Swedish politician, Former Member of the Riksdag Caroline Nordengrip in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She serves in the International Legion.
Posted on 04/26/2023 7:57:25 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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Swedish politician, Former Member of the Riksdag Caroline Nordengrip in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She serves in the International Legion.
What Tucker doink?
“If there is a way out, them there is a way in.” (Sevastopol harbor)
Absolutely. Even if the the door is closed, a first wave could blow it open.
It looks like they have narrowed the navigational channel into the harbor with barriers of booms, nets and barges. They likely have more people on watch and patrol, and they have long had trained dolphins on guard there as well. They have a big cluster of high value targets in that harbor.
Brent dropped below $80, for the first time since OPEC+’s production cut.
Oil Prices Slip As Banking Fears Return (https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Oil-Prices-Slip-As-Banking-Fears-Return.html)
“Oil continued the slide from Tuesday when prices fell by 2% to the lowest level so far this month. Prices were dragged down by renewed concerns about the U.S. banking sector after California-based lender First Republic spooked the financial markets on Tuesday, saying it had lost 40% of its deposits in the first quarter...
...A stronger U.S. dollar also weighed on oil prices on Tuesday.”
Why did the Russian ruble fall again?
Jo Harper
04/21/2023April 21, 2023
https://p.dw.com/p/4QKcX
“Since the beginning of the year, Russia’s currency, the ruble, has lost 16% of its value against the dollar and 13% against the euro. This week, it was trading at around 83 rubles to the former and 91 against the latter. This makes it the third-worst performing global currency so far this year, behind the Egyptian pound and the Argentine peso.”
...”The ruble’s downturn in recent weeks has been due by higher imports and heightened foreign capital outflows, Russian officials say.”
...”But Albrecht Rothacher, an author who worked for 30 years in the European Commission, says the crucial factor is that Urals crude only fetched $49 (€46) per barrel in January.”
...”Several foreign companies have pulled out of Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine last year. Bloomberg Economics estimates that foreign companies leaving Russia last year sold assets worth between $15 billion and $20 billion.”
...”Another factor is liquidity in dollar-ruble trades... The daily trade between the currencies is only about $1 billion per day, down from more than $3 billion a day before the war.”
...”Then there is the growing import costs of Western high tech via third countries like Turkey, Kazakhstan, China and Serbia”
...”The sanctions are having a stronger effect... That includes its growing dependency on China... There has been a substantial move towards use of yuan, which now accounts for over 30% of transactions on the (Russian) local FX market (from less than 1% before the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022), but the yuan is not a fully convertible currency and its instruments are not as liquid as the dollar and euro”
...”many believe the Russian government favors a gradual weakening of the ruble, as it would increase budget revenues without causing inflation. “The ruble is being managed weaker by the Russian authorities in response to the oil price cap and its impact in reducing both export and fiscal receipts. Weakening the ruble helps buoy the ruble value of oil receipts in the budget, so moderating the growth in the deficit,” analyst Tim Ash told DW.”
(Expectations are generally for the ruble to weaken a bit in coming weeks, and then hover around 80 to the dollar. Joe Blogs recently made the observation that the ruble has weakened even more against the Chinese Yuan and Indian Rupee this year (33-40%), than it has against the US Dollar or Euro).
Alot of this is now scrap metal.
“Russian forces have emptied out this military depot in northern Crimea, new satellite imagery shows.
This site was used to store tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery.”
https://twitter.com/bradyafr/status/1651167988089847809
“Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on April 21, “in just a few short months, the Contact Group has delivered more than 230 tanks, more than 1,550 armored vehicles and other equipment and munitions to support more than nine new armored brigades.””
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1651304342144823296
“I admire @MarkGaleotti greatly but I would present a different interpretation, that the Russian armed forces had the same failings in Syria as they do now and actually failed as an institution both in learning lessons and in fighting corruption:”
“What we saw in Chernobayevka with the lack of proper barries between helicopters, we saw in Syria at T4 with improper handling of amunition next to lined up Russian helicopters. This is a thing that’s in the field manual of forward air base operations since the 60s-70s.”
“Efficient ATGM use against Russian targets by teams specialised in such ambushes when proper spotting was performed, that was also seen in Syria, we had a notable TOS explosion there during operations.”
“The loss of helicopters due to night time collisions with terrain, in Syria Russia lost helicopters to that and pilots complained about it. They wanted better night fighting gear and flagged it as something in which they were far behind western adversaries.”
