https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1679723001816776704
Posted on 07/07/2023 2:14:10 PM 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 ...
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1679723001816776704
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1679791010459656192
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1679582824737783809
West of Chystopillia, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian Bm-21 Grad and associated rocket artillery ammunition dump with a drone-spotted GMLRS rocket.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1679672785533128706
It does seem strange how often they send one or just a few vehicles on assaults
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over on: https://t.me/s/pilotblog
there is a video of a “bonus” Z-Army BMP leaving a road and going into a field to hunt mines - this may or may not explain your question.
Ukraine: military situation update - July 13, 2023
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
Excerpt:
... given that Wagner turned in thousands of weapons and more than 2,500 tons of ammunition to the Russian Defense Ministry as we reported yesterday, it’s unclear what level of major independent combat power Wagner has left.
Meanwhile, as we reported yesterday, Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russia’s Aerospace Forces accused of being aware of Prigozhin’s plans ahead of time, remains out of sight.
While his status remains unclear, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that he was one of “at least 13 senior officers were detained for questioning, with some later released, and around 15 suspended from duty or fired” in the wake of Prigozhin’s putative putsch.
How this military leadership shakeup affects Russia’s war efforts, and what actions Popov takes in the future remain to be seen.
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——> Ukraine Has Already Received American Cluster Munitions (Updated) <——
A Ukrainian general has stated that the cluster munitions will be a powerful weapon, but that they have not yet been used.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukrainian-has-already-received-american-cluster-munitions
[ Great Move | Ukrainians Penetrate Russian Flanks ]
••Day 505: Jul 13
Today there are a lot of updates from the east.
Here, Ukrainians finally opened the third axis of attack, assaulted Soledar’s northern flank, and advanced by more than 2 km.
Last time I told you that Ukrainians had gathered a powerful group of forces in this region, whose main goal was to slice off the bridgehead that Russian forces developed west of Soledar and set conditions for the encirclement of Soledar and Bakhmut.
The first attack was conducted by the elements of the 54th Mechanized Brigade.
Since Russians were controlling the hills, they managed to identify Ukrainians forces well ahead, which is why Ukrainians faced Russian artillery fire while barely reaching Rozdolivka.
The assault unit consisted of 6 armored cars with the support of drone operators.
Halfway there, Russians started firing anti-tank guided missiles at the Ukrainian column.
Soon, a multiple-launch rocket system, Grad, made a salvo. Nonetheless, all cars remained intact.
After reaching the lake, the Ukrainian assault unit did the first split, and one group of soldiers assaulted the first Russian positions while all others continued movement towards the tree line.
The tree line is 1.8 km long and has multiple strong points, each of which must be assaulted and taken.
The Ukrainian assault unit suppressed the enemy fire with machine guns and dropped off some troops to the trenches while others moved on to assault the next one.
Soon, Ukrainians reached the last Russian position in this tree line and successfully assumed control over the strong point, while all cars immediately withdrew to escape the enemy artillery fire.
The second attack was conducted slightly west of the previous one, and it was also highly successful.
As a result, Ukrainians established a 4 km wide and 2.5 km deep bridgehead, undermining Russian defenses in Yakovlivka.
And this is not surprising because Yakovlivka is the most important settlement in the region.
If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Yakovlivka is located on the hill, and even though it is not exactly located on the ridge, it is located high enough to determine who controls the whole region.
As we can see, Ukrainians established several toeholds that secure them access to the local heights and allow them to assault the next Russian defenses on the line from a strong position.
Simultaneously, by developing this bridgehead, Ukrainians put Russians in Mykolaivka and Krasnopolivka in operational encirclement because now they control all the roads that connect them to the mainland.
In fact, geolocated combat footage confirms that Ukrainians are already destroying Russian forces that are getting in as well as out of the salient with ATGMs.
Ukrainians also managed to shoot down a Russian helicopter in this region that tried to provide Russian forces with at least some relief.
