Posted on 10/21/2022 7:10:44 AM PDT 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. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers 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 the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is 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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RuZZian Tank losses RunningTotal: 1398
October 2022 – 191
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: 368
October 2022 – 53
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
“Clear video of cruise missile being shot down in Zaporizhzhya by UA airdefense 🇺🇦”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/y9o7qn/clear_video_of_cruise_missile_being_shot_down_in/
“A comeback by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is viewed as a very real possibility in Britain.”
This is common sense.
“EU should use Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine, says Estonian PM”
“Putin’s Conscriptions Supercharge Russia’s Brain Drain”
“Thousands of working professionals have escaped to neighboring countries. This is how they got out, and what their departure means for their homeland.”
“When President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of some 300,000 fresh soldiers for his war in Ukraine, thousands of military-age men across Russia headed for the borders, preferring exile over conscription for a fight they didn’t believe in. Within days of the Sept. 21 address, prices for flights to places Russians were still free to visit had soared—if you could get a seat.
Ilya Flaks, who’d moved to Baku, the capital of neighboring Azerbaijan, shortly after the war started last winter, was getting increasingly frantic calls from friends and acquaintances trying to get out. Why not, he figured, charter a plane and concoct a story of a business meeting that the passengers would claim to be attending? That Friday, he rang a local aviation company and was offered an Airbus A319 that the Azeri government had once used, outfitted with business-class seats for 55 passengers, cream-colored leather couches, and polished mahogany coffee tables. He soon secured a deal, but the owners demanded more than $100,000 upfront.
Flaks spent Saturday and Sunday putting together the money: a loan from his business partner’s sister, an advance payment from a contact in Baku with eight potential passengers, and—mostly—a pile of his own cash from the sale of his prized Mercedes-AMG sports car just before he left Moscow. Flaks’s wife was shocked at this sudden drawdown of so much of their savings, but he was undeterred. “We didn’t think about the money at all,” he says. “We wanted to help.””
Serious question. Why hasn’t the isolated Russian position outside Kherson been totally rolled up and eliminated after three weeks of this counteroffensive?
Hopefully Ukraine can upgrade its air defenses fast.
It is as serious a question as: Why didn't Russia occupy Kiev? Or Why is Russia still fighting in near Kherson?
Instant gratification doesnt apply. Offensives dont have expiration dates.
Anyway i will give the putard excuse as for why russia hasnt completed victory after several months:
“Ukraine is taking their time; grinding down the Russians”
Yeah that will work.
In total, Ukrainian losses amount to 324 airplanes and 161 helicopters, 2,278 unmanned aerial vehicles, 383 air defence missile systems, 5,891 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 873 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,489 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 6,652 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.
“This video was recovered from an eliminated Ukrainian soldier, showing a road littered with destroyed Ukrainian army vehicles, near Kupyansk front”
https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1582848792465842177
Cruise missiles are stealthy and they fly at very low altitude (100 ft AGL) using terrain following radar. Their warhead is approximately 500 pounds.
In the video, there is no Surface to Air missile smoke trail. I'm guessing that this cruise missile was shot down by AAA...perhaps a Gepard Flakpanzer.
An awesome accomplishment for a country with no air defense. /s
Thanks for the ping.
Ukraine: military situation update with maps, Oct 20, 2022
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP2QApi8G2TKc8NZmeDWSUg/videos
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named War in Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... )
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
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Extras:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Rigged Kherson Dam To Explode Zelensky Claims <——
Blowing up the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam on the Dnipro River would create a “large-scale disaster” said Ukraine’s president.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-russia-rigged-kherson-dam-to-explode-zelensky-claims
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-—> Russian Su-27 Released Missile During Intercept Of British RC-135 Spy Plane <——
Royal Air Force RC-135s are now escorted by Typhoon fighters when on missions over the Black Sea as a result of the incident.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-su-27-released-missile-during-intercept-of-british-rc-135-spy-plane
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Summary:
No major changes.
Key areas:
- Oskil river area: no changes.
- North Donbass area: no changes
- Central Donbass (Donetsk West): no changes.
- Zaporizhya: no changes.
- Kherson bridgehead: no changes.
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••Today is a pretty uneventful day.
••General Strategic:
Economy-wise situation: interest rates are rising pretty quickly in the US, which is measured by treasuries which are the US Government borrowing from the investors. A 10-year treasury reached recent new high of 4.22%, and it has been rising pretty quickly the past several days, and will probably get to the point that there could be some fireworks in the financial markets, if it continues rising like that. That’s gonna its gonna put a lead to extend on the prices of commodities, but it will cost a lot of employment in the economy.
Let’s look at Germany where the producer price index was at extremely high level: it was 45.8%. This means the producer price index is prices of the producers, so they make the the goods and then they go to wholesalers, and then to retailers, and then to consumers are buying them. Its the same exact number as it it was in August, and before August the numbers were lower.
First of all, it was driven by energy - the cost of energy that was drove the number, and this also means inflation from the producers from the produced goods will it will go through the system, first to wholesalers, than the retailers, and then the consumers. Consumer Price Index which is going to be very high, so I don’t know what’s the lead time is before it reaches the CPI and consumer, but probably months or two-three months at the most. It looks like the peak in inflation in continental Europe or Germany specifically, has not been reached - as measured by the CPI because that’s the main metric being used to estimate inflation by central banks.
