Posted on 08/09/2023 5:33:11 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. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles 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 a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's 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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“In the video, a Russian armored personnel carrier is destroyed đź’Ą
The battle took place 2.7 km west of the village of Kozachi Lageri”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1689267376259260416
“During one of the combat sorties, the cotton couriers discovered an enemy vehicle that had stopped near the landing.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1689267014521462784
Peak China.
“China’s Economy Faces Yet Another Threat: Falling Prices”
Highlights:
“Overall debt is now larger in China, compared with national economic output, than in the United States.”
“Adam S. Posen, the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, attributed China’s current economic weaknesses to Mr. Xi’s extreme response to Covid. In an article last week in Foreign Affairs, Mr. Posen called the phenomenon “economic long Covid.””
“But China’s economic troubles have been building for several decades. China has relied lopsidedly on investment and exports since the early 1990s, while holding down wages and restricting the investment options of Chinese households so that they have had little alternative to putting money into new houses and factories.
Now China faces a very long expected glut of both. At the same time, the birthrate has plummeted and youth unemployment has soared. So new apartments — and the appliances and other accouterments of starting a home — are neither needed nor affordable for many people.”
Ukraine: military situation update - Aug 8, 2023
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
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——> China-Russia Flotilla Near Aleutians Prompts Calls For Naval Base In Alaska <——
The 11 Chinese and Russian warships near Alaska is further evidence of deepening military cooperation between the two countries.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/china-russia-flotilla-near-aleutians-prompt-calls-for-naval-base-in-alaska
••Cossack Camp (Kozachi Laheri):
Logistic point created, most important news in last few weeks. 1/3rd of the village is under UA control, Russian Mobnik forces retreat and abandon fortifications. 2.5km to a very important road, used to supply Russian troops, and leads to Melitopol.
Berdyansk remains the only viable way to get supplies to the south, but it is under UA fire control using missiles. The Russian can use landing ships, but they have to face USVs.
To make this a viable operation, the UA needs to create lots of landings and then install at least one pontoon bridge.
The problem is Russian aviation that pounds UA positions and would target any bridge.
UA needs to equip expeditionary troops with manpads and install short range anti-air systems
Because the ground in this region is s flat, Russian has been unable to build complex fortifications in the region.
Troops cannot hide in trenches and have to be constantly on the move while under artillery fire. But this requires lots of supplies and good logistics - now lacking.
••In the Kupyansk direction, the Russians created a fist for a breakthrough - the commander of the Ground Forces.
“The goal of the enemy is to break through the defenses of our troops and go directly to Kupyansk. The fighting is now extremely intense. Separate positions changed hands several times during these days.”
https://t.me/pilotblog/5874
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Smoking incidents continue in Moscow and environs and well as in Feodisia & Sevastopol, Crimea:
Moscow and its environs are on fire again. This time something powerfully exploded at the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant
The Zagorsk plant has been manufacturing observation equipment since 1935.
https://t.me/pilotblog/5845
https://t.me/pilotblog/5875
https://t.me/pilotblog/5877?single
https://t.me/pilotblog/5870?single
https://t.me/pilotblog/5871?single <-lucky girl has narrow escape.
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The occupied Nova Khahovka. Ukraine targets the Russian military infrastructure
https://t.me/pilotblog/5847?single
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The fighters of the GUR (Ukrainian elite forces) crossed the Dnepr river, carried out a raid on the left bank and drove the invaders out of their positions near the village of “Cossack Camps”
Russian propagandists and military correspondents were trumpeting this everywhere today, saying in passing that “the landing force was liquidated.” But with no any evidence.
In the end, the 1322 Russian battalions lost positions, with regard to the creation of a stronghold on the left bank.
Conditions are good for further assault of Ukrainian forces. Also “disappeared” at least 18 orcs. Some of them were imprisoned.
https://t.me/pilotblog/5843?single
From drone strike to fireworks production by May 9th. All this happens so that the reader does not get to the bottom of the truth.
Considering the scale of the explosion and the information from our sources, there is no question of any strike by a Ukrainian drone.
Although, if you notice, no one is surprised that he could again fly hundreds of kilometers in the direction of Moscow.
The fake about the production of fireworks at an abandoned bankrupt factory is certainly not bad, but it’s just a lie.
Even the fact that several dozen people were injured as a result of the explosion confirms this (and these are only official figures, unofficially they speak of the first death).
We responsibly declare that components for Lancet drones were produced in one of the workshops of the plant.
When the president set the goal of scaling drone production as much as possible last year, various means were put in place to accomplish this goal.
At the Zagorsk Optical and Mechanical Plant, some components were produced for those same “Lancets”.
Whether the state of emergency will interrupt the production cycle of drones is an open question, but the fact that so many explosives were brought to the defense enterprise raises concern for employees of other defense plants.
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Kremlin snuffbox
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Another explosion in the suburbs. According to our data, in
The Zagorsk optical-mechanical plant in Sergiev Posad produced components for the “Lancets” - those very kamikaze drones that burn the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front.
The cause of the emergency is being established, but the explosion occurred inside the building beforehand. Possibly explosives were planted.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/2629
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Kremlin snuffbox
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets
Plane with gold landed in Grozny
Last Friday, August 4, an interesting plane arrived in the capital of the Chechen Republic. An airplane of the Ministry of Defense landed at the Grozny airport. We are talking about the transporter IL-76.
According to our data, which we received on Monday, but were checked for accuracy, the plane contained the bodies of dead soldiers of the Akhmat battalion (about 150 coffins) and about a ton of gold.
