Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

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[FtrPilot]

Updated BDA:

On January 25, 2024, a strike was carried out on a 🇷🇺 Russian military training ground near the city of Ilovaisk with the help of M142 «HIMARS» MLRS, where an examination of FPV drone operators of the Sudoplatov project was taking place.

It was not only a training base, but also as a warehouse for FPV drones.

So, according to new information:

🔥| 40 soldiers were killed, 2 civilian project instructors (previously reported 24 dead);

🤕| 20 soldiers were wounded;

https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1751598213235159357

[SpeedyInTexas]

He should have tried super glue instead.

[FtrPilot]

Гарно відпрацювали 🇺🇦🔥

https://twitter.com/Inside_the_AFU/status/1751563549715951702

[SpeedyInTexas]

Lets VOTE. If the vote fails, then move on to foreign military sales.

“Senators could vote on a bipartisan immigration deal as soon as next week, one of the top negotiators said Sunday.

“Well, we do have a bipartisan deal. We’re finishing the text right now,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.””

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/28/senators-border-deal-murphy-next-week-00138231

[FtrPilot]

Reuters: 14 tankers with oil from the Russian Federation have been waiting for shipment from India for several weeks.

All because of problems with payment - the Indian side refuses to pay for oil in dollars for fear of falling under US sanctions.

They offer to pay in rupees, which the Russian side no longer agrees to.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1751184722519044171

I thought BRICS was supposed to fix the currency exchange problem.

Ruzzia must have more rupees than they need.

[buwaya]

I doubt Ukraine needs the NG soldiers being assigned to the US border. It COULD use their masses of reserve equipment, which arent even on the TOE of the NG units.

[FtrPilot]

🇬🇷 Greece approved the transfer of Soviet-style weapons systems to Ukraine, - Kathimerini

The details of the assistance package have not been disclosed, but it is known from open sources that the country is armed with Tor, Osa, S-300 air defense systems, ZU-23-2, anti-aircraft missile launchers and ammunition for them.

https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1751559153787506858

ZU 23-2 is highly effective against iranian drones. Here's a pic:

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Russians are sent into Ukraine to merely wander around waiting to absorb Ukrainian explosives.

5 taken down in one shot here.”

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1751532859100168675

[SpeedyInTexas]

RuZZian makes himself Good.

https://twitter.com/UkraineNewsLive/status/1751544700866027610

[FtrPilot]

The massive Power of Siberia-2 pipeline to China that Russia hopes will replace the European gas export market is delayed, ⁦@thomas_m_wilson ⁩ reports. China doesn’t need the gas as much and Russia is desperate, cementing its little brother role

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1751509447275319357

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Gazprom to proceed to the pre-investment phase for the ‘Power of Siberia 2’ pipeline. Supplies via this route may total up to 50 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y), with the gas set to be brought to western China.

Pre-investment phase!

Work might start in 10 years.

[Kazan]

War On The Rocks Has Rocks On The Brain

I will make this real simple. Ukraine does not have the ability to implement the War on the Rocks prescription. First, manpower. Even Ukrainian sources are conceding that Ukraine has suffered more than a million casualties. The average age of the frontline troops is 43. For the math challenged out there (this clearly applies to Kofman, Lee and Massicot), if the average age is 43 that means you have a large number of 50 and 60 year old cannon fodder manning the trenches and bunkers. The under 40 crowd is not flocking to the recruiting office in Kiev to sign up. Just the opposite. They are going to extreme lengths to avoid being dragooned into the army. We’ve seen guys wearing disguises that make them look like 70 year old men and others dressing as women. Not because they are transgender but because the Ukrainian recruiters are not grabbing women off the street and throwing them on to the military bus.

Let’s assume that Ukraine can somehow find an additional 500,000 potential soldiers. (They will need at least that many to keep up with Russia who added that number to their armed forces in 2023 and continue to sign up new recruits at the rate of more than 40,000 a month.) Where are they going to train? Russia’s missile strikes during the past month have hit some major troop locations. For example, the strike in Kharkiv last week wiped out a 200 man contingent of foreign mercenaries. Russia can and will hit every training center in Ukraine, which means the new Ukie recruits will have to be sent to bases in Europe.

We have clear evidence based on the Ukrainian failure in the 2023 counter-offensive of how inadequate that training was. And the training I am talking about is Basic Training. Decent Basic Training takes 13 weeks. Do the math — even if Ukraine can marshall 20,000 new recruits a month and run them through Basic Training, Ukraine would only have 160,000 troops trained in rudimentary skills by the end of the year. Ukraine failed to do that during 2023. What miracle drug will they be taking that allows them to train three to four times the number of troops they assembled for the failed counter offensive? The vast majority of the Ukrainian troops sent to attack the Surovikin lines of defense did not receive Advanced Individual Training nor did they participate in large unit exercises. Knowing how to shoot, clean and maintain a fire arm in combat conditions is a good thing. But that does not automatically translate into how to conduct an assault on heavily defended positions. And don’t tell me the Brits and Germans can handle that training task. Hell, the U.K. cannot even meet its own recruitment needs. The Brits are a puny, inexperienced force lacking in knowledge of how to carry out a combined forces attack against the Russians. Ditto for the Germans. The Wehrmacht is kaput.

