Posted on 07/05/2023 6:31:29 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
“Russia has lost half its combat capability in Ukraine, says UK armed forces chief”
““Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army,” UK’s Radakin said. “Last year it fired 10mn artillery shells but at best can produce 1mn shells a year. It has lost 2,500 tanks and at best can produce 200 [new] tanks a year,” he said.”
https://www.ft.com/content/8cd1c388-6fb9-497b-a8a9-14b6ea21ede2
eliminated yesterday night. You can clearly see the missiles of MLRS and the amount of them is breathtaking.
To store so much ammunition in the center of Makiivka/Donetsk just paraphrases how little regard the Russian occupation has for the civilians. Russia brought total destruction to the people in Donbas since 2014 and this footage is but another evidence of that fact.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1676503590268026883
“Spectacular drone footage of the Russian ammunition depot which got
“The downward spiral of the Russian Army appears to have arrived at the ‘Libyan rebels in 2011 stage’”
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1676567226768412674
“The Ukrainian 44th Artillery Brigade destroyed a Russian 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer and a BM-21 Grad 122mm MRL with counter-battery fire in #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1676560828386910210
“This is the 15th T-90M visually confirmed to have been destroyed in Ukraine”
“A Russian T-90M tank was destroyed by a BONUS/SMArt 155 artillery delivered top-attack submunition fired by the Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade in #Zaporizhzhia Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1676556502755049472
“A Russian T-80 as well as a SPAS 2S1 Gvozdika were destroyed by mortar rounds being dropped on top of them causing the ammunition to detonate/cook off.”
https://twitter.com/WarUpdater/status/1676464411320496128
“Xi Jinping personally warned Putin against using nuclear weapons during hostilities in Ukraine. This issue was discussed during the visit of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China to Moscow in March 2023 — Financial Times.”
Vodka
“In occupied Sevastopol, a Russian URAL truck with military personnel got into an accident due to mechanical problems. There are reported to be dead among the victims.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676540557626077184
“A Russian retreat to more advantageous positions went wrong.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676522881407172609
“Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov claims that Russian forces have left Klishchiivka. “We left Klishchiivka. This is near Bakhmut. It is necessary to check, and if refuted, I will be glad. If it is true, that’s bad and Bakhmut will be under fire control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I can’t say a bad word about our guys who moved away. According to my data, this is again a lack of shells. I’ll be glad to be wrong. You won’t be strong without strength. The weak don’t win. The city of Bakhmut is under threat of assault. Can we keep it? Yes, who knows.””
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1676508467467526144
“The cargo depot of the train station in Russian-occupied Yasynuvata, Donetsk Oblast, is on fire.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1676550353033076736
Let me try that one again:
“Spectacular drone footage of the Russian ammunition depot which got eliminated yesterday night. You can clearly see the missiles of MLRS and the amount of them is breathtaking.
To store so much ammunition in the center of Makiivka/Donetsk just paraphrases how little regard the Russian occupation has for the civilians. Russia brought total destruction to the people in Donbas since 2014 and this footage is but another evidence of that fact.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1676503590268026883
Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4165456/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
“Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.”
Would the RuZZians prefer to be called brigands, rapists, hooligans, looters, gangsters, murderers, or barbarians?
Asking for a friend.
Ukraine: military situation update - July 4, 2023
[ What a Night! Russian Lose 2 Ammo Depots And 9 Artilleries ]
••Day 496: Jul 04
Today the biggest news comes from the east.
Several hours ago, Ukrainians conducted an extensive HIMARS raid along the whole eastern contact line.
The first target became the biggest Russian logistical hub on the occupied territories - Donetsk.
Donetsk is one of the largest cities in Ukraine by size, and it is by far the most industrialized one, which means that it has very well-developed logistics that Russians are gladly using to accumulate and store ammunition and equipment.
The footage was quickly geolocated, and it turned out that the target was quite obvious - Ukrainians struck a warehouse of the factory Sarmat, which is located just 100 meters away from the railway connection.
Russian sources reported that Ukrainians used 2 HIMARS rockets to hit the facilitates.
Some sources reported that Ukrainians managed to destroy the newly arrived equipment.
The second target became the twin city of Donetsk - Makiivka.
Geolocated footage indicates that a powerful explosion happened on the territory of the metallurgical plant. The plant itself is extremely vast, so Russians used it to accumulate tons of ammunition.
Russian sources reported that Ukrainian launched 2 HIMARS missiles here as well, and even claimed that one of the missiles was shot down, however, it did not change anything.
The explosion was so powerful that the smoke covered several cities.
Ukrainian military-affiliated sources confirmed that Ukrainians successfully hit a Russian ammunition depot that had just received huge supplies.
The goal of these strikes was to reduce the available and ready-to-use Russian resources on the eastern front to undermine Russian defensive capabilities, in particular around Bakhmut.
The creation of short-term deficits of ammunition and shells can create a perfect window of opportunity for advancement because, as you remember, Ukrainians have just 1 fortification left to overcome before they can expand south of Bakhmut.
Some analysts claimed that the ammunition depots that Ukrainians targeted today with their HIMARS predominantly contained artillery shells.
And it looks like it is true because simultaneously, Ukrainians started using HIMARS for effective counterbattery fire very frequently.
Today Ukrainian 43rd Artillery Brigade released a video showing how they hunted down Russian artillery on the southern Bakhmut’s flank with their HIMARS.
The first target of the Ukrainians became the Gvozdika system near Zaitseve.
The second target became a multiple-launch rocket system Grad near Kodema.
