Posted on 05/08/2023 6:27:38 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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Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 264
RuZZian Tank losses Running Total: 1937
May 2023 – 26
April 2023 – 5
March 2023 - 127
February 2023 – 118
January 2023 – 61
December 2022 – 76
November 2022 – 105
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 589
May 2023 – 3
April 2023 - 24
March 2023 - 37
February 2023 – 41
January 2023 – 31
December 2022 – 19
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4151378/posts
“Homemade, Cheap and Lethal, Attack Drones Are Vital to Ukraine”
“Fighting superior Russian firepower, Ukrainian forces turn off-the-shelf drones into deadly weapons by adapting them to carry explosives.”
“Buzzing like an oversize mosquito, a small drone lifted off from a farm field in eastern Ukraine, hovered for a bit, then raced toward Russian positions near the battle-ravaged city of Bakhmut.
“Friends, let’s go!” said the pilot, Private Yevhen. With a pair of virtual reality goggles strapped around his head, he used joysticks to steer the craft and its payload of two pounds of explosives.
Cobbled together from hobby drones, consumer electronics and computer gaming gear, handmade attack drones like this one have emerged as one of the deadliest and most widespread innovations in more than 14 months of warfare in Ukraine.”
“Fearing Attacks, and Perhaps Unrest, Russia Plans Muted Victory Day”
“The Kremlin will commemorate the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, but many towns have canceled events on Tuesday.”
“The war in Ukraine has prompted officials across Russia to scale back annual celebrations of Victory Day, the country’s most important national holiday, with more than 20 cities forgoing military parades and organizers calling off a popular nationwide march to honor veterans.
Security concerns were most often cited for the rash of cancellations of Tuesday’s events, but some analysts suggested that the unease had as much to do with fears about domestic disturbances.”
“(War Criminal) Igor Girkin is very pessimistic today. He says it is time to start thinking about preventing Russia from falling apart because military defeat is near.
Translation:
Regular readers and listeners should remember the assessment of the situation that I laid out (and expressed) last winter. One of the theses was: “If the necessary national measures for the successful conduct of the war are not taken before May, we will not be able to win this war.
I state: NO MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN. Neither organizational nor personnel. The goals of the war have not been determined, and the inhabitants of the Planet of the Pink Ponies(PRP) have not understood that “this war will be fought until one side is victorious. Accordingly, since there is no goal, there is no strategy. No strategy - no conscious work on its implementation. But the enemy has a strategy from the beginning and is being implemented with all its might. More and more successfully since the Kremlin is “playing giveaway” with an inexplicable enthusiasm and childlike confidence in the ultimate “contract” that is comfortable for the elderly Ponies, Elephants, and Unicorns.
Now we have to think about how to preserve the state, the country and the people in a situation of impending military defeat.
And, yes - even for a “worthy non-fatal defeat” (in which our enemies will be forced to abandon their plans for the complete fragmentation of Russia and the elimination of its sovereignty) we will have to fight long and hard. Harder and longer than it would have been if we had fought to win decisively from the outset. And the longer the occupants of the PRP will linger in the “sweet languor” of confidence in their peaceful and happy old age (which has long come for most of the VIPs) - the less chance that in the end the Russian ship will manage to get out of the military storm and systemic crisis, without sinking (after a long and bloody Troubles) into History.”
https://twitter.com/VolodyaTretyak/status/1655186960577703941
“6 days to Turkey’s elections. Emotions are running high. The fundamental problem: both sides view this election as existential. But yesterday’s attack in Erzurum likely consolidated the divided opposition, motivating them to win the race in the first round.”
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1655466105333268481
“The Ukrainian Air Force says that Ukraine shot down all 35 Shahed 136/131/ Geran-2 drones Russia launched tonight from Bryansk. “
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1655429169839321088
“The destruction of the Russian MT-LB using a drone in the East of Ukraine.”
https://twitter.com/AlexRaptor94/status/1655495665991000064
“Clearing the enemy’s defense line by our infantrymen.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1655490806147325957
Still amazing RuZZia hasn’t destroyed a single HIMARs launcher in months of war.
