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RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1520
November 2022 – 102
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: 432
November 2022 – 53
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
Russia has a last laugh as West-supplied Howitzers are breaking down in Ukraine - report
“Ukraine is facing technical problems with western artillery amid war with Russia. According to New York Times, one-third of the howitzers sent to Ukraine have developed snags. A U.S. official said that a third of the 350 howitzers sent by the west to Ukraine are out of action. The New York Times reported that the United States Department of Defense is concerned over the development. The U.S. reportedly set up a repair facility in Poland to fix “faulty” weapons, the NYT reported.”
Hindustan Times
11/27/22
Putin’s war empties arsenal of 20 NATO nations after U.S; Setback for Ukraine | Report
“In a huge setback to Ukraine’s fight against the Russian offensive, most NATO members have run out of weapons. According to a report published in the New York Times, at least 20 of the alliance’s 30 members are “pretty tapped out.” A NATO official also said that smaller countries have exhausted their potential. Even the U.S. military is rushing to replenish the arms stock it has supplied to Kyiv.”
US falls short on weapons, will not divert exports from South Korea
“The war in Ukraine has now lasted for almost 10 months. The Western allies remember before the beginning of the war simply had not anticipated the scale of this conflict but today it is the primary cause of domestic and international wars.”
U.S. looks to supply older and cheaper weapons to Ukraine.
NATO plans on restarting old weapons factories to boost prouction.
Ukraine is firing 7k rounds per day of which the U.S. only produces 15k per month.
Libtards: WION put out Putin propaganda in that report!
Also libtards: Hindustan Times also put out Putin propaganda even though they are citing the New York Times!!!!!
... When you’re wet, hungry and exposed to the nighttime cold, it doesn’t take long for hypothermia to set in. One bad night is enough. Even moderate hypothermia can cause confusion, decreased reflexes and loss of motor skills in sufferers.
Which explains the drone massacre that’s been playing out lately over contested eastern towns such as Svatove, Pavlivka and Bakhmut. Hypothermic Russian troops aren’t even trying to flee when Ukraine’s bomb-armed quadcopter drones buzz overhead. The soldiers barely flinch when a bomb explodes in their fighting position.
Suicides evidently are on the rise. One especially gut-wrenching video depicts a Russian combatant in scrape outside Bakhmut trying to shoot himself in the chest as a Ukrainian drone watches from directly overhead. The Russian’s ungloved right hand is blue with cold, and he struggles to pull the trigger.
We could use a FReeper pool to bet on when the Russian tank losses will reach 2,000!
I’m going to say January 6, 2023!
Highlights for Nov 26-27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-PhrlRSZRs
Interestingly they don’t list the US losses. Billions that are given but never show up as weapons. Weapons that show up but are sold on the black market. I think our losses to corruption are larger than Russia’s losses in battle.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Nov 25-27, 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: .... )
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https://militaryland.net/
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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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••China:
There is a lot of protest against the Covid19 measures in China, however, the best way to view it as a discontent driven by economic problems that are multiplying and growing in China; how this is going to be managed by the Chinese leadership remains to be seen.
There is this increasing probability of some civil war, civil conflict in China, and its not a small one. The important part of situation around China there is continuing US pressure to prevent Chinese manufacturers to enter the US, and this is being done, not only in US, for example: the UK is doing something similar. US Federal Communication Commission forbids purchase of communication equipment from company Huawei Technology, HAK Vision Technology: they usually incorporate surveillance cameras; this is a couple more companies that blocked from accessing US market, which kills a lot of revenue.
Internal Chinese distribution of power or distribution or leanings within different provinces.
We spoke about the that pro-war wing won in China during this session of Communist Congress, however the regions that are soft power and want to takeover of the world are actually Heinan, Hubei, and Huibei; they are a stronghold of this wing of the Chinese power system, and its not a surprise Foxconn Factory riots are happening here, because I believe its in Heinan, so again the situation is very similar; in Heinan there is not much economy and things are getting more difficult, and the result you’re getting those riots. (Edit: there are many sparks and that is only one, mostly it is against the constant lockdown/reopen nonsense that drives people crazy.) We’ll see how the Chinese leadership is going to deal with the situation.
If you compare it with Taiwan where it actually things are really I would say moving in the Chinese favor there. There were elections in Taiwan and the pro-china forces won. (Edit they were local elections issues that did not favor the party in power having badly screwed up the expensive rebuilding of a sports stadium, then denying it also people were pissed at them. The election had nothing to do with Mainland China. The rest of the analysis missed the point and goes off a tangent, so skipped.)
Russia:
Russian crude oil fell to US$50-52 per barrel which reduces profitability tremendously; the cost to extract oil in Russia is extremely low: between US$10-12 dollars per barrel.
