Posted on 04/08/2023 9:04:05 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
Russia - 10004, of which: destroyed: 6472, damaged: 304, abandoned: 394, captured: 2834
Ukraine - 3161, of which: destroyed: 2030, damaged: 176, abandoned: 89, captured: 866
“#Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 10.000 vehicles and pieces of heavy weaponry since it began its invasion of #Ukraine on February 24, 2022”
https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1644659476249686016
“A Russian BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed by the Ukrainian 45th Artillery Brigade in the vicinity of Bakhmut”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1644695620215603201
“Fighters of the “SIGNUM” unit, together with the citizens of Holdonia Yariv, stopped the attempted offensive of the Katsaps. Bakhmut.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1644701111138279425
“The shot down Russian Su-25 from [yesterday] a different (Russian) angle.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1644721961073889282
“According the British Ministry of Defense the Russian attempt to disable the Ukrainian energy grid has failed. I not only share this assessment but also emphasize that Russia wasted billions in the process. Ukrainian air defense won this round and bought valuable time.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1644579985066283009
“Apparently, the Russian air defense in Voronezh failed. A factory producing aircrafts is on fire.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1644398670685642752
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - April 7, 2023
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
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 Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> Daily Battle Maps by Date and Region, Showing Troop Dispositions and Movements: <——
https://deepstatemap.live/
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-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
The Russian military, the second largest military in the world, may not be what it looks like. Lies and systematic corruptions may in fact have dragged Russia into this war with Ukraine, which has been heavily backed up by the US and NATO. We will present the evidence, you make your own decision, because the Russian Army, is not what you think.
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-—> Understanding Combined Arms Warfare <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOGdKANL5s
Designed to support the U.S. Army Captains Career Course, “Understanding Combined Arms Warfare” defines and outlines the important aspects of modern combined arms operations. This is not a complete history of combined arms warfare. It is intended to highlight the most important aspects of the subject.
The beginning of the documentary establishes a common understanding of combined arms warfare by discussing doctrinal and equipment developments in World War I. The second part compares the development of French and German Army mechanization during the interwar period and describes how each country fared during the Battle of France in 1940. The film concludes by showing how the United States applied combined arms operations in the European Theater in World War II.
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-—> Combined Arms Breach, 1990 <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
What UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines. This visualization was developed for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and is closely based upon the National Training Center Breach and Assault exercise executed circa 1990. This visualization demonstrates viable Techniques, and Procedures as discussed in Army Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures March 3, 1990 for the conduct of the combined arms breach against a hypothetical enemy.
Excerpts:
Ukrainian intelligence and military officials are analyzing whether documents leaked about U.S. and NATO plans to support Kyiv ahead of the looming spring counteroffensive are real and what damage was caused to future efforts if they are.
“Right now we are checking and comparing these materials” in the documents, Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate, told The War Zone Friday.
The documents were apparently initially released on a Discord server in the beginning of March and in recent days on social media, including the Telegram messaging app. They are part of a much larger trove of more than 100 documents with top secret and other restricted classifications that were leaked, according to Aric Toler, director of training and research for Bellingcat.
“Topics include lots of Russia/Ukraine, but also some briefs on unrelated topics, such as ISIS, China, etc.,” he said on Twitter.
The documents apparently show a wide range of details from Ukrainian and Russian troop dispositions, Ukrainian combat power generation, the anticipated delivery time of donated tanks and other armor, casualty figures, the number of U.S. and allied special operations forces in Ukraine, the number of U.S. and NATO troops and aircraft and U.S. submarines in the region, status of the conflict as of March 1, projected weather ahead of the anticipated counteroffensive and even the Ukrainian usage of munitions, including the U.S. donated Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) munitions for the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.
The documents purport to have emanated from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff with at least some distributed to Ukraine, NATO, the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance of the U.S. its and allies Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
At least one of the documents purports to also have been shared with Finland, which was not a NATO member at the time of their creation.
“Senior US official confirms to me these are real slides produced by the Joint Staff but have been heavily doctored,” Lara Seligman of Politico Tweeted.
“Since the USSR collapse [Russian] intelligence has degraded to an extent that the only way to redeem themselves after ‘Salisbury,’ ‘3-day plans’ etc. is photoshop & ‘virtual fake leaks,’” Ukrainian presidential advisor Mikhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter Friday. “Moscow is eager to disrupt [Ukraine’s] counteroffensive but it will see the real plans on the ground. Soon.”
