Posted on 07/21/2023 6:45:53 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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Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4169228/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“Allies’ ‘main effort’ for Ukraine shifting from donating weapons to fixing them”
“After 17 months of war, Ukraine has amassed a staggering and diverse arsenal of equipment that needs to be maintained.”
“The West’s focus on building Ukraine’s war machine has shifted significantly to repairing and sustaining those weapons, a recognition that the war will grind on for months and years to come, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official said.
Even before Ukraine launched its counteroffensive this summer, allies were becoming increasingly worried that efforts to keep donated equipment up and running were falling behind battlefield needs.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/allies-main-effort-for-ukraine-shifting-from-donating-weapons-to-fixing-them-00107181#:~:text=Defense-,Allies‘%20’main%20effort’%20for%20Ukraine%20shifting%20from%20donating%20weapons,that%20needs%20to%20be%20maintained.
Fav video of the day
“The Russian soldier decided to use an interesting tactic - to cover his face with his hands to protect himself from the grenade
As you can see, it didn’t help”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682102653055057921
Backup Fav video of the day
“Russian Vanka carefully dug her own grave“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682102599686709249
Indicted War Criminal Girkin is … an extremist.
“Girkin is done: his wife announced on his Telegram channel that Girkin was arrested this morning with the accusation of extremism.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1682340021397868545
“Kirby: Ukraine to receive F-16s by end of year. Ukraine will receive F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, John Kirby, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, said in an interview with Fox News.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1682189242754125824
“Shock company “ACHILLES” 92 OMBr named after the chieftain ataman Ivan Syrko continues to successfully turn enemy equipment into scrap metal.“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682282332772859904
“”Dragon’s teeth” were being built, but with the help of an attack drone, the enemy was left with equipment and a driver“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682306751343779840
Peak China
“China’s Lost Decade for Investors Has Already Happened”
“Any hope that postpandemic reopening would lead to a return to rapid economic growth has floundered”
“Deflation looms. The workforce is shrinking and aging. The property boom has turned to bust, leaving a legacy of heavy debt. Cash-rich consumers won’t spend. There are plenty of comparisons between China’s stuttering economy today and Japan at the start of its lost decade.
Investors in China have had a lost decade or more already. Domestic share prices are lower than they were in 2007, and earnings per share are the same as in 2013. No wonder Chinese stocks are among the cheapest in the world.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682357415109443586
2 external tanks, 1 Aim-9, 3 Aim-120s, 2 HARMs.
UKR Air Force pilots could fly SEAD missions using this configuration and never get within 50 miles of an RU surface to air threat.
Release the Falcons!
Ukraine: military situation update - July 20, 2023
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
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——> A Sobering Analysis Of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive From The Front <——
A military analyst just returned from touring the Ukraine front and has offered his blunt take on how the counteroffensive is really going.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/a-sobering-analysis-of-ukraines-counteroffensive-from-the-front
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——> Ukraine Issues Its Own Ominous Black Sea Shipping Warning <——
The Ukrainian warning about Black Sea shipping follows one from Russia issued Wednesday and comes as Odesa and Mykolaiv were struck again.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-issues-its-own-ominous-black-sea-shipping-warning
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[ Mass Use: Cluster Munitions Wipe Out Russian Reinforcements | They Just Evaporated ]
••Day 512: Jul 20
Today there are a lot of updates from the east.
First of all, when it comes to the battle for Krasnohorivka, Russian forces started to realize that they had set for themselves a big trap by making the main focus of their attack the coal mine.
The main problem that Russians are facing right now is that Ukrainians cut them off supplies and continue attacking with drones and shelling nonstop.
It was much easier for Ukrainians to hold their positions here because the coal mine is located 500 meters south of the settlement, which they could get to by moving along the tree line.
Russian forces, in turn, have to expose themselves to drones and artillery for 2 reasons: the safest route is around 3 km, and there are not enough tree lines, which is why they still have to cross more than 1 km through the field.
Judging by the recently released combat footage, Russians lose half of their troops during rotation or reinforcement.
Ukrainian forces saw that this situation was a perfect opportunity to use cluster munitions, so they established 24-hour control over this small section between the two tree lines.
When Russians cross it, Ukrainians immediately fire at Russian troops.
If Ukrainians did not manage to take out the whole squad with regular artillery and Russian forces dissipated, Ukrainians immediately followed up with cluster shells.
In total, based on the recently released additional combat footage, by attacking the coal mine, which was protected by several squads (which is 20-30 troops), Russian forces lost more than 10 tanks and armored fighting vehicles and lost around 150 men.
