Posted on 12/29/2022 9:17:36 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
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
“How the Battle for the Donbas Shaped Ukraine’s Success”
“As the Russian-Ukrainian War enters the winter, Ukrainians have reason to be cautiously optimistic about the course of the war. Following a strategic offensive at the end of August in multiple regions, Ukrainian forces have retaken nearly all of Kharkiv Oblast, parts of the Donetsk Oblast, and the right bank of Kherson Oblast. Several factors enabled Ukrainian offensives in Kherson and Kharkiv, but much of that success stems from the earlier Battle for the Donbas. Russia’s advances in the Donbas, from April to July, proved to be a pyrrhic victory, tactical successes at the expense of strategic vision. Russia expended valuable manpower and artillery ammunition, while Ukraine pursued a defense-in-depth strategy. By September, NATO arms deliveries had reduced Russia’s critical advantage in artillery and Moscow didn’t have sufficient forces or ammunition to hold the territory occupied, which set the stage for Ukraine’s successful offensives.
The battle for the Donbas bled the Russian military of manpower, at a time when it lacked the forces to both hold captured territory and continue offensives. The Russian military offset this deficit by dramatically increasing its rate of artillery fire. This burned through Russia’s second most critical resource, artillery ammunition. The net effect of both decisions showed itself in the fall, when Russia lacked the manpower to defend Kharkiv and the artillery ammunition to hold defensive lines in Kherson. Since then, Moscow has been able to compensate for the manpower deficit with mobilization, but recent fighting in Bakhmut suggests Russian forces are conserving ammunition, no longer firing at the rate they did in earlier phases of the war.
The most important inflection point of this war was at the end of March when the Kremlin realized it could not seize or encircle Kyiv and achieve its maximalist objectives. The Russian military still had several advantages over the Ukrainian military at this point, but it didn’t have the forces to continue advancing in most directions and had sustained heavy personnel and equipment losses. Ukraine and Russia were negotiating, and Ukrainian officials had signaled a willingness to make certain concessions; however, the two sides never reached an agreement. It isn’t completely clear how close these negotiations came to a final deal, but when Russia pulled its forces from northern Ukraine—leading to the discovery of the atrocities committed in Bucha and other towns occupied by Russian forces—the immediate prospects of further negotiations ended. Russia’s best option was to end the war at this point while extracting limited concessions. Once Russian forces no longer threatened Kyiv and other cities in the north, Russia’s bargaining position and ability to coerce Ukraine decreased substantially.”
“Inside the Ukrainian counteroffensive that shocked Putin and reshaped the war”
“After weeks of fighting for scraps of territory on the war’s bloodiest front, Oleh, a 21-year-old Ukrainian company commander, was summoned suddenly last August, along with thousands of other soldiers, to an obscure rendezvous point in the Kharkiv region.
At his last position, relentless Russian artillery fire had stalked his men’s every step. But here, in a patch of villages, farmland and streams in Ukraine’s northeast, the quiet was deeply alarming. “The silence bothered me the most,” Oleh said. “It seemed off. How could this be?”
Even more unsettling were the orders his superiors handed down: to charge as far as 40 miles into enemy territory at high speed in an audacious, top-secret counteroffensive — directly between the Russian-occupied stronghold of Izyum and Russia’s own Belgorod region dotted with military bases. It seemed preposterous. “Some kind of dubious operation,” Oleh said.”
The Orcs
“Vladimir Putin’s gifts to allies spark Lord of the Rings jokes”
• “Russian President Vladimir Putin gifted gold rings to leaders of other former Soviet states in St Petersburg this week
• Commentators drew comparisons to the primary villain of ‘The Lord Of The Rings’, who gave rings to nine kings to bend them to his will”
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
Hoo, they’re red, white and blue
And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord
“Our artillery deliciously destroys first the enemy BMP, and then the retreating Russian soldiers. The work of M2, a special unit of NSU “Omega”. “Welcome to the Ukrainian fields, MFs””
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608153267971702787
“’ Another improvised loitering munition, based on a commercial FPV drone, was used by Ukrainian forces to destroy a Russian transport truck on the left bank of the Dnipro River, #Kherson Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1608155282416308224
People in the West can’t have dinner with the lights on.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1608160784944664578
POWs
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608162097254338560
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608154279910555648
““This is called the glory of Russia,” the Buryat schmuck recalls how he killed civilians in Mariupol.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608155581302607872
“Baza says that air defenses are active at Engels airbase in Saratov where two previous Ukrainian UAV attacks occurred.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1608413696837193730
“The Ukrainian army started to use Spanish-made M107 155mm HE projectiles - these are manufactured in 2000. 75 pallets of field artillery ammunition from Spain were received by Ukraine recently.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1568571218248306688
“Footage from earlier in the war showing the destruction of a Russian Ka-52 attack helicopter after a forced landing. This is standard operating procedure for both sides when expensive/valuable equipment cannot be recovered.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1608390506848870400
“Another Russian cruise missile (Kh-101/Kh-55) was shot down by Ukrainian 9K38 Igla MANPADS operators today. Two 9M39 missiles are fired, with one striking the target.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1608386850225266694
“Commander: Ukraine shoots down 54 out of 69 missiles fired by Russia on Dec. 29. According to Chief Commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Russia had launched a mix of air and sea-based cruise missiles, and anti-aircraft-guided missiles from S-300 missile systems.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1608415618189111301
RuZZia is still wasting its missiles on non-military targets
“Mayor: 40% of Kyiv residents left without electricity following Russia’s morning attack. Despite the attack, Kyiv’s capacity to supply heat and water wasn’t affected, according to mayor Vitali Klitschko.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1608399759727038464
“New York Times: US tries to stop Iran from providing drones for Russia. Several intelligence, military and national security officials have told the New York Times about an expanding U.S. program that aims to cut off Iran’s ability to manufacture combat drones.”
“The Biden administration has recently accelerated its moves to deprive Iran of the Western-made components needed to manufacture the drones being sold to Russia after the wreckage of intercepted drones showed that “they were stuffed with made-in-America technology.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1608277119167078400
Good RuZZians
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608467649549180928
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1608466907455442944
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