#russian losses

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian T-80BV main battle tank, Luhansk region, Ukraine, April 16, 2023. Source: Naalsio26

P.S. Now the main attention of the mass media is on the Middle East, but we must not forget that the Russian imperialists continue to commit war crimes in Ukraine

#Ukraine #russian invasion #russian war crimes #T-80 #main battle tank #russian defeat #rural landscape #russian losses #ukrainian independence war #military history

[tomorrowusa]

I'm not exactly a sunny optimist. But when there's a viral mindless piling on of negative evaluations, it's time for a reality check.

Ukraine pulled out of the town of Avdiivka because it values the lives of its troops exponentially more than Russia values its troops. Avdiivka is now little more than a pile of rubble which has little strategic value. Undoubtedly Ukraine left a few surprises for the Russians there. ;)

A couple of writers for the journal Foreign Policy spent time talking with participants at the Munich Security Conference (MSC). SitRep is a weekly digest of news and analysis at Foreign Policy. Here are some excerpts.

SitRep had what we thought was a fairly innocuous question for NATO’s top military official Saturday morning. Two years in, are you pessimistic about Ukraine’s chances in fending off Russia’s full-scale invasion? “I’m not!” shouted Dutch Adm. Rob Bauer, the chair of NATO’s Military Committee, pounding his fist on the table and sending the silverware in front of him clattering in the 15th-century vault-turned-restaurant in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel’s basement. “Pessimists lose wars. Is it difficult for Ukraine? Yes. If you would have asked in 1942 in Europe, ‘How is the war going?’ I don’t think there were a lot of people that were overly optimistic. We still won.”

Americans in particular have short attention spans. A reminder that wars can last longer that one NFL season. US involvement in World War II lasted 3 years 9 months from Pearl Harbor to Japan's formal surrender.

Even accounting for the fact that these types of conferences are saturated with navel-gazing governmental self-congratulations tours, we think the naysayers of the naysayers have a point. Russia is far from starting to win. First, the narrative seeming to take root in some speeches and headlines that Ukraine is on the cusp of losing the war is way off base. The battlefield situation is serious but not to the point where Ukraine is at risk of a full-scale collapse or even facing major setbacks on the front lines, according to the assessments of more than a dozen European defense officials and experts we spoke to. Russia has taken the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka but at an enormous cost in lives and ammunition for a city that has no real strategic significance. [ ... ] Indeed, the scale of Russian losses in the war is truly staggering. Two years in, the Kremlin is still scrambling to transform the country to a wartime economy, and those losses will be hard to recoup. Russia has suffered some 315,000 casualties—accounting for 87 percent of its prewar troop levels, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence assessment—as well as lost 2,200 of its 3,500 prewar tanks and 4,400 of its 13,600 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers.

Those Russian losses figures are somewhat conservative. More on that in a moment.

Even as Ukraine faces a new wave of ammunition shortages spurred by the political stalemate in Congress over U.S. funding for Ukraine, its lines are holding and European defense officials credit Kyiv with rationing its ammunition smartly and efficiently. [ ... ] Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was one official who didn’t downplay the significance of Russia’s capture of Avdiivka. “When a citizen of Europe reads in the news that Ukraine retreated from Avdiivka, you should realize one simple fact—Russia has gotten closer to your home.” [ ... ] Russian President Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be popping any champagne bottles just yet. “Let’s remember we are 724 days into Russia’s three-day war,” Bauer said.

Russia is currently trying to frighten us with talk of nuclear missiles in space. They have done this before. They drew red lines that Biden then stepped over and there's no response to the Western moves. One thing Russia is proven to be good at is bullshit.

The second anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion is later this week. It is estimated that Russia has suffered US$49.75 billion in losses in this war. Keep in mind that despite its geographic size, Russia has an economy about one-half the size of California's which has less than a third of Russia's population.

Ukraine currently puts Russian fatalities over the 400,000 mark.

402,430 is a number greater than the populations of the capitals of 39 of the 50 US states. Only in a dictatorship where dissidents are murdered would such massive losses in a futile war be allowed.

#invasion of ukraine #stand with ukraine #avdiivka #munich security conference #rob bauer #nato #aid for ukraine #russia #russian losses #vladimir putin #dictatorship #russia's war of aggression #naysayers of the naysayers #россия #агрессивная война россии #владимир путин #путин хуйло #путин - военный преступник #свергнуть путина! #мясные волны #пушечное мясо #нет войне #руки прочь от украины! #геть з україни #авдіївка #вторгнення оркостану в україну #деокупація #слава україні! #героям слава!

[taiwantalk]

Guess I’ll have to update the graph myself since no one is doing it.