“This is Russian disinformation,” a Ukrainian government official, also speaking on condition of anonymity to address classified information, told The War Zone.
At least one of the documents being circulated appears to have been altered to lower the number of casualties suffered by Russian forces, the U.S. officials told Reuters, adding that their assessments were informal and separate from an investigation into the leak itself.
Toler, of Bellingcat, told The War Zone that in his assessment, the original documents posted on Discord are real, while later versions, posted on Russian Telegram channels, were “edited.”
One former senior U.S. special operations officer who routinely dealt with classified materials told The War Zone that the documents he observed via social media at least appear to be real.
“They look legit,” said the former officer, who like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified materials. “The real question is what is coming out of the Pentagon and who has access?”
Of the documents, the biggest concern is one, marked Top Secret, purporting to show the disposition of Russian and Ukrainian troops on March 1.
“This is not good,” said the former special operations officer. “If accurate, this information is the holiest of the holies.”
“The first issue is how did they get into the public sphere?” that former official said. “Who lost control of it and was it someone who deliberately gave it to the Russians, or was it someone who carelessly lost it or was stolen out of a hotel room? There are a whole range of possibilities.”
“If the documents are real, there is also a limited distribution, and intelligence agencies should be able to track down where they came from,” said the former intelligence official. “It’s not like the old days of the Pentagon Papers, when hundreds of pages were Xeroxed.
Everything has a cyber fingerprint and I think it would be pretty easy for them to determine if they are real and where the leak came from.”
That’s how the National Security Agency (NSA) managed to track down former NSA contractor Reality Winner, who leaked documents to The Intercept about Russia secretly trying to gain access to U.S. voting systems in 2016.
When it comes to the documents, what’s real and what’s disinformation is not yet fully clear. There is a very hot information battle burning on both sides of this war. We will have to see how this story plays out.
[They Realized It’s A Kill Zone | Ukrainians Demolish Russian Position With Tanks]
••Day 408: April 07
Today the biggest news is coming from the east. Here, after revealing that Ukrainians are supplying the Bakhmut group via tunnels, Wagner forces decided to stop trying to cut the highways and focus on the city. However, the moment the Russians were pushed from the roads, Ukrainians sent several groups of tanks to Bakhmut and used them to demolish the streets that the Russians managed to capture.
Last time I told you that Ukrainians were pushed out from their positions along the river, and that the fights shifted closer to the center of the city. I also told you that it had been widely speculated that Ukrainians are not planning to fight here for a long time because they have prepared the main defense line along the railways.
The freshest reports suggest that these speculations were correct. Recent combat footage released by a Russian war correspondent reveals that Russian forces have already reached Sibirtseva Street. Judging by the video, they have already assumed positions inside this block.
A bit to the south, Russians have passed the stadium Metalurg and reached Kovalska Street. Combat footage from this part of the town shows that Russians are trying to get closer to the railways. When it comes to the stadium Avangard, where two days ago we saw intense fights as well – here, the enemy did not manage to advance and is still located south of Kovalska Street. In the footage released several hours ago, a Russian soldier is describing a situation on a radio, saying that the assault unit cannot move because Ukrainians established fire control over the area with their tanks.
And this is not surprising. Russian sources have been reporting for weeks about the relocation of Ukrainian tanks to Bakhmut, especially after Ukrainians conducted the first major counterattack near Ivanivske and pushed Russians from the hill.
This allowed Ukrainians to send small groups of tanks via the highway from Kostiantynivka and quickly enter Bakhmut from the south without the threat of being shot with Anti-Tank Guided Missiles.
Tanks are very feared in urban warfare. Russians may spend weeks to establish total control over a street, while a sudden tank assault allows them to demolish multiple houses and everyone who occupies them in under a minute.
And with the abundance of garages, warehouses, and former supermarkets, it is very easy to hide a tank once it returns from a mission.
Russians are also using tanks. Ukrainian 93rd Mechanized Brigade showed the aftermath of clashes between Ukrainian and Russian tanks.
The Russian side also features destroyed Ukrainian tanks in the central part of the city, however, in armored warfare, just like in the infantry fights, the defending party has an advantage because it doesn’t need to expose itself first.
