Posted on 08/19/2022 7:11:14 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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“Western intelligence official just told reporters attack on Saky airfield in Crimea by Ukraine ‘put more than half of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet naval aviation combat jets out of use. The Russian system is busy seeking to allocate blame for the debacle.’
Western intelligence official: ‘The real story is about (Russia’s) Black Sea Fleet. They’ve lost their flagship Moskva, they lost Snake Island, they lost half of their naval aviation package and their military headquarters was struck.’
Western intelligence official: ‘What we are seeing now is (Russia’s) Black Sea Fleet taking a very defensive position, trying to avoid getting in the line of fire. This is a proud fleet with a long history. The credibility of that entity has been diminished.’
Western intelligence official says Russians are starting to ‘run out of ammunition.’ ‘We have a large range of evidence to suggest munitions are being depleted...inc munitions coming out of deep storage.’
Western official says falling Russian munition stocks ‘ultimately will start to impair Russia’s ability to launch offensives.’ Says Russia has merged BTGS & is having a ‘terrible time trying to reconstitute its forces...this is not a good way to improve combat effectiveness’”
https://twitter.com/EJ_Burrows/status/1560592023383445504
“2 tanks of the Russian Federation met the National Guard in the Donetsk region.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1560232621162090497
“Unsuccessful tank attack of the occupiers, they burn well”
https://mobile.twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1560190424328900608
Vodka
“Overturned at the exit from Gorshechnoye”
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1560154566431309824
“A Russian MT-LB armored personnel carrier with a ZU-23-2 23mm autocannon was destroyed by a T-64BM tank of the Ukrainian 22nd Separate Motorized Infantry Battalion used in the indirect fire role.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1560563455119134721
“300 of these kamikaze drones will go to Ukraine, after testing in Poland (developed by an Australian company) 40mm grenade with a motor”
https://mobile.twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1560515598471266305
“Katsap steps on a mine and loses his leg, filming everything on an action camera.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1560477350415966211
“Captured mobile Goncharov Alexey Alexandrovich, born in 1972 from Lugansk: I was driving home from work, the car stopped, they said, with or without documents, you will serve. Called up on 03/08/22, without preparation, immediately got to the front line and was captured”
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1560595508090925056
Wonder what globalist has been granted the scrap metal concession for all that high quality steel littering Ukraine. Call it a hunch, but probably its a German globalist.
Where is the headlined “attack on Europe”?
It rolled under the desk, and he’s looking for it - but the dirty RuZZians hid it.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, August 17, 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)
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Russia Increasingly Feeling Sting Of War Behind The Lines
Every day, new targets inside Russia and Crimea are blowing up and by all indications this is just the beginning.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russia-increasingly-feeling-sting-of-war-behind-the-lines
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Video Shows Russian Military Vehicles Inside Sensitive Building At Ukraine Nuclear Plant
Evidence of Russian military hardware being stored in a turbine building at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as fears of an imminent incident rise.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-military-vehicles-inside-sensitive-building-at-ukraine-nuke-plant
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••WiU ‘congratulates’ himself on receiving death threats from some of his viewers. One person, Clayton Youngers (cyoungers23@gmail.com), saying “you will meet a worse fated than those suffered in Bucha. Watch your back.” Shared in the spirit of transparencey.
••European Energy Discussion:
Energy prices have reached such a high level that large companies shut down yesterday across Europe. Shortages in cars, sugar, glass-making, non-serous metals expected soon. Fertilizer is already dead.
Most of the blame for energy shortages goes not to Russia, but to European energy policies that destroyed their energy production systems. As a result the Euro has fallen to 1:1 and will get lower.
Price of NG is high and will continue to rise causing more inflation until at least January. As US companies sell NG to Europe, the prices in the US will rise as this NG is taken off the US market.
(Edit: US energy price rises also stem from government energy policy, as cheaper US coal is used less and less to generate power. ‘Clean’ and ‘Green’ power is expensive power - plagued with inefficiency, outages, scarcities, bird and bat mortalities, and high prices - all helping drive inflation.)
US Federal government restricts supply of NG to the market by preventing drilling.
(Edit: a lease to let does not guarantee financing, as Blackrock and and other financial institutions are discouraging lending to oil companies as part of the Federal policy, getting financing does not guarantee a permit to drill, getting a permit to drill does not stop very expensive lawsuits by Environmental NGOs, getting it all together does not guarantee a pipeline to get the oil and gas off the lease and to market. So NG and oil production falls and prices rise.)
As this US policy continues, NG prices will rise high enough that industries (like aluminum) will shut down, raising prices, and driving inflation even higher, while lowering “disposable” income.
This anti-conventional power government policies will continue and get worse. Much worse. If the governments do not reverse their policies and reinstate conventional power generation (coal, gas, oil, nuclear), western countries will be forced to de-industrialize and governments will not be able to run their countries. That is the direction all of these energy policies are driving toward, unless there is a change.
••Russian Energy Situation:
Western Energy policies have backfired.
••Another Turkish Peace Attempt:
Not likely to go anywhere. But politicians around the world are trying to end it because of the pain its is causing everyone.
••Military Situation:
A lot of Russian ammo dumps hit, but changes nothing. Was new attack on the Nova Kahovka dam - will take another month or two to resolve.
