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Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
ORYX ^ | Since February 24, 2022 and daily | ORYX

Posted on 02/20/2023 7:44:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

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To: PIF

The RuZZians lie at every opportunity.

““We gave Biden security guarantees for a visit to Kyiv although we could have threatened him”.”

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1627628298065903617


21 posted on 02/20/2023 7:48:44 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: PIF

Droned

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627394330326454276

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627627184599797760


22 posted on 02/20/2023 7:48:58 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: PIF

Up close and personal

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627625643666964480


23 posted on 02/20/2023 7:49:12 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: PIF

POWs

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627409983280119810

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627400823167647744

https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1627395009518481410


24 posted on 02/20/2023 7:49:24 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: marcusmaximus

“Two days until Putin’s “Victory Concert” in Moscow”

Its been a smashing victory for RuZZia.

They have definitely been smashed up.


25 posted on 02/20/2023 7:51:02 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas; marcusmaximus

Muslims dancing in Moscow subway train while Russian Mobik serfs die for nothing in the mud of Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/Q0MT6pFmbVqynsM/status/1627379392866406404


26 posted on 02/20/2023 7:55:33 AM PST by lodi90
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To: PIF; All

“Ukrainians greeted the sight of Biden strolling in the sunlight alongside Zelensky in central Kyiv as historic, heroic and a welcome sign of support for Ukraine. A popular Russian journalist, Sergei Mardan, described the visit in a post to his 200,000 followers on Telegram as a “demonstrative humiliation for Russia.””


27 posted on 02/20/2023 8:06:23 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: lodi90

Dumbing down the RuZZian gene pool.


28 posted on 02/20/2023 8:08:53 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
"Christian" Putin supporters...mmmkayy!! Image
29 posted on 02/20/2023 8:40:58 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: SpeedyInTexas
Dumbing down the RuZZian gene pool.

I'm not so sure about that...it might be the other way around.

30 posted on 02/20/2023 8:41:34 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To: SpeedyInTexas
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/recognizing-the-war-is-lost-the-west-seeks-an-exit.html#more

U.S. President Joe Biden is in Kiev today to rescue his lunatic project of destroying Russia by proxy war. But there is no good way to do that.

A review of 'western' media shows that the inevitable outcome of the war is now recognized. The only still open alternatives are to risk a large nuclear war or to retreat from 'western' dreams of its permanent hegemony.

Few 'western' officials will admit that the war is lost, that Russia has won in Ukraine. But it has. It had won the war when it successfully trapped the Ukrainian army into a war of attrition.

A the Russian commentator Sacha Rogers writes (in Russian, machine translation):

This war has already been won (moreover, what is most offensive for various "unrecognized geniuses", without their participation and contrary to their foolish ideas of how it should be won). It was won at the moment when, instead of a highly maneuverable war, our General Staff imposed a positional “standing” with an attrition war on the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Strictly by the textbook: Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and material.

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But the Ukrainian army does not have the material and manpower ready to launch some kind of counter offense that would have a chance to be win the war. It doesn't even have enough to regain some significant territory.

The third army it would need would have to be much stronger than the two armies it has already lost. And its not coming.

31 posted on 02/20/2023 8:51:39 AM PST by Kazan
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To: PIF
Brought to you by Spammy in Texas.

32 posted on 02/20/2023 8:52:41 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Kazan

Did I see you at that rally nice touch with the Zs with masking tape


33 posted on 02/20/2023 8:58:17 AM PST by blitz128
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To: Kazan

From the moonies in JANUARY:

The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-russian-army-activates-southern-front.html#more

Where is the massive offensive the you putards have been promising? McGregar said no later than Dec 19...


34 posted on 02/20/2023 9:43:27 AM PST by FreshPrince
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To: Kazan

Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.

Is that where you live?


35 posted on 02/20/2023 9:49:49 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
This mobik was probably the last mobik in a column.

He never looks left or right, just straight ahead.

When the shots were fired, the other mobiks probably started running.

UKR infantry soldier displayed bravery at its finest.

36 posted on 02/20/2023 9:59:14 AM PST by FtrPilot
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To: SpeedyInTexas; FtrPilot; BeauBo; blitz128; Timber Rattler; Monterrosa-24; marcusmaximus; ...

Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Feb 19, 2023
(’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: .... ) or { } or [ ].

-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/

-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk

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••Day 361.

The biggest news today is coming from the Vuheldar area.

Here, the Ukrainians have completely retaken the initiative and conducted a massive counterattack, pushing the Russians so far behind that they essentially lost the whole month of progress.

The Russians tried to return these territories back, but as exclusive footage revealed, the demoralized soldiers made so many mistakes that almost everyone ended up dead.

Last time I told you that the Russians slowly lost the initiative. After a series of absolutely suicidal assaults, the Russians could no longer keep up the same intensity of their attacks, which quickly led to the loss of their tactical bridgehead to the east and west of Vuhledar. Russian command decided to take a pause and switched to artillery fire.

Simultaneously a lot of reports started coming in from the Russian side, where Russian commanders basically said that Vuhledar must be leveled with the ground or the town will not be taken.

