Posted on 02/27/2023 8:03:02 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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9 more invader tanks lost. Feb is the most tank losses since October. The RuZZian Spring Offensive has been a smashing failure.
Best position since the 1950s.
“War in Ukraine Drives New Surge of U.S. Oil Exports to Europe”
“With the West mostly shunning Russia’s oil and gas, U.S. crude exports increase“
“A year of war in Ukraine is revitalizing U.S. oil exports as a source of financial influence and geopolitical power.
As the West has shunned most Russian energy, unleashing a pressure campaign against the Kremlin’s petroleum revenues, record U.S. crude exports have helped fill the gap in Europe with the oil needed to produce gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, average monthly seaborne cargoes to the continent jumped 38% compared with the previous 12-month period, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler. A fleet of skyscraper-size tankers carried more crude to Germany, France and Italy—the European Union’s largest economies—as well as Spain, which alone boosted purchases by about 88% over the period.
The pull of oil shipments from the Gulf Coast to Europe, which Kpler pegged at 1.53 million barrels a day in January, has in recent months made the continent a larger destination for U.S. crude than Asia.
The growth in exports marks the latest milestone in the revival of U.S. oil production after years of dwindling market clout. Petroleum exports supported Allied countries during both world wars, but output then slid, along with the country’s sway over global markets.
Now, the shale boom in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling has made the U.S. a major producer again, tapping gushers of fossil fuels ready for delivery to destinations opened by the Ukraine conflict.
U.S. natural gas shipments to Europe more than doubled last year, according to the White House, cushioning the continent’s households and manufacturers after Russia throttled supplies. Analysts say surging U.S. crude production helped to calm markets as the West restricted most Russian exports with bans and novel price caps in recent months.
“America is back in the most predominant position it has been in world energy since the 1950s,” said Daniel Yergin, an energy historian and vice chairman of S&P Global. “U.S. energy now is becoming one of the foundations of European energy security.”“
Another dividend from the relatively small amount of dollars being spent on Ukraine. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands of American lives will be saved if there is no war over Taiwan.
“CIA Chief Says China Has Doubts About Its Ability to Invade Taiwan”
“Russia’s struggles in Ukraine may be causing Beijing to have more trepidation“
“Russia’s struggles to seize and keep territory in Ukraine over the past year has likely fueled doubts by Chinese leader Xi Jinping that China’s military could successfully invade Taiwan later this decade, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said.
“I think our judgment at least is that (Chinese) President Xi and his military leadership have doubts today about whether they could accomplish that invasion,” Mr. Burns said Sunday on CBS. “As they’ve looked at Putin’s experience in Ukraine, that’s probably reinforced some of those doubts.”
Mr. Burns said that the U.S. continued to take the threat of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan seriously, adding that the risks of a conflict would likely grow further into the decade and beyond. U.S. intelligence and defense officials believe Mr. Xi wants to be ready to do so by 2027, if not sooner, but Mr. Burns said that goal isn’t set in stone.
“President Xi has instructed the PLA, the Chinese military leadership, to be ready by 2027 to invade Taiwan, but that doesn’t mean that he’s decided to invade in 2027 or any other year as well,” he said.”
Peak China
“The Chinese Century Is Already Over”
“China’s decline will be gradual. It will remain the world’s second- or third-largest economy for decades to come. But the huge gap between its waning demographic and economic strength and its expanding political ambitions may make it highly vulnerable to strategic misjudgments. Memories of past glory or fear of lost status could lead it down the same dangerous path that Russia has taken in Ukraine.”
Vuhledar
“Also the 155th seems totally frozen... a grenade right in the middle of 3 Russians no one reacts. They use already destroyed tanks and IFV for cover but it does not save them, Ukrainian drones pursue them to death...”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630180222707421184
“Russians report heavy losses in Vuhledar”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630095257147777024
“Vuhledar UPD the ghosts of the 155th brigade of the Pacific Fleet gathered to fertilize Ukrainian soil”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1629969108656635906
“Reported as moving Romanian air defense systems to the border with Moldova this morning Gepards ...”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630109908615012352
“In Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region, someone tried to set fire to the military enlistment office An unknown person threw a Molotov cocktail into the building of the military enlistment office on Komsomolskaya Street on February 26 at 3 am. The fire engulfed the branch of the social fund of the Russian Federation, which is located with the military registration and enlistment office in the same building.”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630107525696692225
The mud is back
“It is going to be up to +14°C in Donetsk today, and the battle is not only against Russians but also the mud and rivers of mud...”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630105890027192323
Up close and personal
“Insane A Ukrainian soldier clears the Russian trench. The Russian soldier did not expect the attack apparently”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1629835375928590336
“Two relative modern Russian MBTs (T-80BV and TBB3M) were parked south of Pavlivka and when an Ukrainian drone approached the Russian crews panicked and abandoned their vehicles. Pure comedy.”
“A Russian T-80BV tank was destroyed by the Ukrainian 72nd Brigade using drone-dropped munitions in #Donetsk Oblast. A T-80BVM that was taking part in the attempted recovery of the T-80BV received minor damage.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1630137792377307138
“Media: Belarus increases border control on exits following alleged partisan attack. A day after the alleged explosions at the Machulishchy airfield near Minsk, Belarusian border guards significantly increased exit control from the country, RFE/RL’s Belarusian service reported.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1630216845100720131
“ISW: “The specter of limitless Russian manpower is a myth.” The Institute for the Study of War said Russia will face increasing costs to replace its losses in the latest report on Russian forces’ recruitment campaigns on Feb. 26.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1630095090105614341
“Impressive. Two Ukrainian Stugna-P/Skif ATGM teams eliminated 2 Russian tanks in a matter of seconds, somewhere in Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1630118628526891010
“Tank and drone 30 OMBr destroy the enemy as a duo0“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1629968758826582024
POWs
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1630095848397844481
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1629943936776110082
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