Posted on 04/29/2023 9:28:06 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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Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4149080/posts
“The fire may be out, but questions remain regarding the size, origin, and payload of the drone used in last night’s attack. Here’s what we know so far...”
“Two blasts - one at 4:20 AM local time and one a minute later at 4:21 AM - were heard from across the harbor. The attached photo was taken no later than 4:40 AM local time from a neighboring port, according to sources.”
“The drone(s) came from the direction of Cape Fiolent, were visible to the naked eye, and flew at a low altitude just minutes before detonation.”
“DJI footage shows numerous charred tanks, but two near the center of the screen appear to have suffered severe structural damage that does NOT match the surrounding thermal damage other tanks experienced.”
“These tanks can be seen here. Both are heavily engulfed at ~4:40 AM local time. Tank three (right) was also igniting at this time.”
“I’m pretty confident both tanks were targeted at the same time. Either one UAV detonated between the two and damaged both tanks or two seperate UAVs targeted each. Locals do report two seperate explosions a minute apart, after all.”
“So where did they come from? Sea-based platform? Meh. Not too sure about that.”
“They most likely departed the Odesa region, which means it could be a Mugin-5-style drone with custom payload.”
“As for the odd southern approach, it was likely an attempt to avoid the neighboring air base, where anti-air guns and electronic jammers are housed.”
“Final note. The tanks were not extinguished. They simply ran out of fuel to burn. Even intact silos will be unable to release fuel (system wide pressure loss/possible control loss) until repairs can be made. This was an excellent, cost effective attack by the Ukrainian army.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1652312516180201472
“Explosions reported in Kursk region in Russia”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1652299151395241986
“Results of a HIMARS strike on a Russian base. Reportedly it was an officer post of the 58th Army, which was located 20 km from the front line. It has been destroyed completely.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1652066748210847744
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - April 28, 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.
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-—> How Many of Each Type of Tank Does Russia Have In Storage? <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHUK6zkbpc
Type Good 2023
T-54/55 270
T-62 560
T-64 248
T-72 1841
T-80 942
T-90 50
~3,911 operational tanks in storage as of ~04/07/2023 | Ball park tank number.
Excerpts:
Ukraine will kick off its looming offensive without U.S.-promised Abrams tanks, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told reporters Friday.
Abrams aside, so far, NATO and allied nations have provided Ukraine with 514 tanks in the past few months, Cavoli testified.
“In addition, we have a large number of armored vehicles of various types, including Bradleys, Marders, Strykers, and C90s, and training courses are being completed there,” Reznikov said.
Reznikov declined to provide specifics on exactly when the offensive will kick off because Russia monitors Ukrainian media.
“But let’s say that in a general sense, we are more than ready,” he said.
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During the day, the enemy launched 23 [Kh]-101 and [Kh]-555 cruise missiles. Our defenders destroyed 21 cruise missiles, as well as two operational-tactical UAVs,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel.
“The cities of Uman in Cherkasy Oblast, Dnipro, as well as Ukrainka in Kyiv Oblast were affected by the rocket terror of the Russians. According to preliminary information, more than 20 civilians died, including three children. More than 10 apartment buildings and other civil infrastructure were damaged.”
The Ukrainians argue that the F-16 aircraft “is equipped with modern high-precision and long-range weapons, capable of shooting down aerial targets at long distances, such as the Russian Su-35 aircraft that strike with guided bombs. The F-16 can also perform the functions of various types of aircraft, and the main thing is to always be on guard in the Ukrainian sky.”
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Yesterday, we told you about how Russia was placing sandbag fighting positions atop reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest.
Today, The New York Times reported that “the United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has frequently rattled the radioactive saber, threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
The object of providing Ukraine with radiation sensors is partly “to make sure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, its atomic signature and Moscow’s culpability could be verified,” The Times reported.
[ Instant Retaliation | They Know Its The Last Fight | It Worked! Ukrainians Prevent a Massive Bombing Raid ]
••Day 429: April 28
Today there is a lot of news from the East.
Here, Russian forces rapidly increased the use age of aviation and started demolishing key Ukrainian defensive positions with air bombs. However, Ukrainians quickly took action and improved their anti-aircraft warfare by providing the Bakhmut group with self-propelled but also man-portable air defense systems, so Russians quickly noticed the spiking losses of drones and put on hold the planned bombing.
Last time I told you that in order to avoid devastating losses during the storming operation of the most fortified part of Bakhmut, Russians started utilizing FAB-500 air-dropped bombs.I also told you that in response to this new development, apart from reinforcing this region with air defense, Ukrainians created mobile units that hunt on Russian aviation from balconies.
The freshest reports indicate that these actions brought results. A fighter from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade reported that the usage of FAB-500 significantly decreased. He said that it is highly likely due to the increased density of Ukrainian air defense in the region and overall better attention to the sky.
