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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“Two years of war have remade Russia. Isolated from the West, it is now more dependent on China. Political repression is reminiscent of the grim days of the Soviet Union.”
And significantly, many things resemble Nazi Germany as well, where huge Government spending on the Military and internal policing and political repression temporarily boosted GDP, as the nation was led into an inferno.
From the article that you linked:
“the (Putin) government plans to spend $500 million on “patriotic education” this year, including for a goose-stepping “youth army.”“
No links. Have been watching fight arrivals on flightradar24.
Better late than never. Biggest transports from Uk.
“what is the motivation behind the creator of thread doing multiple postings”
It is a curated collection of developments in the war - like a daily reading list or news summary - items of interest.
A lot is happening, in what is arguably the most important geostrategic development in recent years, producing hundreds of news articles every day, discussing economic, political and military developments, virtually around the world.
Have often asked people here what does being a “nazi” today mean?
Name calling is usual response
What I think is more relevant is to ask who exhibits nazi regime actions.
The term “nazi” in of itself is worthless, Nazi was a political and ideological thing. Look around the world and throughout history and you will see the same beliefs and actions under numerous names and political parties
Compare Ukraine and putins Russia, and ask which exhibit more “Nazi “ like behaviors
Invasion, destruction through war, racial superiority, strong police state, zero speech freedom, zero allowance for criticism of govt or military…..
Not going to call putin or Russia a Nazi or nazi state, but is a difference without distinction
This thread is totally propaganda, unlike today’s post by one of your fellow Putin supporters, coming directly from the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences for Information Policy - which, of course is propaganda-free, open, honest, truthful, etc.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4219841/posts
“Is God really turning away from us (Russia)?”
That is going to become increasingly clear after Putin’s reinstallment on 17 March, when he can drop the pre-“election” manipulations, and the backed up bills get passed to the people.
On of those bills Is going to be in blood, when the American aid is finally provided
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
[ Death Zone. Ukrainians Detect And Annihilate a Large Russian Attack Force ]
==
Day 731: Feb 24
Today there is a lot of news from the Bakhmut direction.
The most interesting news comes from the southern flank.
Here Ukrainians repelled several Russian attacks and prevented them from gaining any ground. Multiple videos emerged of Russian armor, supply vehicles, and ground troops being hunted down by FPV drone operators, anti-tank guided missiles, or even snipers.
Ukrainian drone operators from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade distinguished themselves the most. One of the videos recorded near Kurdyumivka and Andriivka shows 2 Russian BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 BTR-82 armored transport being detected and subsequently destroyed by FPV drones, and one T-90 tank which was detected and struck by Ukrainian anti-tank operators of 3rd Border Guards Detachment.
Several vehicles carrying ammunition and personnel were also destroyed while passing to Kurdyumivka, likely on their way to Bakhmut.
This clearly shows that Ukrainians established firm fire control of the supply road, which implies that Russian logistical capabilities are being limited around here. Ukrainian drone operators fly as far as Bakhmut itself, one combat video shows a supply vehicle with ammunition being destroyed in a catastrophic explosion caused by a drone.
A pile of mines with various ammunition was also detected and destroyed by drone operators near Kurdyumivka.
A rare video of a Ukrainian sniper was published as well, showing the demise of two Russian soldiers. Overall, Ukrainians are holding on to Klischiivka and there are no signs of Russians taking it anytime soon.
Based on the extensive combat footage, it seems like Ukrainians are trying to undermine the Russian offensive effort on Ivanivske by increasing the intensity of their strikes on Russian equipment moving along the main grounds of communication.
Nonetheless, Russian forces maintain the tempo of their offensive effort, regardless of the death toll and equipment losses. Last time we talked about this area, Russians managed to gain ground to the east of Ivanivske and claimed to launch assaults to the north of Ivanivske.
After intense assaults that included storming of well-fortified Ukrainian positions, Russians managed to generate small gains to the south of the forest and advance to Ivanivske from the north. However, Ukrainians still firmly hold most of the tactical elevations in the area which leaves Russians no chance but to fight their way through to finally initiate their attack from the north.
Otherwise, Ukrainians would launch counter-attacks on their exposed flanks. Russians understand this and in an attempt to fix Ukrainian troops, they are shelling the Ukrainian positions at the elevation to northwest of Ivanivske.
