“Bloated face, hand strangely gripping the the arm chair, nervous foot movement, overall disfigured. He is dissolving.”
Posted on 11/23/2022 8:55:47 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. 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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RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1503
November 2022 – 85
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 431
November 2022 – 52
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
“US, @StateDeptannounce new $400 million security assistance pkg for #Ukraine Pkg “includes additional arms, munitions, and air defense equipment from US Department of Defense inventories” per @SecBlinken“
https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1595441018685755392
“The first recorded use of the Turkish TRLG-230 MLRS in Ukraine”
https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1595150005333299202
Maybe 10th time is the charm.
“Here we go again: “The Biden administration plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones that can be armed with Hellfire missiles for battlefield use against Russia, three people familiar with the situation said.” -Reuters”
https://twitter.com/elisabethmalom1/status/1595128100895219712
Javelins that the RuZZian trolls say UA has run out of…
“Fighters of the TsSO “A” of the SBU from a distance of 4 km with the help of FGM-148 Javelin destroyed the BMP-2, on which 12 Russians tried to escape”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1595455741690871808
Droned
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1595146607728947200
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1595114307863601155
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1595112399774056449
Meanwhile, massive missile strikes and scenes of destruction in Kyiv and there is no power in the city now.
Back to the future.
“’Production of the Soviet-era Moskvich car relaunched in Russia on Wednesday at a former Renault factory, according to truckmaker Kamaz.”
Lack of electricity doesn’t stop the war.
RuZZians will be dying by the thousands every month until they withdraw.
Electricity strikes just make RuZZians feel better because the war has been a disaster.
Reminds me of that creepy little man from the old Twin Peaks TV show.
Thanks for that list.
“Tis just a scratch!”
“Bloated face, hand strangely gripping the the arm chair, nervous foot movement, overall disfigured. He is dissolving.”
Whatever semblance of a family remains around Putin should try to do something nice for him this Christmas - it will probably be his last.
So tragic how many innocents he is taking out with him.
Oh, you’ve hurt my sense of pride.
You think I’m trying to deceive? But I forgive you this time.
“Putin seen gripping chair in new clip as he meets Cuba’s president amid claims he’s struggling with his health”
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/putin-gripping-chair-cuba-president-health-fears/
I don’t think you were trying to deceive us. I was just questioning the photo. It just looks a little “off” to me.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Nov 22, 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. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named War in Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... )
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
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Extras:
-—> Attn: Speedy: <——
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Battle For Kinburn Spit Underway <——
Ukraine hopes to recapture the strategic Black Sea peninsula that serves as a chokepoint for two rivers and a Russian artillery stronghold.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-battle-for-kinburn-spit-underway
Excerpts:
Nataliya Humenyuk, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Operational Command South: “The Kinburn Spit is also out of the 25km range of 152mm artillery that Russian forces have accumulated on the left (east) bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast ... Ukraine is being careful in how much information it is providing about the operation ...
Rough weather, she added, is helping Ukraine... “The sea helps us,” she said. “The enemy cannot gain a foothold there because the Armed Forces inflict damage on the enemy’s points.” ...
Another factor in Ukraine’s favor, she added, is the lack of places for Russian troops to hide... “The spit does not provide for the location of a large number of buildings where it is possible to gain a foothold and hold on,” she said. “We allow only the storm to make noise, and everyone to observe silence.”
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-—> Sevastopol Just Came Under Ukrainian Aerial Drone Attack <——
Crimean occupation officials claim that multiple drones were shot down in what appears to have been a coordinated attack.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/sevastopol-just-came-under-ukrainian-aerial-drone-attack
Excerpts:
Reports and videos are emerging on social media showing what appears to be “an extended Ukrainian drone strike” lasting for at least an hour.
“An attack by three more drones was repulsed over the waters of Sevastopol,” occupation governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian official news agency TASS. “He added that previously downed Ukrainian drones tried to attack Balaklava Thermal Power Plant.”
“Two drones were shot down by air defense while trying to approach the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant,” Razvozhaev said, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian official news agency RIA Novosti. “Attacks by three more drones were repelled over the Black Sea, there were no damages to civilian infrastructure and there were no casualties.”
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-—> Navy’s Stealth Destroyers Could Get Massive Upgrades Beyond Hypersonic Missiles <——
Days after returning from its first deployment, the Navy is lauding an intriguing future and the possibility of big upgrades for DDG-1000.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/navys-stealth-destroyers-could-get-massive-upgrades-beyond-hypersonic-missiles
Excerpts:
The Advanced Gun Systems (AGS) ... will be replaced with the ... “much more advanced, longer-ranged, and arguably more relevant weapons - hypersonic missiles.
“These will come from the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) program. CPS seeks to integrate up to 12 hypersonic boost-glide vehicle-equipped missiles that the service is jointly producing with the Army into the hulls of all three Zumwalt-class destroyers.”
“The Navy repeatedly said that the Zumwalt and its sister ships will lose both their guns as part of the process of integrating the CPS missiles and their launchers.
“Zumwalt’s mission will remain surface strike, and that the ship’s “AN/SPY-3 radar would be replaced with the AN/SPY-6(v)3.”