The War on the Rocks clown show pays lip service to Ukraine’s need for air defense, artillery, artillery rounds, tanks and armored vehicles, but ignores the real world. No country in the West has the ability to produce these items and send them to Ukraine in the quantities required to sustain a force in the field for the foreseeable future. The authors are particularly lost in La La Land when they talk about Ukraine being able to launch long-range missiles to hit critical infrastructure in Russia. There is no other country in the world with an air defense system like Russia’s. Moreover, if such attacks are launched Russia has the ability to launch successful counter strikes to eliminate those threats.

Where the hell is the West going to come up with a thousand tanks and armored personnel carriers? There are no factories in the West churning these out. To the contrary, the West is struggling to produce 155 mm shells. All of the War on the Rocks “analysis” rests on the assumption that the West’s only concern is Ukraine. That dog won’t hunt anymore. Israel, Yemen, Iran and China are becoming greater priorities than Ukraine.

Finally, let’s assume that Ukraine is able to muster a new army of cannon fodder to attack Russia’s heavily defended lines? Where is the Ukrainian air power? It does not exist and will not exist. If the United States is able to deploy a few F-16s to Ukraine, they will meet the same fate that Ukraine’s now non-existent air force met. They will be shot down.

[ansel12]

To: marcusmaximus

I’m a Muslim that is all in favor of Israel wiping the Hamas off the face of the earth.
74 posted on 1/6/2024, 1:12:30 PM by Kazan

[ETCM]

More details here. It sounds like the US essentially bought these systems via aid to Greece (see bottom of comments). This is of course NOT aid to Ukraine (wink wink).

Greece approves transfer of outdated air defense missiles, anti-aircraft guns to aid Ukraine's army

The decision was made after the United States approved the sale of modern F-35 fighters to Greece. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered Greece the option of transferring or selling weapons to Ukraine in exchange for up to $200 million in aid from Washington.

Greece decided to transfer outdated systems and equipment that are no longer used by their army. Greece is armed with Tor, Osa, S-300 air defense systems, as well as ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft systems, and has reserves of ammunition for these weapons systems.

Greece already has 80+ blk 70/72 Vipers, so the F-35 purchase keeps them ahead of Turkey.

The "aid" appears primarily be 2 C-130H aircraft, but it looks like there was a lot more included in Blinken's letter. Spare P-3 engines, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, a KC-135 tanker, and more. It also looks like we are offering to sell them 4 of our surplus (cheap) Littoral Combat Ships, which might actually be a much better platform for the Aegean Sea than the Pacific, Atlantic or Indian Oceans.

Source (requires translation):

F-35: What capabilities it "unlocks" for the Armed Forces

[SpeedyInTexas]

Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.

Is that where you live Muslim Boy?

[FtrPilot]

...so the F-35 purchase keeps them ahead of Turkey.

Way ahead.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“The camera recorded the moment of suicide of the Russian occupier.”

https://twitter.com/UkraineNewsLive/status/1751674430072242589

[ETCM]

“The camera recorded the moment of suicide of the Russian occupier.”

Sad end, but better than killing more innocents in their homeland. Russia has a remarkably high suicide rate. Particularly among men, where it's higher than any civilized nation save for Lithuania (which has a large Russian population...). In fact, suicide rates remain fairly high in all of the former Soviet states. Maybe it's a cultural thing. Or maybe they just don't have a lot to live for back in Muscovy.

[SpeedyInTexas]

“This was the day that President Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on American troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind.

With three American service members killed and two dozen more injured by a drone in Jordan, Mr. Biden must decide how far he is willing to go in terms of retaliation at the risk of a wider war that he has sought to avoid ever since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas touched off the current Middle East crisis.

Until now, the president had carefully calibrated his responses to the more than 150 attacks by Iranian-backed militias on American forces in the region since Oct. 7. He essentially ignored the majority that were successfully intercepted or did little to no damage while authorizing limited U.S. strikes focused mainly on buildings and infrastructure after attacks that were more brazen, most notably against the Houthis in Yemen who have targeted shipping in the Red Sea.

The first deaths of American troops under fire, however, will require a different level of response, American officials said, and the president’s advisers were in consensus about that as they consulted with him by secure videoconference on Sunday. What remained unclear was whether Mr. Biden would strike Iran itself, as his Republican critics urged him to do, despite his own determination to avoid a full-fledged war.

“The three American service members we lost were patriots in the highest sense,” Mr. Biden said in a written statement issued on Sunday morning. He added: “We will strive to be worthy of their honor and valor. We will carry on their commitment to fight terrorism. And have no doubt — we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing.””

[SpeedyInTexas]

““He left our troops as sitting ducks, and now three are dead and dozens wounded, sadly as I’ve predicted would happen for months,” said Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas. “The only answer to these attacks must be devastating military retaliation against Iran’s terrorist forces, both in Iran and across the Middle East. Anything less will confirm Joe Biden as a coward unworthy of being commander in chief.””