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.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
“Russians in Shock! 6 Months Worth of Ammo Wiped Out!”
So much falling debris, so little time.
Tell your employees: ‘be fearful in their hearts’.
GO TEAM GO!
“CASS President Gao Xiang, a senior historian seen as a Xi loyalist, personally led the planning and execution of the campaign, according to a report published by the academy. Officials should be “fearful in their hearts, careful with their words, and restrained in their actions,” Gao told an indoctrination session in June, the report said.”
The same as it ever was.
3400!
Tanks (3408, of which destroyed: 2351, damaged: 157, abandoned: 368, captured: 532)
Captured Akhmat fighters defected to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
Intelligence sources told us that some of the Akhmat battalion servicemen who were captured in the Kursk region defected to the enemy. There are at least 11 known prisoners who are undergoing training in the Ukrainian Armed Forces combat brigades.
We tried to contact Apti Alaudinov, but he refused to comment on the incident. His entourage told us that “it is important to free all of our own from captivity .” However, if we are talking about traitors, then certain death awaits them.
According to our information, at the time of publication of this post, at least 48 Akhmat servicemen who were captured in the Kursk region are in enemy captivity.
https://t.me/kremlin_secrets/4693
Apti Alaudinov said that he would kill them - see https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4219673/posts?page=6353#6353
Ukrainian Military Intelligence Chief General Budanov has stated that Russia aims to win the war by 2025 or 2026, because that is about as long as their war machine is likely to be able to keep working.
If it does keep going past the third anniversary, the Summer of 2025 will likely see crises develop for Russian Military capability, finances and in their general economy.
“”Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the militant group, three Western and regional sources said, a development that highlights Tehran’s deepening ties to Moscow.
Seven sources said that Russia has yet to decide to transfer the Yakhont missiles – also known as P-800 Oniks - which experts said would allow the militant group to more accurately strike commercial vessels in the Red Sea and increase the threat to the U.S. and European warships defending them.””
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1838687601290531016
Sometimes Biden is incompetent. Just get it done.
“”The Biden administration is working on a plan to extend its authority to send $5.9 billion worth of U.S. weapons and equipment to Ukraine before the funding expires at the end of the month...
This new workaround — which requires the administration to declare that it will use the remaining aid in the coming months — will allow the Pentagon to continue to flow weapons to Kyiv. Yet under this method, the U.S. won’t be allowed to introduce new types of equipment that haven’t been in previous shipments.””
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1838682504770785658
“”The Ukrainians also want more agency to pick their own targets, including energy infrastructure, such as oil depots, officials said. Those kinds of strikes can hurt Russia’s economy, limiting its ability to fund the war effort, explained a senior Ukrainian military official. It’s fair play, the official added, as Moscow has been pummeling Ukraine’s power grid for the past two years, causing rolling blackouts throughout the country.
But Kyiv has long been dependent on receiving target coordinates for strikes with its precision Western weaponry from U.S. military personnel on a base elsewhere in Europe. Without those, the missile is likely to miss its mark, the military official said, and the United States has sometimes declined to provide coordinates for some of Kyiv’s desired targets.””
https://x.com/RALee85/status/1838658075450052801
Revised GDP numbers are released on Thursday.
It will be very interesting with the potential for a negative surprise.
If you remember last month, Gov said 800,000 fewer jobs were created over a 12 month period vs initial estimates.
Well, 800,000 fewer jobs means the National Income report on Thursday will be revised lower. National Income feeds into GDP and could be revised lower. Maybe significantly lower. It will be interesting.
Lower GDP report could influence Fed Reserve to speed up cutting interest rates.
Given past patterns, how much good will 180,000 recruits hard to pin down and definitely hard to train properly actually do for the Russian effort. After a recent burst of especially aggressive meat waves with losses between 1300 and 1400 a day around the time of the Kursk invasion, Russia cut back to a more conservative loss zone around 1100 per day.
Using the 1100 figure and 30 day months, that will eliminate the 180,000 advantage in less than 5 1/2 months. If added troops encourages them to return to the heavier meat wave attacks, then using 1350 casualties a day for 30 day months, will eliminate this advantage in less than 4 1/2 months. This does not even include the possibility that some of these poor bastids might actually be able to complete their committed enlistment and go home. Time will tell if this move improves Putin’s war chances, or rather his loss of popularity chances.