“Poor bombing record with non guided munitions was also present, as was slow coordination between ground and air which led to lists of areas to hit the following day printed on a piece of paper + poor interbranch systems cooperation that last year led to poor AD over Snake Island.”
“Relatively very high flag officers casualties sometimes due to said officers having to go to the front and unbleep the mess that was their operation. Susceptibility to being surprised, which happened in the ISIS Palmyra offensive and then inability to destroy support columns.”
“In that case the Russian forces were aided by yes US precision strikes on a large number of the ISIS support vehicles depriving them of mobile forces and saving isolated SAA and Ru units in T4. A source described the area as a sea of ISIS comms with small islands of VDV comms.”
“The collapse of logistics and the commandering of the bare minimal of extra throughput without a proper plan. That was how Russia used in Syria for a while several bulk transport ships slated for the scrap yard that had to be pulled by tugs when their engines gave out.”
“All of these issues could have been solved, internalized and planned around. This is not so much a lack of budget as it is a lack of bureaucratic throuput. That is the inability to find enough mid ranking officers to get a program to find a solution and institutionalize it.”
“And going into Syria Russia decided to spend 1,5-2 billion USD of its operations budget on an expensive ( for things like cost of supplies, extra hazzard pay , ad hoc organization ) deployment and taking away from the funds spent on trainings and thus troop rediness.”
“Russia had the funds to present to prepare for this war, it was the system Putin help metastasize that didn’t have the ability.”
“I can go one step further, we can trace this to the arrest of Leonid Khabarov.”
“Armies need majors and colonels who fix such broken things and make sure it goes into a checklist and someone is then put in place to check that checklist. The arrest signaled that Putin’s army was going in another direction.”
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“”In many ways it (Russia) was actually trying to emulate the U.S., but of course it’s a little bit difficult to emulate the U.S. when you have a national GDP about the same as Spain.
Nonetheless, the idea was precisely to create a modern flexible force that could operate across the full spectrum of military operations.””
“”There was no real concept of what this war would be because Putin didn’t think there was really going to be a war. There wasn’t the establishment of the specialized structures. There wasn’t the long-term planning. There weren’t all the necessary logistics in place. There wasn’t a central commander.
I mean, essentially, it broke every single rule, and that’s simply because, as far as Putin was concerned, this was not going to be a war.””
“”He genuinely seems to have believed that Ukraine, this non-country, would not be defended by its own people and it would basically fall apart at the first push.””
“To large extent, it (the Russian military) is still improvising, because its real problem is this: that Putin has not learned the lesson that Stalin learned.
Stalin, famously and disastrously, involved himself right at the beginning of the Second World War in terms of asserting that of course Germany was not going to attack when it attacked.”
https://twitter.com/delfoo/status/1651273621246210061
During a (26 April 2023) conversation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined his vision of the steps that should be taken to end the war in Ukraine.
Source: Chinese state-owned agency Хіnhua
Quote: “Xi noted his proposals of four points about what must be done [for a peaceful settlement – ed.], four things the international community must do together and three observations [regarding the course of the war – ed.], saying that on this basis, China released its Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.”
“China will send a special representative of the Chinese government on Eurasian affairs to visit Ukraine and other countries to conduct in-depth communication with all parties on the political settlement of the crisis.
@visegrad24 18m
BREAKING: “Explosions heard near an airport in St Petersburg, Russia.
Local news report that a large number of rescue service vehicles are heading toward the airport.
The Ukrainians have been getting better and better on operations deep in Russia.”
Make that a ‘military’ airport.
“An explosion in St. Petersburg alleged near military airfield in Russia”
Reportedly:
“This explosion may have been the reason why Russian President Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin at full speed towards midnight.”
“Denis Davydov reporting explosions in ST PETERSBURG, ROSTOV ON DON and also CRIMEA. “
“After St. Petersburg, Rostov in Russia is also experiencing explosions tonight
What’s going on?”
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1651345895990894592
“Per Russian media, the explosion took place in the area of the 20th aircraft repair plant, where military aircraft are now located.”
Can Estonia take St. Petersburg in three days?
HAHAHA. HOHOHO.
Alone or with the help of their new ally Finland?
This isn’t confirmed yet as far as I know.
“Turkish President Erdogan Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack”
https://bnn.network/breaking-news/turkish-president-erdogan-hospitalized-after-suffering-heart-attack/
Lots of denials but the headline was worth posting.
We’ll just have to see.
Probably fake but with today and tomorrow’s cancellation of all events, who knows. Not a good thing (for him) just 2-1/2 weeks before the election.
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