https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1738158826887446924
There's some chatter that UKR fighter pilots may have shot down one of the ruzzian Su-34.
Why should the Patriot operators have all the fun?
Posted on 12/22/2023 7:32:08 AM PST 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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Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 434
RuZZian Tank losses Running Total: 2571
December 2023 – 65
November 2023 – 67
October 2023 – 108
September 2023 – 57
August 2023 – 86
July 2023 – 113
June 2023 – 73
May 2023 – 90
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: 965
December 2023 – 27
November 2023 – 25
October 2023 – 77
September 2023 – 48
August 2023 – 67
July 2023 – 56
June 2023 – 47
May 2023 – 43
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/4204921/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
“Why Internet Trolls Do What They Do and How to Spot Russian Fakes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtBzvw0—0
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.”
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730119780873441750
“Reports of first F-16’s in Ukraine. Not surprising, considering the Estonian Defence Ministry idea paper mentioned that the first F-16’s would reach Ukraine before the end of the year.”
https://twitter.com/J_JHelin/status/1738172257321525681
“How Putin’s Right-Hand Man Took Out Prigozhin”
“Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of the Russian leader for decades, put in motion the assassination of the mutinous chief of the Wagner mercenary group”
“On the tarmac of a Moscow airport in late August, Yevgeny Prigozhin waited on his Embraer Legacy 600 for a safety check to finish before it could take off. The mercenary army chief was headed home to St. Petersburg with nine others onboard. Through the delay, no one inside the cabin noticed the small explosive device slipped under the wing.
When the jet finally left, it climbed for about 30 minutes to 28,000 feet, before the wing blew apart, sending the aircraft spiraling to the ground. All 10 people were killed, including Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner paramilitary group.
The assassination of the warlord was two months in the making and approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally and confidant, an ex-spy named Nikolai Patrushev, according to Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer. The role of Patrushev as the driver of the plan to kill Prigozhin hasn’t been previously reported”
“U.S. and Europe Eye Russian Assets to Aid Ukraine as Funding Dries Up”
“Despite legal reservations, policymakers are weighing the consequences of using $300 billion in Russian assets to help Kyiv’s war effort.”
“The Biden administration is quietly signaling new support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets stashed in Western nations, and has begun urgent discussions with allies about using the funds to aid Ukraine’s war effort at a moment when financial support is waning, according to senior American and European officials.
Until recently, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen had argued that without action by Congress, seizing the funds was “not something that is legally permissible in the United States.” There has also been concern among some top American officials that nations around the world would hesitate to keep their funds at the New York Federal Reserve, or in dollars, if the United States established a precedent for seizing the money.
But the administration, in coordination with the Group of 7 industrial nations, has begun taking another look at whether it can use its existing authorities or if it should seek congressional action to use the funds. Support for such legislation has been building in Congress, giving the Biden administration optimism that it could be granted the necessary authority.”
So sad….
“”The cost of just one Su-34 can amount up to $50 million. These are one of the newest jets in service with the Russian Air Force,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat comments on the destruction of 3 Su-34’s in the southern direction. Presumably by Patriot AD system(s).”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738187127005876429
“A Russian Mi-8 helicopter, evacuating Russian pilots and/or bodies of the dead at one of the crash sites of a Su-34 downed by Ukrainian air defense.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738183969781276924
“Photo from the ejection site of one of the Su-34 pilots.
🇷🇺Russian channels affiliated with Military Aviation wrote that there are both living and dead pilots.
🔥| OFFICIALLY Ukrainian forces shot down 3 Su-34 aircrafts who carried KABs to strike the Ukrainian position on the Left Bank of the Dnieper”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1738172981665309082
“Spectacular footage of the destruction of two russian tanks that were storming the positions of the 59th Brigade.“
https://twitter.com/UkraineINtoucH/status/1737947273613705313
“Ukrainian soldiers of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade destroyed rare Russian ATGM “Sturm-SM” based on MT-LB with FPV kamikaze drone strike in Vuhledar direction, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1738128894824259631
“Japan relaxed its strict regulations on defense equipment transfers in a bid to ramp up security ties with like-minded countries and foster related domestic industries through weapons and ammunition exports. Following the revision, Japan decided to provide the United States with Patriot surface-to-air guided missiles produced domestically under a U.S. firms’ license. “
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738134096868491723
‘A Russian tank beautifully caught while entering the area near Stepove.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738124849745182889
“Accurate targeting of Russian infantry near Krynky, trying to get close to Ukrainian positions held in the settlement.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738110084616433735
“A Russian 152-mm towed gun, destroyed on the left bank by units of the 36th Marine Brigade.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738101765545824720
“Reports of first F-16’s in Ukraine”
The Pilots have been in flight training for more than two months, which should be enough time to get something done, under emergency wartime conditions.
The first aircraft delivered will be used for maintenance training.
Hopefully, these F-16s were delivered 4 or 5 months ago.
https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1738158826887446924
There's some chatter that UKR fighter pilots may have shot down one of the ruzzian Su-34.
Why should the Patriot operators have all the fun?
Just not according to their plan.
https://twitter.com/astraiaintel/status/1737978722505118133
“destruction of 3 Su-34’s in the southern direction. Presumably by Patriot AD system(s).” (In one day)
I wonder if this is a sign that they are running out of operational Su-24s, and have to start risking the Su-34s that they had been conserving, if the Su-34s can deliver a weapon they need (glide bomb?) that the Su-24/25s can’t, or if either side made some tactical innovation, that produced this outcome.
Three shot out of the air in the same day.
It is unknown how many they had to begin with, but it is widely believed 'there weren't many'.
By summer 2023, Ukraine destroyed 6. Now, in December, it is 17 in total. All?
https://twitter.com/ReneDuba/status/1737985851294961956
More bad news for ruzzian counterbattery capability.
The daily Zeeper circle jerk.....
That 1st picture in post 16 needs Orange Construction cones placed in front and behind.
Hahaha. Hohoho.
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