Posted on 12/28/2022 7:33:20 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 Artillery losses Running Total: 449
December 2022 – 15
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
R.Politik
@R__Politik
Some observations on Putin’s recent speeches, especially his conversation with journalists on 22 December. A longer thread this #ChristmasEve on #Putin’s interpretation of the #UkraineWar
📌Over the past three months, fatigue has clearly accumulated, optimism has noticeably disappeared, and discouragement has come in its place. No anxiety yet, but sadness and disappointment.
📌There is a very pronounced misunderstanding on Putin’s part as to why Ukraine does not give up, as to why there are no internal disputes about the need to capitulate, because it seems to him that they are doomed.
To Putin it looks like the further it all drags on, the more unnecessary sacrifices there will be on both sides, and the more expensive the “price” of the future Russian victory will be, in which he still believes. This upsets him greatly.
📌The same misunderstanding concerns the West: is the desire to crush Russia so strong that they will fight to the last Ukrainian? There is disappointment and pain because everything is not going as it seems logical to him: disagreements between Western countries are not…
intensifying, a more conservative and nationally oriented intra-Western opposition is not rising, a revolt of the masses is not born, and so on. Even if it all seems to be there, it is happening far too slowly.
📌The war with Ukraine has now definitely become perceived as a civil war between brotherly peoples: Putin openly blames the Americans for “first pulling us [Russians and Ukrainians] apart, separating us, and then pitting us against each other.”
Another very revealing phrase: “No one wants the unification of the Russian people.” There is a strong sense of fatalism, of doom, and of loneliness. Putin has not shown himself like this for a long time. Or maybe never.
📌However, he is not ready for any sort of peace. “Our goal is not to spin this flywheel of a military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war” - this phrase should not be perceived as a change of position and readiness for negotiations.
It is rather a manifestation of internal shock about the fact that the West is so “wasting” “our” Ukraine (yes, that’s how he sees it), multiplied by emotional rejection and a misunderstanding of external hostility; we came to save, the historical truth is ours, but …
justice fails to prevail in any way. He doesn’t blame himself for anything.
📌An important evolution: if at the beginning of the war it seemed to Putin that he had now taken everything into his own hands and was reshaping the world, now he again feels like a victim of circumstances.
The war is a result of the systematic efforts of the United States, which brought Russia to this “stage” of fratricidal war.
📌There is no regret about his actions. “We had no other way out”, “we have nowhere to retreat….” All this is already pronounced with sadness, but there is no doubt for him that it is necessary to continue.
“The chicken pecks grain by grain” - this is his view of how Russia will behave in the coming months. That is, to slowly crush and strangle Ukraine, avoiding large-scale fighting. There is a sense of readiness for a protracted confrontation.
Although there is “bitter” emotion about the human victims, in his perception the existence of Russia is at stake, which means it is impossible to stop.
📌 The feeling of guilt towards the military is noticeable. The fact that he has to throw soldiers into the “furnace” of war clearly causes him moral pain, and that is much more pronounced than a sense of responsibility to mothers.
But he places the main blame, of course, on the West; if Kyiv had not been supported, everything would have already ended.
📌He is significantly emotional about the patriots. His words about the fact that the patriotism of young people makes him cry are clear evidence of how his administration, in general, has learned to touch the right strings.
But at the heart of this is a sense of guilt that he has drawn millions into this war and that it went the way it went. This feeling “asks” for collective solidarity and constant support. Otherwise, the burden becomes unbearable.
📌 Lastly, there is a clear division in Putin’s perception of the real patriots, for whom he has a very reverent attitude, and the non-patriots, whom he sees as a threat.
This lays the foundation for the development of a more complex and ruthless system of recognizing the “friend” and the “enemy” - a mechanism of protection against the latter. That’s to say that things are moving towards more mass repressions and a more developed state ideology.
The conclusion to the post above is that Putin is getting more upset over what is happening. I have always argued with the thesis that Putin is cornered, that he is lost, and does not know what to do. And I continue to argue with this.
But there is a noticeable change in his emotional background from moderate optimism (recall his summer “we haven’t started anything yet”) to depression. Even if there is victory tomorrow, he will not be especially happy - too heavy a price has been paid, and it’s far from over.
He still knows what to do, refuses to revise the “plan”, and simply does not understand what the alternative might be. He doesn’t see it. But in his current situation, he is uncomfortable, too.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606704491486642178.html
“What is the war in Ukraine teaching Western armies?”
“It shows the importance of dispersal, firepower and stockpiles”
“In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it,” remarked William Slim, a celebrated British field marshal in the second world war. From the moment that Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on February 24th this year, pundits offered sweeping pronouncements about the future of war. The death of the tank was declared on the basis of snatched video footage. Turkish drones were hailed as unstoppable game-changers. Western anti-tank weapons were thrust into an early starring role. Now, nine months into the war, more considered reflections are emerging. There is much that Western armed forces can learn.
On November 30th the Royal United Services Institute (rusi), a think-tank in London, published a detailed report* on the lessons from the first five months of the war, a period when Ukraine was largely on the defensive. The authors—including Mykhaylo Zabrodsky, a Ukrainian lieutenant-general, and a pair of rusi analysts—enjoyed extensive access to Ukrainian military data and decision-making. Their findings paint a more complex picture than the popular notion of a Russian horde coming unstuck in the face of nimble Ukrainians.