As Russians continue to hold this position, the number of killed and wounded soldiers is dramatically increasing every day.
It seems like Ukrainians are not in a hurry to make a counterattack - they are draining Russian reserves and waiting until the detachments responsible for this operation lose their combat capability.
In the meantime, more information became available about the successful missile strike on the Russian military base in Crimea.
Today Planet Labs released satellite footage showing how the base looked like before and after the strike.
As you can see, half of the base was completely wiped out.
And this is exactly the half where Russians had barracks and warehouses - the western side was mostly used for parking.
After seeing satellite footage, many analysts concluded that there was no chance for the soldiers on the ground to survive.
In response to successful Ukrainian strikes, Russian Air Force doubled down on their efforts to destroy Ukrainian harbors and eliminate the possibility of prolonging the grain deal.
This time, the main target of the Russian strike became my hometown, Mykolaiv.
Mykolaiv has a lot of harbors in the region that are used for international trade. Unfortunately, apart from harbors, multiple drones and missile hit residential areas.
Some of them left huge craters in the yard, while others destroyed the buildings.
In total, 5 residential houses received damage, and 19 people were injured and killed.
Apart from Mykolaiv City, Russians also destroyed a residential house in Ochakiv and the building of local administration in Odesa.
That night Russians launched 19 missiles and 19 drones.
Unfortunately, many rockets reached their destination.
The spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russians used a lot of Kh-22 and Oniks missiles, which Ukrainians cannot shoot down.
Kh-22 missiles reach a speed of more than 4000 km per hour and use ballistic trajectory, which means that only Patriots can shoot them down, and there are obviously not so many Patriots to put them in every region.
Oniks missiles, on the other hand, fly extremely low, which makes them extremely hard to detect.
In response to such developments, the White House announced that they would help with improving the security of the harbors by providing the means to deal effectively with Russian missile and drone strikes.
Right now, it is not specified exactly what will be included in the next help package, but the only thing that could have prevented today’s strike, for example, is more Patriot systems.
Interestingly, after Russian officials announced that Russians would consider all ships coming to Ukraine as military targets, Ukrainians responded reciprocally and stated that any hips coming to Russian harbors would be considered military supplies and, therefore, military targets as well.
Even though it is true that Ukrainians cannot really attack all ships, the insurance companies will stop insuring the ships that are going to Russia because of the announcement anyways, which is why the Russian marine trade will suffer significantly.
This was a clever, cheap, and very effective economic counterattack.
••Too early to talk about Bakhmut encirclement from the south. Could happen, conditions are being set, but they are not actualized. May take another month or more.
North of Bakhmut, a bit easier. But, without taking three villages and the heights in the area, encirclement is not possible.
Russia has several supply lines to the area.
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Kersh bridge only open lane closed at the slightest sign of a UA drone. Closed 4 times yesterday.
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T-90 tank UVZ factory video, showing workers using Russian modern tools like heavy hammers and screw drivers while working on the barrel of a T-90. Video shows them on flat rail cars moving to the front. Then, an after arrival image of burnt out T-90.
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WaPo reports 190 Bradleys have been transferred to the UA. 10 have been lost so far.
••Z-military commander Mikhail Luchin, author of the Misha in Donbass channel, was liquidated
Shooting fakes at a mine near Krasnogorovka about “dill-Nazis” was his last.
Recall that the propagandist and part-time commander of the UAV platoon became famous after being hacked by Ukrainian hackers, who ordered him dildos on Ali Express for $ 25,000 he collected for drones for the Russian army.
https://t.me/pilotblog/5480?single
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32 million tons of grain blocked in Ukraine due to the termination of the “grain deal” - German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock
She added that Germany is working with the allies to export grain by rail.
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Poland may transfer all its MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, - Ambassador of Ukraine Zvarych
“So far, 10 MiG-29s have been transferred, but it is possible that Poland will transfer the rest - about 20 aircraft of this type, which they still have in service,” said Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasily Zvarych.
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine responded to Russia’s threats regarding navigation in the Black Sea
From 00:00 on July 21, all ships sailing in the Black Sea in the direction of Russian seaports and Ukrainian temporarily occupied seaports can be considered by Ukraine as carrying military cargo with all the associated risks.
Also, navigation in the areas of the North-Eastern part of the Black Sea and the Kerch-Yenikal Strait is prohibited from 05:00 on July 20, 2023.
