PING!!!!!
Hat tip to Speedy! For documenting one side of a war and pretending it means Ukraine is winning. This is a huge service to all Zeepers to keep their spirits up daily!
Posted on 03/17/2023 9:06:01 AM PDT 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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“ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin and Russian official tied to alleged deportation of Ukrainian children”
“Slovak MiG-29s (qty 10) and, apparently, Kub (SA-6) air defense systems pledged to be donated to Ukraine”
“As per reports: 10 MiG-29 w/ engines, 3x MiG-29 w/out engines, propellants/lubricants, spare parts, ground operating equipment, control/measuring equipment. 2x Kub launchers (2P25) w/ spare parts, 1x 1S91 radar, 52x 3M9ME, 148x 3M9M3E Missiles.”
https://twitter.com/magictouch190/status/1636712845688598529
“Finnish President Niinistö arrived in Ankara to meet with the Turkish President Erdogan as Türkiye is expected to green light Finland’s NATO bid today.“
“TURKEY WILL RATIFY FINLAND’S NATO MEMBERSHIP.”
https://twitter.com/haskologlu/status/1636738086037078017
“Ukrainian counter-battery fire destroyed a Russian BM-21 Grad 122mm multiple rocket launcher in #Kherson Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1636712779888443392
“The Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade took a Russian T-80BVM tank out of action with a FGM-148 Javelin ATGM strike in #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1636692524830957571
“The Ukrainian 93rd Brigade destroyed a Russian BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle in #Bakhmut city using with a Stugna-P ATGM strike.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1636693146720432128
Those Javelins, that the RuZZian Boys say UA has run out of.
“Javelin fighters of the Skala battalion destroy Russian armored vehicles in Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1636718542585249792
“In the Samara region, an alley of the dead appeared with the flag of the “Wagner” PVC.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1636641343148634115
PING!!!!!
Hat tip to Speedy! For documenting one side of a war and pretending it means Ukraine is winning. This is a huge service to all Zeepers to keep their spirits up daily!
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - Mar 15, 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
-—> Combined Arms Breach, what UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
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Extra:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Delivery Of Polish MiG-29s Imminent <——
Poland’s president says his country will be the first nation to deliver much-needed new fighter jets to Ukraine “within the next few days.”
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-delivery-of-polish-mig-29s-imminent
Excerpts:
“More MiGs will be transferred to Ukraine after [these], Polish President Andrzej Duda said, adding that “The rest are being prepared, serviced.” According to a report from CNN, the total number of MiGs to be transferred is between 11 and 19.
“Firstly, literally within the next few days, we will hand over, as far as I remember, four aircraft to Ukraine in full working order,” Duda said today.
Around 28 MiG-29s currently serve with the Polish Air Force, although Pawel Szrot, head of the president’s office in Warsaw, previously said that fewer than 14 would be transferred to Ukraine. In light of today’s announcement, it’s unclear if this is still the plan.
Bulgaria is the other NATO operator that has stocks of the Soviet-era jets that could potentially be sent to Ukraine.
This scheme should fare better than an earlier plan to provide Ukraine with the entire fleet of Polish MiG-29s, which was shot down by the U.S. government amid [fear-filled, arm-waving] concerns that supplying Kyiv with fighter jets would be too provocative.
One thing the Polish decision won’t trigger, according to the United States, is a corresponding move on its part to supply Ukraine with the F-16 fighter jets it so badly wants.
Speaking today, White House spokesperson John Kirby said that President Duda’s announcement “doesn’t change our calculus with respect to F-16s.” [amid more fear-filled, arm-waving rants].
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{Federal Security Service (FSB) fire in Rostov-on-Don was a total accident, according to the Russians. Oil leak, electrical short - the usual.]
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Ukraine is now firing an average of 110,000 155mm artillery rounds alone each month.
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Russia plans to recruit another 400,000 professional soldiers, according to a report from Radio Svoboda, which cites several regional media outlets.
The recruitment campaign is planned for launch on April 1 and the report suggests that different regions within Russia have already received quotes for the number of people that need to be recruited to meet the overall target.
For example, the regions of Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk will each be expected to secure 10,000 contractor soldiers, while the figure for Perm Krai is 9,000.
According to the Vyorstka outlet, Russian military recruitment offices are especially looking for soldier specialists, such as tank drivers and artillerymen, to replace combat losses.