The fighter also alluded to the recent powerful Ukrainian strikes on Russian positons west of the barracks and said that such strikes started to happen quite frequently and cause similar to FAB-500 destruction but to Russians. Such precision strikes successfully complicated Russian logistics in the northern part of Bakhmut and forced them to take time to regroup. Due to the process of regrouping, the pressure from this line was alleviated, and Russians have not gained new ground.
When it comes to the central part, Ukrainians assumed strong positions east of the department of the Engineering Academy and Medical College. Combat footage from this region showed how a Wagner unit attempted to cross Pavlova Novgorodseva Street but was immediately destroyed. A bit east of this location, another combat footage showed how Ukrainian drone operators cooperated with a mortar crew and destroyed another assault unit. They spotted how Russian troops in small numbers accumulated in the building and then conducted a strike.
In the southern part of the region, the situation is the most challenging for Ukrainians. For a long time, this area was the most stable, but the moment things stabilized in the north, they deteriorated along Korsunskogo Street. The main goal of Russian assault units in this region was to establish control over the Industrial College and split Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut into two groups.
A fighter from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade reported that Russians devoted an absurdly high number of troops to this operation. He said that over the last day, the control over the collage changed 3 times. The chronology was the following: Russians prepared assault units consisting of at least 20 troops, and sent one assault unit after another until Ukrainians got overwhelmed and retreated; then Ukrainians reduced Russians with artillery and conducted a counterattack, and then the cycle repeated 2 more times. The drone footage showed that due to the intense fights, the college was turned into a barely standing carcass.
As you can see, when it comes to intense street fighting, the front line is always very unstable, and the control over entire residential quarters can go back and forth several times during the day. In the face of such high uncertainty, Ukrainians started destroying possible key Russian positions. Recently, Ukrainian sources published a video of a controlled explosion of a high-rise building on the outer edge of the city.
Some sources speculated that these positions were lost, and Ukrainians tried to blow up Wagners. However, the building was empty, and Ukrainians are still controlling these positions, which is confirmed by today’s footage filmed from a vehicle that used the Ivanivske highway to deliver supplies to Bakhmut. The reason why Ukrainians destroyed it is the following.
This building does not give fire control over Russian positions because it is blocked by other buildings, so it has no value for Ukrainians apart from being used for storage. However, if by any chance Russians take it, then this building would allow them to establish multiple ATGM positions and destroy absolutely all vehicles moving between Bakhmut and Chasiv Yar. So, Ukrainians blew it up just in case while they continued holding other buildings to control the region.
Ukrainian fighters also made an interesting observation and reported that the number of regular Russian forces has substantially decreased, and 90% of soldiers are from the Wagner Group. A few days ago, the Head of the Wagner forces, Prigozhin, said in an interview that his private military company is losing 5 times as many men as he expected.
Today he also said that Wagner Group is on the verge of extinction, and he underscored that he is not being alarmist and that people will soon see for themselves. It looks like the commanders of the regular Russian forces understood that they would not be able to quickly finish the battle and take all the credit and once again left it to the Wagners to take all the losses.
After the notorious video of the decapitation of a Ukrainian soldier, Wagner forces understood that they would not be taken captive. In order to improve the moral of the Wagner fighters, Prigozhin gave orders not to take captives as well and kill all Ukrainians.
He used audio where a speaker alluded to killing a wounded Wagner soldier to justify his decision. But Ukrainian fighters seem to be unfazed about this news, and even though some people express concern about the stability of the last defense line, many fighters are confident that Wagner forces will end before Bakhmtu falls, and they are certain that it is impossible to take Bakhmut by 9 May.
9 May is the day of Victory in the 2nd World War, and Russian Command is set to make a symbolic surprise by taking Bakhmut before this holiday. Ukrainian Command is also preparing a surprise. Over the last month, Ukrainian Commanders made several visits to Bakhmut, and since the start of April, many Ukrainian fighters started alluding to a certain surprise that is being prepared for Russians in Bakhmut.
It’s been speculated that Ukrainian High Command is preparing something substantial. Every fighter knows about it and expects it, although, for obvious reasons, no one was given any details. The speculations vary and include the following scenarios: a massive controlled explosion and a retreat, experimental use of a new weapon, the long-awaited counteroffensive in this region, or it was just psychological warfare.
In any case, the main idea is to do something that Russians do not expect because an unexpected blow always inflicts the most damage.
••Another Kalibre missile attack last night on apartment building in the city of Uman with 24 confirmed dead & many wounded. Dnipro (1 family dead), Mykolaiv, & Kiev residential areas also came under attack. France confirms these attacks were deliberate on residential areas. Putin’s revenge on the Ukrainian people for resisting & not greeting the Russians with open arms and flowers.
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In Prigozhin’s latest interview, he said that after some short period of time his PMC will cease to exist, but will go down in history. Interviewer was shocked and asked him again; he said he would repeat it again.
