«The attack was successfully repelled, the car with the rag (USSR flag) was given special attention, I will upload a video in the evening.»
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1870446503904641310
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 attack was successfully repelled, the car with the rag (USSR flag) was given special attention, I will upload a video in the evening.»
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1870446503904641310
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1870173289081123314
ruzzia also have fiber optic cable FPVs.
Very difficult to defend against.
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1870450226135544210
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Ukrainian forces successfully attacked Russian positions using only ground and first person view (FPV) drones instead of infantry, an army spokesperson claimed on Dec. 20. Speaking on national TV, Sergeant Volodymyr Dehtiarov, spokesperson for the Khartiia Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, said “dozens of units of robotic and unmanned equipment” supported by surveillance drones were used in the assault near the village of Lyptsi, north of Kharkiv. Dehtiarov said the drones included ground systems equipped with machine guns, and kamikaze FPV drones.
Ochen Kazala!
Continues:
He did not specify when the attack took place.
Commenting on the reports, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the attack highlighted the difference in attitude towards front line troops shown by Moscow and Kyiv.
“Ukrainian officials have repeatedly highlighted Ukraine’s efforts to utilize technological innovations and asymmetric strike capabilities to offset Ukraine’s manpower limitations in contrast with Russia’s willingness to accept unsustainable casualty rates for marginal territorial gains,” the ISW said.
Russian military losses in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine have exceeded 750,000 Russian soldiers, and are expected to surpass 1,000,000 Russian troops within six months, U.K. Under-Secretary of Defense Luke Pollard said on Dec. 19.
The U.K.’s latest estimate is in line with figures from Ukraine’s General Staff, which, as of Dec. 19, sits at 768,220 troops lost since the start of the war. The figures do not specify killed or wounded, though the overall consensus is that it includes dead, wounded, missing, and captured.
“It is highly likely that they have sustained significant combat casualties, whilst only achieving limited tactical gains,” Pollard told British parliamentarians on Dec. 19.
Russia has gained ground in eastern Ukraine and Kursk Oblast in recent months but at the cost of heavy casualties.
Russian losses reached record highs in November and December, with a daily high of 2,030 troops lost in November, marking the highest daily loss since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Russian losses exceeded 45,000 troops and $3 billion worth of equipment in November.
President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed in a rare statement that Ukraine had lost 43,000 soldiers on the battlefield since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine is developing numerous new types of drone systems.
Military tech developers created a new unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) with the ability to carry explosives and drive under armored vehicles, the project’s spokesperson, Viktoriia Kovalchuk, told Business Insider on Oct. 25.
The UGV, named Ratel S or Honey Badger, was developed as part of the Brave1 government initiative.
The initiative was launched in April to invest in defense tech innovations that can be utilized by the Ukrainian military, as well as serve as a platform to connect the industry’s stakeholders.
“The main idea is that the robot (Ratel S) is used as a mobile warhead that carries anti-tank mines or other explosive devices,” said Kovalchuk, adding that it can run for 40-50 minutes at an average speed or for up to two hours at a slower speed.
Donald Trump’s team has told European officials that the incoming US president will demand Nato member states increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, but plans to continue supplying military aid to Ukraine.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4285761/posts
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Hardest hit, the usuals. Now they will have noting to crow about; their guys will still keep on getting blasted, along with the hapless Norks.
Finally, surge of military transport flights to Poland for supplies for Ukraine has started.
“Finally, surge of military transport flights to Poland for supplies for Ukraine has started.”
Amen.
Trump is going to take Putin’s market share, and Make America Great Again with it. It is a once in a generation chance at a major shift in long term profit flows.
OilPrice.com reports today:
“The European Union is prepared to discuss with U.S. President-elect Trump boosting economic ties, including in the energy sector, an EU spokesperson told Reuters on Friday, hours after Trump threatened to impose “tariffs all the way” on the bloc if it doesn’t buy large volumes of American oil and gas...
...“I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas,” Trump posted on social media platform Truth Social.
“Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!”
The United States is already the biggest supplier of LNG to Europe...
...Tariff negotiations between the U.S. and the EU may well involve the EU buying a lot more U.S. LNG.
Shortly after Trump was elected U.S. President, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in early November that the EU could replace what’s left of Russian gas imports with imports of LNG from the United States.
LNG “is one of the topics that we touched upon,” von der Leyen said at the time, commenting on a phone call with President-elect Trump she had.
“We still get a whole lot of LNG via Russia, from Russia. And why not replace it with American LNG, which is cheaper, and brings down our energy prices,” von der Leyen said.”
Biden is now tightening LNG sales to Europe and that is really too expensive for their long term needs. See were destroyed the Nordstream Pipeline and in the process cut off Europe from the energy they need and pretty much destroyed Germany’s industrial economy.
