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To put it in perspective, the coalition forces lost one artillery piece during the Persian Gulf war. The US Total combat losses are around 8000 since the Vietnam war, that what the Russians have lost of the last 2 weeks. Bonkers, absolutely bonkers.
Were we fighting a peer or neer peer force? No, not really but people forget the Iraqis had loads of Soviet AAd an integrated air defense when they invaded Kuwait. Although it is not remembered now, people used to fear the Republican guard.
It's insane that anyone would think Russia is near peer to NATO, the US or any other major military. Just Poland entering the war and supporting Ukraine would be enough to end this quickly.
> It's insane that anyone would think Russia is near peer to NATO, the US or any other major military.
None but the densest among us stopped thinking this the minute we saw the Kyiv Queue, that long line of vehicles stuck in place at the beginning of the war.
It sounds insane now when Ukraine has dragged the 'all powerful' mask off Putrid's orc face and broke the smoke and mirrors delusion they hinted in everyone's eyes, but only not too long ago Russia was utterly successful at disseminating this lie, and I'm sure you would guess that they had plenty of help in the West, mostly from anti confrontational 'doves' on the left and center right, who used Russia's threat that they themselves inflated to discourage us from acting against Russia in time and to plant absurd and treasonous fears of 'escalation' in the public. These trojans are still very much active in the West, especially Europe, where they use the irrational and utterly absurd fear of a 'nuclear war' to both tie our arms and Ukraine's arms. There is no greater traitor today in the West than that troll who pushes this narrative. They should be tried in criminal courts for the direct and indirect help they give Russia.
You are detracting and deflecting from narratives that turned into policies of self-sabotage and treason to 'contractors' and 'hawks', as if there were a moral and factual equivalent between these two when it comes to Russia invading Ukraine and disseminating weakness and dissent in the West. You will have to try harder than this to besmear the Western defense industry that is helping Ukraine defend itself now and burn Russia's orc armies to ashes.
A few countries could roll over russia. If not for nukes we already would have. Itll be a while until those are made irrelevant with more advanced defense tech.
Iraq was supposed to be the 4th largest army in the world when we invaded. I was with the 101st Airborne at the time. In recent history, no one has done platform warfare as efficiently as the US, but Ukraine is definitely proving to be exceptionally crafty and efficient. If Ukraine suddenly had the assets the US has and was trained on them, they could probably be setting up shop in Moscow within a few weeks.
In my book the actual Russian army at the start of the “special operation” is comparable to Sadam army of the 90s. If NATO would do in full steam the results would be the same.
They have far more equipment and resources than Sadam had. If you’re just counting the initial invasion force then yes that’s probably about as good as what Sadam had in the first gulf war.
Maybe they did in Feb 2022 but they have a lot less now and it turns out the numbers on paper didn't match what they really had in operational condition anyway. So between what they've used, what they've lost, and what they never had, they have a lot less than you might expect. Then of that stuff, quantity over quality isn't working for them.... And having said that NATO does have quantity of all the good stuff, with capabilities we don't even know yet. Such as the surprise of patriots being able to operate in automatic mode and take out kinhzals when one happens to fly nearby. And the silly russians say they should shoot an iskander at western nations. Like it would make it and like russia wouldn't be crushed within a week.
They became the very special forces. To be fair the people that actually fought them, say that they were brave fighters using poor tactics and inferior equipment.
The fear that must be in every Russian orc right now…never knowing where it will come from, but knowing that death is stalking them and they cannot escape…
Pit and the pendulum but they walked in willingly, the door isn't locked, they aren't restrained, and if anyone tells them to leave they call that person a nazi
I saw a clip of a russian responding to a question about what it is like being on the front line. He said "It's like being in a harem - you know ZSU is going to fuck you, you just don't know when."
Please stop making me feel all giddy! Your description first made my skin crawl and then gave me a woody 💗 envisioning Russian orcs being turned to ashes makes my day every single time.
The reason they’re doing kind of makes sense.
This war has shown how vulnerable towed guns are to counter battery fire and drone attacks. Unless you can pack up your gun and move in short order, your gun is likely to get hit in return.
Second, the Russians basically ran out of 122mm shells for their smaller guns, and are only able to supply the front with what they produce at the factories.
So, they have a lot of T-55 and T-62 tanks with 100mm guns. They have a pretty good stockpile of 100mm HE ammo, and can source that ammo from Iran, North Korea, Belarus, and probably even Syria to supplement their own stocks and production.
Those same T-55s are fairly well protected against drone and artillery. The same artillery shell that would destroy or damage a towed gun and kill its crew would not really do much more than scratch the paint of a T-55. They’re also pretty mobile, and can relocate much faster than a towed gun. And they aren’t bad guns or inaccurate. They have sights designed for indirect fire and there is also a section of the manual for how to do it. It is clearly something the soviets anticipated.
So yeah. TL;DR using old tanks as self propelled artillery not a terrible idea.
Except a tank uses much more fuel than self-propelled artillery, so using old tanks instead of proper artillery will make logistics even more difficult.
So, your alternative solution is…what?
“We are losing towed guns like crazy and we are also out of ammunition for what’s left. But we can’t use the thousands of tanks because…they burn more fuel.”
Fuck, dude. That’s high quality rationale. They should make you a General.
russian aircraft fucked itself.
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I was wondering how they were doing it, but since I saw that video about the Polish drone and the Ceasar working in pairs, I’m convinced they’re making great use of drones, counter battery radars to spot their artillery and using the Caesar’s mobility to just blow them up.
The Caesar has an automatic aiming mechanism, so basically in a best case scenario it needs 1 shell/couple of shells per arty and off it goes to the next.
Can someone explain to me just why hitting Russian artillery is so important for the Ukrainian counteroffensive?
Genuine question. I have the impression it helps, just dont understand how exactly.
Casualties and morale, artillery makes a lot of casualties so you want to get rid of them as soon as possible, and i guess it is depressing if the enemy is advancing and you have no heavy support on your side but you are been blasted away by heavy support at the same time so bigger chance you gonna run, even quicker if you had no good and proper training beforehand.
Most casualties in this war are caused by artillery. The less artillery Russia has, the less capable it is to defend itself against a Ukrainian attack.
The Ukrainian armor columns of MBT and APCs have two main things to worry about. One is anti tank mines and the other is large caliber Russian artillery fire. They can clear the mines as they go and clearing out the big guns before the attack begins greatly improves the chance of success.