The invasion failed, but it was not foreordained to do so. Russia’s army had 12 soldiers north of Kyiv for each Ukrainian one, and Russia attacked 75% of Ukraine’s stationary air-defence sites by air in the first 48 hours of war. A Russian cyber-attack successfully disrupted Ukraine’s satellite communications. Ukraine endured this initial blitz largely because it had the foresight to disperse its munitions stockpiles from main arsenals a week before the invasion, with those efforts accelerating three days before the war. Aircraft and air-defence systems were dispersed within hours of the attack. As a result, only a tenth of mobile air-defence sites were struck.”
Droned
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/zx9vvs/i_used_to_be_a_looter_like_you_then_i_took_a/
“At night in the suburbs, an unknown partisan burned another car with a Z-swastika.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1607814190294605828
An Australian died in Ukraine. RIP.
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1607793074989666306
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/101813116
“Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian T-72B tank (with KMT-6 mine roller) in the vicinity of Velyka Novosilka, #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1607831008631730176
“Yalta Crimea residents write about the insane amount of injured veterans walking in/around the naval sanatorium on the coast. Broken arms. Broken legs. No arms. No legs.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1607821572596969475
Can someone tell these RuZZia idiots that EU has heat/electricity and is not freezing? They have moved on from RuZZian energy.
“the Russian deputy does not understand why they hate the katsaps. Why do Europeans not give up, sit without food, heating, electricity, but help Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608023473284173824
“A brand new barracks in Novocherkassk, Rostov Oblast, is on fire.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1608027118624980993
In another 9 years, 2 months, we can call it even for all the Americans RuZZia killed in Vietnam and Korea.
Regards,
I genuinely thank you for putting a translation of Putin’s comments.
I am just curious. I believe it’s now a civil war. The United States involvement in foreign civil wars has never been a good thing for the citizens of the US.
I have a question for everyone to consider. If it’s a Civil War, and Ukraine takes Moscow and Russia, is Putin going to accept that loss or result to Nuclear Armageddon?
Ukraine can not ‘take’ Moscow.
There will be no nuclear Armageddon. Why? because Little Pukin and all RuZZians will die. Little Pukin is the richest man in the world because of his looting of the RuZZian people. He isn’t willing to die.
Can there be a nuclear strike just on Ukraine? Possible. I don’t ignore the possibility. BUT tactical nuclear weapons will have limited affect. Ukraine will just continue fighting.
A nuclear strike on Kyiv can kill thousands/tens of thousands but nuclear fallout will get blown onto RuZZian cities. Thousands/tens of thousands of RuZZians will die. They are neighboring countries. Of course winds will blow the radiation onto RuZZian cities. The only way for Little Pukin to avoid this is to evacuate a large portion of RuZZian people ‘inland’, ‘northward’ to avoid radiation. So unless we see RuZZian cities being evacuated, a large strike on Kyiv is unlikely.
My opinion from what I’ve read. YMMV.
“Former Pope Benedict’s condition worsening, Vatican says as Francis calls for prayers”
I was in a Catholic school in Chicago in 1979 when John Paul II was elected. When I heard he was from Communist Poland, I thought that was not good. How wrong I was.
John Paul II lives up there with Reagan, Thatcher, Walesa as heroes in defeating Communism.
Pope Benedict has not quite been up to the challenge.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Dec 27, 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
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 Reporting from 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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Extra:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Struggling To Keep Captured Weapons In The Fight <——
Ukrainian troops are using tanks and other weapons captured from Russia, but keeping them operating is becoming a major issue.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-kyiv-struggling-to-keep-captured-weapons-in-the-fight
Excerpts:
Chief among the challenges Ukraine faces in restoring captured equipment is a lack of spare parts and a centralized spare parts database that disparate units can use to find those parts in vehicles captured by other units. Ongoing power shortages are also affecting repair facilities, as is a Ukrainian proclivity to ‘hoard’ war bounty.
According to Oryxspioenkop a site that uses photographs to verify destroyed and captured weapons on both sides of this conflict, there have been 64 BMP-3 variants captured by Ukraine. The actual number is likely significantly greater, but these are visually confirmed. All told, Ukraine has captured more than 2,000 tanks, armored vehicles, and other weapons since Feb. 24, according to Oryxspioenkop.
“The weapons that are coming from the U.S., they are mostly coming from stockpiles, so they are not new,” said Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center in Ukraine. Sending damaged weapons to Poland “is a huge delay and a big frustration for the Ukrainian military,” Kaleniuk told the newspaper ... Just how long some of the equipment, especially unfamiliar systems, can be sustained after it is worn-down in the field has long been up for debate.
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In Luhansk Oblast, there are indications that Ukraine is advancing toward Kreminna as fighting continues along the P-66 Highway area running to Svatove. Russians appear to be making a push in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which could be the scene of any Ukrainian attempt to liberate the Crimean peninsula,
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Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and Putin’s right hand man, issued a pre-New Year’s Eve list of predictions for 2023. It includes such prophesies as “The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts”.
“Civil war will break out in the US, California, and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP.”
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