Russian military sources had reported earlier that Russian forces managed to break Ukrainian defenses to the east of the village and enter it.
This was later confirmed by Ukrainian sources and fighters in the area.
Russians launched intense artillery preparations, including TOS-1A thermobaric artillery to strike Ukrainian positions to make the assault easier. TOS-1A is a destructive system whose thermobaric capabilities suck out the air in the area around the impact, making them far more deadly than ordinary artillery systems.
After artillery preparations, the Russians launched large armored assaults towards Ivanivske which managed to enter the village from the east and the south.
However, this came at a heavy cost with dozens of armored vehicles getting destroyed on the approaches to the village by FPV drone operators of the SIGNUM drone detachment.
Among the destroyed armored vehicles were at least 3 BMP-3s, 1 BMP-2, 1 BTR-82, and many, many more unrecognizable wrecks of destroyed columns.
Russian forces were so numerous that Ukrainians had to deploy several drones at the same time to destroy the vehicles in the eastern part of the village.
Ukrainian fighters in Ivanivske were reported to have engaged and destroyed a group of Russian forces that entered the center of the village and restricted them to its eastern edges.
During the attack on Ivanivske, Russians launched one of the attacks from the tactical elevations north of Klischiivka, implying that Russians are not planning to use their advantage of tactical heights to continue advances towards Klischiivka, but rather use them to support the attacks on Ivanivske.
The Russian command likely proceeds to push in this particular direction, anticipating that taking Ivanivske will collapse the whole southern flank.
In the forest to the north of Ivanivske near Chasiv Yar, the Russians did not make any notable progress because of the large focus on taking Ivanivske.
This can also be attributed to increased Ukrainian efforts at launching strikes on Russian supply vehicles on the road to Ivanivske and their armored attack formations which are being destroyed across a wide area from the Horlivka-Bakhmut highway to the northern flank.
These losses result in Russians taking time to organize and supply their attack formations which can further delay their attacks and buy more time for the Ukrainian defenders.
Overall, Russians are trying to accelerate their advances at the expense of higher losses in equipment and manpower to fulfill their objectives, before the Presidential elections in March.
The negative effects of a politically driven approach to warfare, coupled with complex terrain configuration, will give Ukrainians an advantage in bleeding out the enemy and gaining an opportunity to strike back.
And bleeding out Russian forces is an extremely important objective for the Ukrainian forces because it can undermine the new offensive operation that the Russians are about to launch.
That’s funny, and I am sure you believe that
LOL!
Did I hurt your feelings?
If you ask a stupid question, you better be prepared for a reply.
You zeepers clog up FR every single day with propaganda. Btw, who in their right mind posts non-stop propaganda to herself/himself??
“The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”
“Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed, its command center a burned-out husk, a casualty of a Russian missile barrage early in the war.
But that is above ground.
Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.
The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.”
Highly recommend the article “The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin”
“Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.”
“The relationship is so ingrained that C.I.A. officers remained at a remote location in western Ukraine when the Biden administration evacuated U.S. personnel in the weeks before Russia invaded in February 2022. During the invasion, the officers relayed critical intelligence, including where Russia was planning strikes and which weapons systems they would use.”
WOW. Budanov is the MAN.
“At the time, the future head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, General Budanov, was a rising star in Unit 2245. He was known for daring operations behind enemy lines and had deep ties to the C.I.A. The agency had trained him and also taken the extraordinary step of sending him for rehabilitation to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after he was shot in the right arm during fighting in the Donbas.
Disguised in Russian uniforms, then-Lt. Col. Budanov led commandos across a narrow gulf in inflatable speedboats, landing at night in Crimea.
But an elite Russian commando unit was waiting for them. The Ukrainians fought back, killing several Russian fighters, including the son of a general, before retreating to the shoreline, plunging into the sea and swimming for hours to Ukrainian-controlled territory.”
🥱😴
“For the first time since start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, President Zelensky has given an official figure for the number of Ukrainian troops killed: 31,000. He did not state the number of wounded. Doesn’t count Ukraine’s ~4,400 troops killed in the Donbas between 2014-21.”
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1761779587606868271
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