What's going on in Ukraine?

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Fuck me but that's depressing!

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That’s grim as fuck.

Worthwhile reminder of the reality of conflict, I suppose. But still a horror show. Poor bastards.

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If anyone is interested in an update on Igor "Yankee" Yankov aka Warstache, the Belarusian volunteer who became quite famous in the early days of the invasion, he's currently SOF in Special Purpose Unit "Timur" of HUR.

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If anyone is interested in an update on Igor "Yankee" Yankov aka Warstache, the Belarusian volunteer who became quite famous in the early days of the invasion, he's currently SOF in Special Purpose Unit "Timur" of HUR.

Thank you for that. I was wondering about what might have happened to him. Modern legend.

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https://www.forces.net/technology/land- ... ine-losses

Looks like the yank tanks are struggling.

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https://www.forces.net/technology/land- ... ine-losses

Looks like the yank tanks are struggling.

There's a bit of disinformation going on here, which the Ukrainians have had to deny. They haven't been withdrawn from combat, they're just being used differently. Supply of 120mm ammo is a limiting factor too.

No tank, Western or Soviet/Russian, is drone proof.

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OSINT researcher Jompy has updated his assessments of the current situation regarding the remains of infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers at Russia's largest storage bases. In total, as he points out, the Russians have seven such bases, and all of them are significantly empty:

- Arsenal 3018/6018: significantly emptied, half of the remaining equipment was moved to the sump, where it is gradually taken away for spare parts. Almost all MT-LBs have disappeared. According to the researcher, of the 969 infantry fighting vehicles located there, 502 currently remain, of which 273 show signs of complete disrepair.

- Arsenal 22: on its last legs. Previously, a lot of relatively new equipment was stored at this base. At the moment, only 90 BTR-80s remain there (out of 429 pre-war), of which 38 are completely rusted. Infantry fighting vehicles, mainly BMP-1, also remain at the base. There are 409 of them left out of 727 pre-war ones, at least 155 of the remaining ones are beyond repair.

- Arsenal 769/227 in Buryatia: the rate of cannibalization of armored vehicles has increased significantly. Mostly BMP-1 remain, their number has dropped to 552 from 918 pre-war, some remaining are also beyond repair.

- Arsenal 111 near Khabarovsk: a huge settling tank for equipment of little use for repair. During the war, only 59 infantry fighting vehicles were removed from there; it is doubtful that any significant number of others will be removed.

- Arsenal 1295: almost completely empty, and for quite some time. 156 BMP-1 BMP-1s remain at the base, of which 69 are clearly broken.

- Arsenal 2544: was the main storage place for airborne combat vehicles (the number of which the Russians generally had dropped to a strategically insignificant number). 285 of 343 pre-war infantry fighting vehicles and 250 of 306 pre-war BTR-70 armored personnel carriers remain at the base.

- Arsenal 1311: almost all that was stored there were tanks.

In total, according to Jompy, of the 4,191 infantry fighting vehicles located at their main storage bases, 2,793 currently remain there. Of the remaining infantry fighting vehicles, 1,814 appear to be beyond repair. Almost all remaining BMPs are BMP-1s, and BMP-2s are becoming an endangered vehicle as the Ukrainians knock them out. The rate of cannibalization is increasing, although it requires a separate study. The number of remaining armored personnel carriers is 451 units.

Cannibalized equipment is not useless, as it allows you to support the armored vehicles that are in service. However, Jompy's assessment remains the same: in a year and a half, the Russians will exhaust all reserves of armored infantry vehicles, and the only source of replenishment will be the production of new ones, which does not exceed several hundred units per year.

* Jompy relies on satellite images purchased by the teams Viyskovy Vishchun, Mortis Aeterna and Resurgam. The names of the storage databases are given as in Jompy.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/us-buys ... 20k-2024-4

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Britain estimates that 450,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded and over 10,000 Russian armoured vehicles have been destroyed in Ukraine.

