Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 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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If Russia has deposited it’s remaining National Wealth Fund into a few systemically vital banks, as a means to keeps them solvent, then there is a ramification of that.
The Fund is no longer really liquid. Pulling it out to spend could undermine the banks. This could well be the end of the line for Russia’s financial reserves, which we have been anticipating.
So the budget gaps that the NWF has been filling so far in this war, now need a new solution.
Russia’s Federal budget deficit is exploding. They have already exceeded their projected large deficit for the whole year of 2025, by over 30% (over $60 Billion so far). Their budget gap is the biggest of the war so far, and the main mechanism used to buffer it seems exhausted,
Major new adjustments are needed. Hard choices. It is a very bad time for them, for their oil revenue to collapse.
Additionally there is already a covert bank freeze, people with over 1 million rubles in bank are getting run around to get their money out, sometimes taking months.
Will be interesting to see if interest rates are lowered and people who have kept money in banks for high returns start pulling cash out.
Russian banks are highly leveraged with record defaults
I love how our resident fruit cake keeps posting out of date information. We who come here regularly know this, I just hope newcomers to this long thread also check for facts and up to date information. The Ukraine government has restored the function of the 2 agencies that have been reducing corruption levels in Ukraine in recent years.
Our US media does NOT seem to have discovered the importance of Alexandr Dugin’s 1997 book on how to conquer all of Western Europe and control the rest of the world. Lacking that interest, we are forced to rely more on Russian language sources for information on Dugin’s latest proposals to Putin on how to build a stronger more war able State. The recent posting here from a Russian source regarding the current start of the Russian State baby making program copied from Nazi Germany is a case in point. Is Russia really implementing such a Satanic horror against innocent babies?
There is also no recent information on Dugin’s earlier proposal to limit or abolish drinking. Putin was reported to have set up an experimental limitation in a small test corner of Russia. Was that ever done? Is there any reduction of Vodka production in Russia? We have seen reports of potato scarcity and high prices in Russia. Could this be because people are producing their own booze?
For further info on Dugin who is also known as “Putin’s Brain”, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Read the 20+ bullet pointed list on how to conquer Europe and control the world. Print that list and mail it to Trump, Rubio, Johnson, and anyone involved in decision making regarding Ukraine’s future. Tell them that this will be our future if Dugin/Putin/Russia plans are not nipped in the bud.
“Will be interesting to see if interest rates are lowered and people who have kept money in banks for high returns start pulling cash out.”
Bank runs would be a visible sign of crisis.
Good chance that some banks might be allowed to go under, if there is not enough money to float them all. Pretty sure that elites will get a heads up to transfer their funds beforehand, so that just the little people get burned.
If Russian authorities choose to float all banks, to avoid (delay) social unrest, there would be a big bill to pay, with newly printed rubles, and ensuing inflation.
Ukrainian Support for War Collapses - Gallup Poll
69% of Ukrainian citizens want negotiated end to war with Russiahttps://t.co/XuLMjLMNp2— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 8, 2025
Russians are tired of it as well - the people want a settlement. Thus, the Trump - Putin meeting to announce a partial settlement or similar.
There is no functioning Ukranian government. It's a vassal state with an unelected dictator dressed in a greasy green Castro-like uniform positioned at the helm. He'll be gone once peace is restored.
US and Russia Plan Truce Deal to Cement Putin’s Gains in Ukraine
By Donato Paolo Mancini, Alberto Nardelli, and Daryna Krasnolutska
August 8, 2025
https://archive.ph/YrFmr#selection-1427.0-1445.29
short version: Russia wins. Ukraine loses. America loses everything.
https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3lvvpsv2evk2i
Azerbaijan has begun serial production of 122mm and 152mm artillery shells intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as the war in Ukraine continues to intensify and Kyiv struggles with critical ammunition shortages. Production is taking place at the Avia-Agregat plant in Baku, where industrial equipment supplied by Turkey's Makin ve Kimya Endüstrisi Şirketi is currently being installed and calibrated. Two models—Lasko-1000 and Lasko-350 presses—are being adjusted to begin high-volume output of artillery components.
In parallel, ofcials from Azerbaijan's military-industrial sector are in talks with Bulgarian defense manufacturer Rais. The negotiations aim to purchase and set up two production systems for artillery shell casings, further strengthening the country's capacity to supply ammunition to Ukraine.
Banks are refusing to lend foreign currency to the government because they themselves are already financially dependent on the central bank.
Local residents report columns of smoke from the impacts.
It is presumed that a Ukrainian UAV strike hit fuel tanks.
We will see don’t trust what I see and even less what I read
Nor is there a functioning Russian govt, unless you one considers dear leader as a dictator functioning, in that case all is well😎
All according to plan😎
If Putin doesn't represent a functioning government, why on earth would Trump meet with him in Alaska next Friday?
Guess who won't be there?
Told you so.
Now the plan may include ceding Alaska back to Russia?
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