(Edit: all of that seems to leave the Z without any means of self-protection of it’s flammable, paper-thin, aluminum hull from fast boats with machine guns.)
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Summary:
no major changes.
Key areas:
- Oskil river area: no changes
- North Donbass area: no changes.
- Central Donbass (Donetsk West): no changes.
- Zaporizhya: no changes.
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••General Topics:
Russia And Russian Economy:
Russian energy, which is part of the economy; Russia has become largest supplier of nitrogen fertilizer to India and has and controls a record 25 % of the market, being number one supplier of the nitrogen fertilizer to India - nitrogen fertilizer is natural gas, so its a conversion of natural gas into nitrogen fertilizer, and creating a little bit more added value. Russia still has a strong exports, and the flow of foreign exchange is still happening without much problem.
EU:
European commission proposed the ceiling on Russian natural gas of US$3,000 per a 1,000 cubic meters. That’s about the current price; its slightly above 1,000 Euros for a 1,000 cubic meters so this this ceiling is meaningless, not to mention, I’m definitely thinking that all of the ceilings are completely useless, futile; just the empty posturing that doesn’t lead to anything, and if anything, if they were real, that would hurt Western economies; they completely counterproductive, nevertheless, this posturing is happening, well, at least its harmless posturing so far .
On Wednesday US and Europe will introduce ceiling on Russian crude oil, and the rumored number is between US$60-70 dollars per barrel, which close to what Russia is selling their crude - usually its about US$75 now. The ceiling is much closer to actual price, but its a nominal ceiling, and hopefully it will not damage world economy, and Western’s economy as a result.
Russia’s already announced its not going to sell its crude to countries that joined this silly crude ceiling alliance, and there is a direct calculation that shows it makes sense for Russia to stop producing about 2 million barrels per day.
Russia produces about 11 million barrels per day, and so dropping it to about 9 or even 8.5 would be more beneficial to Russia, because the prices for crude on the world market would probably rise; Russia would get more revenue, definitely more than a dollar drop in the production based on estimates, and that really makes sense, because (garbled ) is pretty tight, not willing to release extra oil, and the Russians are reducing it so effectively, the world supply is becoming smaller, so prices probably will go up on crude.
There is an expectation in the West that Russian crude oil production will drop to about 9.6 million in 2023, whether those expectations are substantiated or not, I’m skeptical, because there was an expectation at the beginning of the war that Russian crude production will drop pretty quickly to about 9 million barrels per day, and that never really materialized, even though the Western oil field services companies to a large extent left Russia, they were still able to maintain production, and that’s more related to the situation that its super easy, super cheap to extract oil in Russia. You really don’t need that much of high tech, I mean its helpful, but its not as critical.
The Russian State budget, which is in a way reflection of the economic situation in Russia:
Russian government expects 2023 revenues of about 26 trillion Russian rubles - divided by 60 is half a trillion, a little bit less at half a trillion US dollars, let’s say US$450 billion, and the expenses are US$29 trillion so last year the revenue was 25 trillion, and expenses were 23.5 trillion - so there was surplus; that’s why I said that the whole State financial situation in Russia was extremely pristine and ran pretty well. At this point the expense is 29 trillion, its a deficit of 3 trillion which is looks like its almost a 12% drop relative to revenue; that’s a pretty huge deficit, and really tells us the Russian economy is getting into worse and worse shape, as time passes by.
The other interesting point about the Russian State Budget is about 33% will go to finance the war, and also to finance police, which makes a lot of sense: you need to finance military, but also need to finance police to keep the population under control.
China:
There’s a lot of going on there: active moves by both Western and Chinese sides to build alliances, and so for example: US VP Kamala Harris went to Philippines, which is a US stronghold in the Pacific, or jumping board at least, or there is desire to have Philippines as such, and Harris warned against attack on Philippines. I would say that is really strange, because and China is definitely not trying to attack the Philippines, by any means.
There was also a meaning between the Chinese Minister of Defense and US Minister of Defense: the Chinese Minister of Defense was very direct, very straightforward saying, the Chinese military is capable of securing Taiwan, and it will respond with strong resolve to any US measures on Day 1. It’s a warning to the US: stay out or or else, and what’s going to be for else - we’ll find out relatively soon.
Another interesting point on the new Chinese Top in the military, he’s even more inclined to use to use military force to resolve the Taiwan situation, more then even Xi Jinping and his group that seized power during the Communist Party meeting that happened in early November. The Chinese military are even more hawkish, relative to Xi Jinping.
The situation in China is getting worse by the day: real estate bubble has popped completely, and we’re gonna see more and more fallout; there is a lot of censorship - so there’s not much of information leaking out, but its very clear the situation is pretty bad.
There’s also a hit on Chinese exports, so the the pressure inside of the Chinese society is building up, and at some point Xi Jinping will be pressured to relieve the pressure in the pressure cooker in some shape or form, and one is to start an invasion of Taiwan, and released all of the negative energy in that direction. (Edit: Like all other fixes in China, the fix will be a disaster internally and make problems worse, not better.)