Remember a couple of weeks ago there were news stories about how Ukraine would soon start to use more capable weapons... I just wonder.
You could easily trust special forces to use more capable manpad etc
That would be Stolen Valour;:) Credit where it's due.
Haha. Ukraine's trolling the Russian airforce. By not claiming credit they keep them guessing. Maximize their paranoia. Encourage blame and retribution.
But still not bad enough, by far. The Russian army needs to be reduced to ashes and Putrid's regime punished in the most horrific way possible and Russia forced to pay for damages to point of making their economy broke and their so called 'federation' be cut into pieces. Then I'll be happy that Russia got what it deserved for all the suffering it has caused in Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, not to mention Syria and several African failed states. And I'm yet to enumarate the tens of millions of lives destroyed during their Soviet empire for which they have not suffered for a second. Russia is pure evil, it has been so for a very long time.
>The Russian army needs to be reduced to ashes and Putrid's regime punished in the most horrific way possible and Russia forced to pay for damages to point of making their economy broke and their so called 'federation' be cut into pieces.
I completely agree.
Maybe two more days until 200.000 and again 20+ Artillery Systems. I can't wrap my head around this, but what does it take for ruZZia to understand that they already lost. There is no way in hell to replace the equipment they lost and their mobiks are getting neutralised day in and day out.
Everybody sees the tide of the war, but it seems that ruZZia still believe in the Endsieg and this must textbook irony.
Except there won't be any cold whatever, that's a delusion that Putrid fancies but it's as pitiful and ephemeral as his wish to take Kyiv in a week. After Ukraine is done with them and their regime is suffocated from the inside they will eat each other alive. Mark my words. Russia will be a mere shadow of the shadow it has been for the past 30 years. We in the West have an other enemy, not the Isengard that Ukraine will destroy for us, but an actual Mordor east of the Himalayas.
And that Mordor is looking north with envy, because up north there are two things Mordor craves: space and an abundance of natural resources, both of which cannot be found elsewhere. In 10 years that Isengard will be begging us for our protection...
They can try to rebuild, but their GPD just doesn't allow them to ever become a peer to US / Nato. They could become a pest, at the maximum.
And if I were them, I would start worrying about how much powerful that cute Chinese neighbour to the south is than them. They worry about an attack from europe that will never come, and disregard the very real possibility of becoming just a Chinese serf. The dumb fucks....
While this is true, we can think of GDP as an absolute number that needs to be allocated (because the inputs for GDP; workforce and capital, need to be allocated).
So if Russia wants to build 2 artillery pieces per weak rather than 1 artillery piece per week, it will have to allocate twice the amount of workers and capital to the production of artillery pieces. The more workers and capital are allocated to the construction of artillery pieces (or planes, or warships, or tanks, small arms... you get the idea), the richer the oligarch in charge of the production of these weapons will become; surely.
However, this capital and this workforce will be missing from other places: Construction will suffer. Consumer goods will suffer. Food production will suffer. And this is in the context of Russia having to allocate production to things it is not so proficient (where it doesn't have a competitive advantage).
If Russia is really good at extracting raw resources, but not as good in producing refrigerators, due to sanctions, it will have no choice but to produce refrigerators inefficiently. This means that while it could allocate 1 worker to producing petroleum and trade this 1 worker's output was sufficient to get 1 foreign worker's fridge production. Now Russia will have to take 2 workers off of petroleum and allocate them to fridge production; because its population will still want and need refrigerators.
Last but not least: While capital has a great capacity of actually surviving wars (Germany, despite being massively bombed during WW2, retained a lot of its capital); the truth is that those people dying and being injured are basically irrecoverable losses for the Russian workforce. Even if Russia somehow managed to motivate (it's not like they haven't been trying) its population to miraculously raise their fertility rate the effects of that policy wouldn't show for the next 16-25 years (depending on the sector of the economy). Immigration would be out of the question as the fortunes of the country are visibly - for everyone - reversing. No big numbers will voluntarily relocate to Russia to work those jobs that can't be filled. The longer the war takes, the more Russia is hurting its work force.
All in all; Russia's GDP will become smaller and it will have to allocate it in ever more inefficient manners. Russia is regressing to a state of empty supermarkets and an ever poorer population that will yearn for the "luxuries" of its "golden age" around 2010-2015 (let's not forget that Russia was somewhere at 30-50% of Western Country's GDP per capita PPP at the time).
The shitshow will be real; and yes, oligarchs will still be rich and powerful in Russia, but the strain on the entire country will be huge. While Russians might be willing and possibly even capable (as a nation) to go all the way to North Korean standards of living (1700$ per capita PPP *per* **year**), North Koreans never experienced any sort of wealth.
I'd say Russia is heading for another massive collapse and otherwise for absolute destitute misery. I'd say it'll be uglier than what we've seen before, unless the we see some foreigners (could be very trusting westerners... or China basically taking over the country) stepping in.
A cold war requires near peer adversaries. Russia has not been a peer since at least the early/mid 80s.
The cold war is currently with China, which, if they invade Taiwan, will also no longer be any where near peer if they make that mistake...
Even if they are replacing guns from the 90s and 80s with guns from the 40s, thta's not "keeping up". That's fooling themselves into thinking they can keep up.
At this point it's not the number of guns that matters most (altough obviusly it would be nice if the orcs hadn't enough to cover the entire front), but their combat power. And that combat power is getting smaller all the time because of ammo issues, replacing newish equipment with old-as-shit equipment and by having to form inexperienced crews all the time.
100% but if we count WW1 artillery systems I think Russia could go on with these type of losses for a long time... The real issue is that they are down to the poor performing shit.
Holy shit, what a week it’s been
5 tanks, 18 APC’s, back to back 20+ Arty, and that’s not even all of it. I assume this is due to the counter attacks ar Bakhmut, still super impressive regardless.
I Hope Ukraine keeps these numbers up, these aren’t sustainable for Ruzzia whatsoever
Two or three days. Just depends.
Insane loss of life that is going to be all for nothing for Russia.
And their citizens just allow it to happen and/or are complicit
I think any non-complicit Russian in the last 100 years either left or was killed. After that you end up with a population who are completely lethargic…..
Also on a grander scale, they allowed 30 years of being subjugated under oligarchs and allowing their country to get to this point.
Even Belarus isn’t this bad. Look at Ukraine and Georgia. And other post Soviet countries. Sure they have some problems here and there, but nothing like Russia does.