Interestingly, so far, the situation has developed precisely as the Head of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin, predicted a while ago.
Prigozhin said that Ukrainians would definitely open an attack vector along the heights north of Soledar to create an additional point of pressure, making the situation extremely dangerous for the Russian forces.
That is why Prigozhin wanted to escape from here as soon as possible, even at the cost of higher losses due to the non-optimal intensity of attacks.
Recently, the Wagner Group finished transferring all of the equipment that they promised to give up, conditional on the peaceful resolution of the conflict.
The Wagner coup is still considered a mystery, as it is unclear whether Wagner’s troops gradually changed their mind, seeing no physical support for their actions from the regular forces, or whether it was entirely something else.
But one thing is clear - those generals that were on good terms with Prigozhin were further alienated and discarded, such as the former commander of the entire so-called special military operation, Surovikin.
Some sources speculate that he betrayed the Russian Ministry of Defense by secretly supporting Wagner and hoping to become the Minister of Defense.
Other sources take a milder view by assuming that the Russian Ministry of Defense cannot take risks and trust anyone who is in any way affiliated with the Wagner Group.
The bottom line is clear - Surovikin disappeared from the public eye, currently he does not represent Russian Air Force, and all people who know him closely unconvincingly say that he is on vacation.
I remind you that Surovikin is the only commander of the so-called special military operation that actually achieved some results.
So far, everything indicates that his vacation is going to be perpetual.
••UA now holds the heights above Klishchiivka, and the fight is now for the village itself. This opens the way to Opytne and Bakhmut to the north.
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The drones that destroyed the two $3 million T-90s costs $500 each.
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Pryiutne: the fighting continues. It has a road that leads south to the Russian main defense line.
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The commander of the Russian 58th Combined-Arms Army, Major General Ivan Popov who was dismissed yesterday went on social media to say that Russian defense looks good but is actually very weak on the south front.
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The principle reason, other than lack of F-16, that the UA offensive is going so slow is the huge Russian mine fields that take time to de-mine. Now that the UA has a lot of cluster munitions, de-mining will be one of it’s principle uses.
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The Russian missile base at Veronish, which is used to target Ukraine infrastructure, came under air attack - big kaboom seen.
••Footage of the storming of enemy positions by the 72nd Brigade in the Vuhledar sector.
A trophy APC-82A came to the aid of the soldiers, covering their retreat and evacuating them.
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LPR: Russia sent “new“ weapons from the Second World War: [ US and UK Lend-Lease rifles and machine guns ].
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Putin gave details of his three-hour meeting with Wagner PMC commanders, which took place on June 29 in the Kremlin, five days after mutiny. At a meeting with the Wagner fighters, he gave them an assessment of “what they did on the battlefield, and on the other hand, what they did during the events of June 24,” and also showed possible options for further their service.
Asked if the Wagner PMC would continue as a combat unit, Putin said the organization “doesn’t exist” because there is no law on private military companies in Russia.
“There is a group, but legally does not exist! This is a separate issue related to real legalization. But this is a question that should be discussed in the State Duma, in the government. A difficult question,” the publication quotes him.
He also said that he offered the Wagner PMC commanders, of whom there were 35 people at the meeting, several employment options, including under the leadership of their commander with the call sign “Seda”, “who was their real commander all this time.”
As the president noted, many nodded at his words, but the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was sitting in front, did not see this and said that “the guys do not agree” with such a proposal.
So Prigozhin is the boss and he doesn’t care what Putin wants. Putin just told about his own disability himself. What a shame
For sure, the weak Tsar is unable to hold the throne for a long time.
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The “boy in panties” in the photo is said to be Prigozhin, who is now in the Wagner camp in Belarus
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One of the symbols of the Russian fleet, the nuclear cruiser “Peter the Great” will be decommissioned from the Navy - TASS, citing its sources.
According to the publication, the TARK “Peter the Great” project 1144.2 will be written off after the repair of a similar cruiser “Admiral Nakhimov” is completed, a decision on this has already been made.
