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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 10/05/2022 5:43:57 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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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: globalistpropaganda; sorosfrchapter; speedyfrssorosbot; talkingtomypif; talkingtomyself; yetanotheroryxthread
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To: SpeedyInTexas

This is supposed to be a Russian tank surrender in the Kherson area.

https://nitter.net/Igor_from_Kyiv_/status/1577706301387325441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1577706301387325441%7Ctwgr%5E240c5eaebdd1caf5c4f69fb6957a4e4e562b3f1b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F100217225561


21 posted on 10/05/2022 11:32:10 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Safe journey!


22 posted on 10/05/2022 12:56:21 PM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: ansel12

So we should see the numbers of tanks lost by Ukraine to go down as well as up.


23 posted on 10/05/2022 1:50:10 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: MalPearce

I couldn’t help but think of the pucker factor of those Russian tankmen, even surrendering can be a very tense action when everyone is pumped.


24 posted on 10/05/2022 1:53:48 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

The videos of the tank surrender are very illuminating. It’s extremely professionally handled.

Also worth noting, they were talking to each other and to the prisoners in Russian, not Ukrainian. For that matter, Russian is also treated as the lingua franca in many of the army bases around Europe that’ve been training the Ukrainians.

Maybe a lot of Russians in Ukraine are actually siding with the Ukrainian armed forces. Or maybe Russian actually wasn’t being banned anywhere at all.

Funny, that.


25 posted on 10/05/2022 2:05:31 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: ansel12

“Do you have any thoughts of your own?”

He gets paid by the post count and word count, not for originality.


26 posted on 10/05/2022 2:58:33 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: MalPearce

Most Ukrainians are fluent in both the Russian and Ukrainian languages. This is a result of the Soviet Union imposing the Russian language on Ukraine. The languages are very similar.

This puts a lie to all the Putin proclamations that he invaded Ukraine only to protect the Russian speakers there. There are very few Ukrainians in all of Ukraine who don’t also speak fluent Russian.

I have a Ukrainian girlfriend and she is fluent in both languages. I’m trying to help improve her English.


27 posted on 10/05/2022 3:34:55 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There’s a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
https://bigserge.substack.com/p/politics-by-other-means

Putin and those around him conceived of the Russo-Ukrainian War in existential terms from the very beginning. It is unlikely, however, that most Russians understood this. Instead, they likely viewed the war the same way Americans viewed the war in Iraq and Ukraine - as a justified military enterprise that was nevertheless merely a technocratic task for the professional military; hardly a matter of life and death for the nation. I highly doubt that any American ever believed that the fate of the nation hinged on the war in Afghanistan (Americans have not fought an existential war since 1865), and judging by the recruitment crisis plaguing the American military, it does not seem like anyone perceives a genuine foreign existential threat.

What has happened in the months since February 24 is rather remarkable. The existential war for the Russian nation has been incarnated and made real for Russian citizens. Sanctions and anti-Russian propaganda - demonizing the entire nation as “orcs” - has rallied even initially skeptical Russians behind the war, and Putin’s approval rating has soared. A core western assumption, that Russians would turn on the government, has reversed. Videos showing the torture of Russian POWs by frothing Ukrainians, of Ukrainian soldiers calling Russian mothers to mockingly tell them their sons are dead, of Russian children killed by shelling in Donetsk, have served to validate Putin’s implicit claim that Ukraine is a demon possessed state that must be exorcised with high explosives. Amidst all of this - helpfully, from the perspective of Alexander Dugin and his neophytes - American pseudo-intellectual “Blue Checks” have publicly drooled over the prospect of “decolonizing and demilitarizing” Russia, which plainly entails the dismemberment of the Russian state and the partitioning of its territory. The government of Ukraine (in now deleted tweets) publicly claimed that Russians are prone to barbarism because they are a mongrel race with Asiatic blood mixing.

Simultaneously, Putin has moved towards - and ultimately achieved - his project of formal annexation of Ukraine’s old eastern rim. This has also legally transformed the war into an existential struggle. Further Ukrainian advances in the east are now, in the eyes of the Russian state, an assault on sovereign Russian territory and an attempt to destroy the integrity of the Russian state. Recent polling shows that a supermajority of Russians support defending these new territories at any cost.

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A political consensus for higher mobilization and greater intensity has been achieved. Now all that remains is the implementation of this consensus in the material world of fist and boot, bullet and shell, blood and iron.

