Posted on 01/15/2023 8:07:39 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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“The ever increasing lethality of military equipment being supplied to the Ukraine like the AS-90 is evidence”
...that NATO and its allies are systematically equipping Ukraine for offensive operations to liberate the Russian occupied areas.
NATO war planners are not idle. They have been preparing for this for a half century - it is not like they just fell off the turnip truck.
Every year, when the Military budgets of all those countries have to be approved, they have to be justified in detail, to support the plans (requirements) that have been analyzed and approved.
The same with the big budgets requested for the Ukraine. Everybody is not just randomly pulling numbers off the tops of their heads. The politicians ask the Generals, who ask the staffs who plan and wargame and tradeoff, until they have a set of justified requirements. All the Intelligence Services of all those countries support the analysis.
Bottom Line: Russia loses.
The West has shown they are willing to spend a trillion dollars in the energy war, much less the hundred billion in Weapons needed for Ukrainian forces to demilitarize Russia’s arsenal.
Nobody wants to have to live in Putin’s mafia orc world, so his conventional Military capability to make mischief is going to be destroyed, in detail. No doubt NATO has a plan, that counts how many tanks, artillery shells, gallons of fuel and sets of underwear will be needed. That is what they do, and have been doing for a long time. Each country has to chip in their contribution to fulfill the plan.
7000 Ukrainian civilians killed since beginning of the Russian invasion? Ever hear about the 14000 murdered Russians since the US lead coup in 2014? Where were your concerns then? That’s why we are on the brink of WWIII this moment.
Vova and Dima are special friends...
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/london-to-host-major-international-meeting-on-war-crimes
London to host major international meeting on war crimes.
“Justice ministers from around the world will convene in London in March to support the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
From: Ministry of Justice and The Rt Hon Dominic Raab MP
Published 7 January 2023
- Justice ministers from across the world will meet in London in March
- Co-hosted by UK Deputy Prime Minister and Dutch Minister of Justice and Security
- Nations to focus on practical support to the International Criminal Court...
...Sir Howard Morrison KC, a war crimes expert, has been appointed as an Independent Adviser to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General to offer legal advice in relation to the investigations and prosecutions and is overseeing the judges’ training programme. Court proceedings have begun in more than 200 cases of alleged war crimes and over 50,000 war crimes files have been opened to date.”
Keep dreaming.
Did you guys know that NorseViking is a retired senior officer with 21 years of service?
NorseViking to ansel12
LOL, except I am a retired senior officer after 21 years of service.
“NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on Jan. 15 that Ukraine can expect more deliveries of heavy arms from Western partners in the near future.
“We are in a crucial phase of the war,” he said. “It is therefore important that we provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs to win.””
Win.
That is what NATO says.
Italy has a bigger GDP than Russia, not to mention France Germany, Canada, the UK or the USA. Collectively, Russia faces Military support from countries with a GDP over 50 times their own, as the the Russian economy nosedives.
Putin drove Russia over a cliff. He just uses his control of the Government to enable every greater mafia robberies and extortion rackets. He did not accumulate a personal fortune of over $200 Billion by accident, or honest effort. Now he bit off more than he can chew, and all of Russia will have to pay a terrible price for his crimes.
... if RU armor (tanks mostly) ever succeed in a breakout ...
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Except they don’t have that much armor left, and any putitive break out would be subject to a tank killing artillery barrage.
14,000 is the number of the total number of casualties the war in Donbass, killed by both parties between 2014 and 2021. 10,900 of them were soldiers.
On January 27, 2022, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released its most recent estimate of the victims of the Donbass conflict from 2014 to December 31, 2021
According to the U.N., 10,900 victims were soldiers, of which 4,400 were Ukrainians and 6,500 pro-Russian combatants of or on behalf of the separatist pseudo-republics. Civilian victims were between 3,400 and 3,500.
https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-related%20civilian%20casualties%20as%20of%2031%20December%202021%20%28rev%2027%20January%202022%29%20corr%20EN_0.pdf
Do you really think that the end of the Ukraine War will lead to the dismemberment and surrender of Russia - massive nuclear power?
Afghanistan did to the much larger Soviet Union.
The Soviet Military was four times the size of the current Russian Military. They Warsaw Pact countries that were on their side then, are now in NATO, and are their fiercest opponents (after the Ukrainians).
Afghanistan and the Ukraine are fairly similar in land area and total population, but the Ukrainians are dramatically better educated and technically competent, as well as exceptionally knowledgeable about Russian language, tactics, capabilities and vulnerabilities. International military support to the Ukrainian forces dwarfs what was given to the Afghans fighting the Soviets.
The Soviets lost about 15,000 KIA in a decade in Afghanistan, but have already lost several times as many in 2022 in the Ukraine, with much higher equipment losses as well.
Now that Russia’s relative Artillery advantage has declined significantly, its fleets of operational tanks and close air support aircraft are well over halfway attritted, and the bulk of its professional Army combat troops increasingly replaced by poorly trained recently mobilized; Russian casualty rates are approaching as much as the whole Afghan War, each month in the Ukraine.
They buffered the social impact by using higher percentages of ethnic minorities, like Buryats and Chechans, and leaning heavily on conscripts from within occupied Ukrainian territory (LDR/DPR), as well as lots of prisoners and mercenaries. But those options are now running their course. No Divisions arrived from Syria. No 100,000 troops came from North Korea.
The next wave of mobilization is going to start digging deeper into white ethnic Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The old Soviet stockpiles are being burned through rapidly - many times faster than production can replenish. Orders of magnitude more rapidly. At these rates, this year (2023) will see them exhausted largely across the board - cruise missiles, Artillery shells and tubes, main battle tanks, close air support aircraft, etc..
“Did you guys know that NorseViking is a retired senior officer with 21 years of service?”
Clearly, a throwaway BS line on his/her/its part.
I don’t know about that, from what we have seen from the Russian military, he may have been a 4-star General.
Funny, Afghanistan did to the much larger United States and NATO under Biden who is the idiot leading the Ukraine War.
Also you might want to consider that there is a vast distance in mentality between fighting a war abroad and fighting on your own soil.
“you might want to consider that there is a vast distance in mentality between fighting a war abroad and fighting on your own soil.”
That is a well known advantage that the Ukrainians have over the Russian invaders.
No wonder that Russia is so worked up about the Ukraine trying to join NATO. You are just validating Russia's concerns about NATO's ever eastward expansion.
Yeah, maybe it was the old KGB or something, that he purportedly retired from. I’m not familiar with their personnel practices.
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