The Ukraine war thread

[Jolly]

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

There's a site that tracks equipment losses by Russia and Ukraine. It only lists verified losses (photos, etc), and also breaks down whether the equipment was destroyed, damaged, or abandoned.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html

As of today:

You know what screams out from that list?

Helicopters.

For years, helicopters were touted as the answer to vertical envelopment and close combat air support. I think this war is going to make some people sit back and rethink some things.

[George K]

Interesting comparison of losses from yesterday vs today.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

Interesting comparison of losses from yesterday vs today.

Russians also have much more equipment to lose.

[Horace]

How did I not know that former top ranked heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitshko is the mayor of Kyiv? And Elon Musk is challenging homosexual Putin to Mano a Mano combat. Ridiculous.

[Renauda]

@Jolly said in The Ukraine war thread:

@Renauda said in The Ukraine war thread:

@George-K

They’ll find out soon enough that global market for sand is limited to local supply if it even exists.

Actually...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/sand-shortage-the-world-is-running-out-of-a-crucial-commodity.html

Sand can be found on almost every country on Earth, blanketing deserts and lining coastlines around the world. But that is not to say that all sand is useful. Desert sand grains, eroded by the wind rather than water, is too smooth and rounded to bind together for construction purposes.

The sand that is highly sought after is more angular and can lock together. It is typically sourced and extracted from seabeds, coastlines, quarries and rivers around the world..

The good news is that Arab sand won’t make the cut.

I remember watching a business news report about six months on the growing demand for certain types of sand.

[George K]

Much much more at the link.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, MARCH 17

Key Takeaways

• Russian forces continue to make steady territorial gains around Mariupol and are increasingly targeting residential areas of the city.
• Ukrainian forces northwest of Kyiv launched several local counterattacks and inflicted heavy damage on Russian forces.
• Ukrainian forces repelled Russian operations around Kharkiv and reported killing a regimental commander.
• Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russia may have expended nearly its entire store of precision cruise missiles in the first twenty days of its invasion.
• Russian forces deployed unspecified reserve elements of the 1st Guards Tank Army and Baltic Fleet Naval Infantry to northeastern Ukraine on March 17.
• Russia may be parceling out elements of the reserve force that could conduct an amphibious operation along the Black Sea coast to support ongoing assaults on Mariupol, further reducing the likelihood of a Russian amphibious assault on Odesa.
• Ukrainian forces shot down 10 Russian aircraft—including five jets, three helicopters, and two UAVs—on March 16, and Ukrainian forces continue to successfully contest Russian air operations.

Russian forces face mounting difficulties replacing combat casualties and replacing expended munitions. The Ukrainian General Staff stated on March 17 that Russian forces will begin another wave of mobilization for the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DNR) 1st Army Corps on March 20.[2] Ukrainian intelligence continued to report Russian forces face difficulties manning both combat and support units and increasing desertion rates.[3] The General Staff further reported that Russian forces are increasingly using indiscriminate weapons against residential areas because they used almost their entire supply of “Kalibr” and “Iskander” cruise missiles in the first 20 days of the invasion.[4] It is unclear if the Ukrainian General Staff means Russian forces have used almost all precision munitions earmarked for the operation in Ukraine or almost all missiles in Russia’s total arsenal—though likely the former.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

5%ers that needed to be removed.

[Mik]

This is an interesting interview and supports Jon's tweet..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/putin-has-already-begun-to-cannibalize-his-own-regime-says-investigative-journalist/vi-AAVd6R3?ocid=msedgntp

[George K]

Today's Russian v Ukrainian losses compared to two days ago.

[Renauda]

@Mik

Similar to your link above:

https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/03/18/war-in-ukraine-day-23-russian-army-faces-increasing-desertion-rates-moves-to-exterminate-mariupols-civilian-infrastructure/

[Mik]

Thanks. Looks like good reporting.

[George K]

@Mik said in The Ukraine war thread:

Thanks. Looks like good reporting.

Indeed. It also cites the website I mentioned that tracks losses on both sides.

[George K]

[George K]

[LuFins Dad]

It's like watching March Madness and the 16 seed has made it to the Elite 8!

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in The Ukraine war thread:

It's like watching March Madness and the 16 seed has made it to the Elite 8!

For me, at least, it's fascinating to watch the losses climb.

Even if the Ukrainian numbers are under-reported, the Russian ones are accurate because of numbered identification of the lost materiel.

249 tanks in 24 days? Wow.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in The Ukraine war thread:

@LuFins-Dad said in The Ukraine war thread:

It's like watching March Madness and the 16 seed has made it to the Elite 8!

For me, at least, it's fascinating to watch the losses climb.

Even if the Ukrainian numbers are under-reported, the Russian ones are accurate because of numbered identification of the lost materiel.

249 tanks in 24 days? Wow.

750 tank crew probably got toasted with the tanks.

[Jolly]

An interesting video from Gun Jesus...

Link to video

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc We lost fewer Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan over 20 years than Russia has lost in Ukrainian in 3 weeks.

So after I opened my new phone and it shared that strong thunderstorms are predicted in New Jersey, which I'm grateful for because I really needed to know that down here in Virginia this late at night, I saw this header: "Is Vlad Putin going over the edge?" Before I could read the rest my new phone did something else weird and shut down.

I don't want to open my new phone up again. Once a day is more than enough. So if you want to know more about Putin going over the edge or thunderstorms in New Jersey, YOYO.