Posted on 07/27/2022 6:04:26 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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Extensive damage on the bridge.
“Footage of the damage on the Antonovskiy bridge after last night’s strikes. Regional officials have closed traffic on the bridge.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1552198832036913152
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/w98gkm/antonovsky_bridge_aftermath_uncrossable_by_vehicle/
“A New Batch of HIMARS Moves to Ukraine”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1552245793901498370
“The head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit not only the Antonovsky bridge across the Dnieper, but also the railway, which is located upstream. According to the collaborator, two rockets flew into the second crossing.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1552223533975093254
Just commenting to myself like a retard.
“Just commenting to myself like a retard.”
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That was the 4th straight “comment” to hisself in this thread. He’s on a mission.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, July 26, 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: Russian Navy Wary Of Anti-Ship Missile Threat
While Western-donated ship-killing missiles can’t end the blockade, they have been enough to prevent an amphibious landing near Odesa.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-russian-navy-wary-of-anti-ship-missile-threat
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Spartz-Yermak-Sharapov:
New rockets from Victoria Spartz that are aiming at Andre Yermak. We’ll see if he’s gonna be able to deflect this one as well as he did the previous ones. She’s bringing new allegations against Andre Yermak.
She was approached by some US defense contractor apparently in Ukraine, who who voiced the concerns about the person Denis Sharapov. He was appointed in April of this year by Andre Yermak to deal with their acquisition or purchases of their military equipment by Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
The bigger problems with Denis Sharapov are the following: he has actually in business with Andre Yermak in the same company, and then with Boris Yermak. Boris Yermak is the father of Andre Yermak and worked for a Russian equivalent of Central Intelligence Agency under Ministry of Defense. There are never ex-members of security community, they always work there till they die.
The bigger problem of with all of this is Denis Sharapova; he had business with Andre Yermak, and then he returned to Ukraine Ministry of Defense under Ukrainian ex-President Yanukovych ,who was a Russian puppet. He was ousted by Ukrainian people because he was openly handing over country to to Russia.
Sharapova remained in the Ministry of Defense and was also in charge of exporting weapons from Ukraine at that time. Ukraine had huge stockpiles of Soviet weapons and sold them around the world over the past 30 years. He was part of this monopoly company that was specifically created for export of Ukrainian Soviet military equipment.
The other interesting part of this is his sister also owns the private company because she works formally for the government then she owns the company called Trade House Ukraine Democratic Republic of Congo.
There is a lot of questionable things about this person and the bigger problem that they all three are connected to Rahamin Emanuilov, who was he is essentially KGB operative, he is very close to Putin, and has many connections.
He is also an adviser to Russian Senators. (Russian Parliament has two chambers Upper Chamber and Lower Chamber, similar to US. The Upper Chamber members, like in US, are called Senators.) This adviser to the Senate was in Afghanistan as a KGB operative. He was dealing with also the fall of the Soviet Union.
He was engaged the sale of military equipment. There were some questions about the Communist Party money where it’s gone and so on. He’s sort of deep in the weeds of all of the corruption and all of that that’s going.
Spartz released the letter about three or four hours ago, asking asking US President to pay attention to these facts and do something about it . That’s the essence of the letter so we’ll see what happens as a result of this letter.
This brings this whole scandal to another level, because the allegations are getting more hot, pointed, more specific. She mentioned all of the people who were speaking to her in Ukraine that they were attacked in one way or another by Andre Yermak using government power as as a tool.
WiU Commenter:
I actually work for security agency of one EU country and I am authorized to say what we know about Yermak. He is an opportunist that gets paid to work for Russia.
He helped Russia with occupation of south Ukraine by removing mine fields near Crimea and by designating only a weak unit to protect the potential attack from Crimea. He thought Russia will occupy only south Ukraine and Donbas.
When Russia attacked Kyiv he was surprised and he genuinely helped president to defend Kyiv area from Russian army and president trust him because of this. He was afraid of losing his power if Russia will take Kyiv.
He prefers to work for Russia as a powerful man in independent Ukraine. This is also the reason why Ukrainian army defeated Russian near Kyiv.
When Russian army left the Kyiv region Yermak started to work for Russia again - for a nice payments on secret bank account most likely in Switzerland. This is why Ukraine didn’t start a serious counter offensive in the south and eastern Ukraine.
Yermak must go or Ukraine will never take back occupied territories and eventually Ukraine might lose the war and will become the part of Russia like Belarus and Yermak will earn millions for “selling” Ukraine to Russia.
Naftogaz defaults:
Long discussion omitted.
Military Overview:
About also three or four hours ago HIMARS systems attacked Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson region. There were at least eight hits on the bridge - it’s extremely high probability that the bridge at this point is totally destroyed, that’s no longer usable in any shape or form.
That really now creates a major problem for the Russian command on how to supply the troops there, not to mention, there were again attacks near Melitopo. Probably Ukrainian command is continuously destroying this railroad junction to make the repair attempts futile. There were also attacks in the Russian rear, directed against fuel depo
••UA Troop Training in the UK:
Individual troop training for the battlefield is, in WiU’s opinion, not relevant to the situation, specifically tactical training. The training WiU saw looked more like anti-terror training on how to clear a building, like in Afghan.
This war his like hybrid of WWI, WWII, and modern warfare. WiU has not seen any training on how to survive an artillery war by digging in and proper defenses. WiU is afraid this sort of training will lead to overconfidence and heavy casualties on the battlefield.
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Summary:
Ukrainian troops lost Novoluganske and Vuglegirsk power plant.