Putin's power is based on the social and political hierarchy in Moscow and Russia's major cities. A thousand mothers a week in rural Russia realizing their sons are not coming back is easy for him. He cannot afford a thousand mothers a week in Moscow receiving the same treatment.
I saw earlier reports that the Ukraine Army is being especially clever in using these cluster munitions. There are a number of little bomblets packed in a large shell. The Ukrainians are removing these little fragmentation bombs from the large metal shells, and then delivering individual bomblets with small drones to drop them into trenches, buildings where Russians have been seen to enter or stay, etc.
Russia was losing people and tanks, suddenly at a much higher level. Where were these attacks taking place last May? Was it Adviika?
I was listening to Bloomberg this evening on my drive home. someone was reporting on China and their goal for 5% growth. The speaker (American?) said it was more likely to be 2.5% to 3%. There was also mention of Chinese government efforts to help make the housing market more affordable, and some other system wide move that I don’t remember or did not hear clearly.
He cannot afford a thousand mothers a week in Moscow receiving the same treatment.
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It 300-700 a DAY that will not be coming home
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
Reporting From Ukraine Uncensored Combat Footage (from this and past Reports) is found on Telegram:
https://t.me/RFUEnglish or @RFUEnglish
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The complete transcript.
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[ Ukrainian Uppercut Puts Russian Offensive at Nevsky on The Brink ]
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Today [ Sept 25 ], an interesting situation has developed in the direction of Lyman.
Here, Russians have channeled all their supplies to the north to facilitate an advance on Nevske. However, Ukrainians acted fast and now threaten to undermine the Russian breakthrough up north through an uppercut maneuver, putting the entire Russian offensive effort in jeopardy.
For over one and a half years, Russians have tried to eliminate the Ukrainian bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Zherebets River, but with little progress and heavy losses to show for it. Now, Russians are trying a new approach: taking control of the Ukrainian settlements along the river and, most importantly, their bridges. Taking control of the bridges would undermine Ukrainian logistics and slowly force Ukrainians to withdraw from their bridgehead.
Recently, Russians have intensified their efforts up north in an attempt to break through and capture the Ukrainian town of Nevske, which contains a bridge across the Zherebets River. A Ukrainian soldier operating in the Lyman direction also stated that Russians were supporting their effort with TOS-1A thermobaric rocket artillery strikes, a powerful weapon system of which Russians only have approximately 30 units left.
If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Russians have control of the high ground while Ukrainian positions are stuck in the lowlands. Ukrainians further south are in a similar situation, with the settlements being in the lowlands. However, a strong Ukrainian presence in the Serebryansky forest has allowed Ukrainians to dismantle most Russian attacks before they could ever reach Ukrainian lines.
At Nevske, Ukrainians don’t have such an advantage, meaning that under the pressure of devastating thermobaric artillery strikes, and Russians launching a mechanized assault with reportedly over 30 armored vehicles, Ukrainians were gradually forced to pull back.
Interestingly enough, despite their near overwhelming advantage, Russians were unable to fully secure the settlement even after Ukrainians pulled back. Nevske continues to be in the lowlands, meaning that now it is Ukrainians’ turn to utilize the high ground on the western bank of the river; as a Russian military blogger reported, Ukrainians conducted counterattacks, halting the Russian advance.
The Russians released a brief video showing a Russian flag flying above a destroyed house in the settlement. However, this footage provides little meaningful information, as it is typical for Russians to prominently display their flag over any area they capture, whether it be a village or a simple tree line.
Most importantly, in focusing their effort on Nevske, a vulnerability in the Russian supply lines started to emerge further down south. Kreminna functions as the main supply base for all Russian forces in this direction, from Nevske to the Serebryansky forest. This means that all Russian frontline positions in this area are fully reliant on supplies originating from the city.
The intensified Russian effort at Nevske has inevitably led to a weaker flow of supplies to Russian positions in the fields and in the forest. This has put certain Russian positions that were already vulnerable to Ukrainian counterattacks, in a precarious position. And as Russians advanced into Nevske, Ukrainians were able to retake several positions in the tree lines in front of Torske.
If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Ukrainians are trying to move further along the hill. If successful, this would put Ukrainians in an extremely advantageous position, allowing them to threaten Russian advances in the north and south and Russian supply lines in the east.
Russians understood this and immediately started moving tanks and manpower into position to counterattack the Ukrainian advance in a meeting engagement. Eventually, Russians managed to concentrate enough forces to launch a series of mechanized assaults on Ukrainian positions, using several armored personnel carriers, tanks, and even a turtle tank.
