plans to confiscate the equipment as cargo illegally transported to Russia. At the same time, the source adds, the vehicles have been in the Russian Federation since 2022, when the Wagner PMC was urgently transferred from Africa to the combat zone in Donbas. “The guys stormed Popasnaya in these pickups. They were brought from Libya when everyone was put on alert. No one had any questions then. Everyone understood that this was being done for military purposes, and promptness was required,” the source added.
This is not the first such situation. Our interlocutors in the region said that this is a common story for the Rostov region. Local security forces have built a whole business of “squeezing” equipment from servicemen and volunteers coming to the region from Donbass under various pretexts. The confiscated car is quickly sold to affiliated persons at a bargain price, and then sold for good money. Apparently, the Rostov security forces decided to bite off a bigger piece, as their appetites have grown.
https://t.me/vchkogpu/50415
We should expect revenge from Wagner
Ukraine is dying a death of a thousand cuts, each one a tragedy.
While it's Corporate masters in the US and London, make obscene profits from the human calamity they instigated and perpetuate from Kiev
Zelenksy, Johnston, Biden, Blinken all wealthy men in warm beds tonight. pic.twitter.com/7NBtulcosn— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 27, 2024
No disrespect for the dead, but that’s a truly ugly cemetery.
Pace of Ukraine Advance Slowing As Kursk Invasion Hits Three-Week Mark
As Ukraine continues to fight inside Russia, the fate of a key city in Donetsk remains precarious.
https://www.twz.com/air/pace-of-ukraine-advance-slowing-as-kursk-invasion-hits-three-week-mark
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Ukraine Says It Has Tested A New Domestically-Designed Ballistic Missile
Ukraine getting a new ballistic missile free from use restrictions could be a major advance in the country’s long-range strike capabilities.
https://www.twz.com/air/ukraine-says-it-has-tested-a-new-domestically-designed-ballistic-missile
The local Russian regime authorities fear a similar scenario as in Proletarsk, where the fire is still raging.
https://x.com/Tendar/status/1828656559070552181
4 videos at the above link.
Kamensky district, Rostov region on Google Maps
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1828747929223668071
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1828683590185423040
#ATESH conducted a series of sabotage operations on a new railway line of the occupiers in southern Ukraine.
The line connects Rostov-on-Don with Mariupol. The arson of relay boxes caused disruptions in control systems, slowing down the movement of trains carrying military cargo
https://x.com/atesh_eng/status/1828704070070050965
FPV operators and artillerymen dismantled the position, destroying both the gun and its crew in the Zaporizhzhia direction.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1828745928280326534
Designed in the late 1940s...first seen in 1955.
Most often found in museums.
They destroyed or damaged a BREM recovery vehicle, an MT-LB armored vehicle, a 152mm "Msta-S" self-propelled howitzer, an armored personnel carrier with troops, four vehicles, and one motorcycle.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1828786600878231825
These drones could have guided Iskanders and KABs, but now they pose no threat.
This represents thousands of saved lives, protected Ukrainian equipment, and disrupted Russian reconnaissance.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1828748566698832330
UKF must have developed a way to locate these drones through ELINT.
Ukrainian warriors from the 28th Mechanized Brigade shot down a russian Su-25 plane in the Kramatorsk direction.
Bravo!
https://x.com/DefenceU/status/1828663745448378832
Kremlin snuff box, 08/28/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Will Lukashenko finally enter the war?
In the comments, many people ask - for what purpose is Alexander Lukashenko gathering his troops to cross the borders with the Russian Federation and Ukraine? Is he really preparing to join the SVO?
Short answer: no, it is not prepared.
We explain: there is no real need for the Republic of Belarus to enter the war now. Lukashenko has been “loitering” for three years now. And if he did not join in February-March 2022, when Russian troops were stationed near Kiev, then what should make him change his position now? At the moment when the Ukrainian Armed Forces occupied part of the Kursk region.
Lukashenko gave a lot in order not to enter into war. He used China as leverage to curb the Kremlin’s ambitions. Putin is wildly infuriated by this, but he is pulling out of Belarus what Russia has problems with - technology.
An important note: the army of Belarus has not fought anywhere, they have no real experience and no desire to go to war. Don’t believe me? Here’s what my colleagues wrote: Lukashenko sent almost half of the military equipment that he had left to the border. He understands that any wrong decision will put an end to him and Belarus as a state.
Therefore, those who disperse such stuffing (and among them there are many military correspondents) are clearly wishful thinking.
Kremlin snuff box, 08/28/24
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Alarming situation with oil depots
Last night was again difficult for the Rostov region. In particular, was attacked an oil depot near the village of Molodezhny in the Kamensky district is burning for the 11th day in a row. And this is against the backdrop of the fact that the virtually destroyed oil depot in Proletarsk.
Government sources do not hide that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have caused serious damage to the oil and gas sector over the past six months.
“First they hit the oil refineries. The problem here was that it was impossible to tightly close all processing facilities even in the European part of the Russian Federation. No air defense would be enough, given the length of the front and the need to also cover airfields and other military facilities,” the source explains.
According to him, all efforts were devoted to repairing the already damaged infrastructure, but the enemy also increased the intensity and range of attacks.
“We don’t understand where we will be on fire tomorrow morning. And this is a big problem. Now they are knocking out oil depots and nodes that are important to us. For example, the sunken ferry in the port of Kavkaz is a serious blow, despite the presence of the Crimean Bridge,” he emphasized companion.
The Ministry of Defense refused to comment on whether attacks on oil depots affect fuel supplies to troops. However, they noticed that not only fuel is burned out, but infrastructure is also destroyed.
And its restoration will require not only funds, but also time. Which can create problems in the conditions of the Northern Military District.
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