Russians cannot use the same tactic and just destroy all the houses because they need at least something to be left to be able to leverage in a future attack. Ukrainians, in turn, don’t have to do that, and once they understand that the position is lost, they can roll out a tank and demolish Russian positions.
The Battle for Bakhmut took a substantial toll on Wagner forces, and we could observe a lot of indicators of that for weeks. First of all, Wagner forces were gradually but continuously reinforced by the regular Russian army, in particular, airborne units, to prevent the collapse of the flanks. Secondly, the six-month contracts with prisoners were about to end. And thirdly, Prigozhin launched an extensive recruitment campaign.
Over the last week, Prigozhing finally confirmed these speculations himself. He said that Wagner forces rapidly shrank by (at least) 5000 troops because the contracts with the prisoners ended. He also made a video on one of the Wagner cemeteries, saying that it continues to grow. And he explicitly admitted that the Battle for Bakhmut had damaged Wagner forces pretty badly.
In this case, the conclusion was quite obvious because the quotes can be easily verified by checking Prigizhin’s videos and an audio response to a Russian news outlet.
But for the most part, it is very hard to verify the information. In such cases, the first thing I do is look at how many other sources covered this event.
••Most Russian forces are on the south side of the city. Wagner regulars sent to reinforce Airborne troops.
Ukrainian counterattack on the north side of the city was successful; now fighting against the 136th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, reinforced by 109th Rifle Brigade (DPR) & 277th Rifle Battalion. 132nd Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade, 3rd “Berkut” (DNR) is also in the area.
The DPR group may be understrength because most of the DPR/LNR conscripts have been wasted. This thrust may be aimed to meet wit the counterattack further north and take that chuck back. However, the Russians said the counterattack has bogged down, even though the UA has enough troops to succeed.
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Bakhmut:
UA has pushed Russians north away from the long lake.
Railway east of the city center now forming UA defense line in Bakhmut.
The main task in the defense of Bakhmut was to destroy the Wagner Army, now mostly achieved.v The roads around the city are still very muddy with vehicles getting bogged down. In 2-3 weeks the ground should be dry enough to start the Spring counterattack.
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‘Smoking prohibited’ signs were ignored in the Russian aviation factory Vaso in the Russian city of Veronezh which makes composite parts for Russian military planes. The building is located south of the small airfield on the east side of the river.
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Russia getting ready to challenged China on the one activity they both do better than any other country in the world: military parades. The 9th of May Great Patriotic Victory Parade which may entail a drone event. A Ukrainian banker has offered 20 million Ukrainian dollars [USD$500,000] to anyone who uses drones to cause such an event. No explosives, just a landing. Sadly.
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Hired Russian technicians in Slovakia may have sabotaged some of the MiG-29 systems, as a few of the planes cannot take off.
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The new Brazilian President is firmly on the Russian side about keeping Crimea. Denys says as a born and bred Crimean, “go and f yourself - mind your own business”.
“Ukraine will resume electricity exports to Europe as it has a surplus, the country’s Energy Ministry said.
“The most difficult winter is over,” Energy Minister German Galushchenko, who signed a document allowing the export, said Friday in a statement. “Next step is to open electricity export which will allow for attracting additional financing for needed restoration and repair of damaged energy infrastructure.”
Ukraine can export 400 megawatts under an agreement with ENTSO-E, the European grid operators network. Russia started to attack Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones in September, causing electricity cutoffs across the country. It prompted Ukraine to suspend electricity exports from October.”
That’s the factory that produces composite parts for Russian fighters jets and other military planes. The No Smoking sign was accidentally taken down with predictable results.
“[A] russian fires a captured Swedish rocket launcher, watch to the end....”
https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1644677663024455681?t=a_GKJusIzbvWlRestgSPaA&s=19
““[A] russian fires a captured Swedish rocket launcher, watch to the end....””
Thanks for posting. I loved it.
Me too!
Recoil!
Same here.
According to https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadnb/pentagons-ukraine-war-plans-leaked-on-minecraft-discord-before-telegram-and-twitter. The files were first uploaded to a Discord server about Minecraft, then 4chan, on Cloudflare servers in San Francisco. In my view, these are the last places to upload data if someone wanted to avoid getting caught. Some of the images have "FISA" in the classification headers. As far as I know that means the "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" which is not about classifying documents at all.
Ukraine launches competition to land a drone on Red Square during Russian military parade
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144271/posts
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