The reasons for the decommissioning are severe wear and tear and obsolescence of the vessel, as well as the experience of huge financial costs for the repair of its sister ship Admiral Nakhimov.
Thus, the Russian Navy will have only one project 1144 Orlan heavy nuclear missile cruiser out of the four built, which, most likely, will also be withdrawn from the fleet over time.
[ Complete Disaster? | NATO Summit Fallout: Winners And Losers ]
••NATO Summit not a disaster but quite good for Ukraine, but a disaster for Russia.
Everything Ukraine needed to obtain, it actually got:
1. More weapons;
2. F-16 timeline - when will they actually arrive in Ukraine;
3. Security guarantees:
a. Long term military & equipment support,
b. Dedicated effort to modernize their military,
c. List of countries that will continue to sending military support.
Everything Ukraine wanted to obtain:
1. Clear path towards NATO membership;
a. Specific timeline,
b. Specific tasks that have to be achieved;
2. It got membership approval plan removed.
More, I didn’t have time to transcribe.
Kremlin snuffbox
“Killed 50 people at once”: our military is scared of cluster munitions of the Ukrainian army
According to a source in the General Staff, the use of dangerous cluster munitions against the Russian army was recorded in several sectors of the front at once. In this regard, for example, in the Zaporozhye region, our military left several strongholds and retreated.
“The panic was so strong that some of our fighters mistook others for the enemy and opened fire on their own. As a result, 11 people died,” the interlocutor complained.
We were also told about the use of cluster munitions by his witness, an officer who is fighting in the Zaporozhye direction. “I have never seen guys die in such a massive way. There were several shots, one killed about 50 people at once, from two more to several dozen lay down. A terrible weapon, and it is impossible to defend against it, ”he shared his memories of one of the recent battles.
How we are going to counter such weapons, neither the General Staff nor the Ministry of Defense told us.
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The military is afraid of cluster munitions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. One of the units refused to recapture the lost positions in the Berdyansk direction
The news about the transfer of cluster munitions by the Americans to the Armed Forces of Ukraine caused uncertainty and even a slight panic in the ranks of the Russian.
t.me/kremlin_secrets /2487
Thanks to AdmSmith
Kremlin snuffbox
Biden confirmed our insider on Ukraine in NATO, but Putin has other problems now
The point is that NATO has come to a fundamental decision: to take Ukraine into its ranks after the completion of the NWO.
We wrote about this back on July 11, the American president publicly acknowledged the fact of such an agreement a little later, on the 13th.
Vladimir Putin responded to such a not very good prospect for Russia with old words about the threats that it creates for us.
To be honest, nothing new or original. It’s just that Ukraine in NATO is not the problem that really worries the president now.
According to our source in the Kremlin, Vladimir Vladimirovich and his entourage are now most concerned about two problems.
The first is the threat of a new rebellion in Russia, which could turn into a personal threat to the President.
It turns out that the FSB reported to Putin: a revolt of generals is preparing in the country, dissatisfied with the events at the front and the fact that we are strategically losing the NVO.
These people are ready to take the most drastic steps in order to change the commanders of the army, first of all, the Minister of Defense.
And since the president is holding on to Sergei Shoigu, they are ready to deal with the president himself.
“Perhaps this is a horror story, perhaps the threat is real. In any case, it’s better to play it safe,” our source in the Kremlin says.
He refused to answer the question whether any well-known names were mentioned in the context of the generals’ riot, for example, Sergei Surovikin (a riot can also be prepared from prison) or Ivan Popov.
But he admitted that the Kremlin fears that some of the middle-level officers will follow the generals.
Many of them are not just dissatisfied with the course of the NMD, they are simply afraid of dying on some of the sectors of the Ukrainian front.
True, the same officers at the same time do not trust many generals, who often simply send them, as the military themselves say, “for meat.”
The second problem is that intelligence believes that the West, in order to complete the NMD as soon as possible, may decide to “dramatically deal” with Putin personally.