The board arrived early in the morning and the gold was unloaded into three trucks covered with an awning and quickly taken away in an unknown direction.
But the bodies of the dead were not taken away immediately, some lay in the open until the morning of the next day.
According to a source close to Ramzan Kadyrov, he was in high spirits that day, but did not say a word to anyone about the gold. But there are no other people in Chechnya for whom the gold could have been intended.
The plane landed at a civilian airport, which, of course, raises questions, but rather indicates confidence that everything is under control.
Evil tongues say that in this way Moscow allegedly transferred a tranche for Kadyrov to create a new PMC to replace the Wagners.
Regarding private armies, by the way, interesting information came from the Ministry of Defense - after Prigozhin’s rebellion, Shoigu was told to curtail the creation of PMCs under his control. The minister took “under the visor”.
At that time, if you remember, he was on the verge of being fired. But it is worth taking a closer look at Kadyrov’s behavior in the coming months.
There is a feeling that this scheme could not have done without the head of the National Guard, Zolotov, who has a very good relationship with the leader of Chechnya and is still close to the president.
Yesterday, a man resembling Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the development of the construction industry.
Recently, Putin personally does not take part in face-to-face meetings, meetings, forums, summits and other events with more than two participants.
That is, if official information resources talk about any event where more than two people participate in addition to the head of state, it can be safely stated that this is Putin’s double.
But even in personal one-on-one communication, the President of Russia rarely takes part, appearing in this format once or twice a week, and sometimes even entrusting all events during the week to be carried out by an understudy.
Putin’s deteriorating health is forcing him to limit personal contact, and he mainly receives reports, conducts telephone conversations and participates in closed meetings via video link, although these activities have been reduced to a minimum.
Yesterday was no exception. The double, rather confidently held a meeting with the “builders”, having told himself about the amazing results in this industry and listened to those present.
They discussed four-story, nine-story and even twelve-story wooden individual houses, mortgages, many millions of square meters for Russians, and so on.
The only thing missing was plans for the exploration of Mars, Jupiter and the New Territories, although there was something about that as well. [ Ref: The Expanse ]
The double of the president is holding such events with more and more enthusiasm, sometimes making some adjustments on his own during the discussion of various issues.
The understudy likes his role, he perfectly got used to the image and his preparation for participation in most events does not take as much time as it was a few months ago.
Putin himself had a telephone conversation yesterday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The President does not like to communicate with Ramaphosa.
The President of South Africa, according to Putin, is too intrusive with some initiatives, treats him without due respect and demands, precisely demands, the return of Russia to the grain deal, and how “brazenly” and cynically Ramaphosa tried to dissuade him not to take part in the BRICS summit, very hurt the president of Russia.
Yesterday’s conversation didn’t work either. The main topic was the grain deal, which Ramaphosa is trying to restart in time for the summit.
At the end of the conversation, annoyed by Putin’s stubbornness, Ramaphosa advised the Russian President to think about and possibly reduce his participation in the BRICS summit, even in video format.
Putin ended the telephone conversation with promises to think it over and “to do everything possible on my part,” but the general background was clearly spoiled. Everything goes to the fact that Putin is becoming an outcast even among the allies.
What’s up “page does not appear to exist “. Get that a lot on twitter links
You have to be logged in to see it - ask Elon.
Lol of course what’s interesting is that does
Not happen on all of them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo3PfWYsDVA
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for August 9, 2023:
- Western analysts and media sources are beginning to admit the poor progress, heavy losses, and fundamental flaws of the Ukrainian offensive and beyond that, the unsustainable nature of the proxy war in the first place;
- Ukraine is shifting away from attempts to storm Russian lines and attempting instead to conduct attritional warfare, however, it lacks the material resources to do so which necessitated “storming” tactics in the first place;
- As Ukraine’s offensive falters on the battlefield, Kiev and its Western sponsors have been focusing on aerial and naval drone strikes to create the illusion Ukraine maintains the initiative;
- Quantities of artillery, armor, and trained manpower determine the duration of Ukraine’s offensive. The disposition of both Ukrainian and Russian forces including the reserves of both sides will determine if a breakthrough will occur;
- Russian military industrial capacity and the material resources it produces for the ongoing military operation ensures that no matter where Ukraine’s offensive ends on the battlefield, it will leave Ukrainian forces exhausted, depleted, and unable to sustain their fighting capacity;
- Industrial capability between the collective West and both Russia and China is and will remain into the foreseeable future leaning in favor of Russia and China;
- The West gambled and lost on “small wars” as it enters an end game for geopolitical unipolarity against Russia and China and the reality that modern warfare against peer and near-peer competitors requires industrial capacity the West doesn’t have and cannot obtain;
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
What Scott Ritter doink?
“Destroyed 🇷🇺self-propelled gun 2S19 Msta-S somewhere in Zaporizhzhia (Donetsk) region.”
https://twitter.com/lost_warinua/status/1689236695739187201
You mean, what little child is he ‘doink’?
Here's a picture from one of ruzzia's awesome military industrial factory:
Today's output is different from yesterday's output.
Was it arson or incompetence?
“A Russian logistics URAL truck carrying supplies was struck by an FPV drone of tactical group ADAM.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1689317118183972885
I’m guessing sabotage. A bomb placed in the factory.
“A close view of the moment of impact from a car that was very close. The car windows were shattered. InformNapalm reports that the plant that exploded today produced missile protection for Ka-52 attack helicopters.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1689317950732324864
Lots of ‘accidents’.
“Bavovna-all-day. Military unit 73745 in Stavropol caught fire. Are they such careless smokers in Russia nowadays?”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1689315534477697026
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