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On the video, presumably, the moment of the destruction of the Z-commander Luchin and, in combination, the first shots of the use of cluster munitions
The video was filmed near Krasnohorivka (Donetsk region), according to Ukrainian publics.
https://t.me/pilotblog/5488
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Hungary opposes EU plan for €20bn military support for Ukraine, - Politico
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said the country would object to the fund until Ukraine removed the Hungarian bank OTP from its list of “war sponsors.”
“This would mean that Hungary needs to pay 200 million euros, while Ukraine keeps the largest Hungarian bank on the list of “international sponsors of the war”, where three million Hungarians have accounts,” the Hungarian Foreign Minister said.
+680 men
+4 tanks
+15 APVs
+18 artillery pieces
+7 AD systems
+15 UAVs
+5 cruise missiles
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1682266865463091201
18 artillery pieces and 7 Air Defense systems...Huge!
Kremlin snuffbox
General Popov threatened over demands for Shoigu’s resignation
Major General Ivan Popov, after he demanded the resignation of Sergei Shoigu, received three calls with threats and demands not to touch the Minister of Defense. A military man close to Popov told us about this.
“Ivan Ivanovich received several calls. All three times they told him in altered voices something like: “Leave Shoigu alone, otherwise you won’t live long. And forget about the SVO, they will figure it out without you. Also, the callers insulted the general, called him a creature, a traitor, and used foul language,” the source said.
According to him, Popov was not afraid of threats. On the contrary, they convinced him of the correctness of the demands for the resignation of Shoigu.
“The Minister of Defense is not only a bad military leader, but also a rotten person. He needs to retire,” his acquaintance quoted the general. He also said that Popov was ready for discussions with both Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, including even public debates.
By the way, we wrote that Shoigu demanded to “deal” with Popov and with General Teplinsky, who also demanded his resignation. Perhaps the “showdown” initiated by the Minister of Defense has already begun.
@kremlin_secrets
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General Popov supported the demand for the resignation of Shoigu and Gerasimov
Major General Ivan Popov read Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky’s demand for the resignation of the Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff on our channel. According to a close associate of the military leader ...
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/2517
US Oil Production Approaching an All Time High
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
Kremlin snuffbox
Igor Strelkov was detained on suspicion of preparing an armed rebellion. The next are the generals who opposed Shoigu?
This reason for the detention was given to us by three sources - in the Investigative Committee and in Igor Ivanovich’s entourage.
“Officially, the charge will be extremism, unofficially, Strelkov is suspected of having, in collusion with a number of generals and other security officials, wanted to organize a rebellion, seize government buildings and overthrow the legitimate government, including the president,” our source in the UK said.
People close to Strelkov confirmed this information, but they assure that he did not prepare any coups.
“Igor Ivanovich actively communicated with various military men, shared his opinions. It is ridiculous to build any accusations on this basis,” said one of Strelkov’s friends.
He confirmed that the case was opened at the request of a former employee of the Wagner PMC, “who was simply used.”
According to our sources, among others, Strelkov actively communicated about the situation at the front with Generals Ivan Popov and Mikhail Teplinsky, against whom they are also preparing criminal cases and other repressions due to demands to dismiss Sergei Shoigu, as well as with Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Evkurov.
In the entourage of General Popov, they confirmed to us that there were conversations, but they say that no rebellion was planned. At the same time, they fear that Popov will be one of the next detainees.
People from the entourage of General Teplinsky and those close to Yevkurov have so far refused to comment on the situation.
At the same time, many sources suggest that Shoigu began a cleansing of his enemies and convinced Vladimir Putin of the need for this cleansing. Whether this is so will be seen in the near future.
We also note that there may be other versions of Strelkov’s detention. We check them.
In particular, they say that the repressions against Igor Ivanovich may be associated with the ongoing showdown between the FSB and the GRU . But we do not yet have a clear confirmation of this version.
@kremlin_secrets
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Kremlin snuffbox
Everything is complicated with the detention of Igor Strelkov
There are unexpected versions, military generals and Sergei Shoigu may be involved in the case.
We’ll tell you everything we’ve learned soon.
“Russia Boosts Rates as Ukraine War Costs Mount”
“The economy is at an inflection point. A falling ruble, soaring wages and booming debt-fueled state spending have reignited inflationary pressures.”
“Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate Friday for the first time since shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, a response to a difficult new period for the economy of labor shortages, a weakened ruble and resurgent inflation.
The Russian economy fell into a recession last year but survived the onslaught of Western sanctions thanks to a windfall of oil and gas revenues, state handouts and the ability to quickly reroute trade from Europe to Asia. Economists expect Russia to eke out positive growth this year. “
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