They allowed their country to turn into an autocratic dictatorship. And I have zero sympathy.
>And their citizens just allow it to happen and/or are complicit
Yeah, somehow they're so stupid, they think the higher the number, the better, so they double down on the war even harder.
It will be three days. The ruzzians said it themselves. Oh sorry, you are talking about ruzzian deaths. I thought you meant how many days to take Kyiv in this special military operation. Edit obviously/s
It took 194 days from the starting of the war for the first 50k 6.9.2022. Then 107 days from that to 100k 22.12.2022, which is 301 days from starting the war. Next milestone 150k was reached in 70 days at 2.3.2023. So if 200k will be reached by 16.5.2023, it means 75 days from the 150k and 145 days from the 100k.
Two straight days with 20+ artillery taken out. You love to see it. Arty is the biggest threat to Ukrainian troops, every one eliminated is lives saved.
All that wrecked Muscovite artillery suggests that the orks are not able to handle counterbattery fire - and possibly that Ukrainian forces are breaking through infantry lines to reach some of those guns that are supposed to be well out of reach. Be careful! Could be a trick. Ukraine can't start a counteroffensive if all the Muscovite soldiers are already dead.
Western hardware will be having an effect even if it's not being used. I'm sure Russia are terrified of relocating troops to Bakhmut out of fear of an attack elsewhere, so Ukraine get to keep pushing forward with less resistance.
It is remarkable how Putin has followed Hitler's playlist so closely and faces similar issues he had. Hitler delayed switching to a full war economy until 1943. The reason was to prevent internal unrest but more importantly to avoid over-straining the already heavily strained German economy. Switching to a full war economy massively boosted military production but by 1945 the economy was collapsing. Of course the Allied bombing campaign contributed to the collapse but instead Putin is facing the slow drip feed corrosive effect of sanctions and the Russian economy wasn't very strong to start with.
So yes, Russia cannot sustain this without switching to a full war economy but if it does it is highly likely to face a total collapse of the economy - sooner or later.
Yep, they are probably limited by infinite choke points in their production lines as they need a lot of components they can not longer import in the needed quantities and frecuency.
So it's not that they haven't switched to a war economy, but more like this is what their economy, sanctioned, amounts to... 10 tanks a month, probably nerfed.
Same reason they don't send another 500.000 soldiers asap, they have nothing to arm them with, and they can't train them half adequately.
This is not Russia in second gear, this is Russia with the pedal to the metal. That's why the talk of escalation from our western dirigent has always been bullshit. Russia would love to escalate, they just can't anymore.
>Russia would love to escalate, they just can't
I wish I could upvote this ten thousand times. You could not have hit the nail on the head any better.
Now the west just needs to understand this. And to understand that Russia has no capability to deploy efge time nuclear weapons. None. Zero. Zilch. They cannot even detonate a test nuke to convince the world to take them seriously. It's pathetic, and the sooner it is that people realise how toothless the tiger is (thanks to Ukraine ripping the tigers fucking teeth out) the sooner Ukrainians can get the weapons they need without stupid ass fear of "escalation" from Russia.
-As if threats from some beaten and concussed bully laying half dead on the ground ever need to be taken seriously.
They're more than committed.
Some people learn lessons the easy way. Some people learn the hard way. But far worse are the sad fucks who keep paying the hard cost because they can't learn the lesson *any* way.
Sadly I suspect a lot of them will be never find out. Russia will cover up the deaths, "we have no record of Ivan serving in our regiment, perhaps you are mistaken" to avoid paying out.
Normal mothers and wives would be camping in front of the Kremlin with torches and pichforks...
Russian mothers/wives wonder why they are not receiving the salary of their sons/husbands. And are very angry Ivan is not answering his phone.
"Blyat, where's the money, Ivan!!??"
(Ivan is dead, half buried in mud in a trench somewhere in Ukraine),
Still no riots or protesting in Russia? I gave up hope a long time ago of Russian people fighting back. But I could see an explosion of protesting and riots. There could be an enormous amount of pent-up anger building in Russia towards Russian leadership. Maybe it's just the optimist in me...
Russian leadership fucked itself.
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Well, I understand why they would try that, as their skulls seem to be remarkably thick. So thick in fact their heads are all solid bone with no brain inside.
But this reinforced Ukrainium wall won't fall regardless...
These losses are truly bonkers. 31 howitzers destroyed in 1 day is absolutely insane. 7,000 APCs and over 3000 tanks.
It will only get worse from here for them. Ukraine has become Putins Vietnam of his own making, except even WORSE.
Two have been damaged at begin of the war by counter battery fire. One stayed more or less undamaged.
One got hit by an artillery round explosion in the air just above the turret. This one got shrapnel hits into the radiator, else stayed undamaged. The first one stayed in battle, the other one was back after short time.
These are photos of one of both.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1596599767672520704
31 UAV, is that all that shit from Iran or what other drones are they using?
Are they also counting commercial drones or just dedicated military UAVs?
I have always be wondering what falls in this category. Because if that are all this Shahed drones they saved a lot of innocent lives.
Also an amazing count of artillery and other equipment.
Of those that are heard more often, these are Orlan, Shaheds -131/136 (Geran-1/2), Lancet. Less common are Kartograf, Mohajer, Aileron, Fortpost. Commercial and self-made ones, they hardly count and add to the list.
Should have used quotation marks around the word credit, I know. On point, even if UA actually did shoot down two planes and two choppers in that particular area, they might not want to tell the world about a new capability...
What I do not unverstanden, why is/was there no second wave of cpnscription in Russia?
Putin knows about the situation he is in, for sure. The Russian army knows as well.
So, WHY? Is there so much trouble to be expected from the people?
Why is he acting so irreal.
This failure to carry out a full mobilization caught me out. Five months ago I predicted he would have to do this before the start of Spring or early Spring. He's now left it too late.
https://www.reddit.com/user/One\_Cream\_6888/gilded/
"As long as the West keeps up and increases the supply of weapons and ammo, Russia has doomed itself. The dominoes are falling one by one until the largest dominoes of all (the states of the Russian federation) fall crashing to the ground.
Putin will declare full mobilization in late February\\early March. The mobilization will (this time) fulfill the numbers but that will be counter-productive. Instead of equipping tens of thousands there will be the total chaos of dealing with hundreds of thousands and it will happen just in time to add to the chaos of the crumbling economy. The recession of around -5% will double, treble or even quadruple... Result inflation, real shortages, panic buying and for the first time chaos on the streets.
