Posted on 02/23/2024 1:09:28 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdmLch3kFc
This guys does daily (or more) updates for those looking for detailed updates on the fighting. Heavy reliance of both Ukrainian and Russia videos and geolocation from the metadata in them to infer what is going on.
Dima has a Rumble channel for those of you that don’t want to give woke google ad revenue
Please watch on rumble and not YouTube when possible
https://rumble.com/c/MilitarySummary
Related:
Since 2014 Russia has liberated 2000 km of coastline 134,000 sq Km of territory and expanding daily and what was area that made up 42% of Ukraines 2014 GDP. Also 63 percent of Ukrainian reported coal mines are under Russian control as of July 2022.
This trend continues across other key sectors: Russia controls 27 percent of Ukraine’s iron ore deposits, 50 percent of its manganese ore deposits, 100 percent of its strontium supplies, and roughly 20 percent of precious metal deposits.
According to SecDev estimates, the total worth of all Ukrainian mineral wealth now under Russian control is around $12 trillion.
-Source Kiev Independant Feb 23 2024. <<< So you know its even better than they say
Did a drone take it out?
Yeah, but Ukraine shot down some big AWACS plane.....
As is clear in the video, that’s not an Abrams. It’s not even a tank. It’s looks like an M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), which shares the Abrams chassis. It’s essentially a tracked mine clearing vehicle, and likely (slightly ironically) ran over a mine. The guy posting the video knows this, but “First destroyed Abrams” gets more clicks.
They’re moving the M1s forward against the Russians...oh well, so much for any more International Sales.
“As is clear in the video, that’s not an Abrams. It’s not even a tank. It’s looks like an M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), which shares the Abrams chassis.”
Agree, they were testing the Abrams chassis against the Russians - it lost (no surprise).
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