“HIMARS softening up Russian lines. Also, nice shoot and scoot.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1655532238803546113
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - May 7, 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/
-—> Daily Battle Maps by Date and Region, Showing Troop Dispositions and Movements: <——
https://deepstatemap.live/
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-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
The Russian military, the second largest military in the world, may not be what it looks like. Lies and systematic corruptions may in fact have dragged Russia into this war with Ukraine, which has been heavily backed up by the US and NATO. We will present the evidence, you make your own decision, because the Russian Army, is not what you think.
==
-—> Understanding Combined Arms Warfare <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOGdKANL5s
Designed to support the U.S. Army Captains Career Course, “Understanding Combined Arms Warfare” defines and outlines the important aspects of modern combined arms operations. This is not a complete history of combined arms warfare. It is intended to highlight the most important aspects of the subject.
The beginning of the documentary establishes a common understanding of combined arms warfare by discussing doctrinal and equipment developments in World War I. The second part compares the development of French and German Army mechanization during the interwar period and describes how each country fared during the Battle of France in 1940. The film concludes by showing how the United States applied combined arms operations in the European Theater in World War II.
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-—> Combined Arms Breach, 1990 <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
What UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines. This visualization was developed for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and is closely based upon the National Training Center Breach and Assault exercise executed circa 1990. This visualization demonstrates viable Techniques, and Procedures as discussed in Army Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures March 3, 1990 for the conduct of the combined arms breach against a hypothetical enemy.
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-—> How Many of Each Type of Tank Does Russia Have In Storage? <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHUK6zkbpc
Type Good 2023
T-54/55 270
T-62 560
T-64 248
T-72 1841
T-80 942
T-90 50
~3,911 operational tanks in storage as of ~04/07/2023 | Ball park tank number.
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-—> Contrast & Compare: the T-14 Armada [The AliExpress Tank]: The Best Russian Tank Ever! [very funny] <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opSlCGLGQ4
[ Fear, Disarray, Desertion | They Couldn’t Handle It Anymore | Russian Dress as Civilians to Run Away From The Front ]
••Day 438: May 07
Ukrainians continued destroying Russian fuel store facilities along all main supply lines leading to southern Ukraine. The goal of this campaign is to create massive shortages of critical resources, which will undermine the Russian ability to use the accumulated tanks and other heavy equipment to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Over the last 4 days, Ukrainians conducted a lot of drone strikes, and some of them were very successful.
First of all, Ukrainians successfully hit the Ilskiy Oil Refinery for the second time. Russian sources reported that Ukrainians used at least 4 drones, and 1 of them reached the target and caused a fire by exploding on top of the reservoir. The fire rapidly grew, and the square area reached up to 400 square meters, but this time the firefighters also managed to prevent the fire from spreading.
So far, Ukrainians destroyed only 2 reservoirs, and as we can see, there are still a lot of targets in this region, which suggests that this is not the last attack on this refinery.
Another fire also broke out in the Krasnodar region. The cause of the fire still remains unspecified, but the object is an oil storage facility. The square area of fire grew even bigger than on the oil refinery and reached up to 500 square meters.
This is the fourth oil-related facility that has been damaged or destroyed over the last week, and all of them are located on the southern supply line, which means that in could be used for the Black Sea Fleet or Russian equipment in Zaporizhia.
Today, Ukrainians conducted another strike on the oil depot in Sevastopol. As you remember, this was the first target, and even though half of the refinery was destroyed, the freshest satellite footage indicates that there are still 12 reservoirs left that look like they could potentially be used. But the strike on Sevastopol was just a part of a much biggest strike on Crimea.
The first group of drones reportedly targeted Krasnoperekopsk. This is one of the two most important logistical hubs in northern Crimea because all supplies that are being delivered to the Kherson region always pass through this small town.
Today explosions were also recorded in Dzhankoi, which is located on the same supply line. And Russian Head of Crimea also claimed that Ukrainians accompanied the drone strike with the launch of 2 ballistic missiles, Hrim-2, which were reportedly shot down above the settlements north of Feodosia, which are also located on the same supply line.