Another target of the HIMARS missile became Gvozdica.
As you can see, all of these systems were providing support to Russian troops precisely in the area of Ukrainian advancement.
However, Ukrainian HIMARS crews also conducted a series of strikes on the northern Bakhmut’s flank.
Here, Ukrainians struck the 2S5 Giatsint-S system near Bakhmutske, BM-21 Grad multiple-launch rocket system nearby, the second Grad in Pokrovske, the third Grad south of Pokrovske, a D-20 howitzer near Pidhorodne, and M109 howitzer in Bakhmut.
Overall, judging by only available footage, over the last 2 days, Ukrainians destroyed 9 Russian artillery systems of various types.
This is extremely important because the enemy artillery is the main factor that slows down Ukrainian advancement.
If we combine the fact that Ukrainians destroyed almost a dozen Russian artillery systems with the fact that they also blew up several huge ammunition depots near Bakhmut, we can see that Ukrainians are rapidly creating very favorable conditions for a breakthrough.
••Russians attack Ukraine water, call it Nazi-like! Explosion near to Antonovsky bridge. The aviation glide bomb went into the water.
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Russia captures crashed defective Storm Shadow missile.
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IAEA gives no information about the Russian mining of the power plant. Russia is said to be planning to blow the plant tonight [ July 5th ]. The IAEA during the latest checks did not reveal signs of mining at the ZNPP, Grossi said.
Prevailing winds at the moment are blowing toward the southwest - toward Crimea and then south over Turkey.
Russia is circulating nonsense that Ukraine is going to attack its own power plant.
Mayor of nearby town said not to worry because the Russians have not withdrawn their troops - but Russia did not do that before they blew the dam.
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Two Russian airfields west of Moscow had smoking incidents that caused Kabooms.
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One year advance of the mighty Russian army covered 35 km - from Luhansk to Soledar to Bakhmut.
Contrast with Ukrainian army that took 10 km in one month.
Zelensky held a meeting about the front lines and the situation around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Planing was made to conduct drills and the evacuation of villages and cities when the Russians blow the plant.
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Today, a nuclear sniffer plane landed in Spain, a modified 707, listed as VC-135 Constant Phoenix. Its job is to sample the air and surveil areas with nuclear exercises.
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Russians accuse Ukraine of planning an attack on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
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The Russian Federation will remotely blow up the ZNPP immediately after the station comes under the control of Ukraine in order to blame us for this - Zelensky
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Evacuation of civilian personnel at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant to be completed by July 5th.
He addressed world leaders [ yesterday ] with a warning that Russia is preparing to undermine [ destroy ] the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
“Our intelligence received information that Russia is considering a scenario of a terrorist attack at the ZNPP with a release of radiation.
They have prepared everything for this.
Unfortunately, I have repeatedly had occasion to remind that radiation does not know state borders, and who it hits, is determined only by the direction of the wind.
We pass on all available information to our partners, all evidence - Europe, America, China, Brazil, India, Africa, the Arab world - all countries and international organizations should know this.
This time it should not be like with Kakhovskaya [ Nova Kakhovka ]. The world has been warned.”
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[ Think of this disaster as Chernobyl times 6, only worse as the reactor explosions will be deliberate. This is not hyperbole, over reaction or anything of the sort. Why mine something like this if one does not, at some point, plan to detonate the mines?
Maps of the Chernobyl effected Zones:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/chornobyl_radiation96.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/7d/73/e07d7397c6d629c6f1c6a8e294c31085.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
##•• It bears repeating: if the Russians and Putin go through with this plan, the release will render Ukraine and several surrounding countries uninhabitable, and if the cloud moves over Europe, it too will become uninhabitable. This will be the worst crisis in all of human history, bar the Mt. Toba eruption 74,000 years ago. ••## ]
••Alcoholic Medvedev: The war in Ukraine can be ended in a few days - either by a peace treaty or by the use of nuclear weapons.
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine officially informs about the possible preparation by the occupiers of a provocation at the ZNPP in the near future.
Today, foreign objects similar to explosive devices were placed on the outer roof of the third and fourth power units of the ZNPP.
Their detonation should not damage power units, but may create a picture of shelling from Ukraine. The Russian mass media misinform about this.
Russia says that Kyiv wants to target the ZNPP this night.
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Russia is preparing to send even more prisoners and Kadyrovites to the war in Ukraine in order to “plug the holes” formed after the withdrawal of Wagner PMC units – Bloomberg.
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Xi Jinping personally warned Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine - Financial Times
According to the publication, this issue was discussed during Xi’s visit to Moscow in March this year.
Since then, Chinese officials have privately claimed responsibility for persuading the Russian president to drop his veiled threats to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
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Russian officials said everything is going according to the Plan & Prigozhin agrees.
Russia is a 14th century feudal empire running a gas station with nukes in the backroom.
You’re talking about FReepers like that? Care to name which ones?
What is wrong with you people?
Free Republic is an American site. Not Russian. Not Ukrainian. Have some tact, for crying out loud.
Here we go with the comment vomit.
“Russia is preparing to send even more prisoners and Kadyrovites to the war in Ukraine in order to “plug the holes” formed after the withdrawal of Wagner PMC units – Bloomberg.”
I don’t think that will work out too well for them. The Kadyrovites just want to rape, loot, and murder, they don’t want to fight on the front lines. And prisoners only worked well for Prigozhin as cannon fodder because he had experienced soldiers to follow behind and take advantage of the openings the cannon fodder found for him. Cannon fodder without that is pretty useless.
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