Then, based on that they raise or reduce interest rates, in this case they’ve been raising interest rates. I believe the last CPI for Germany was 10%, meaning there is a chance that there will be a CPI 12-13% in Germany in the coming months, before the year end, which will put European Central Bank in even worse situation when they need to hike, but the economy is so in such a bad shape that, if they do it, it will create a huge fireworks as well.
So they are trying not to do it, which is not the best strategy, but they don’t belong themselves; they are at the mercy of circumstances, and they do what they think is the path with the least pain. That’s what they’re trying to do, but the pain will come, whether they go for least pain or not .
At the same time, another concerning situation in Europe is the interest rates for government in southern European countries started to rise, and the interest on Greek government that rose over 5%. This is an upward trend, and if things continue the way that they are, the crisis Greek crisis that was pretty famous in 2010-2011 can come back pretty soon, and the rest of the countries in the South are probably gonna experience something similar, and like Italy, Spain, maybe Portugal. They tend to be somewhat similar in and how things plays out there.
••Ukraine and Russia Situation:
In Ukraine electricity is terrible. There is no economy, there is no normal civilian life, its only survival. There are new estimates that about 40% of Ukrainian electricity throughput or generation through the system is down and that means there are controlled blackouts in the country for 5-7 hours in different regions, somewhat different time, but the main idea is to have availability at night, and to have a little bit of availability during the day, especially the evening and especially morning. Its a pretty standard situation.
Ukraine is 100% dependent on the external help, and there are fears that there might be a new wave of refugees from Ukraine because, as as winter approaches, although many of the transformers and the whole system are like leaves on band-aids, and those band-aids will blow up, and system will collapse.
People will start fleeing, because many people are not prepared to survive in conditions without electricity; it may effect things like even gas stations. Things are looking pretty pretty grim on this front for Ukraine now.
Gold miners in Russia that came to the government, and said, ‘can you buy our gold, so we don’t lay off people’. Russian government said, ‘no, we’re not gonna buy a gold, please lay off people, because we don’t want to increase inflation by issuing more credit in circulation by buying up gold’. That’s their logic - that’s what’s going on in Russia.
••State Border:
It is more or less the same, nothing terribly new.
••North Luhansk’:
Things here also are very stable, static no really any big moves, and I would say this is a front line of lost opportunities, lost victories for Ukrainian side. I would say and probably big luck for the Russian side I would say.
••North Donbas:
Things here can open any day and there will be a attacks that is towards Solidar, Bakhmut etc without much success on any particular day, but it may happen next day. South of Bakhmut, Wagner mercenaries managed to create a bridgehead or salient, and they’re trying to expand and exploit that situation, but without my success.
••Central Donbas:
Always the same attacks here - all the same no advances, nothing is happening there - nothing in a meaningful way
••Kherson Bridgehead:
Things here are quite in terms of Ukrainian or Russian attacks, however, Ukrainian Command again started focusing on attacking Russian ferries, platoon bridges, and the bridge near the dam over the bypass channel that was artificially created by dumping a lot of gravel, and it goes reaches the bottom, and you’re just creating the bridge - that was attacked.
Then Russian sources report that there is mass evacuation going on from the Western Bank of the Dnipro River, and that Ukrainian troops attacked one of the pontoon bridges and did a lot of damage. I would say the speculation of what is going on, is not civilian, its very high probability, very high chance Russian troops are being withdrawn from Kherson Bridgehead.
We’ll find out later maybe or maybe not, but there is a very high probability that is happening is the withdrawal of the Russian troops under these guys that this is an evacuation of the civilian from there.
••Belarus:
I forgot to mention Ukrainian Command or General Staff started talking about the potential attack from Belarus in the this Western sector, and always the idea of the attack is to cut off this most western part of Ukraine from the rest and block w transportation of the western equipment, western weapons through to the Ukrainian troops on the front line.
I would say this is extremely improbable scenario, just because Belarus Army is small and majority of it is not willing to flight and die because simply there is no there’s nothing in it for people in Belarus, and there is no clear logic why are you gonna go and die.
The number of Belarus troops that are ready and potentially can be used in aggression is about 10,000-15,000 people, that’s pretty much nothing. I would say so it is not possible with that number of troops to cross to catch Ukraine, and also the number of Russian troops there is still small.
They make some sort of build up, a quick build up, but it just doesn’t make a lot of sense, because you really need again 200,000-300,000 troops to successfully execute on the strategy of cutting, splitting Ukraine in this most western part, and the rest of it; you really need in 100s of 1000s, because you need to reach the Romanian border, and then you need to maintain the line from one side of the country to another, and you need a lot of soldiers on the ground, a lot of perfect supply; its very unlikely the Russians are capable of doing it at this point.
“A Ukrainian drone bombing a Russian T-72 tank [Cope Cage Edition] with a improvised munition (1.5kg explosive payload) in #Mykolaiv Oblast - hitting right in the engine area and taking the tank out of action.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1583472053293699072
“Long-Term Deals Help Japan Secure Ample Gas Amid Global Shortfall”
“World’s biggest LNG importer looks to U.S. to lock in supply for a decade or more”
“Japan imports nearly all of its natural gas and, despite the worst energy crisis in many years, it isn’t facing shortages or out-of-control prices.
Its secret is a reliance on long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas, a strategy that had been in decline until recently but now is rebounding in popularity. The world’s largest buyer of LNG is enjoying a moment of validation—at least for now.”
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