Unfortunately for Russians, can be seen from the footage taken by the observation drone, the area was already swarming with Ukrainian kamikaze drones.
Ukrainians then promptly continued to show how they completely dismantled the Russian mechanized assaults, whereafter not even the turtle tank survived one Russian vehicle supposedly managed to break through Ukrainian lines, but was left surrounded cut off from reinforcements and destroyed as well.
Overall, Ukrainians acted quickly and successfully fought of the Russian counterattack in front of Torske. This will allow Ukrainians to continue to pressure and threaten Russian supply lines toward the Russian effort at Nevske.
Although Russians did reach the settlement of Nevske, Russian control here is extremely weak due to Ukrainian positions uphill and Russians now being in the lowlands. Admittedly we have seen this before, Russians launch costly assaults to take Ukrainian positions in the lowlands, overextend their supply lines, and get slowly worn down by Ukrainians on the opposing high ground.
In the coming days and weeks we will likely see Russians taking a high number of losses to Ukrainian drone strikes, setting the stage for the counterattacks on the devastated Russian units.
That was my point about the 1/2 point drop and the reaction by the business media at the press conference.
Since a 1/4 point drop was expected, but a 1/2 point was announced, the press asked what’s going on
That’s when the fed chief let the cat out of the bag and said unemployment was a problem due to mass immigration and job growth was slow
So first I don’t believe the inflation numbers, and the unemployment numbers are also fake with millions no longer counted. I have read some 7 million working age men have “disappeared “
So yes Houston we have a problem.
Beginning to wonder if the dims want Trump to win so they can blame him for what is coming
They are likely to have a GDP growth that is negative, i.e. a recession that will last many years.
“Ukraine’s plan should not center on directly winning on the battlefield. Outlasting the Russian war machine, the Russian economy, their will to fight is more realistic. In fact, this is largely what is happening.”
That seems to be the strategy that NATO and like minded countries of the free world have been pursuing in Ukraine - bleed out the Russian threat, while keeping the intensity below the nuclear threshold. It seems to be working.
As bloody as it is, it is necessary because of Putin’s unending hostility, greed and brutality.
Russia continues to expand and leverage its bilateral relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in order to support its war effort in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on September 23 that Russia is using unspecified Chinese satellites to photograph Ukraine's nuclear power plants possibly in preparation to strike them.[15] The US government warned in April 2024 that the PRC is providing Russia with unspecified geospatial intelligence, which coheres with Zelensky’s warning about Russia's use of Chinese satellites.[16] Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Vladyslav Vlasyuk stated on September 23 that China supplies approximately 60 percent of all foreign components found in the weapons Russia uses against Ukraine.[17] Russian milbloggers circulated images on September 23 showing Russian forces operating Chinese Shaanxi Baoji Tiger armored vehicles equipped with counter-drone technology in Ukraine.[18] Another Russian source noted that Russian forces acquired these vehicles via a third party and not directly from the PRC, but the use of PRC-product military assets in Ukraine, no matter how they were acquired, confirms that Russia is continuing efforts to circumvent sanctions to obtain foreign materiel to support its war effort.[19] These various reports come amid the joint, week-long Russia-PRC ”Beibu/Interaction-2024” naval exercise that started on September 21 and during which Russian Pacific Fleet ships and unspecified Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) warships conducted maneuvers and exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk.[20] The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) claimed on September 24 that Russian and PLA ships practiced joint maneuvering, countered mock enemy unmanned boats, conducted reconnaissance and monitored the sea surface situation with deck helicopters.[21] ISW has assessed that Russia seeks to enhance diplomatic, trade, and security ties with non-Western states, particularly the PRC, Iran, and North Korea, in an attempt to boost its war effort in Ukraine by obtaining weapons and critical, dual-use items, machine components, and materiel, through the development of mechanisms aimed at evading Western sanctions.[22] The PRC has repeatedly postured itself as a neutral actor in the war in Ukraine, recently promoting its joint “Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis” six-point peace plan (whose key principles nevertheless favor Russia) with Brazil despite a plethora of reports suggesting PRC support to the Russian war effort.[23]
The Russian MoD has failed to appease the Russian ultranationalist milblogger community by downplaying the Russian military command's responsibility for its insistence on misusing technical specialists in infantry-led frontal assaults in eastern Ukraine.
More + maps https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-24-2024
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