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Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
ORYX ^ | Since February 24, 2022 and daily | ORYX

Posted on 07/24/2022 5:53:26 AM PDT 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. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers 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 the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is 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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Ukraine: military situation update with maps, July 23, 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)

War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos

Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).

(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)

••denotes transcribed dialogue.

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Extras:
Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Strikes Port Just After Grain Export Deal Reached
The U.N.-brokered deal to get grain out of Ukraine could already be dead in the water after a missile strike next to port silos.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-russia-strikes-port-just-after-grain-export-deal
Excerpt:
Russia launched 3M14 Kalibr land attack cruise missiles, the favored Russian precision standoff strike weapon, against the Black Sea port of Odesa early Saturday. Air defenses intercepted two of the missiles over the city, but one struck a dry dock area directly across from towering grain terminal silos.

‘Huge impact’: Ex-CIA director on success of US rocket systems in Ukraine
Retired General David Petraeus speaks with CNN’s Jim Sciutto about the state of the war in Ukraine and a Ukrainian government report that US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) have “significantly slowed” Russia’s advance in the country. CNN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyES0I0agn0

Ukraine reports Russian strikes on Odesa: What it means for the grain deal | DW News
DW is a German public broadcast service.
Jul 23, 2022 A UN-brokered deal to restart grain exports out of Ukraine appears in jeopardy. Just a day after the landmark agreement signed by Russia and Ukraine, Kyiv’s officials say Russian missiles have struck the key port of Odesa. It was hoped that the agreement to open a Russian blockade would alleviate a global food crisis. But the reported attack cements Ukraine’s warnings that Russia wouldn’t keep its promises.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWpBmzRHXE

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Current Summary:
The whole situation is very positional. Russian troops are still regrouping, with not enough manpower to keep attacking in the north Donbas, raising the question of what Russian political top will do to address this whole situation. They have effectively lost the initiative on the front line. If they do not bring more manpower to the front, they will have to switch to strategic defence.

Russian sources say there will be a renewed offensive in early August. But here are no indications that Russia, internally, is doing anything to achieve that goal.

While Russian troops may go on a strategic defense, the UA troops and going to continue attacking. The UA an potentially squeeze them out by their death by a thousand cuts strategy

HIMARS attacked bridge over the river Inhalas. This splinters the whole Kherson bridgehead into two: the smaller piece includes the important city of Kherson. The bigger less important piece includes the Nova Kakhovka dam and guards the passage to the Crimean fresh water supply. One side of the bridge is still usable, but it is getting easier for UA to first take out half and then later the other half of the bridge, cutting off Russian resupply.

••Victoria Spartz:
She wrote another letter accusing Andrea Yermak of sabotage and creating dictatorship, so the scandal is still going on, and looks like it’s growing bigger larger and deeper.

Apparently, she’s accusing him of attacking all of the people with whom she spoke on the ground. There are some repression going on against those people.

We’ll update you probably tomorrow in more detail in the interest of time.

••Kherson bridgehead:
Things are getting warmer and will likely heat up.

Recap: Antonivsky Bridge was badly damaged so the heavy weapons, like tanks, can’t use it. The road across the dam near Nova Kakovka was somewhat damaged, but still usable. It is the only lifeline for the entire Russian group on the bridgehead. There is also a bridge near the village of Darivka was half destroyed. This make the logistics harder for the Russian group east of the Dnieper River. The river is a significant obstacle.

The entire bridgehead is almost split into two groups creating a tactical encirclement. They will have to retreat from this area. The western group is still viable because they are resupplied across the Kersch Bridge, but it too will eventually be attacked.

This is a slow destruction of the bridges that are vital to the Russian forces. The first part to fall will likely be the western Kherson area, which is only politically important. Most important is the eastern portion with the Kersch bridge and the fresh water supply to the Crimea.

In order to full protect the fresh water channel, the only option after they evacuate the Kherson-Zaporizhiza region, is to blow up the dam. This will prevent UA troops from crossing the river to Crimea. Should they blow the dam there will be a huge political and geopolitical fallout. The wave of water will be 10-20 meters high as it flows south toward Kherson and there Black Sea. Casualties could range from 10s of thousand to 100s of thousands.

So for those reasons, the Russian command will probably not do that. Not blowing the dam, leaves the way open for UA infantry to cross into Crimea. Russian will probably create an artillery firewall to keep the UA from crossing. The UA will try to take the Russian artillery out with their LR artillery.

No large UA offensive here, but more a slow suffocating of Russian troops without supplies.

Ukraine will not be able to take Crimea but will have the Kherson-Zaporizhiza region back, while the Russians will block the UA from the Crimea, they will still have their fresh water supply.

••South Ukraine In the First Days of the War:
(Edit: due to the extreme length, I’m only posting the first 15m:39sec of the video. The rest you can go and listen for yourself at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos ).

We’re gonna do today the first three days. Then we’re gonna do another video sometime in the coming week close the story of how things played out.

Then we’re gonna do the next video explaining a big strategic disposition of the troops before the war, and what sort of mistakes were done by Ukrainian command, and the Russian command as well.