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Summary:
No major changes today,
However, Russian gains near Novomykhaylivka are shown.
Another attack at the bridge over by-pass channel of the Nova Kakhovak dam.
Key areas:
- Izyum bridgehead: no changes
- North Donbass area: no changes
- Donetsk West:
Russian troops captured area up to village Vodyane south of Novomykhaylivka.
This happened yesterday, not today.
- Kherson bridgehead: no changes.
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1. Kharkiv: No changes.
••Quiet. Artillery, air strikes.
2. Izyum bridgehead. No changes.
••Quiet.
3. North Donbass: No changes.
••Quiet. Some attacks. Orcs lack manpower to pursue gains. Their troops are exhausted.
••Despite heavy losses UA manages to hold its ground.
4. West of Donetsk:
••Quiet.
5. Vugledar-Velyka, Novosilka-Gulyapole stretch of frontline:
••Managed to create wedge in around Vugledar, could become dangerous.
Vugledar-Velyka Novosilk becoming a salient and leads to possibility of encirclement - flat terrain not easily defended unless entrenched.
6. Kherson bridgehead: No changes.
••Quiet.
they all want you to sign in...
36 more makes it 1000. That would be a feather in their cap if it’s done in only 6 months(around the end of August).
Says Russia has merged BTGS & is having a ‘terrible time trying to reconstitute its forces...
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That is especially true since Russia does not have any such thing as a Battle Tactical Group (BTG), so merging them is impossible.
This Western fiction is predicated on a memo by the Defense Minister in ~2010 which was ignored by the RGF, since the concept lends itself only to small engagements, insurrections and the like. But not large scale warfare. At the time, the RGF was undergoing a reformation to Army, Division, Brigade, Battalion and which continues to the present.
Sources that continue to use the BTG nomenclature in connection with the Russian Ground Forces are suspect either in their knowledge, reporting or just generally lazy.
The gulf between what Ukraine thinks it is achieving vis-a-vis its defeat of the Russian invasion and the reality on the ground is growing astronomically. There are some stark facts that must be acknowledged:
1. Ukraine’s air force is inactive. Whatever still exists is not providing close air support to besieged Ukrainian troops or carrying out aerial attacks against Russian positions.
2. Ukraine’s rotary wing aircraft–i.e., helicopters–also is inactive. Only a few helicopters remain and they rarely venture to the front. They are not hitting Russian truck and tank columns with air launched rockets.
3. Ukraine’s tank battalions are non-existent in the Donbas and Kherson. Ukraine keeps its tanks dispersed and camouflaged to protect what remains from air and artillery strikes.
4. Ukraine has shown no ability to reinforce besieged troops and launch a counter attack that pushes the Russians back permanently.
5. Ukraine has used HIMARS, artillery and saboteurs to hit some key Russian ammo depots, but these, so far, are isolated incidents and have not changed the strategic picture.
I have been a target of criticism for taking on the media and opinion reports that portray Russia as desperate and losing. I do this because it is important that someone try to objectively weigh the facts. Propaganda and misinformation can be very dangerous if left unchallenged. Ukraine is a case in point. If you think the facts I outlined above are understood and appreciated by the leaders of Ukraine, think again. They apparently genuinely believe that they will mount an offensive in southern Ukraine that will eventually expel Russia from Crimea. Why? They believe the intelligence and media reports coming from U.S. and European sources that claim Russia is on the ropes and its ground troops are demoralized.
Ukraine reminds me of a character from the second season of the HBO series, The Wire. Ziggy Sobotka, son of the leader of the Baltimore dock workers, is a dysfunctional mess. He also is Polish. The only thing in his favor is his abnormally large genitalia (he identifies as a man). One day at the port, he is goaded into fighting a much larger, more dangerous man. I think this is an apt metaphor for Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is Ziggy. The other dock workers telling him that he can whip Maui (the big guy) are the United States and NATO. And Maui is Russia.
https://youtu.be/DBI4TSbihrE
These objective processes are being opposed by the Western globalist elites, who provoke chaos, fanning long-standing and new conflicts and pursuing the so-called containment policy, which in fact amounts to the subversion of any alternative, sovereign development options. Thus, they are doing all they can to keep hold onto the hegemony and power that are slipping from their hands; they are attempting to retain countries and peoples in the grip of what is essentially a neocolonial order. Their hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world and for the entire civilisation; it means obscurantism, cancellation of culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism." -- Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Per chatter (unconfirmed rumors) the Kerch bridge was not closed last night despite reports that it was. A significant amount of eastbound traffic was observed but there is no assessment if it was civilian or military traffic.
By comparison very little westbound traffic was observed.
An airfield at Vesoloye (Crimea) evidenced major explosions. This airfield is not on the list of known active Russian airfields. Unknown what the source of the explosions was or who caused it or if it was accidental.
Trees are being removed along a section of the P27 highway near Sevastopol. The estimation is that the road is being made ready to be used as an alternate airfield.
A Russian patrol ship in the Black Sea reportedly exploded with the loss of all hands aboard.
A Marshall Islands flagged bulk carrier “Calliope” is currently anchored at 45° 01’ 47.2” N, 036° 38’ 05.7” E awaiting repairs for possible mine damage during its approach to the Kerch Strait.
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