RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 448
December 2022 – 14
November 2022 – 55
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
“Rare footage of tank-on-tank combat from Novoselivske, #Luhansk Oblast: A Ukrainian T-64BV of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade destroyed a Russian T-72B-series tank with a single shot.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1602030183694860288
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Dec 11, 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(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)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 changes.
Key areas:
- North Lugansk: no changes.
- North Donbass: no changes.
- Central Donbass (Donetsk West): no changes.
- Zaporizhya: no changes.
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••Ukrainian power grid still hanging in very difficult situation, there is some help from other countries coming, it’s not what is needed: transformers that’s what needed to really renew the power grid. The help is more power generators or more portables: five, ten kilowatts - larger ones for hospitals, allowing them to survive in horrific conditions.
••Military Situation:
As a whole, the idea is the Russian side is slowly retaking initiative is becoming more and more firm, and clear - that doesn’t mean that they have initiative and everything’s perfect and Russia is on the roll, no that’s not the case; however, its clearly shifting into Russia’s favor, that is undeniable situation, how long it will take before the final shift will happen.
Now the initiative is in Russian hands, is unclear - could be another month easily, could be till end of January, but there is a high probability of a Russian offensive sometime in January or the second half of January, maybe even beginning of February, is very high. It’s possible that the offensive happens much earlier - this is all probabilities since you never know for sure in a war.
••State Border:
More or less the same, no meaningful changes, no meaningful moves.
••North Luhansk’:
Things here are pretty active for the past couple days, but its very clear here that Russian troops are in the offensive mode; they no longer are hanging on to the front lines or trying to hold the line. Now, they actively pushing Ukrainian troops in the other direction; there was quite a few Russian attacks over this last three days; overall there is clear change in the tone - no territorial games, but its a meat grinder, that’s probably good description of what’s going on World War I type of style meat grinder - the entire front line.
••North Donbas:
Things here somewhat similar - its just typical attacks, typical locations; Solidar a relatively quiet & in Bahamut because probably Russian side is preparing for launching a relatively large attack; it was relatively quiet these days, but it doesn’t mean anything all - this is just quiet days, most likely a regrouping by Wagner Mercenaries.
••Centra Donbas:
Things here are actually somewhat different; there’s no more large attacks - the idea of capturing Adivka by the Russian side apparently is on pause, somewhat on pause; where there is actually quite a bit of activity and where the axis of action is shifting is to the southeastern corner of Centra Donbas front line, specifically.
Russian troops continually stubbornly attacking Marinka, without much success; they were attacking Vogladar, then they dropped the idea because its literally suicidal attack.
They captured Pavlika at the cost a lot of lives; there were some losses also on Ukrainian side, but now continuing attack on Vogladar, the losses will be astronomical, so they dropped the idea, and they shifted focus: now they’re attacking Velyka Novoslika with the idea of taking it from the flanks.
Vogadar frontline is stable; Velyka Novoslika is remains to be seen, but its pretty good strong point of Ukrainian forces - at the end of April, the front line stabilized.
••Zaporizhya:
This big northern salient created by Russian troops when they were trying to connect with their other Russian group attacking from Izyum towards the south and another group going north - so in a very like the Kursk salient in 1943 replay which failed, and the same as this Kursk attempt failed. Now it is becoming much more local, much smaller attacks toward the East as I said the idea is to capture Vogadar, but from their flanks, potentially from the rear, but its very unlikely this is going to succeed, nevertheless Russian side is trying. Otherwise the Zaporizhya for online is as sleepy as its always been.
WIU was very short today.
@ChuckPfarrer 16h
KREMENNA AXIS /0245 UTC 12 DEC/ UKR task elements have crossed the Krasna River and engaged RU units at Pischane. These attacks have compelled RU to divert forces from defensive positions west and south of Kremenna to cover the important rail and road junction at Zhytlivka.
THANK YOU BERLIN: Germany will supply Ukraine with Skynex Air Defense Systems. Among them are multi-modal radar guided 35mm Oerlikon Revolver Gun Mk3 auto cannons. These can be mounted on vehicles, or be deployed as stand alone ‘revolver’ turrets for point defense.
@visegrad24 30m
The Indian Army has clashed with the Chinese Army near the Line of Contact close to Arunachal Pradesh.
Dozens were injured on both sides.
The fighting took place on December 9th but has been reported first now.
Thank you for posting all this information!
@visegrad24 3h
Russian banks lack liquidity to pay depositors.
In Ulan-Ude, people await for their pensions in the cold in front of an office of the Russian Post.