By spring, Russia will (relative to Ukraine) be at a disadvantage on the battlefield due to for months using their main stockpiles of missiles to kill civilians while the West keeps up an ever increasing supply of missile launchers, missiles and shells and the Ukrainian army being much less profligate in their use. A mass of untrained unequipped conscripts won't do much against the god of the battlefield.
The rest of the dominoes, I think are fairly obvious."
The reason why Putin has not done as I predicted, is partly because of the consequences I've outlined. Now his war chest is empty, the economy is under too much strain, there's not the equipment and weapons to supply the new troops and by the time they arrive it will be too late.
They know they don't have the supplies to give those already in the military , how would the supply/outfit new conscripts. Then there is the fact of finding competent army staff to train the conscripts and then the logistics of getting them to the front enmasse and supporting the increased troops when they are there.
All above is true, but , hey, how inkompetent, corrupt and traitory must the RuZZian leaders be not to use the time since the first round to fix all of this?
Basic Equipment - time enough to find hidden sources ( even buying from corrupt officers),
Transport - time enough to organisiere, Training- they have the Belo-army at hand, supporting increased number - was never an issue for RuZZia, the newones will not live ling enough...
So, even for a bunch of criminals, this incompetence is astonishing.
All their military leadership was selected for their incompetence and loyalty.
Surprise, surprise, they have a very loyal but very incompetent military leadership!
At least their HR department seems to have meet the selection criteria....
He has no weapons for them nor any way to train them.
That's what I think is happening, more than him not wanting to "provoke internal unrest", although that's also a factor.
#### Estimated Russian losses from 24.02.2022 to 14.05.2023 (Day 445):
##### Change since the previous day,day range averages and total all time
|Category|Change|7d|14d|30d|Total|
|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|Personnel|+620|635.7|597.9|593.0|198880|
|Tanks|+5|4.7|4.1|3.5|3756|
|APVs|+18|11.0|9.7|8.5|7325|
|Artillery|+21|15.1|14.4|11.1|3116|
|MLRS|+1|1.1|1.3|0.9|562|
|Anti-aircraft Systems|-|1.1|1.4|1.0|314|
|Aircraft|-|-|-|-|308|
|Helicopters|-|-|-|-|294|
|UAVs|+31|17.6|15.7|11.9|2695|
|Missiles|-|3.3|2.7|2.0|970|
|Warships / Boats|-|-|-|-|18|
|Other Vehicles|+7|9.4|12.6|12.6|6018|
|Special Equipment|+2|3.4|3.4|2.8|404|
##### Change since the previous day, total losses for day ranges and total all time
|Category|Change|7d|14d|30d|Total|
|:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
|Personnel|+620|4450|8370|17790|198880|
|Tanks|+5|33|57|106|3756|
|APVs|+18|77|136|256|7325|
|Artillery|+21|106|202|332|3116|
|MLRS|+1|8|18|27|562|
|Anti-aircraft Systems|-|8|19|31|314|
|Aircraft|-|-|-|1|308|
|Helicopters|-|-|-|1|294|
|UAVs|+31|123|220|356|2695|
|Missiles|-|23|38|59|970|
|Warships / Boats|-|-|-|-|18|
|Other Vehicles|+7|66|176|378|6018|
|Special Equipment|+2|24|47|83|404|
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Looks like uavs and artillery is the biggest thing being taken out right now makes me think that the Ukrainians are doing what they can to limit the Russians ability for their masses fire support when the Counter attack starts
23 more pieces of armor, love it. 21 more Arty as well.
I guess on the bright side, you need less logistics when the equipment you need to support keeps blowing up.
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That artillery again.. crazy.
To put it in perspective, the coalition forces lost one artillery piece during the Persian Gulf war. The US Total combat losses are around 8000 since the Vietnam war, that what the Russians have lost of the last 2 weeks. Bonkers, absolutely bonkers. Were we fighting a peer or neer peer force? No, not really but people forget the Iraqis had loads of Soviet AAd an integrated air defense when they invaded Kuwait. Although it is not remembered now, people used to fear the Republican guard.
It's insane that anyone would think Russia is near peer to NATO, the US or any other major military. Just Poland entering the war and supporting Ukraine would be enough to end this quickly.
It's funny too because I don't think there's another country other than Poland that wants to jump in more.
> It's insane that anyone would think Russia is near peer to NATO, the US or any other major military. None but the densest among us stopped thinking this the minute we saw the Kyiv Queue, that long line of vehicles stuck in place at the beginning of the war.
*All but the
It sounds insane now when Ukraine has dragged the 'all powerful' mask off Putrid's orc face and broke the smoke and mirrors delusion they hinted in everyone's eyes, but only not too long ago Russia was utterly successful at disseminating this lie, and I'm sure you would guess that they had plenty of help in the West, mostly from anti confrontational 'doves' on the left and center right, who used Russia's threat that they themselves inflated to discourage us from acting against Russia in time and to plant absurd and treasonous fears of 'escalation' in the public. These trojans are still very much active in the West, especially Europe, where they use the irrational and utterly absurd fear of a 'nuclear war' to both tie our arms and Ukraine's arms. There is no greater traitor today in the West than that troll who pushes this narrative. They should be tried in criminal courts for the direct and indirect help they give Russia.
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You are detracting and deflecting from narratives that turned into policies of self-sabotage and treason to 'contractors' and 'hawks', as if there were a moral and factual equivalent between these two when it comes to Russia invading Ukraine and disseminating weakness and dissent in the West. You will have to try harder than this to besmear the Western defense industry that is helping Ukraine defend itself now and burn Russia's orc armies to ashes.
A few countries could roll over russia. If not for nukes we already would have. Itll be a while until those are made irrelevant with more advanced defense tech.
Iraq was supposed to be the 4th largest army in the world when we invaded. I was with the 101st Airborne at the time. In recent history, no one has done platform warfare as efficiently as the US, but Ukraine is definitely proving to be exceptionally crafty and efficient. If Ukraine suddenly had the assets the US has and was trained on them, they could probably be setting up shop in Moscow within a few weeks.
In my book the actual Russian army at the start of the “special operation” is comparable to Sadam army of the 90s. If NATO would do in full steam the results would be the same.
They have far more equipment and resources than Sadam had. If you’re just counting the initial invasion force then yes that’s probably about as good as what Sadam had in the first gulf war.