US poised for LNG export boom under Trump.
Houston Chronicle reports:
“A wave of new LNG terminals is expected to be constructed along the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast should President-elect Donald Trump carry through on his pledge to end the Biden administration’s nearly year-long pause on permitting LNG projects.
Such a move would substantially increase the flows of natural gas out of the United States, providing an economic stimulus to communities like Port Arthur and Brownsville...
...Currently there are 11 LNG projects awaiting export permits from the Department of Energy, almost all of which would be built between New Orleans and Corpus Christi, in addition to a development near Brownsville that had its export permit vacated by a federal judge after it had already begun construction.
Six of those projects are expected to begin construction once they receive their permits, increasing the country’s LNG exports, already the largest in the world, by more than 40%, according to analysis by research firm S&P Global.
“We see overall (global) demand growing by 70% between now and 2040,” said Dan Yergin, vice chairman of S&P. “If the U.S. doesn’t export LNG, this isn’t a vacuum. It will primarily be replaced by natural gas from other countries, who will be all too happy to take their place of the U.S.””
Russia’s War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits
(Foreign policy article from 14 November, 2024 https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/14/russia-war-putin-economy-weapons-production-labor-shortage-demographics/ ):
“Russia’s war economy is heading toward an impasse... No matter how many workers it tries to shift to the defense industry, the Kremlin cannot expand production fast enough to replace weapons at the rate they are being lost on the battlefield. Already, around half of all artillery shells used by Russia in Ukraine are from North Korean stocks. At some point in the second half of 2025, Russia will face severe shortages in several categories of weapons.
Perhaps foremost among Russia’s arms bottlenecks is its inability to replace large-caliber cannons. According to open-source researchers using video documentation, Russia has been losing more than 100 tanks and roughly 220 artillery pieces per month on average. Producing tank and artillery barrels requires rotary forges—massive pieces of engineering weighing 20 to 30 tons each—that can each produce only about 10 barrels a month. Russia only possesses two such forges.
In other words, Russia is losing around 320 tank and artillery cannon barrels a month and producing only 20. The Russian engineering industry lacks the skills to build rotary forges; in fact, the world market is dominated by a single Austrian company, GFM. Russia is unlikely to acquire more forges and increase its production rate, and neither North Korea nor Iran have significant stockpiles of suitable replacement barrels. Only a decision by China to provide barrels from its own stockpiles could stave off Russia’s barrel crisis.
To resupply its forces, Russia has been stripping tank and artillery barrels from the vast stockpiles it inherited from the Soviet Union. But these stockpiles have withered since the start of the war. Combining current rates of battlefield loss, recycling from stockpiles, and production, Russia looks set to run out of cannon barrels some time in 2025.
Russia is consuming other weapons, too, at rates far faster than its ability to produce them... infantry fighting vehicles (BMP, in Russian)... an average of 155 per month. Russian defense contractors can produce... about 17 per month, to offset these losses.
Likewise, even Russia’s expanded production of 3 million artillery shells per year pales in comparison to the various estimates for current consumption at the front. While those estimates are lower than the 12 million rounds Russian forces fired in 2022, they are much higher than what Russian industry can produce.
We do not know when Russia will hit the end of the road with each equipment type. But there is little the Kremlin can do to stave off that day.”
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 21, 2024
Ukrainian forces conducted drone strikes against Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan on December 21. Footage published on December 21 shows several Ukrainian drones striking large apartment buildings and other unspecified buildings in Kazan, reportedly after Russian electronic warfare (EW) disabled the drones.[7] Russian sources claimed that Russian forces destroyed six Ukrainian drones near Kazan and downed one drone over a nearby river and that one drone struck near an unspecified industrial enterprise in Kazan.[8] Russian President Vladimir Putin called Republic of Tatarstan Head Rustam Minnikhanov after Minnikhanov visited damaged residential areas of Kazan.[9] Russian opposition media suggested that Ukrainian forces were likely targeting a gunpowder production facility, an airfield, a military base, or a helicopter production facility near Kazan.[10]
The Russian MoD continues to exalt its efforts to establish the Unmanned Systems Forces following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official order to establish the new combat arms branch. Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov attended a meeting between the MoD’s Technical Council and People’s Front and claimed that the MoD’s Technical Council had enabled small, independent drone manufacturers and civilian drone manufacturers in Russia to create more than 65 new drone variants and systems, including: three reconnaissance drones, eight unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), two electronic intelligence systems, 20 electronic warfare (EW) systems, and four types of unmanned boats.[77] Belousov claimed that these manufacturers produce up to 40,000 drone products and 5,000 EW products per month. The Russian MoD reported that Russian developers demonstrated a new type of drone that can carry up to 100 kilograms and operate in difficult weather conditions. The MoD described the Unmanned Systems Forces as a separate branch (отдельный род; otdelnyi rod), which is consistent with Putin’s prior description and indicates that the Unmanned Systems Forces will likely centralize control over Russian drone operators under the MoD rather than Russian ground commanders.[78] ISW continues to assess that this reorganization may impact the Russian tactical reconnaissance strike complex (the integration of EW and unmanned systems with ground-based fires and attack drones) and reduce the cohesion between assault, drone, and artillery elements.[79]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-21-2024
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
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The complete transcript.