Let’s start today with how the war started in the south of Ukraine and the south of Ukraine we’re referring the entire south including Mariupol’ because it’s all one connected big battlefield.

In many ways, this is separate from what’s going on up north, up in the east, north Donetsk, and west of the Donets frontline. The fighting in the south is separate.

{Edit: Russian Forces in this part of the invasion: (7th AD/205th/126th), (42nd D), (19th D), (46th B), (20th D/20th/33rd)}

But the whole situation is interconnected because the Russian troops were attacking in two groups from from the Crimea: the first group was a 7th Airborne Division, which is actually pretty large - I believe it has actually three Regiments. It’s not a smallish airborne division that’s typical of about like 8,000 to 9,000.

The 7th AD was probably like more like a 10,000 to 11,000 troops with two two Brigades: 205th B and 126th B. The126th B is on the weaker side; it’s a Coastal Defense Brigade.

We don’t have firm confirmation that the 20th Division was at the beginning of the offensive, so we’re still trying to figure out if it sort of joined a little bit later or if if it was in initial attacking forces.

There was also a tank unit, probably an attached tank regiment to this group, but we don’t have information which one it was. The other group of Russian troops consisted of 42nd Division in 19th Division so those are part of the military.

Then 46 Brigade (Chechens) which is part of the Ministry of Interior; it’s not really a battlefield unit. It’s a unit tasked with cleansing the capture territory, so that’s the role of that Brigade. It’s pretty large, I think it’s like a close to 15,000 troops in it, it’s actually not really a Brigade. It’s like even larger than division from a typical Soviet Division, more like similar to like a German-sized Division during World War II.

How things in Crimea started to develop in the morning of the 24th:
The first thing Russian command used, we believe (we’re not sure actually) was Airborne troops or Special Forces Brigade (sfB), similar, if you remember our video from I think July 9th, where there was discussion of how things played out near Kiev, there was the same strategy or tactic was used here.

There there was use of helicopters to capture strategic points, and specifically, the first one was the Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson; the other one was the dam near Nova Kakhovka and the road over it; effectively, it’s a bridge.

They dropped the Airborne or Special Forces Brigade troops; we believe it was Airborne not Special Forces. They captured both those locations without much problem.

{Edit: ZSU (Ukrainian Army) units involved in the defense of this region: 80th B, Maj. 59th B, 79th B)

Specifically we don’t know much about Antonivsky Bridge - we don’t have details. We have some very shallow details about this dam. It looks like Ukrainian troops guarding the dam didn’t put up any kind of resistance. Those those two bridges were captured by Russian paratroopers immediately.

The next step was the Russian troops launched their attack with a strong artillery barrage.

The only unit that was plugging the whole exit from the Crimea was only the Ukrainian 80th Airborne Brigade. There might be also some kind of battalion unit, but unfortunately we didn’t have visibility at that level. In any case, that doesn’t really change much, because the main defensive force was this 80th Brigade.

Typically, exit from Crimea or entrance into Crimea is generally hard; it was always hard during WW II and during the Civil War as a result of WWI. It was always super difficult to overcome one where one way or another. Usually, it was some time before these defenses were overcome. Usually, it led to heavy casualties on the attacking side. This is a typical history of this place.

However, this time Russian troops did not have any problem getting through Ukrainian border because Crimea is still part of Ukraine. This sort of blockage that 80th B put here. Apparently, after a heavy artillery barrage, it started fleeing. There was loss of control from the command perspective, a breakdown of communication, and it started fleeing in disorderly fashion.

Not to mention, it looks like the brigade was actually split into two pieces in the first place. The smaller half retreated; next, the largest part that was blocking near armies retreated. Both going in different directions, smaller going northeast and the larger going west. The larger unit finally managed to gain control of itself.

Essentially, it was absolutely disorderly retreat by this unit.

The Russian troops started pouring in they did not go everywhere. They were totally tasked to stay on course and their goal was actually to drive up north to relieve their paratroopers in Nova Kakovka using a straight road.

There was not much resistance from the 80th B and the larger part of that unit started going towards Antonivsky Bridge. They were slowly concentrated on the roads.

Something similar happened with the smaller group in the eastern exit from Crimea, there was even less resistance here. The Russian troops, from the morning and until noon, managed to to get to the main highway that goes all the way up north, I think it goes to Moscow.

Ukrainian defenses didn’t put much of a true resistance.

A side another note: In the past, those exits where heavily mined with a lot anti-tank, anti-personal mines, but they were removed sometime in January at the request from the political top in Ukraine, who were trying to bring peace or whatever. It’s mind-boggling what was going on. The minefields were removed.

This 80th B unit, as you can imagine, split into two halves against Russian troops consisting of two full divisions (7th D & 42nd D. Plus, another division: 19th D, two more brigades: 205th, 126th, potentially a fourth division: 20th D, and other forces. One lone brigade cannot cannot do much about them.