Prigozhin: Today we are going to the fact that PMC “Wagner” ends. And PMC “Wagner” after some short time will cease to exist. We will go down in history.
Interviewer: Don’t you think that this loud statement now demoralizes everyone?
Prigozhin: And now I’ll do it again!
He said in general his PMC has fulfilled its mission. That seems to be an admission that PMC losses are very severe and it cannot continue.
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One of Denys’s videos was taken down by YT: Bakhmut Holds, Can Ukraine Counterattack? Released 1.5 months ago, just now gone. Dennis not sure how long he can use YT because of the censorship and regulations. He may just post where there is no censorship and more friendly on his Telegram Channel: https://t.me/pilotblog
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“UAV drone attacked oil depot in Sevastopol” - head of the region Mikhail Razvozhaev. The area of the fire is 1000 square meters. Emergency services are on site. No more fuel storage for the Ruzzian ships ...
Fire
https://t.me/pilotblog/3714?single
Location
https://t.me/pilotblog/3716?single
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Democrats demand that Biden hand over F-16s and long-range missiles to Ukraine, - The Hill. Democrats say F-16s and long-range missiles could be key to UAF defense and counteroffensive. The publication also writes that this proposal is supported by some US military leaders.
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Shows part of drone video with 2 Russian T-72As, a T-72B and a T-80VB; all but one T-72A were properly modified by FVP drones.
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Attempted take over of Telegram by Russia did not work, and now the Ukrainian Minister of Culture tried the same thing with the same results. Telegram remains independent.
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UA offensive will start with what they have - late arriving equipment will replace the lost or damaged.
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US puts radiation detectors in Ukraine which can identify country of origin if a nuke is used.
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Putin awards special status to troops who have fought in Ukraine since 2014. That is an admission that the so-called rebels fighting in Donbas in 2014 were actually Russian troops. So the whole “civil war” argument is destroyed.
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Small special operations troops using canoes to crows rivers. Silent and with thermal blankets, invisible to thermal cameras.
“Anatomy of Three Leaked US Intelligence Documents”
“Among the documents leaked on the social messaging platform Discord in February 2023 were three purported damage assessments from recent strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian targets.
These documents are among hundreds that were allegedly posted onto Discord channels throughout 2022 and 2023 by accused leaker Jack Teixeira, a U.S. National Air Guardsman who was arrested on April 13.
While the US government has not officially confirmed the authenticity of the documents, the charges levelled against Teixeira accuse him of leaking classified military documents.
While it has been widely reported that the US has shared intelligence and targeting data with Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion, it is unclear if these assessments are occasions where this was the case. It is also possible that the documents detail analysis or intelligence gathering on Ukrainian operations which the US became aware of only after they took place.”
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/28/anatomy-of-three-leaked-us-intelligence-documents/
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“Field tests of a new Ukrainian ground-based kamikaze vehicle equipped with a TM-62 anti-tank mine.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1652042444844724224
“FPV loitering munition strikes on a Russian T-72A tank by Ukraine’s 59th Motorized Brigade and Russian troops and photos.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1651309001655582720
“A Russian T-90S tank was destroyed by the SBU “Alpha” SSO using munitions dropped from a drone equipped with thermal optics. A quantity of T-90S tanks, originally intended for export, was instead transferred to the Russian army to partly compensate of losses in armor.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1652326195730567168
“Apparently a Russian cruise missile went astray and flew halfway through Poland before landing in a field near Bydgoszcz in December, and we are just finding out…”
https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1652303474468483072
“Ukrainian kamikaze drone destroys or damages Russian BMP-3 Location: East of Ukraine”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1652273943070244867
“Destroyed Russian tank T-72B3 (?) and abandoned BMP-3 near Maryinka, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/AlexRaptor94/status/1652229807961243649
“Destroyed Russian infantry fighting vehicle BMP-3 with additional protection system 688M sb.3KDZ near Maryinka, Donetsk region.”
https://twitter.com/AlexRaptor94/status/1652229389617078272
“Russian 120-mm mortar and BMP attacked by a drone of the artillery reconnaissance battery of the 110th brigade. The result with the mortar is unclear, but the BMP is on fire. Avdiivka direction.”
https://twitter.com/PaulJawin/status/1652180381532139520
“Video of UAVs from Ukrainian SBU Alpha dropping munitions on Russian vehicles and positions. They say they destroyed 4 T-72 and T-90 tanks, 9 BMPs, a BTR, MT-LB, Ural truck, and three strong points.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1652241144430964736
“Ukrainian snipers at work against Russian infantry that were trying to get closer to Ukrainian positions during the night. Bakhmut environment.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1652217077736910849
“Ukrainian FPV drones keep hitting Russian troops. The amount of footage from these type of drones has massively increased the last weeks.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1652210670769774594
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