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[ From Bad to Worse. North Koreans Try a New Tactic. Regret Immediately ]
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Today [ Dec 21, 8 pm ], there are a lot of interesting updates from the Kursk direction.
As the Russian and North Korean assaults at Kruglyenke proved to be nothing short of a disaster, with both attacking sides suffering tremendous losses, Russian commanders decided to redirect their North Korean human waves to another part of the salient.
However, their tactics hadn’t changed, and with Ukrainians now being well prepared for the North Korean mass charge, the end result seems even worse than before.
Previously, the combined effort of the Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses during their offensive west of Malaya Loknya. Despite committing substantial resources to the assault, they failed to reach the town, incurring hundreds of casualties in exchange for a mere foothold in the forest. This forced them to reassess their plan of attack.
As their assault on the western part of the Kursk salient failed to achieve significant results, Russian forces shifted their focus eastward, targeting the area around Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Their objective remains the same, to sever a substantial portion of the Ukrainian-held Kursk salient.
Capturing Cherkasskoye Porechnoye would pave the way for an advance further south toward Kasachya Loknya, cutting off a key supply route to Malaya Loknya, as conventional attempts to take the town from the north and east have proven impossible.
Russians aim to achieve more success along the eastern flank by deploying North Korean soldiers to assault the forests north of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Russkoye Porechnoye head-on.
Securing these forests would allow the North Korean troops to amass their forces, under relative cover, enabling them to form large assault groups to overwhelm Ukrainian defenders in the two settlements, through sheer numbers. Controlling both villages would then allow them to launch further attacks southward through the forest, putting significant pressure on the core of the Ukrainian salient.
If we take a look at the topographic map, we can see that most of the high ground in the area consists of open fields. This means that the forests are the only tactical positions where firing posts can be effectively established, thanks to the tree cover they provide.
Moreover, their location north of Russkoye Porechnoye and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye provides both fire control and entry into both villages, which lie in the lowlands near the Sudzha River valley.
Unfortunately for the North Koreans, their first and soon-to-be final obstacle, will prove to be crossing the open fields in front of these forests.
Russian commanders had seen the devastation caused by Ukrainian drones and artillery to the unsupported pure infantry assaults over the past days, but still refused to support their North Korean allies with either armored or artillery support; preferring to use them purely as a mass-assault human wave, only meant to weaken Ukrainian positions and take the brunt of the Ukrainain defense.
Combat footage shows North Korean fighters charging across the fields in large groups of purely infantry. Having received just a few weeks of training, most lacked an understanding of modern warfare tactics, leading them to cross open fields in large groups, instead of using small infantry group tactics that Russians have increasingly used as of late.
This made them easy targets for Ukrainian artillery as they rushed toward the tree lines. Ukrainian drone operators quickly took to the skies, targeting splintered-off groups of North Korean soldiers with deadly precision.
Several North Koreans attempted to shoot down the drones with small-arms fire as they flew in, but the drones proved too agile, as they found their targets nonetheless. Ultimately, the North Korean attack failed, with the entire assault group wiped out and picked off in a brutal and futile charge across the open fields.
Overall, the poorly executed North Korean attacks, compounded by their lack of knowledge about modern warfare, set the stage for disaster, allowing the Ukrainians to exploit their shortcomings and inflict heavy losses.
The North Koreans’ failure to secure the forests will enable Ukrainians to heavily reinforce their defenses in the area and prepare for another future assault, making the outlook of any renewed assaults be even more catastrophic. This setback will likely compel Russian generals to search for yet another attack vector in a desperate attempt to recover from their repeated failures.
Last night Ukrainian UAVs and missiles targeted the Rostov region. The acting governor of the region claimed that everything was intercepted.
It seems something explosive on the ground was one of those „interceptors“.
https://x.com/Tendar/status/1870821864643191278
Short video at the link above.
I'm German.
16 years ago, the EU and US economies were neck and neck.
Today, the US economy is 50% larger than the entire EU combined.
Here's the devastating truth behind Europe's ongoing economic suicide 🧵: pic.twitter.com/Spv3TFa9SU— Ole Lehmann (@itsolelehmann) November 13, 2024
Destroy Russia’s oil & gas industry and Russia will be broke.
https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1870637964407329161
14 hours ago.
Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/europe/germany-government-collapse-explainer-intl/index.html
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