As we stated earlier this week, a recent report from The Washington Post claims that Russia may have suffered as many as 200,000 killed and wounded during the conflict. In Bakhmut alone, Western officials have estimated total Russian casualties at somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000.
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Some remarkable video footage from apparently recent fighting at an undisclosed location in Ukraine reveals the effectiveness of the slat armor fitted to a Ukrainian BTR-4E Bucephalus, a locally produced amphibious 8x8 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle that has seen a lot of action in the conflict so far.
The Ukrainian vehicle survives what looks like a direct hit from an anti-tank guided missile of unknown type, the warhead detonating on impact with the slat-armor screens that can help defeat various tiers of infantry anti-tank weapons.
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[The 2nd of the 4 Canadian Leopard 2A4s will arrive shortly in Ukraine.]
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Another modern tank that could yet find its way into Ukrainian service before too long is this Russian T-90M, apparently captured recently by Ukrainian soldiers.
The T-90M is considered to be the top-of-the-line fighting vehicle in Russian Army service and we reported on the capture of the first fully intact example by Ukrainian troops in September 2022.
According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia has lost 15 T-90Ms in the Ukrainian war already, the same figure provided by the team of researchers at the Oryx blog, using open-source information. That total includes tanks destroyed, damaged, captured, and otherwise abandoned.
Interestingly, it appears that the T-90M includes various high-technology components of Western origin. In particular, the Ukrainian Armed Forces say that foreign components are found in the Kalina fire-control system, which is otherwise billed as being a Russian product.
Slovakia will also supply part of its KUB air-defence system
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4138738/posts
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Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
••Day 386.
Today there is a lot of news from the east.
Here, Wagners saw that Ukrainians rapidly exploited the regained access to the road and started fierce fights to establish direct fire control over the road.
The footage revealed how Wagners used a dirty approach to fighting.
It showed how after Wagners realized that their assault had failed, they shot their wounded soldier and asked Ukrainians for a ceasefire to collect the killed troops.
Once Ukrainians agreed and started collecting their own dead soldiers, Wagners threw a grenade at them and ran away without picking up their dead.
Last time I told you that the increased focus of Wagner forces on the western flank and attempts to enlarge the buffer zone for mitigating the risk of a Ukrainian counteroffensive led to alleviated pressure from the Khromove highway, which allowed the Ukrainians to start using it once again.
I also told you that the Wagner forces’ tempo of advances west of Bakhmut has slowed down due to heavy fire and the necessity to attack uphill.
The freshest reports suggest that the tide is changing once again, and Wagner forces started to increase the number of assaults on Bakhmut.
Russians still managed to achieve incremental progress and establish control over the small village of Zaliznianske, but their main focus undoubtedly became the encirclement.
As you remember, around a week ago, Ukrainian forces took advantage of the decreased activity around the Khromove road and pushed Wagner troops from an extensive trench network in front of the highway.
Recent footage provided by the Ukrainian 92nd brigade shows Wagner forces conducting an intense but unsuccessful assault on the Ukrainian position.
The video also features how Wagners kill their own wounded troops to avoid slowing down.
A Ukrainian commander of the unit on the ground also said that after that, Wagners asked for a ceasefire to collect the killed soldiers and promised that they would retreat.
Ukrainian commander said that they granted them the opportunity to retreat, but Wagners violated the promised ceasefire and threw a grenade.
Other sources say that Wagners were more successful at advancing towards Khromove village than Khromove highway.
Here, the assaults were reportedly conducted directly on the village, so the area between the trenches and the village is largely in the grey zone.
In any case, due to the surge in engagements in this region, the highway has been rendered unsafe once again, which has visibly started affecting the level of supplies to Bakhmut.
Certain elements of Ukrainian forces have expressed the lack of necessary ammunition and said that sometimes they could not engage with the enemy due to the necessary heavy rationing of ammunition by their commanders.
This caused some confusion because Wagner forces simultaneously released a video showing the devastation on their position and said that Ukrainians had plenty of ammunition, however, they showed destruction from artillery shells, and the artillery is obviously located outside Bakhmut and does suffer from increased fire control over the Khromove highway.
Shortages of regular ammunition have already forced Ukrainians to withdraw from the most challenging positions, such as the southern part of the town.
Here Ukrainians had been maintaining positions deep inside the salient, causing huge inconveniences to Russians.
However, with the difficulties of keeping up the necessary intensity of fights, they have stepped back and shortened the front line.