The recent US and Chinese negotiations: it looks like the whole point of all of these negotiations is not to prevent conflict over Taiwan, which looks like its almost certain, but its more about ensuring neither party will use nuclear weapons! The point of the conversation is not so much about conventional conflict, but more about, ‘let’s just make sure we don’t use nuclear weapons in the process’; that’s my impression by looking at all of that, and what’s going on. US wants to make sure that nuclear weapons are not going to be used in the process, and that’s all it was, but I think psychologically, there is understanding and agreement this war is inevitable at this point.
Mongolia:
The Mongolian President is going to visit China pretty soon. All this is talking about building alliances, even Mongolia is almost under Chinese control - it used to be under Soviet Union control, but now its more or less under control of China; they have a very secure position in Mongolia, which has some important natural resources,
Ukraine:
Electricity grid: its still functioning - barely functioning - another round of attacks will definitely put an end to it, if that happens, and when that’s going to happen is is in the hands of the Russian Political Top.
Military Situation:
North Luhansk:
Front Line and see what’s going on there things here are predictable the same you can almost check the clock.
Why they’re not achieving much is because Ukrainian Command is not capable of organizing troops for a successful attack, and what it means is Ukrainian side is not destroying Russian artillery, and so as a result, Ukrainian troops are doing suicidal attacks under Russian artillery fire. That’s pretty much how all of the attacks end up, and then the result is an unnecessary loss of human life.
Russian troops are also trying to counter attack, to keep Ukrainian Command on its toes, but here its very clear - a counter-attack; there is not much in the way of plans, beyond just keeping Ukrainian side busy, but the situation is a stalemate, given Russia is gonna get more mobilized recruits; things are very firmly in the positional situation, reminiscent of how it was in World War I - where it is very positional.
The only way to get out of it, is to get qualitative advantage, which, given that Ukrainian Command does not know how to do it, or does not want to, or a combination of all of that, not to mention even Ukrainian Political Tops are completely from other planet, in this respect, so without increasing quantity of the Western weapons and quality, it doesn’t look like there’s much to be done by the Ukrainian side.
North Donbas:
Wagner mercenaries are operating and are pretty active today, they are actively attacking Ukrainian side, so far they have not succeeded today; at the same time based on observation, they do inflict sizable casualties on Ukrainian defenders, which is not a good sign in the first place, because if you are good at defensive warfare, you should not have high losses, but it looks like the Ukrainian side is holding the front line by trading soldiers’ lives for time, which is a situation of attrition, and eventually, that may lead to breakthrough by Russian troops here, which we’ve been observing over time, but everything here is super slow.
From Ukrainian perspective, the situation is can be only resolved by some counter-offensive that’s aimed at encircling a large number of Wagner mercenaries by attacking from flanks, from the rear, and so on, creating panic and collapse, otherwise in the straight defensive warfare its slow, slow loss , by thousand cuts of the Ukrainian side.
I want to mention, just to be fair, Wagner mercenaries also sustained very high high losses, but the way it viewed inside of Russia, and by the Russian Political Top is they are trading low quality human material for what they believe is some strategic or tactical success.
From from that perspective, there is not much of a loss for the Russian society - I’m just explaining how its being viewed within the Russian Top, so they they don’t mind - its really viewed as, ‘we are advancing military and at the same time cleansing society from within, from low quality material’. That means there will be more and more Wagner mercenaries attacking Ukrainian troops here.
Central Donbas:
Here it is also active; the same idea: Russian Command is trying to outflank Adivka & force the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops without much success today, again everything is so extremely predictable the moves of the Russian Command, and if Ukrainian Command were any capable of anything, this is extremely easy to disrupt, because they’re hammering in the same place day after day, month after month, and you can always maneuver your artillery to destroy & disrupt all of these attempts.
Its never been done, so Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield, on the front line, plugging the front line with their own lives, without much proper artillery support, because this is a war of artillery - the key and without it, without interaction and integration of artillery and infantry, the defensive fight turns into trading lives for time, which is a losing proposition for Ukraine.
I would say what a 31/2 times smaller country simply does not have enough resources to trade people for time, because Russia understands this very well, and eventually, as it continues doing this, and not planning to stop, and eventually this will lead to negative result of Ukraine.
Marinka: Russian side is reporting there is some advance in the northern part of Marinka - whether its true or not, remains to be seen. I’ll provide updates when there is confirmation, but there’s been a lot of Russian propaganda victories that turn out later is fake, but I wanted to like mention it just in case. The whole situation is doesn’t doesn’t really move much anywhere at this point; the situation in Pavlika is quiet.
Zaporizhya:
Here are quiet, there is definitely not much movement, there’s also no information as to what Ukrainian Command doing with the Kherson Bridgehead group, or the Russian Command. I haven’t seen these units popping up on the battlefield in Southern and Eastern Ukraine yet; once I have that I’ll provide a update.
“It just looks a little “off” to me.”
Little Pukin looks a bit “off”.
I haven’t lingered on his health issues that much in my daily war updates. But he does look bloated, has put on weight, seen limping in videos, grasps chairs when seated and has odd leg movements.
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