Posted on 03/06/2023 5:13:56 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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Thanks for the updates speedy.
B-52s flying over Poland, 4 maybe.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for March 6, 2023: - Russian forces continue the encirclement of Bakhmut;
- Western media admits Russian operations around Bakhmut is exhausting Ukrainian forces and may diminish them ahead of an anticipated Ukrainian spring offensive;
- US announces another military assistance package for Ukraine with fewer items listed and absent of any specific quantities despite previous packages featuring such information;
- Ukraine has urgently asked the West for more artillery shells in particular, highlighting the inability for Western industry to match or exceed Russian military industrial output;
- German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall claims to be considering building a tank factory in Ukraine. Older articles claim only if approved by the German government and after the conflict is over, newer articles suggest the factory may be built sooner;
- Ukrainian pilots are in the US to assess their skills for potential training on US warplanes (likely the F-16);
- Training Ukrainian pilots on F-16s or other Western warplanes will admittedly take years, if F-16s arrive in Ukraine beforehand they will likely be Western operators posing as Ukrainian pilots;
@KyivIndependent 8h
“Media: UK, Germany to conduct joint NATO air policing exercises in Estonia.
U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, as cited by Sky News, called it a demonstration of NATO “unity” and said that 300 Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel will be involved.”
@KyivIndependent 9h
“Air Force: 13 out of 15 Russian drones downed by Ukraine overnight.
Ukrainian air defense shot down 13 out of 15 Iranian drones Russia launched at Ukraine overnight, Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said on national television on March 6.”
ISW’s RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 5, 2023
“Key inflections in ongoing military operations on March 5:
The Ukrainian Air Force Command and Ukrainian news outlet Defense Express reported that Russian forces began using new UPAB-1500V aerial bombs against Ukrainian targets.
Russian forces continued to conduct limited ground attacks northwest and south of Kreminna.
Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks near Avdiivka and on the western outskirts of Donetsk City. A Russian source claimed that Russian forces advanced to Pervomaiske, 8km northwest of Donetsk City.
The Ukrainian General Staff continued to report that Russian forces are attempting to create conditions for the transition to an offensive in some areas of the Zaporizhia and Kherson directions. ISW has not observed indicators that Russian forces are preparing to launch sustained offensive operations in Zaporizhia Oblast or any offensive activity in Kherson Oblast.
Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Viktoriya Litvinova reported that Russia deported about 16,000 children of whom 307 were able to return to Ukraine. The Ukrainian Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights Daria Herasimchuk reported that Russian officials use coercive tactics to separate Ukrainian children from their parents in order to deport them.
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska reported that Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating 171 cases of sexual assault committed by Russian Forces against Ukrainian citizens.
(https://tsn.ua/en/ato/russian-air-forces-have-used-new-dangerous-weapon-what-is-known-about-upab-1500v-bombs-2278651.html):
"The Russian bomb UPAB-1500V was first demonstrated in Russia only in 2019.
Its first use during the war in Ukraine was recorded a few weeks ago against a facility in the Chernihiv Region. At that time, one of the fragments had remnants of markings that corresponded to the UPAB-1500V...
the bomb is equipped with an inertial and satellite navigation system and has a warhead weighing 1010 kg designed to hit highly protected targets. The aircraft can drop it 40 kilometers from the target, although the carrier must climb to an altitude of 14 kilometers...
The use of this ammunition is currently sporadic. For a long range, it is necessary to raise the aircraft to a considerable altitude, which makes it easier to identify targets and the possibility of hitting the carrier."
Although they do the same mission it's a different manufacturing concept.
The UPAB-1500V aerial bomb is manufactured as a glide bomb. Sort of like an ALCM without a rocket motor.
A JDAM is a kit that converts an existing dumb bomb into a GPS guided glide bomb.
The wings on the UPAB-1500V would provide a longer launch range than JDAM, more in line with JDAM-ER.
Thanks for the ping.
Russians execute Ukrainian POW for ‘Glory to Ukraine’ salute
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4136101/posts
May all the fallen heroes rest in peace, and may their sacrifice be rewarded with the freedom of their Country.
Glory to the Heroes!