The second group of drones traditionally targeted the area around Evpatoria. The goal of these strikes is twofold. First of all, Ukrainians are trying to prevent Russians from returning their aviation to the airfield in Novodefedorivka. And secondly, most of the Russian air defense is concentrated along the western shore, so continuous strikes are necessary for collecting intelligence about the Russian air defense.
The third group of drones targeted Sevastopol and Hvardiyske. It was reported that at the moment of the explosion, the airfield had 10 fighter jets, 8 bombers, 6 air defense systems, and a lot of ammunition and fuel, so it was a perfect target.
Speaking about the airfields, several days ago, Ukrainians also conducted a successful drone attack on the airfield in Bryansk. As a result, Ukrainians completely destroyed 1 plane AN-124 and damaged the fuselage of another AN-124 plane.
In the meantime, the panic around the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporizhia region reaches new heights. The Russian Head of the region claimed that they are expecting Ukrainians to launch a large-scale attack any day now because weather conditions have improved and the ground has dried out. That is why Russians have launched the second stage of massive evacuation.
If previously, they evacuated people from settlements between Vasylivka and Tokmak, then now the evacuation was launched from all settlements between Enerhodar and Polohy, clearly indicating a much greater scale of the expected battle.
The massive evacuation brought disarray to the region, and some civilians reported finding thrown away military uniforms, claiming that soldiers were changing clothes and trying to take advantage of the disarray and desert by escaping together with the civilians because they did not want to be on the zero line when the counteroffensive is launche
••Bakhmut & Prigozhin:
Some advances by Russians. Bakhmut holds. Prigozhin filmed a mother video yesterday confirming his intentions to withdraw the PMC. But Kaderov who previously supported Prigozhin in many ways, now says he needs to stay and fight with his troops and with the resources they have. [ AKA: Suck it up and quit whining. ] This change, in one day, means Kadyrov had a talk with Putin, and Prigozhin got some sort of warning sign from Putin.
Now, today, Prigozhin says he will not leave the position. And they have solved the ammo problem ... again. This affairs seems to show that Prigozhin is puppet who can be manipulated by Kadyrov and that Kadyrov now ranks above Prigozhin. Above Kadyrov is Gerasimov and Shoigu.
In his rebuke of Prigozhin, Kadyrov wears a Louis Vuitton jacket costing $3,800. That amount is equal to the salary of 8 Russian soldiers and shows the disdain their higher ups hold them in.
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Avdiivka:
Russians set 400 mobnicks to attack. Attack totally demolished - confirmed by both UA troops and by Russians.
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Rain again all around Ukraine.
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Russia fired missiles at Odessa and drones were seen north of Kiev. The Russians claim that the big fire in Odessa is from a big ammo dump, although images don’t look like an ammo fire.
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Because of the huge mobilization, the emigration, generally declining birth rates, and so on, Russian revenue will fall as its workforce shrinks, until there is no other path than to break the county apart into separate entities.
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Czech President, Petr Pavel warns not to rush the counter offensive because the Ukrainians do not have the element of surprise like they did last year. They need to have the smallest detail worked out before launching.
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Big interview with Karilla Budanov, Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Who said Putin is sick with cancer. This is the first time an official has remarked about Putin’s condition.
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MoD Ukraine said there is a huge hype about the UA counterattack and people overestimate the outcome. He said if the UA gets10km of ground back, it would be a success. This is another way to say, ‘we need more weapons’.
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1654940006270615552
“Rampant corruption is reported to have rendered Russia’s ballistic missile early warning system virtually useless. Scams by contractors are said to have led to unsuitable foreign-made components being used on a wide scale.”
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1655449330021433347
“Here’s a link to the long version of the firefight.”
Same happy ending!
“Rampant corruption “
But the RuZZian Boys say Ukraine is the corrupt country... They wouldn’t be lying to me now would they?
To me, it looks like these mobniks were actually well trained. Perhaps they were Wagner troops.
If the Russian economy and society is so fragile, NATO aiding a country Russia invaded is enough to destroy Russia, then Russia should not have invaded Ukraine the first place. That kind of basic reasoning, morality and ethics is lost on Russia and those supporting her.
The Russian down the line on the left makes no attempt at first aid. We have seen this repeatedly in the Russian forces. It is everyone for himself.
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