Posted on 12/02/2022 7:05:38 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. 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 Artillery losses Running Total: 436
December 2022 – 2
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
We all know ‘cranked’ is not an American. He is a RuZZian national. A real crackpot.
I encourage everyone to ignore him. I don’t intend to ever respond to him again.
Everyone’s own decision of course.
“Ukraine presidential aide says up to 13,000 military personnel killed in war
Ukraine’s forces have lost somewhere between 10,000 and 13,000 soldiers so far in the war against Russia, according to a Reuters report, which cited comments from Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak.
It is thought to be the first estimated death toll of Ukrainian military personnel by a top official since Ukraine’s military chief said close to 9,000 soldiers had died as of late August.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/02/russia-ukraine-live-updates.html
13k KIA, assume 3x1 WIA ratio. So UA has about 52k of casualties.
RuZZia has at least 150k of casualties as calculated here previously.
So Ukraine is winning on the battlefield by a 3 to 1 ratio in term of casualties.
With the RuZZian untrained draftees on the front lines, the ratio is likely to increase.
“Russia planned to “subjugate” Ukraine in ten days and control it by summer as part of plans drawn up by a small group of officials led by Vladimir Putin. That’s according to a new report by Britain’s RUSI, an institute linked to Britain’s army, drawing on captured Russian orders.
Putin wrote his famous essay (asserting that Ukrainians and Russians were one people) in July 2021. That same month, the report says, the FSB was tasked with surveying Ukrainians. The result of their work seems to have been shaped by confirmation bias.
Russia’s army leadership said (and believed) it had achieved parity with the US due to military reforms. [added by Speedy: HAHAHAHA] It devised a blitzkrieg plan, according to which several forces would seize different areas of Left Bank Ukraine. Only the Southern Military Command appeared to achieve goals.
Russian counterintelligence had been drawing up lists of Ukrainians:
- Those who were to be liquidated
-Those to be suppressed
- Those who could be induced to collaborate
-Collaborators
It considered most Ukrainians docile, to be controlled with electricity and heating.
The crushing of Ukrainian resistance was to culminate in monstrous show trials and executions of those involved in the Maidan Revolution:
Meanwhile, Europe was to be kept inactive through targeted “blackmail” involving nuclear power plants.
The Russian plan did not assume any degree of Ukrainian agency. It was not subject to critical scrutiny and success was believed to be assured:
My analysis: The report obviously was shaped by Ukrainian sources. It says that the initial Russian plan failed due to hubris and delusion. But it also seems that elements of it are being used in the occupied territories (eg. the Zaporizhzhya plant).
The report reflects Ukrainian decision-makers’ perspectives. A lot more reporting on the Russian plan is needed. This report, however, lines up with an investigation by the Washington Post:”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598256313565609988.html
“russians are withdrawing from some occupied parts in the Zaporizhya region, according to Ukraine’s General Staff. They are withdrawing from the village of Mikhailovka, the city of Pologi and the village of Inzhenernoye, and propose evacuations in the village of Burchak (link below in comments)”
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/z9xfim/russians_are_withdrawing_from_some_occupied_parts/
“Russian Loitering Munition Racks Up Kills But Shows Limitations”
“Russian Lancet kamikaze drones are steadily increasing their tally of Ukrainian vehicles destroyed. Unlike the long-range Shahed-136s supplied by Iran which are targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the Lancet is a battlefield weapon used against military targets. A new study by Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans of independent military analysis site Oryx takes a detailed look at how effective Lancet has been and finds plenty of misses and unsuccessful strikes.”
“Ukrainian soldiers to train on Czech territory. The Czech Republic’s parliament on Dec. 1 approved a proposal to train Ukrainian soldiers in the country and deploy Czech soldiers in European Union member states to train Ukrainian service members.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1598443269255753728
“All 30 #NATO member states agree with the need to grant #Ukraine membership in the alliance This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna.”
“Pentagon awards $430 million contract for production of additional HIMARS.”
“The contract was signed with American defense industry giant Lockheed Martin to manufacture additional High-Mobility Rocket Artillery Systems (HIMARS) for the needs of the U.S. military and international partners, the Pentagon reported.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1598617803866734593
“UK Defense Ministry: Russia’s munitions shortage limits its potential to continue offensive operations.”
“Russian troops have likely moved their supply nodes further south and east as their retreat from the west bank of the Dnipro River made logistics routes in southern Ukraine more vulnerable to Ukrainian attacks, the U.K. Defense Ministry reported on Dec. 2.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1598589971539140610
“ISW: Russian military movements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast suggest that it can’t defend critical areas amidst increasing Ukrainian strikes. Russia may be withdrawing troops from positions closer to the front line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast to reduce the impact of Ukrainian strikes.”
“The Insitute for the Study of War said in its latest report that the withdrawal from some of those critical positions may suggest that Russian forces cannot defend the entire frontline in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and are prioritizing where to concentrate forces.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1598542881421148162
“Germany to supply Ukraine with bridge-laying tanks, border protection vehicles. Germany has handed over to Ukraine unmanned surface vessels, some bridge-laying tanks and dozens of border protection vehicles as part of their new batch of military aid.”
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1598496800650006528
Another Goodwill Gesture?
“GREY ZONE states that Nova Kakhovka temporary “administration” will start “evacuating” residents on Saturday 3 December. Meanwhile, my source in Nova Kakhovka also says the military commandant administration will stop working on 3 December, and leave the city.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1598666470556327942
More POWs
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1598678145179205633
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1598621680502702082
“Latvia has destroyed all pedestrian bridges on the borders with Russia and Belarus.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1598611408429535232
“In Sochi, near the polyclinic, two “special operations” officers decided to demilitarize each other Judging by the reaction of passers-by, Muscovites have a fairly high level of tolerance”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1598610627320287232
So Ukraine is winning on the battlefield by a 3 to 1 ratio in term of casualties.
I am highly skeptical of the 3-1 ratio. With the give and take on the battlefield, and a "near peer" war, I suspect casualities are roughly equivalent for each side; with significant Ukrainian civilian casualties.
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