Prigozhin panicking tonight over Bakhmut situation. This is getting good. Ukraine typically pulls some tricks out of their bag when Putin is away in Sochi getting cancer treatments.
Also, Russia just evacuated occupation political leadership family members from Crimea back to Russia today.
Don't worry, the USA can pay for the repatriation of 10 million Ukrainians, and build them new houses, and send them to college. Biden, Blinken, today the uber-corrupt Attorney General of the USA Merrick Garland was there (why?).The refugee crisis is exacerbating Ukraine’s irreversible demographic decline, which began in the Soviet era.
Kyiv, Ukraine – Halyna Tarasevych is not coming back home to Kyiv. The 38-year-old fled Ukraine with her two children in March, weeks after the Russian invasion began.
They spent three months in an overcrowded refugee centre in neighbouring Moldova until Switzerland granted them asylum.
The children, 12-year-old Olena and seven-year-old Mykola, recently started school. They are surrounded by caring teachers and classmates who help them adapt to a German-language education.
“They like it here. We’ve seen so much kindness,” Tarasevych, who has an art history degree, told Al Jazeera.
Back in the Ukrainian capital, she had helped her husband Oleh run a stationery shop.
Oleh still works in the shop but will join his family as soon as Ukraine starts letting men aged between 18 and 60 out of the country.
Unlike millions of other Ukrainians uprooted by the war, the Tarasevyches have not lost their comfortable three-bedroom apartment or jobs. Thankfully, none of their relatives or friends have been killed in the conflict
But they are committed to a new life in Switzerland.
“There’s no future in Ukraine,” Oleh told Al Jazeera, citing corruption and the economic free-fall that may shrink Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) by a third this year.
His shop was not particularly profitable before the war and switching to another business was risky, he said.
He remembers basic, rudimentary German from his school days and is ready to spend the rest of his life working low-paying, menial jobs in Switzerland for the sake of his children’s future.
“All the best – to the children,” he said citing a Soviet-era slogan.
Lost millions
The emigration of the Tarasevych family is indicative of Ukraine’s dire demographic crisis, which began decades before the war.
At the dawn of independence in 1991, Ukraine’s population stood at 52 million.
The current official figure is 43 million, but the statistics are widely understood to be far from true.
The last census took place in 2001 and the current figures include more than 2 million in annexed Crimea, as well as several million in two separatist statelets – the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” in the southeast.
Before the war, at least 8 million Ukrainians worked in Europe full or part-time, thanks to the visa-free policy. It had also been relatively easy to obtain a work visa. Many worked as seasonal farmhands, drivers, construction workers or cashiers and came home only for Easter or Christmas.
With each paycheque, they would set aside enough money for a new house or apartment in their hometown or village.
“The return of refugees en masse is correlated to the war situation and, in the long term, to the strategy of economic development,” Aleksey Kushch, a Kyiv-based analyst, told Al Jazeera.
Ukraine needs a repatriation programme, but this is unfeasible without a booming economy, he said.
The boom is only possible if the entire economic model is reconsidered because Ukraine’s financial elites are too used to living off grain and steel exports, he said.
“Otherwise, a demographic crisis awaits Ukraine – a population of less than 30 million, 10 million of whom are retired,” Kushch concluded.
There are so many now in Poland, you’d almost never see signs in Russian in Poland, now everything is bilingual with signs in Polish and Russian/Ukrainian.
Looks like Russia is harassing Forte10 Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk over the Black Sea near Crimea today.
The status of the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine is unclear after conflicting reports at the weekend over how much of the city was controlled by Russian forces, and whether Ukrainian forces were starting to withdraw from parts of the city.A Ukrainian commander of troops in Bakhmut said on Telegram Sunday that there were “no decisions or orders regarding retreat” and that “the defense is holding” in the city but also characterized the situation in Bakhmut and its outskirts as “very much like hell.”
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War think tank said Sunday that Ukrainian forces appear to be conducting a “limited tactical withdrawal” in Bakhmut, however, although they noted that “it is still too early to assess Ukrainian intentions concerning a complete withdrawal from the city.”
The ISW noted that “Ukrainian forces are unlikely to withdraw from Bakhmut all at once and may pursue a gradual fighting withdrawal to exhaust Russian forces through continued urban warfare.”
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