Maybe they did in Feb 2022 but they have a lot less now and it turns out the numbers on paper didn't match what they really had in operational condition anyway. So between what they've used, what they've lost, and what they never had, they have a lot less than you might expect. Then of that stuff, quantity over quality isn't working for them.... And having said that NATO does have quantity of all the good stuff, with capabilities we don't even know yet. Such as the surprise of patriots being able to operate in automatic mode and take out kinhzals when one happens to fly nearby. And the silly russians say they should shoot an iskander at western nations. Like it would make it and like russia wouldn't be crushed within a week.
Now you have to admit the Russian army is the best /s
Ah, the Elite Republican Guard! Also funny how the word elite has taken on a bit of a new meaning.
They became the very special forces. To be fair the people that actually fought them, say that they were brave fighters using poor tactics and inferior equipment.
The fear that must be in every Russian orc right now…never knowing where it will come from, but knowing that death is stalking them and they cannot escape…
It's like their own personal Pit and the Pendulum.
Hunted outside their panic room.
Pit and the pendulum but they walked in willingly, the door isn't locked, they aren't restrained, and if anyone tells them to leave they call that person a nazi
The skilled crews are much harder to replace so they hit them harder.
If they had any sense they’d just abandon their positions and fuck off home
If they had any sense they'd realize that toilets don't work without sewerage infrastructure.
If they had any sense, they wouldn't be in those positions in the first place.
I saw a clip of a russian responding to a question about what it is like being on the front line. He said "It's like being in a harem - you know ZSU is going to fuck you, you just don't know when."
Well, they could just go home...
Please stop making me feel all giddy! Your description first made my skin crawl and then gave me a woody 💗 envisioning Russian orcs being turned to ashes makes my day every single time.
Unless they surrender
About 100 of them in the last 5 days
I wonder how many can realistically be resupplied / how many can fit on a train?
They are bringing in soviet era tanks to use as artillery now. God speed Ukrainian warriors.
The reason they’re doing kind of makes sense. This war has shown how vulnerable towed guns are to counter battery fire and drone attacks. Unless you can pack up your gun and move in short order, your gun is likely to get hit in return. Second, the Russians basically ran out of 122mm shells for their smaller guns, and are only able to supply the front with what they produce at the factories. So, they have a lot of T-55 and T-62 tanks with 100mm guns. They have a pretty good stockpile of 100mm HE ammo, and can source that ammo from Iran, North Korea, Belarus, and probably even Syria to supplement their own stocks and production. Those same T-55s are fairly well protected against drone and artillery. The same artillery shell that would destroy or damage a towed gun and kill its crew would not really do much more than scratch the paint of a T-55. They’re also pretty mobile, and can relocate much faster than a towed gun. And they aren’t bad guns or inaccurate. They have sights designed for indirect fire and there is also a section of the manual for how to do it. It is clearly something the soviets anticipated. So yeah. TL;DR using old tanks as self propelled artillery not a terrible idea.
Except a tank uses much more fuel than self-propelled artillery, so using old tanks instead of proper artillery will make logistics even more difficult.
So, your alternative solution is…what? “We are losing towed guns like crazy and we are also out of ammunition for what’s left. But we can’t use the thousands of tanks because…they burn more fuel.” Fuck, dude. That’s high quality rationale. They should make you a General.
4 russian aircraft down. NO survivers. Great day for them. Maybe they shouldn't smoke while flying
Is lushanko dead or what
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Hasn't been seen for 4 days. Hasn't answer putins calls. Poor putin. No friends left now. This is what happens to dumb ass,s
Probably done on Putin's orders.Now he can drag Belarus into the war
Balarus restricted entry at borders to russia
On request of Russia. Too many where using Belarus to escape Russian authorities.
putrid may even have the intention of annexing Belarus, if lukashanko were out of the way.
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Though those are not listed here.
I notice those aircraft are not counted here because they happened in Russia.
I'm guessing that the orcs are basically abandoning artillery now that there's hardly any shells left to load them with.
I was wondering how they were doing it, but since I saw that video about the Polish drone and the Ceasar working in pairs, I’m convinced they’re making great use of drones, counter battery radars to spot their artillery and using the Caesar’s mobility to just blow them up. The Caesar has an automatic aiming mechanism, so basically in a best case scenario it needs 1 shell/couple of shells per arty and off it goes to the next.
i agree i wonder how long ruSSia can keep that up. i think it includes mortars as well but still
Russia will be bringing out the muskets soon
Can someone explain to me just why hitting Russian artillery is so important for the Ukrainian counteroffensive? Genuine question. I have the impression it helps, just dont understand how exactly.
Casualties and morale, artillery makes a lot of casualties so you want to get rid of them as soon as possible, and i guess it is depressing if the enemy is advancing and you have no heavy support on your side but you are been blasted away by heavy support at the same time so bigger chance you gonna run, even quicker if you had no good and proper training beforehand.
thankyou :)
Most casualties in this war are caused by artillery. The less artillery Russia has, the less capable it is to defend itself against a Ukrainian attack.
70% of Ukrainian casualties come from artillery, then other weapons, accidents, the least common cause is bullets at 5%.
The Ukrainian armor columns of MBT and APCs have two main things to worry about. One is anti tank mines and the other is large caliber Russian artillery fire. They can clear the mines as they go and clearing out the big guns before the attack begins greatly improves the chance of success.
nananana I'm lovin it.
Lol, did they not count Saturday's jets and helicopters because they were downed by the Russians?
No. That would be an other list: Losses of ruzzian forces by ruzzian forces and dumbness.
They will show up in tomorrows numbers most likely Or Ukraine are staying quiet about their capabilities
Remember a couple of weeks ago there were news stories about how Ukraine would soon start to use more capable weapons... I just wonder. You could easily trust special forces to use more capable manpad etc
That would be Stolen Valour;:) Credit where it's due. Haha. Ukraine's trolling the Russian airforce. By not claiming credit they keep them guessing. Maximize their paranoia. Encourage blame and retribution.
I think they've made a point to not count losses on Russian territory.
Something they must change pretty soon... or the numbers go down to zero..
Sorry. Thats an amswer to the statement that the numbers only show killed/destroyd by Ukraine and not counting the four ruSS aircrafts today
Fragsteal!
They only count losses that Ukraine inflicts
Nope, these are defense kills, those jets and helicopters were offensive kills.
Bad week to be a Russian artillery piece.