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Putin, very simply, could not have conducted a large scale mobilization at the onset of the war. He possessed neither a coercive mechanism nor the manifest threat to generate mass political support. Few Russians would have believed that there was some existential threat lurking in the shadow - they needed to be shown, and the west has not disappointed. Likewise, few Russians would likely have supported the obliteration of Ukrainian infrastructure and urban utilities in the opening days of the war. But now, the only vocal criticism of Putin within Russia is on the side of further escalation. The problem with Putin, from the Russian perspective, is that he has not gone far enough. In other words - mass politics have already moved ahead of the government, making mobilization and escalation politically trivial. Above all, we must remember that Clausewitz’s maxim remains true. The military situation is merely a subset of the political situation, and military mobilization is also political mobilization - a manifestation of society’s political participation in the state.

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The other is the interpretation that I have advocated, that Russia is massing for a winter escalation and offensive, and is currently engaged in a calculated trade wherein they give up space in exchange for time and Ukrainian casualties. Russia continues to retreat where positions are either operationally compromised or faced with overwhelming Ukrainian numbers, but they are very careful to extract forces out of operational danger. In Lyman, where Ukraine threatened to encircle the garrison, Russia committed mobile reserves to unblock the village and secure the withdrawal of the garrison. Ukraine’s “encirclement” evaporated, and the Ukrainian interior ministry was bizarrely compelled to tweet (and then delete) video of destroyed civilian vehicles as “proof” that the Russian forces had been annihilated.

Russia will likely continue to pull back over the coming weeks, withdrawing units intact under their artillery and air umbrella, grinding down Ukrainian heavy equipment stocks and wearing away their manpower. Meanwhile, new equipment continues to congregate in Belgorod, Zaporizhia, and Crimea. My expectation remains the same: episodic Russian withdrawal until the front stabilizes roughly at the end of October, followed by an operational pause until the ground freezes, followed by escalation and a winter offensive by Russia once they have finished amassing sufficient units.

28 posted on 10/05/2022 4:44:59 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: EarlyBird

Totally. I work with Ukrainian refugees; so far I think out of maybe 30 or 40 that I’ve met there’s only been one who didn’t speak Russian at all.

Our own house guests (two refugees from east Ukraine) prefer to watch movies in Russian and they talk Russian to their family and friends, but when they meet up with the refugee support group, most people prefer to talk Ukrainian.

There was a bit of a diplomatic faux pas when the first meeting was convened by the local refugee support group, and they sent a Russian translator.

As in, a translator who (a) didn’t speak Ukrainian at all, and (b) was from Moscow. Weirdly, the complaint wasn’t so much that they didn’t like Russian language or objected to a Muscovite translator, it was that the Russian translator was being way too literal and getting all the idioms wrong.

The translator’s a really nice woman but has a VERY dry sense of humor. Even so... dang. Quite often she’d say something that people looked puzzled if not shocked by, but then a Ukrainian would translate what had been said in English into Ukrainian and you’d get a relieved reaction.

What’s that they say about the English and Americans? Divided by a common language. ‘Tis the same with Russian, I guess.


29 posted on 10/05/2022 4:56:29 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: Kazan

Where do you get your bullcrap from?

I’ve never heard anyone say ALL Russians are orcs - not that I’ve heard. I’ve definitely heard Russian people say all Ukrainians are “khokols” though - and I heard that BEFORE the Special Military Operation.

These days, Russian TV uses the K word even on serious current affairs programmes - and on Telegram that K word is used frequently to talk genocidally about any Ukrainian (I’ve seen it used to LOL at dead Ukrainian pre-schoolers).

Those same people tend to spin themselves into a pearl-clutching theatrical histrionic fury over the massively racist use of the word “orc”.

Ukrainians call the barbarians who are enthusiastically killing Ukrainians on the battlefield “orcs” (not just Russians - Wagner, Kadyrovites).

Conscript army, trained in brutal ways, don’t trust each other, don’t respect for the people giving the orders, and kill women and kids.

Come to think of it - if you confined the term to just the Kadyrovites and the Chechens, and a subset of Russian soldiers who enjoy torture just a bit too much, it’d be a perfectly apt description.


30 posted on 10/05/2022 5:09:00 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: jarwulf

>> According to Freepers who don’t care for either side but make several posts a week about how the Russians are 100% right about everything and we should do everything we can to help them including supporting their threats to nuke the US... <<

Nailed it. Even as someone who actually does have some sympathies towards the ethnic Russians in the Donbas and even supported Crimea leaving Ukraine, I’m shocked at how so many Freepers talk like 1960s-era, hate-America radicals.


31 posted on 10/06/2022 6:44:01 AM PDT by dangus
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