HIMARS attack again against Antonivskyy bridge in Kherson that probably completely destroyed it.
Also, attack at the railroad juncture north of Melitopol that supplies Russian troops on Kherson bridgehead.
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead: no changes
- North Donbass area:
Ukrainian troops lost Novoluganske and Vuglegirsk power plant
- Donetsk West: no changes
- Kherson bridgehead:
Indirect evidence supports idea that Ukrainian troops are attempting attack without much success.
1. Kharkiv: No changes.
••UA troops had what seems like an accident with a Switchblade 300 which might have hit Moldova citizens - unclear what actually happened.
2. Izyum bridgehead. No changes.
3. North Donbass:
In the south, the UA lost Novoluganske and Vuglegirsk power plant.
••Active area.
••Wagner mercs took the power plant and the rest of the area west of the lake; some UA troops may have been trapped.
••UA retreat was orderly.
••Even though Orc troops are relatively few in numbers, they managed to squeeze UA troop out of some more territory.
••No clear concrete strategy by UA high Command or troops as a whole on how to defend. UA not skilled in offense or active defense. Rigid defense is the current defense tactic, which does not serve them well in these situations.
4. West of Donetsk: Avdiyivka and Maryinka. No changes.
••This is where fuel depots are being attacked.
5. Vugledar: No changes.
6. Velyka Novosilka - Gulyapole stretch of frontline. No changes.
7. Kherson bridgehead: No changes.
Davydiv Brid itself is held by Russians. UA bridgehead is somewhat to the southwest of the town. Details are lacking here. Information blackout by both sides
Antonivsky Bridge 97-98% destroyed. The major east-west bridge also out of action. Nova Kakhovka bridge in rough shape now - later attacks will take it down, make it impassable. This will be a slow attrition, until the point that UA troops can successfully attack. Will be another month at least.
Antonovskiy bridge 97-98% destroyed.
Don’t like, don’t read.
Don’t like, don’t read.
https://structurae.net/en/structures/antonovskiy-bridge
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Zahed Amanullah: A structural engineer’s view (yes, I was one) of the Antonovski bridge damage and why it has put it out of commission for the rest of the war.
From the images I can see, this section consists of box girders, concrete elements designed to mimic steel girders over long distances. The holes you can see on the surface are bad enough … those distribute loads to vertical elements.
The concrete deck on top is primarily in a state of compression, which theoretically allows it to be repaired by professionals (i.e, not those repairing the bridge holes at Nova Kakhovka).
This wouldn’t be an issue if the tension elements were unharmed (i.e., a steel bridge structure with a concrete deck). In such a case, the loads only span from beam to beam, a few meters at most.
In this case however, the lower part of the box, the part in tension, has been seriously breached. Not only are the steel reinforcing elements doing all the work, but post tensioned elements have also been severed. What are those?
Post tensioning is a delicate process that usually requires prefabrication due to the difficulties of adding tension to steel elements (big cables, not just rebar) on site. The PT is required for the long spans to be viable (and associated deflections to be minimal).
The box girders, whether using PT elements or not, are designed to work as one unit. They can’t just be patched. This is just my observation from available images, but IMO this bridge is effectively out of action.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if they try to put loads on this section, there is a serious risk of collapse. Will be fun to watch them try…
One more thought … given the bridge design, it was inspired to target the center of the span and not supports (which can’t easily be struck from above). I recall the Bay Bridge in 1989 …
The Kerch bridge has redundancy (probably by design) …another challenge altogether.
Ok, one more thought. Another advantage of box girders is torsional rigidity, the ability to withstand asymmetric loads - wind, but also traffic on one side.
Trying to use the undamaged edges of the bridge (the “wings” seen in this picture) will tip the span into failure.
https://twitter.com/zahed/status/1552211470024310784
Wow, good stuff. There is more to a bridge design than laypeople know.
ORYX just updated Tank kills to 898. That will be in tomorrows thread.
Will soon cross 900. Using the data point of ORYX cataloging 80% of RuZZian losses, that would put tank losses at 1122 (unofficial number of course 898/.8)
Out of estimated 1200 original tanks.
Just one big ClusterF by the RuZZians.
Hahaha. Make me laugh. What are they going to do?
“Russia threatens with “harsh response” if West increases weapon supplies to Ukraine.
“Increasing supplies of Western weapons to Kyiv may force the Russian Federation to take tougher actions,” said Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of Russia’s delegation on arms control in Vienna.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1552334619437154308
Crates of 200 cargo flying home.
“’This is how the fighters of one of the poorest regions of the Russian Federation, Tuva, return home. The inglorious end of the guys who were driven by poverty to Ukraine to kill innocent citizens. Now they themselves are 200th.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1552340666025480193
“damage on the Antonovskiy bridge after last night’s strikes. Regional officials have closed traffic on the bridge.”
That is an impressively accurate shot pattern!
Russian Artillerymen, Hang your heads in shame.
The best they can do, is to hit the village that target is in.
“Kherson partisans did badly to the occupational garbage.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1552322684817743872
“Explosion: the Russian Minister of Defense spoke for the first time about how he sees the future: ‘soon there will be the Soviet Union again and we will again live in peace.” It’s hard to believe to my ears… at least we know their goal”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/w9jwdy/explosion_the_russian_minister_of_defense_spoke
Three Mars II MLR systems, 10 PzH200, and five Gepards already in Ukraine - German defense minister.
Mars II MLR
PzH 2000 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer
Flakpanzer Gepard
https://twitter.com/BMVg_Bundeswehr/status/1552270326490288129
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