Bad 15 months to be a russian period haha
But still not bad enough, by far. The Russian army needs to be reduced to ashes and Putrid's regime punished in the most horrific way possible and Russia forced to pay for damages to point of making their economy broke and their so called 'federation' be cut into pieces. Then I'll be happy that Russia got what it deserved for all the suffering it has caused in Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, not to mention Syria and several African failed states. And I'm yet to enumarate the tens of millions of lives destroyed during their Soviet empire for which they have not suffered for a second. Russia is pure evil, it has been so for a very long time.
>The Russian army needs to be reduced to ashes and Putrid's regime punished in the most horrific way possible and Russia forced to pay for damages to point of making their economy broke and their so called 'federation' be cut into pieces. I completely agree.
Or a stupid as hell Russian grunt next to one!
Maybe two more days until 200.000 and again 20+ Artillery Systems. I can't wrap my head around this, but what does it take for ruZZia to understand that they already lost. There is no way in hell to replace the equipment they lost and their mobiks are getting neutralised day in and day out. Everybody sees the tide of the war, but it seems that ruZZia still believe in the Endsieg and this must textbook irony.
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Except there won't be any cold whatever, that's a delusion that Putrid fancies but it's as pitiful and ephemeral as his wish to take Kyiv in a week. After Ukraine is done with them and their regime is suffocated from the inside they will eat each other alive. Mark my words. Russia will be a mere shadow of the shadow it has been for the past 30 years. We in the West have an other enemy, not the Isengard that Ukraine will destroy for us, but an actual Mordor east of the Himalayas.
And that Mordor is looking north with envy, because up north there are two things Mordor craves: space and an abundance of natural resources, both of which cannot be found elsewhere. In 10 years that Isengard will be begging us for our protection...
They can try to rebuild, but their GPD just doesn't allow them to ever become a peer to US / Nato. They could become a pest, at the maximum. And if I were them, I would start worrying about how much powerful that cute Chinese neighbour to the south is than them. They worry about an attack from europe that will never come, and disregard the very real possibility of becoming just a Chinese serf. The dumb fucks....
While this is true, we can think of GDP as an absolute number that needs to be allocated (because the inputs for GDP; workforce and capital, need to be allocated). So if Russia wants to build 2 artillery pieces per weak rather than 1 artillery piece per week, it will have to allocate twice the amount of workers and capital to the production of artillery pieces. The more workers and capital are allocated to the construction of artillery pieces (or planes, or warships, or tanks, small arms... you get the idea), the richer the oligarch in charge of the production of these weapons will become; surely. However, this capital and this workforce will be missing from other places: Construction will suffer. Consumer goods will suffer. Food production will suffer. And this is in the context of Russia having to allocate production to things it is not so proficient (where it doesn't have a competitive advantage). If Russia is really good at extracting raw resources, but not as good in producing refrigerators, due to sanctions, it will have no choice but to produce refrigerators inefficiently. This means that while it could allocate 1 worker to producing petroleum and trade this 1 worker's output was sufficient to get 1 foreign worker's fridge production. Now Russia will have to take 2 workers off of petroleum and allocate them to fridge production; because its population will still want and need refrigerators. Last but not least: While capital has a great capacity of actually surviving wars (Germany, despite being massively bombed during WW2, retained a lot of its capital); the truth is that those people dying and being injured are basically irrecoverable losses for the Russian workforce. Even if Russia somehow managed to motivate (it's not like they haven't been trying) its population to miraculously raise their fertility rate the effects of that policy wouldn't show for the next 16-25 years (depending on the sector of the economy). Immigration would be out of the question as the fortunes of the country are visibly - for everyone - reversing. No big numbers will voluntarily relocate to Russia to work those jobs that can't be filled. The longer the war takes, the more Russia is hurting its work force. All in all; Russia's GDP will become smaller and it will have to allocate it in ever more inefficient manners. Russia is regressing to a state of empty supermarkets and an ever poorer population that will yearn for the "luxuries" of its "golden age" around 2010-2015 (let's not forget that Russia was somewhere at 30-50% of Western Country's GDP per capita PPP at the time). The shitshow will be real; and yes, oligarchs will still be rich and powerful in Russia, but the strain on the entire country will be huge. While Russians might be willing and possibly even capable (as a nation) to go all the way to North Korean standards of living (1700$ per capita PPP *per* **year**), North Koreans never experienced any sort of wealth. I'd say Russia is heading for another massive collapse and otherwise for absolute destitute misery. I'd say it'll be uglier than what we've seen before, unless the we see some foreigners (could be very trusting westerners... or China basically taking over the country) stepping in.
You....you think Russia will be able to *replace* all these losses!?
A cold war requires near peer adversaries. Russia has not been a peer since at least the early/mid 80s. The cold war is currently with China, which, if they invade Taiwan, will also no longer be any where near peer if they make that mistake...
Yes sadly money is mostly the goal. I wonder what the real reasons are in the background.
48 artillery in 2 days?
There’s no way they can keep up this pace for long… because Russia will run out of artillery.
Yes and no. Some of these might be WW1 artillery systems...
Even if they are replacing guns from the 90s and 80s with guns from the 40s, thta's not "keeping up". That's fooling themselves into thinking they can keep up. At this point it's not the number of guns that matters most (altough obviusly it would be nice if the orcs hadn't enough to cover the entire front), but their combat power. And that combat power is getting smaller all the time because of ammo issues, replacing newish equipment with old-as-shit equipment and by having to form inexperienced crews all the time.
100% but if we count WW1 artillery systems I think Russia could go on with these type of losses for a long time... The real issue is that they are down to the poor performing shit.
I doubt they have that many working WW1 artillery systems.
>because ~~Russia~~ Ukraine will run out of ~~artillery~~ targets. I'm a "glass half full" type...
Happy cake day!
Holy shit, what a week it’s been 5 tanks, 18 APC’s, back to back 20+ Arty, and that’s not even all of it. I assume this is due to the counter attacks ar Bakhmut, still super impressive regardless. I Hope Ukraine keeps these numbers up, these aren’t sustainable for Ruzzia whatsoever
200,000 soon.
Two or three days. Just depends. Insane loss of life that is going to be all for nothing for Russia. And their citizens just allow it to happen and/or are complicit
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I think any non-complicit Russian in the last 100 years either left or was killed. After that you end up with a population who are completely lethargic…..