This was, in the first place, a mistake from the higher command in Ukraine by just putting only one brigade to confront the Russian troops, which also meant there was big miscalculation about the intent of the Russian attack. There was no expectation that there will be attack from Crimea, which, obviously in hindsight, was totally wrong.

There was actually a 59th B in this area as well. It appears that unit was staged there as reserve to the 80th B and had the tank battalion of the 59th B attached to it separately.

59th B was stationed in Zalizny Port to fend off potential sea landing which doesn’t make sense. The battalion was separated from the rest of the unit the Maj. 59th B.

the rest of it was here this is called Alaska Sans it looks like kind of like a little desert here this yellow place so that it was stationed there so again there is not much logic tanks fighting off a sea-born landing.

It’s also strange, but splitting the unit into two groups doesn’t work as as one system, weakening significantly the unit and actually disintegrating, because there is synergetic effect when you have tanks with the infantry; it gives you more strength than two just tanks or just infantry. It’s again a major mistake here.

There was also 28th Brigade in Odessa, but it was kind of it stayed there because, at that time, there was extremely high risk of the Russian troops landing here in Odessa.

It was just basically glued to Odessa, without moving much because there was real possibility of a sea-born assault.

There was also a rear guard and headquarters of 79th B in Mykolaiv, but it was, at that time, west of Donets.

The majority of the fighting force was there, but it’s the the base of 79th B, so you had some reserved troops in the rear: supply troops, all of that the part of the brigade was here, Later it will be used for defense of Mykolaiv. This was the morning and how everything started on this side.

Near Mariupol’
(Edit: Russian forces: 810th B, 150th D, 22nd sfB)
(Edit: DNR forces: 1 AK (1, 3, 5, 15, 100, 9, ?) )
(Edit: Ukrainian Forces: 53rd B, 36 NB, Azov, 74 Bt)

There wasn’t much going on here at the beginning. The only place where there was an attack was northeast of Volnovakha and there was not much of progress by the Russians. There was like one small village they took for 2 km progress; this whole north-south front line held initially.

There was no strong attack in terms of there was no like all of these troops here this Russian 150th D and 810th B were not committed in full force at that time; it was mostly this 1st AK (Army Kore) (DNR).

The way it worked in this whole are south of Donets / west of Donets / north of Donets, was no active attacks; just local attacks to keep Ukrainian troops and Ukrainian command under the impression that something may happen. 15:39 mark

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Summary: No changes on the frontline.
HIMARS system successful attack at the Inhulets river bridge near Daryivka.
One lane of the bridge was destroyed, other one is still useable.
Once this bridge is destroyed, it puts Russian troops on the bridgehead into operative encirclement position.
(Most areas are either frozen or freezing)
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead: no changes
- North Donbass area: no changes
- Donetsk West: no changes
- Kherson bridgehead: no changes.

1. Kharkiv: No changes.

2. Izyum bridgehead. No changes.

3. North Donbass: No changes.

4. West of Donetsk: Avdiyivka and Maryinka. No changes.
••Update the UA 79th B was replaced by the 68th B more than a month ago.

5. Vugledar: No changes.

6. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. No changes.

7. Kherson bridgehead: No changes.


21 posted on 07/24/2022 12:36:48 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
Too many Russian trolls on this thread daily . . . Sorry - it was not personal

No prob, and fight on, Ukies!

22 posted on 07/24/2022 1:28:14 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: PIF

“Antonivsky Bridge - we don’t have details. We have some very shallow details about this dam. It looks like Ukrainian troops guarding the dam didn’t put up any kind of resistance”

My understanding is the Bridge was wired with explosives to blow but never set off. That sounds like a betrayal/treason from some subset of UA.


23 posted on 07/24/2022 1:43:10 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: PIF; All
Looks like more artillery fire into occupied territory than UA controlled areas.


24 posted on 07/24/2022 1:49:14 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: PIF

[A side another note: In the past, those exits where heavily mined with a lot anti-tank, anti-personal mines, but they were removed sometime in January at the request from the political top in Ukraine, who were trying to bring peace or whatever. It’s mind-boggling what was going on. The minefields were removed.]


Yermak or Zelensky?


25 posted on 07/24/2022 10:18:19 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Zelensky is just the leader of his party, and does not actually govern. He’s seems more a figurehead and public face than a decision maker. He seems to be more in touch with the public than others.

Yermak and the misnamed Presidential Administration run the country; they seem to run it for the benefit of Russia. He seems to be more in touch with the FSB, than anything uniquely Ukraine.

But who it was that made the decision to remove the mines, is not named. You might hazard a guess.


26 posted on 07/25/2022 3:28:34 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

[Zelensky is just the leader of his party, and does not actually govern. He’s seems more a figurehead and public face than a decision maker. He seems to be more in touch with the public than others.

Yermak and the misnamed Presidential Administration run the country; they seem to run it for the benefit of Russia. He seems to be more in touch with the FSB, than anything uniquely Ukraine.

But who it was that made the decision to remove the mines, is not named. You might hazard a guess.]


Thanks. Byzantine does not begin to describe it.


27 posted on 07/25/2022 2:14:39 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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