People arrived at 8 a.m. but were left on the street and were told that there is no money due to a glitch in the RP’s software.
The entire database is down, and nobody knows when it will be fixed.
That is why it was not possible for pensioners to receive their pension money.
Source: @ves_uu
““The Swedish government has passed the ninth package of support for Ukraine, and it is 50% larger than the eighth package. This is due to the fact that we are seeing an escalation from Russia,” said (Swedish Defense Minister, Pål) Jonson.
In this package, Sweden provides air defense systems, components for another air defense system and winter ammunition for the Ukrainian military.”
@WarMonitor3 3h
Wagner PMC continues to recruit thousands of Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine.
Their actions on the battlefield are ineffective yet there numbers are great.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 12, 2022.
- Russia continues its war of attrition - focusing on exhausting and overwhelming critical Ukrainian defenses around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine/western Russia;
- Despite claims that Russian missile stockpiles are depleted, Russia continues carrying out regular, large-scale missile barrages against Ukrainian infrastructure;
- Latest US assistance package for Ukraine continues the trend of dwindling, inadequate support for Ukraine;
- US government procurement numbers over the course of the next 2-5 years indicates that at no time in the near future will the US be capable of producing let alone supplying Ukraine with the number of weapons and ammunition it requires;
- While Russian production data is not available, the fact that Russia’s stockpiles and military were configured for large-scale protracted and intense combat suggests its military industrial output is likewise configured for such demands;
- The Western media is now admitting that Ukraine can neither win, nor is there any moral imperative to ensure that it does...
@WarMonitor3 9h
“Ukrainian forces hit and destroyed a Russian base in Svatove located in a hotel.”
Denys Davydov observed that Russian forces have a discipline problem that prevents them from disbursing their forces in small groups into private homes - so they will likely cluster up like this over the Winter, to make better targets.
“AFU appeal to the command: “We did not receive proper weapons and artillery support. As a result, 70% of the company was killed or wounded. We didn’t even have equipment to evacuate the wounded, which is why several of the wounded did not survive.””
https://twitter.com/dana916/status/1602361838980591616
A Russian-appointed high-ranking official, first vice-governor of Kherson region, Vitaliy Bulyuk, was injured as a result of a car explosion. “His condition is moderate, stable. Driver of car died on spot. A directional mine went off, car burned down.” https://interfax.ru/russia/876544
“Statement from PMC Wagner: “Wagner” continues to methodically destroy the militants in the #Bakhmut direction.
The Ukrainian defenders of Bakhmut confirm this, reporting that they have heavy losses: 500-1000 people per day “cargo 200”. The command sends them to destruction.”
https://twitter.com/peterniers544/status/1601934099085946881
“But I was told Russia wouldn’t be able to build any new tanks because of muh sanctions!!!”
https://twitter.com/GiveEmHellHorns/status/1602245296599302144
“Looks like they are indeed new builds and not just old refurbed chassis from deep storage.”
https://twitter.com/Taurevanime/status/1602102873281658880
@DefMon3 16m
14 day prognosis in the Kreminna area by @davidhelms570
It seems like we will continue to have “unfavorable” conditions for maneuvering in terrain until Christmas.
“According to the Military Chronicle, the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stationed in Maryinka, lost the possibility of supply.
On December 8, the leadership of the brigade reported to the headquarters of the Vostok command that the RF Armed Forces had taken Geological Street, the road from the city that leads to neighboring Krasnogorovka, under fire control.
The road is under fire from Russian long-range artillery - self-propelled guns “Msta-S” and “Hyacinth-S” caliber 152 mm. In addition, it is controlled by drones and helicopters of the army aviation of the RF Armed Forces.
It was from the neighboring Krasnogorovka that the brigade received ammunition, as well as reinforcements in manpower. Without this, she risks being surrounded and completely destroyed. Any attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer reinforcements to Marinka will now be fraught with the risk of losses.
At the end of November, units of the 79th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were pushed back to the area of \u200b\u200bthe gas facilities of Maryinka. Then they lost control of their positions in the area of the tire repair plant and the Nikolsky elevator in the southwestern part of the city.
Also, during the offensive of the Russian forces on Maryinka, fire control was established in the area of the ATP 11420 motor transport enterprise and over the fork in the O-0530 highway, which deprives the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the opportunity to effectively counterattack the RF Armed Forces.”
https://t.me/azmilitary11/30716
@visegrad24 9h
Poland has decided to send its recently arrived South Korean K2 tanks to military units stationed near the border with Kaliningrad.