In order to achieve this goal, they started using not only regular artillery and aviation but also thermobaric artillery.

This turned out to be not a very good solution for the Ukrainians because just sitting under artillery fire would mean slowly incurring losses and letting the Russians destroy their defenses.

That is why the Ukrainians developed a new plan. First of all, the Ukrainians relocated an additional artillery brigade towards Vuhledar in order to boost their counterbattery efforts.

This very quickly brought results, as footage appeared of a destroyed Russian thermobaric artillery system TOS-1A.

TOS-1A is extremely vulnerable to counterbattery fire because its range is only around 4 km. This means that they need to get really close to Vuhledar and expose themselves.

The second part of the Ukrainian plan was to develop their counterattack further and, preferably, chase the Russians from the northern bank of the river.

This helps the Ukrainians to achieve two things: firstly, they are pushing Russian thermobaric artillery away from Vuhledar itself, and secondly, they are forcing the Russians to disperse their artillery fire by holding many more positions in the region where they threaten Russian forces.

In order to carry out this counterattack, the Ukrainians reinforced Vuhledar with multiple assault units from some of the most capable brigades in Ukraine and gave them several tanks.

[Early indications that the UA is working on mobile combined arms assaults. Hint of things to come.]

As a result, Russian forces got completely decimated and lost not only the approaches to the eastern hamlet but also the whole residential area and the hills between Vuhledar and Mykilske, and this is how it happened.

The Ukrainians took advantage of the increased density of Ukrainian artillery in the region and conducted an extensive but very concentrated artillery preparation.

Then they launched into the battle several tanks that broke through the enemy defense and cleared the way for the assault units behind and pushed the Russians all the way back to the residential area near the river.

After that, the process was repeated, and the Russians had to retreat to the eastern part of this residential area.

The next day, the Russians attempted to conduct a counterattack, but judging by the released footage of this battle, the Ukrainians were waiting for it.

The Russians tried to use the same tactic and assaulted the Ukrainians with tanks, but due to concentrated artillery fire, they were quickly destroyed, and everything went sideways.

Some assault units stepped back while others continued to carry out the mission. Those who continued the mission found themselves in an extremely difficult situation because they acted with no cover from the other groups and also without artillery support.

The Russians sustained very high losses in killed and wounded, and these losses increased even more when they tried to save their wounded. Very often, for each wounded, they had 2-3 people trying to save him, and all of them ended up dead. Many Russian analysts once again shared a devastating critique of the Russian command after witnessing what happened.

If the lack of cover from the second group can be explained by the fact that some units retreated after the tanks got immediately destroyed and showed very poor morale of Russian soldiers, then the lack of artillery cover only shows a lack of competence and organization.

Overall, the Ukrainians conducted a massively successful counterattack and secured the northern bank of the river. This achievement renders all Russian efforts useless and resets their progress to zero.

By controlling this territory, the Ukrainians are not only preventing the Russians from moving anywhere near Vuhledar, but they also pushed Russian thermobaric artillery away from the main defenses in Vuhledar and coal mines, and they are also dispersing Russian artillery fire, which judging by the footage is not working properly anyways.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0
Denys says:
••Bakhmut changes:
PMC is using up its last bit of ammo to advance. East of the River, only small groups of UA troops remain to fight, while most of the UA forces are in the west side.

Earlier there was an announcement that the west would deliver 130 tanks to Ukraine by April, that number has now been lowered to 50. Too few to make any difference. Some countries that had promised Leopard 2 tanks are now going to send obsolete Leopard 1 tanks, [for which parts and, especially ammo are scarce].

[That together with their UK’s announcement it will not be sending Typhoons to Ukraine, looks bad as far as helping with major needed components; almost like some one got to them, somehow, someway. Just putting the fix in for eventually restoring all of the lost Soviet Union territories?]

French IMX 10 RC “tanks” will be delivered to the UA next weekend.

New Moldavian government wants to solve the Transnistria issue by taking it over. Great time, because Russia can’t send reinforcements, [they have about 1500 troops and an enormous ammo cache there], nor can they send air assets.


37 posted on 02/20/2023 10:06:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: blitz128

I have Z on my wall at home...Of course, my last name begins with a Z.


38 posted on 02/20/2023 10:23:12 AM PST by Kazan
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“javelins, howitzers, and artillery ammunition.”

Good stuff.

Load them up, they are doing the lord’s work defeating tyranny.


39 posted on 02/20/2023 10:23:57 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: FreshPrince
You're retarded. Read what I posted. Russia is intentionally fighting a slow war of attrition in order to feed the Ukrainian troops in their meat grinder.

NATO has run out of weapons and ammo to give Ukraine and while Russia keeps cranking out both because it has the manufacturing capability to do so.

This proxy has been another epic failure given to the country by the Biden regime. Yet, morons like you keep defending it.

Again -- the areas Russia has annex will never, ever be part of Ukraine again. Ukraine will be rump state after this is over.

Any Ukrainian offensives in this war are long over.

40 posted on 02/20/2023 10:27:09 AM PST by Kazan
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