Its still selling at a US$40 dollars difference, but Russian State Budget was planned assuming US$70 per barrel, its a huge difference of what Russia is going to get if this persists probably creates huge blow in the Russian budget, and then that in turn creates huge blow in the Russian State finances, and means the demise of Russian currency will happen much faster, and that will also lead to economic problems or extend the disaster in Russia much sooner than expected, and its going to be much stronger and much deeper.
Ukraine:
There were no new attacks against their electricity distribution network, at the same time, the electricity distribution network is functioning, but practically, they are nearly islands and there’s still very thin interconnection exists between the regions, but its just so thin and throughput is so little, that they are connected extremely loosely, and hanging by the thread. Another round of attacks will completely will completely finish this situation where everything is going to get separated into islands, and then each island will try to survive on its own.
The majority of the country will be completely in darkness with people surviving by using power generators; there is a huge problem with that because its extremely uneconomical, its extremely expensive, the expected life of those power generators are not long and you need to run and run them full time, non-stop; this is going to be a big problem, and could spiral into total disaster with many civilian casualties as a result, but I’m not hopeful that Ukrainian government will be will be able to do anything meaningful and helpful. (Edit: most generators are not designed or built for continuous operation - only very expensive ones are so made.)
North Luhansk:
Things here are more or less the same mutual exchanges between Russian and Ukraine forces that don’t lead to anything; status quo remains. Again another failed Ukrainian attack attempt to cut the road, get to the river, get over the river didn’t lead to anything.
North Donbas:
Things here are more or less the same. Wagner Mercenaries are actively attacking.
The discussion of the tactical approaches of the Wagner mercenaries, Wagner Group; you will see that people are like used as robots to a great extent in all of the attacks, and so that’s going to come tomorrow.
Today the point is Wagner mercenaries are continuing active attacks; they lose a lot, but there are heavy losses on Ukrainian side as well. This is a mutual exchange of lives at high scale, looks like World War I, and even the head of Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, stated that the goal is not actually capture Bakhmut, but to take as many Ukrainian soldiers lives as possible, and the idea is, ‘we exchange our low quality human material for Ukrainian better quality human material, and so we exhaust Ukraine, and eventually in this war of attrition we will win’.
Ukraine has no chance, if it tries to play the game of ‘war of attrition’, which Russia realizes that this is what it is, and its actively playing it. If this continues, this is a strategic disaster and failure for Ukraine, and this is another a bellwether for Ukrainian society coming from Yevgeny Prigozhin who clearly was stating, ‘this is war of attrition, and eventually we will bleed you to death, and in the process, we’re not going to use our best resources human resources, but we’re gonna use our worst,’
I’m not judging people who are bad or worst, but that’s from his perspective - I’m sharing his point of view, because in my view, there’s nothing is conclusive about who is good and who’s bad.
South of Bakhmut, the situation is more or less similar, no essential changes, but again situation is extremely difficult and bad for Ukrainian side.
Central Donbas:
Things here are also very similar to what we’ve seen: all the time Russian attacks out of this Piskey salient out with the goal of outflanking & forcing withdrawal of Ukrainian troops, so far no success also other futile Russian attacks.
Zaporizhya:
Things here are still quiet. Russian sources continue reporting that Ukrainian side is accumulating forces and resources in North of Orkhiv (just east off the lake), the logic is from there they attack towards Azov Sea and cut Russian forces into two large groups, potentially creating encirclement of the group that’s in the Tavria region & in the Crimea region. The Crimean bridge is still not functioning properly, its still being repaired, so it looks like the railroad is still not functioning, and there is very limited use of the road part of the bridge. Russian side is actively working on repairing the bridge, despite very bad weather, and the expectation is that they will finish repairing the road part sometime in December probably going to be end of December.
Nov 27, 2022
Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for November 28, 2022.
- Battle front is stable, Russian forces are pushing back amid stalled Ukrainian offensives;
- Russia continues dismantling Ukraine's power grid, leaving millions without electricity;
- US claims Russia is committing "war crimes" despite the US having targeted power grids repeatedly amid multiple wars of aggression;
- Western sources claim Russia is running out of cruise missiles because of older cruise missiles allegedly turning up in Ukraine;
- Using older cruise missiles and target drones to spoof enemy air defense systems is a long-standing and successful tactic;
- Western media admits growing complications regarding Ukraine's use of donated heavy weapons;
This appears to be the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense numbers, which are generally suspected to be inflated to some degree. The increased rate since September (Kharkiv offensive, mobilization and adoption of repeated Infantry wave attacks in Donetsk) seems to be consistent with other indicators.
For perspective, the Soviet Union lost about 15,000 killed in a decade in Afghanistan. Arguably however, it was low oil prices that finished off the Soviet Union.
The Ukrainan General staff reported the AFU damaged a railway bridge near Starobohdanivka. This could mean a big part of the Russian front line will have to rely on trucks instead of trains for delivering supplies.
Shaping the battlefield for Operations in the remaining occupied areas of Kherson Oblast?
Thanks for taking the time to gather and post the information.