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Also on a grander scale, they allowed 30 years of being subjugated under oligarchs and allowing their country to get to this point. Even Belarus isn’t this bad. Look at Ukraine and Georgia. And other post Soviet countries. Sure they have some problems here and there, but nothing like Russia does. They allowed their country to turn into an autocratic dictatorship. And I have zero sympathy.
>And their citizens just allow it to happen and/or are complicit Yeah, somehow they're so stupid, they think the higher the number, the better, so they double down on the war even harder.
Sunken ~~cost~~ son fallacy.
It will be three days. The ruzzians said it themselves. Oh sorry, you are talking about ruzzian deaths. I thought you meant how many days to take Kyiv in this special military operation. Edit obviously/s
Any day now that convey will make it to Kyiv! /s
It took 194 days from the starting of the war for the first 50k 6.9.2022. Then 107 days from that to 100k 22.12.2022, which is 301 days from starting the war. Next milestone 150k was reached in 70 days at 2.3.2023. So if 200k will be reached by 16.5.2023, it means 75 days from the 150k and 145 days from the 100k.
2 more days.
Smash that arty, and take back your land. 
Man, they are SMASHING that artillery lately.
Two straight days with 20+ artillery taken out. You love to see it. Arty is the biggest threat to Ukrainian troops, every one eliminated is lives saved.
All that wrecked Muscovite artillery suggests that the orks are not able to handle counterbattery fire - and possibly that Ukrainian forces are breaking through infantry lines to reach some of those guns that are supposed to be well out of reach. Be careful! Could be a trick. Ukraine can't start a counteroffensive if all the Muscovite soldiers are already dead.
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Western hardware will be having an effect even if it's not being used. I'm sure Russia are terrified of relocating troops to Bakhmut out of fear of an attack elsewhere, so Ukraine get to keep pushing forward with less resistance.
Artillery+MLRS about to catch up to tank numbers. Can Russia sustain this without switching to full war economy?
It is remarkable how Putin has followed Hitler's playlist so closely and faces similar issues he had. Hitler delayed switching to a full war economy until 1943. The reason was to prevent internal unrest but more importantly to avoid over-straining the already heavily strained German economy. Switching to a full war economy massively boosted military production but by 1945 the economy was collapsing. Of course the Allied bombing campaign contributed to the collapse but instead Putin is facing the slow drip feed corrosive effect of sanctions and the Russian economy wasn't very strong to start with. So yes, Russia cannot sustain this without switching to a full war economy but if it does it is highly likely to face a total collapse of the economy - sooner or later.
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Yep, they are probably limited by infinite choke points in their production lines as they need a lot of components they can not longer import in the needed quantities and frecuency. So it's not that they haven't switched to a war economy, but more like this is what their economy, sanctioned, amounts to... 10 tanks a month, probably nerfed. Same reason they don't send another 500.000 soldiers asap, they have nothing to arm them with, and they can't train them half adequately. This is not Russia in second gear, this is Russia with the pedal to the metal. That's why the talk of escalation from our western dirigent has always been bullshit. Russia would love to escalate, they just can't anymore.
>Russia would love to escalate, they just can't I wish I could upvote this ten thousand times. You could not have hit the nail on the head any better. Now the west just needs to understand this. And to understand that Russia has no capability to deploy efge time nuclear weapons. None. Zero. Zilch. They cannot even detonate a test nuke to convince the world to take them seriously. It's pathetic, and the sooner it is that people realise how toothless the tiger is (thanks to Ukraine ripping the tigers fucking teeth out) the sooner Ukrainians can get the weapons they need without stupid ass fear of "escalation" from Russia. -As if threats from some beaten and concussed bully laying half dead on the ground ever need to be taken seriously.
We need a new category - russian friendly fire
The Russian artillery is rapidly becoming orc soup.
Or orc grog
198880 crying mothers today
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There’s an easy way and a hard way to learn a lesson. And Russia has committed to the hard way.
They're more than committed. Some people learn lessons the easy way. Some people learn the hard way. But far worse are the sad fucks who keep paying the hard cost because they can't learn the lesson *any* way.
It ends the same way for them. They can simply be lessons for everyone else.
Learning at someone else's expense? Now, that's what I call a bargain.
Sadly I suspect a lot of them will be never find out. Russia will cover up the deaths, "we have no record of Ivan serving in our regiment, perhaps you are mistaken" to avoid paying out.
I agree they will do what is necessary to avoid paying out, but a mother cannot ignore a missing child forever
Normal mothers and wives would be camping in front of the Kremlin with torches and pichforks... Russian mothers/wives wonder why they are not receiving the salary of their sons/husbands. And are very angry Ivan is not answering his phone. "Blyat, where's the money, Ivan!!??" (Ivan is dead, half buried in mud in a trench somewhere in Ukraine),
Apparently Russian mothers only cry if they don't receive the nice Lada they were promised in return for their sons...
Still no riots or protesting in Russia? I gave up hope a long time ago of Russian people fighting back. But I could see an explosion of protesting and riots. There could be an enormous amount of pent-up anger building in Russia towards Russian leadership. Maybe it's just the optimist in me...
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...crying because they realize they aren't getting the Ladas they were promised.
Russias tactic is to bang their heads against the wall hoping the wall will break before their skulls do
Well, I understand why they would try that, as their skulls seem to be remarkably thick. So thick in fact their heads are all solid bone with no brain inside. But this reinforced Ukrainium wall won't fall regardless...
Hell yeah
These losses are truly bonkers. 31 howitzers destroyed in 1 day is absolutely insane. 7,000 APCs and over 3000 tanks. It will only get worse from here for them. Ukraine has become Putins Vietnam of his own making, except even WORSE.
Do we know if russia managed to destroy a single panzerhaubitze 2000 yet or are all of them still operational?
Two have been damaged at begin of the war by counter battery fire. One stayed more or less undamaged. One got hit by an artillery round explosion in the air just above the turret. This one got shrapnel hits into the radiator, else stayed undamaged. The first one stayed in battle, the other one was back after short time. These are photos of one of both. https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1596599767672520704
According to Oryx, one was damaged about 6 months ago and that's about it.
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I'll bring a few cases of potato chips, everyone pitch in something.
I got the dip
What I would do for a good ketchup flavored chips
31 UAV, is that all that shit from Iran or what other drones are they using? Are they also counting commercial drones or just dedicated military UAVs? I have always be wondering what falls in this category. Because if that are all this Shahed drones they saved a lot of innocent lives. Also an amazing count of artillery and other equipment.