The President has not yet been told about this threat (”So that he doesn’t do stupid things,” the source in the Kremlin explained), but the problem could become very serious in the future.
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The West made two decisions on Ukraine in NATO and decided when the NWO should end.
Before the summit in Vilnius, NATO made several secret decisions on Ukraine.
They will not be fully announced publicly, but on these issues there is agreement on all sides.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/2486
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Captain of the second rank killed in Krasnodar turned out to be an FSB agent.
We have learned some details about the murder of the deputy head of the city department for mobilization work in Krasnodar, Stanislav Rzhitsky.
As we predicted, the authorities and pro-Kremlin media are actively promoting the version that the murder of the former commander of the Krasnodar submarine is the work of Ukrainians.
And they even detained a certain Sergey Denisenko, who turned out to be the former president of the Ukrainian Shotokan Karate-do Federation.
In fact, everything turned out to be somewhat different. Firstly, Denisenko, who was detained, is 64 years old, while the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Krasnodar published a photo of the suspect in the murder on July 10, indicating that he looked 30-40 years old.
Secondly , a source in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation informed that a Russian passport was found in the detainee, but at the time of the capture there was no 100% evidence that Denisenko was the killer.
They say that the head of the Sledkom Bastrykin personally set the task of punishing the “guilty” in a short time.
Thirdly , sources inform that the FSB is now in serious disassembly.
The murdered Rzhitsky was their undercover agent. “He was put in a beautiful position, but in fact he was a member of the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet.
He performed our tasks, including those related to counterintelligence at the highest level,” says our interlocutor in Lubyanka.
It became known to us that after the murder of Rzhitsky, one of the deputy heads of the FSB, Bortnikov, contacted the chairman of the GRU, Kostyukov, and directly said that what had happened was the crossing of all red lines.
The FSB suspects that the execution of Rzhitsky is the revenge of the GRU for the landing of Generals Surovikin and Alekseev after Prigozhin’s rebellion.
Alekseev, as you know, was the deputy head of the GRU and oversaw the work of the new Redut PMC.
The exact location of the generals is still unknown, however, there are well-founded rumors that both were detained by the FSB .
And although an order was received from Moscow to investigate and close the case of the murder of Rzhitsky as soon as possible, the security forces fear that this will not be the last public bloodshed and the conflict between the FSB and the GRU may flare up with renewed vigor.
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Ukrainian trace and two more versions. We found out who could kill a high-ranking military man in Krasnodar.
In the case of the murder of a captain of the second rank, deputy head of the city department for mobilization work Stanislav Rzhitsky in Krasnodar, there are three versions.
t.me/kremlin_secrets /2476
Coordinates:
47°19'50"N 35°59'47"E
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1679935923528642560
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1680002833536483330
‘rope-a-dope’
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1680005909311782917
Amazing how many drones are constantly in the air watching the battlefield. As a Ukrainian T-64 was crossing a field with mine trawls, the trawls triggered a mine, causing the typical explosion in front of the tank, then continued on unfazed. A Russian drone also recorded the event, but cut the video after the explosion and claimed it was a “Leopard 2” tank destroyed. Obviously it was neither a Leopard 2 nor destroyed. Yeah, I know. I can’t believe they would lie either.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1679925361759363072
I assume the large patch of blacked field in the RU video is the result of a Mine Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC).
A couple of weeks ago, there was a thread where Russia claimed they were downing 10,000 drones per month.
IMHO, the impact of drones on the high-tech battlefield is the biggest lesson being learned.
This war will be studied for years.
For anyone saying: "WhY Is ThE AFU NoT AdVanCinG?"
This is what Ukrainian fighters on the ground have to overcome. Heavy fighting against well prepared lines of defense. Russia is not running like in Kharkiv, they are fighting back with all they have.
NGU in Zaporizhzia 👇
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1680182713058205698
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1680179233346207745
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1680129707583365121
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1680163475836862464
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1680161305234231296
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