John Healey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, asked the following:

“To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an assessment of the number of personnel serving in the Russian armed forces in Ukraine who have (a) been killed in action, (b) been wounded and (c) deserted their posts since February 2022.”

“To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of mercenaries serving in Russian private military companies who have (a) been killed in action, (b) been wounded and (c) deserted their post since February 2022.”

“To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he has made an estimate of the number of Russian (a) main battle tanks, (b) armoured fighting vehicles, (c) fixed-wing aircrafts, (d) helicopters, (e) unmanned aerial vehicles, (f) ships, (g) artillery systems, (h) multiple-launch rocket systems and (i) other capabilities destroyed in Ukraine since 24 February 2022.”

Leo Docherty Minister of State, Minister for the Armed Forces, responded:

“We estimate that approximately 450,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded, and tens of thousands more have already deserted since the start of the conflict. The number of personnel killed serving in Russian private military companies (PMCs) is not clear.

We also estimate that over 10,000 Russian armoured vehicles, including nearly 3,000 main battle tanks, 109 fixed wing aircraft, 136 helicopters, 346 unmanned aerial vehicles, 23 naval vessels of all classes, and over 1,500 artillery systems of all types have been destroyed, abandoned, or captured by Ukraine since the start of the conflict.”

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A new twist in the case of corruption in the Russian Ministry of Defense. During searches of Timur Ivanov and his accomplices, operatives uncovered gross violations of the requirements for maintaining state secrets and the secrecy regime, which the leadership of the FSB DVKR is afraid to report to the director of the service and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. As it turned out, for the convenience of maintaining internal accounting and monitoring the most “tasty” government contracts distributed among “anchor contractors” (like A. Fomin), Timur Ivanov and Ruslan Tsalikov for more than 5 years allowed civil servants and their partners access to secret information -entrepreneurs who did not formally have access to restricted data, but had codes and information from more than 200 secret facilities directly related to the “Russian nuclear shield”, 12 Main Directorates of the Moscow Region, Strategic Missile Forces, etc.

A source from Gulagu.net reported that the first deputy director of the FSB, Sergei Korolev, after a conversation with one of the billionaires who has a joint business with the family of Ruslan Tsalikov, instructed the head of one of the departments of the DVKR not to formalize what was discovered and not to transfer what was discovered to investigators of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, citing… state secret. In fact, one of the heads of the service is trying to hide with state secrets the largest disclosure in the entire history of the FSB and Russia of those very state secrets and strategic secrets of the RF Armed Forces. In addition, Korolev and DVKR do not and cannot have an excuse for the fact that the holder of state secrets (T.V. Ivanov) freely traveled more than 10 times to NATO countries, not to mention his business partners.

A source from Gulagu.net reported that, contrary to the conspiracy between Tsalikov and Korolev, another service (FSO) will report this to Vladimir Putin on Monday and by the end of the week, personnel and procedural decisions that are unexpected for many will be made.

The attached files from the document “Input Schedules for Commissions” (contained on the hard drives of counterparties of the RF Ministry of Defense) are a clear confirmation of what was said above. To be continued

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Germany handed over another package of military aid to Ukraine, which included:

1 Skynex air defense system;
10 Marder 1A3 BMP;
1 BIBER bridge paver;
6 M1070 tank tractors;
1 Pionierpanzer 2A1 engineering vehicle;
9 mine trawls;
3000 RGW90 MATADOR grenade launchers;
1 TRML-4D radar;
IRIS-T air defense missiles;
29,638 35-mm cartridges for the Gepard Armed Forces;
Ammunition for Leopard 2;
18,000 40-mm shells for grenade launchers;
120-mm mines;
7500 155-mm shells;
1 AMPS protection system for helicopters;
60 boat motors;
600 lanterns;
1980 camouflage nets;
2000 military ponchos;
100,000 first-aid kits.

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I jump out today for a few months to earn some £££. As the situation in the east deteriorates, I'm finding myself worrying for the first time might not see some people again.

Looking forward to those outside of curfew pints (even if it will cost an arm and a leg) and sleeps without fucking 1am air alarm blaring right outside.