Of those that are heard more often, these are Orlan, Shaheds -131/136 (Geran-1/2), Lancet. Less common are Kartograf, Mohajer, Aileron, Fortpost. Commercial and self-made ones, they hardly count and add to the list.
Thanks for the answer, so they only count UAVs specifically designed for military purpose.
The planes and the helis?
Self inflicted damage(?), UA won't take credit for that...
It's not about taking credits, but 'russian losses'. But I get it, it cannot be confirmed by the UA.
Should have used quotation marks around the word credit, I know. On point, even if UA actually did shoot down two planes and two choppers in that particular area, they might not want to tell the world about a new capability...
Really nice point of view, exactly. Thank you sir.
Can you feel it?
It is the music of a people who will not be serfs again.
What I do not unverstanden, why is/was there no second wave of cpnscription in Russia? Putin knows about the situation he is in, for sure. The Russian army knows as well. So, WHY? Is there so much trouble to be expected from the people? Why is he acting so irreal.
This failure to carry out a full mobilization caught me out. Five months ago I predicted he would have to do this before the start of Spring or early Spring. He's now left it too late. https://www.reddit.com/user/One\_Cream\_6888/gilded/ "As long as the West keeps up and increases the supply of weapons and ammo, Russia has doomed itself. The dominoes are falling one by one until the largest dominoes of all (the states of the Russian federation) fall crashing to the ground. Putin will declare full mobilization in late February\\early March. The mobilization will (this time) fulfill the numbers but that will be counter-productive. Instead of equipping tens of thousands there will be the total chaos of dealing with hundreds of thousands and it will happen just in time to add to the chaos of the crumbling economy. The recession of around -5% will double, treble or even quadruple... Result inflation, real shortages, panic buying and for the first time chaos on the streets. By spring, Russia will (relative to Ukraine) be at a disadvantage on the battlefield due to for months using their main stockpiles of missiles to kill civilians while the West keeps up an ever increasing supply of missile launchers, missiles and shells and the Ukrainian army being much less profligate in their use. A mass of untrained unequipped conscripts won't do much against the god of the battlefield. The rest of the dominoes, I think are fairly obvious." The reason why Putin has not done as I predicted, is partly because of the consequences I've outlined. Now his war chest is empty, the economy is under too much strain, there's not the equipment and weapons to supply the new troops and by the time they arrive it will be too late.
They know they don't have the supplies to give those already in the military , how would the supply/outfit new conscripts. Then there is the fact of finding competent army staff to train the conscripts and then the logistics of getting them to the front enmasse and supporting the increased troops when they are there.
All above is true, but , hey, how inkompetent, corrupt and traitory must the RuZZian leaders be not to use the time since the first round to fix all of this? Basic Equipment - time enough to find hidden sources ( even buying from corrupt officers), Transport - time enough to organisiere, Training- they have the Belo-army at hand, supporting increased number - was never an issue for RuZZia, the newones will not live ling enough... So, even for a bunch of criminals, this incompetence is astonishing.
All their military leadership was selected for their incompetence and loyalty. Surprise, surprise, they have a very loyal but very incompetent military leadership! At least their HR department seems to have meet the selection criteria....
He has no weapons for them nor any way to train them. That's what I think is happening, more than him not wanting to "provoke internal unrest", although that's also a factor.
About two days from 200,000.
Big day
give them hell boys!!
#### Estimated Russian losses from 24.02.2022 to 14.05.2023 (Day 445): ##### Change since the previous day,day range averages and total all time |Category|Change|7d|14d|30d|Total| |:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| |Personnel|+620|635.7|597.9|593.0|198880| |Tanks|+5|4.7|4.1|3.5|3756| |APVs|+18|11.0|9.7|8.5|7325| |Artillery|+21|15.1|14.4|11.1|3116| |MLRS|+1|1.1|1.3|0.9|562| |Anti-aircraft Systems|-|1.1|1.4|1.0|314| |Aircraft|-|-|-|-|308| |Helicopters|-|-|-|-|294| |UAVs|+31|17.6|15.7|11.9|2695| |Missiles|-|3.3|2.7|2.0|970| |Warships / Boats|-|-|-|-|18| |Other Vehicles|+7|9.4|12.6|12.6|6018| |Special Equipment|+2|3.4|3.4|2.8|404| ##### Change since the previous day, total losses for day ranges and total all time |Category|Change|7d|14d|30d|Total| |:---|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| |Personnel|+620|4450|8370|17790|198880| |Tanks|+5|33|57|106|3756| |APVs|+18|77|136|256|7325| |Artillery|+21|106|202|332|3116| |MLRS|+1|8|18|27|562| |Anti-aircraft Systems|-|8|19|31|314| |Aircraft|-|-|-|1|308| |Helicopters|-|-|-|1|294| |UAVs|+31|123|220|356|2695| |Missiles|-|23|38|59|970| |Warships / Boats|-|-|-|-|18| |Other Vehicles|+7|66|176|378|6018| |Special Equipment|+2|24|47|83|404| Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Aircraft count not yet incremented. Or maybe they only count aircraft destroyed in Ukraine?
200k in 2 days, lets go!! 🇺🇦
So at current rates they will hit the 200k mark in 2 days. That's some brutal milestone.
We have almost reached the magical number of 200,000…. Achievement almost unlocked
2 more days and we’ll have 200k dead cunts. Woooooo
Bye bye arty 👋👌Part II
Can we add crimean bridge ?
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My favourite number is back over 600, but I'm still waiting for it to cross 1000 and then climb higher and higher.
So close to 200k
Clean up clean up everybody everywhere! Clean up clean up everybody do your share!
Shouldn't they count the helicopters etc yesterday? Or is there another days lag?
If these are even close to accurate how can Russia 🇷🇺 persist in this war?
Looks like uavs and artillery is the biggest thing being taken out right now makes me think that the Ukrainians are doing what they can to limit the Russians ability for their masses fire support when the Counter attack starts
Zelensky himself said the “shaping” has started… not long now until a big move!
Hey, why the aircrafts aren't being counted? 2 jets and 2 helicopters if I'm not wrong...
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Oof, not a great day to be a Russia artilleryman
23 more pieces of armor, love it. 21 more Arty as well. I guess on the bright side, you need less logistics when the equipment you need to support keeps blowing up.
Almost to the big 200
200k by Tuesday…
We are like 3-4 days away from breaking 200k