Shortened frontline helps to improve the situation in the short term, especially as Wagners switched focus back to Bakhmut.
Military analysts are offering several possible explanations as to why Wagner forces decreased the intensity of fights on the flanks and increased around the city.
The optimistic version is that Wagner forces realized that their obsession with securing the flanks came at the cost of their control over the road, which Ukrainians started exploiting very rapidly.
The pessimistic version is that Wagner infantry expanded westward faster than weather conditions were becoming suitable for the Ukrainian mechanized assault, so they created the buffer zone that they needed and went back to the encirclement.
Overall, it looks like control over the situation once again shifts from Ukrainians to Wagners.
The prevention of the encirclement attempts by threatening Wagner’s flanks was a temporary measure, and now the Ukrainian command needs to take the next decision.
The most widely discussed options on the table are counteroffensive or withdrawal.
However, based on what we have seen so far, the Ukrainian command is coming up with non-obvious tactics that allow for a gradual, not immediate, withdrawal.
Right now, we are at the 4th out of 5 stages of ideal gradual withdrawal.
It is possible that Ukrainians will come up with another plan to undermine Wagner’s main goal, force them to temporarily change their objectives, and drag the Battle for
Bakhmut into April, closer to the dates of promised counteroffensive.
It is also possible that not everything will go according to the plan, Ukrainians will not find a way to regain control over the situation and will be forced to withdraw immediately.
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Russians claim they have 160,000 troops across the entire front and want to reach 400,000 with their “new” mobilization.
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UA troops in Bakhmut claim in a published article that they still have a supply line under their control
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UA forces around Chasiv Yar: 40th, 80th, 5th, 127th which could attack toward Klishchiivka which is under control by the RGF.
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Avdiivka:
Facing encirclement under lots of Russian pressure. City is major railroad hub.
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Onyx confirms Russian lost it’s first modified version of the T-72 - has more armor and older sight (1PN96MT-02) mounted on top right side of turret.
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Washington Post, March 13 2023
“Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow”
Interview with “Anatoli” - one of the most successful, capable, competent, and skillful UA commanders - speaks of how things are in the army, good and bad. WAPO takes the bad for its headline.
UA HR takes people skilled in one job like tanks, aviation and throws them into the infantry. No proper division and distribution of troops according to their previous skills.
Still some Soviet Dinosaurs in the UA that drag the entire army down; they are unwilling to implement anything new in training, and that is one reason training overseas is so much more successful.
Soviet Dinosaurs attacked the above commander for speaking out and was dismissed from his position and discharged from the army -[score one for the Russians]. Ukrainian people are very mad about this situation and hope he will be restored to his position.
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US War Crimes prosecutors say there is no evidence that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine.
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Russian sent the Russian Empire built, Kamuna, a 110 year old ship, to the drone crash sight - which appears to be just outside of Turkish waters.
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Poland will send 4 of their MiG-29s in the next few days. These MiGs have been modernized to carry NATO standard bombs missiles. They also have better radars which are longer range that current Russian AF radars.
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The French-made IMAX 10 RC tanks have arrived in Ukraine. Tanks with tires.
Replacing the MQ-9 is, according to the Flightradar service, the RQ-4 Global Hawk with the call sign FORTE10 headed for the Black Sea.
OR Erdogan loses upcoming election and new president approves Sweden.
“At a news conference with his Finnish counterpart, Erdogan said #Turkey will continue discussions with #Sweden on
terrorism-related issues and Turkish support for the Swedish #NATO membership bid will depend directly on measures taken.”
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1636740404526608384
In Russia, operators of regional jets are facing a shortage of American spark plugs for engines due to sanctions.
The current situation leads to the risk of a complete stop of aircraft flights in Russia.
Mighty Ruzzia was unable to produce their own planes without the western made spare parts…
As for the spark plugs. There should be many on the jet engines and just few on the turboprop engines.
https://t.me/s/pilotblog
“Turkey to greenlight Finland’s NATO membership bid. “We have decided to initiate the ratification process in our parliament”, Turkish President Erdogan said after meeting his Finnish counterpart Niinisto in Ankara. Ratification expected soon, before TR elections in May.”
https://twitter.com/juliahahntv/status/1636738618889760775
“spark plugs”
Laughing, laughing, laughing.
PIF, you will demoralize tender Zeepers!,
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