#ukraine #russia #russian losses #kyiv independent

[daveydoodle]

#fuck putin #twitter #the kyiv independent #russian losses

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#russian officers killed in ukrania #17 july 2022 #russian losses #1st tank army #lost half first 3 weeks of war #javelin #saint javelin #russia's army confirmed deaths #russia will crack first #slava ukraini #i stand with ukraine #ukraine resistance #stop russian invasion #putin war criminal #putin war ukraine russia #ukraine war #give weapons to ukraine

[fireball-me]

Poll Russian Roulette 4: You're completely safe as long as your choice isn't the most picked...

#will you riak it for the meme? #certain loss awaits #polls #games #russian roulette

[shittygaypornmagazine]

Dear Who-Ever-The-Fuck-You-Are's, let me explain to you: Russian filtration camps are not the "Will You or Won't You Pass The Border" kind of camps. These are "Will You Live Or Will You Get Murdered" kind of camps. This is the filtration. And my childhood best friend didn't pass it.

It happened back in June.

He was dragged out of his car, in which he sat with his mother for hours, after being told that they will be shot if they as much as open the window, along with other people in other cars, just like them wishing to escape Mariupol. The Russians took my best friend to their "station" and held him there for more than two hours. His mother said that she was forced to wait in the car, crying and screaming, guarded by one of the soldiers while he pointed his gun at her face through the window.

When the door of the station opened and her son stepped out: beaten, with blood all over his face and clothes, dragging his feet and holding his obviously broken hand at his side, she thought that maybe. Just maybe. It is a miracle and they passed. That they'll let them leave. That the Russians were done with them.

Except they weren't.

My best friend's mom saw as one of the Russian soldiers who exited the station after him laughed at something and pointed at him. Other two people peaked through the door and laughed too. It was strange, but she didn't care. Her son was about to open the door to the passenger seat and they were about to be out of there.

Except they weren't.

The Russian soldier raised his gun and, still laughing, never pausing the conversation he was engaging in with the others, pulled the trigger. At least three times in a row. And my best friend was killed with a single bullet that entered through his neck and painted his mother's white car red. The others pierced his body, each disrespecting it more than any god ever could.

That's when the soldier that pointed his gun at my now dead childhood best friend's mother took his body and tossed it into a pile just couple of meters from the station, full of other people.

Once alive.

Once happy.

Always Ukrainian.

His mother was in the state of shock. She was free now. Was ordered to go because "she passed". So she drove forward. Got to the territory controlled by Ukraine... But her soul never did. And she ended her life today, 18/11/2022. I wouldn't have even known if she hadn't sent me one of her Last Emails, thanking me "For Everything".

Except I never did anything. Or rather never did enough. I still don't do enough. I worked all summer and donated about 12k UAH to the army, give or take, but it's not enough. I can't do anything that will make me fell like it is and now I have the memory of two people to avenge. So, oh help me Devil, whom some of you think all Ukrainian's worship, because if I see a single person saying something about this war not being a genocide, I will do things both wrong and deadly.

#I am sorry for this vent #but I don't really know what else to do with all of this that I feel #so I decided to try and write it down #and that happened #donate to Come Back Alive! #help ukriane! #russia is a terrorist state #fuck russia #anti russia #russian invasion of ukraine #russian war crimes #war in ukraine #ukraine war #proud to be ukrainian #ukrainian #ukraine #loss #putin huilo #slava ukraini #heroyam slava

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Damaged Russian landing ship Olenegorskiy Gornyak is towed to dock, Novorossiysk Bay, Russia, August 4, 2023. Source: IanMatveev

P.S. Another slightly better picture confirms the successful attack of Ukrainian drones on Russian warships in Novorossiysk ...

#Ukraine #russian invasion #russian defeat #Olenegorskiy Gornyak #ship #naval history #russian losses #landing ship #drone attack #Black Sea

[tomorrowusa]

Almost six months into the invasion, Russian losses keep going past significant milestones.

Russia has now lost more than 6,000 armored vehicles. That’s 1,899 main battle tanks + 4,195 armored personnel carriers. The grand total is actually 6,094.

Russia has lost over 1,000 artillery units. Considering that this has become an artillery war to a large extent, we can see why the Russian attempts to advance in the east have stagnated. 

And Russian troop losses are through the roof. For the sake of comparison, the 44,700 dead is way over 36,516 American dead in the Korean War but still under the 58,220 US total for the Vietnam War.

In perspective, the 44,700 Russian dead exceeds the populations of ten US state capitals:

Montpelier VT •••• 8,074

Pierre SD •••• 14.091

Augusta ME •••• 18,899

Frankfort KY •••• 28,602

Helena MT •••• 32,091

Juneau AK •••• 32,255

Dover DE •••• 39,403

Annapolis MD •••• 40,812

Jefferson City, MO •••• 43,228

Concord, NH •••• 43,976

If losses at this rate continue to the first anniversary of the war, they may equal the population of Trenton, NJ (90,871).

Putin shut down what remained of Russia’s free press to stifle criticism of the war. You can even be jailed for calling it a “war”. Russians are force-fed media diets of outright lies about the war via state-run TV and censored internet. Only a small number of Russians with VPNs have a clear idea of the carnage.

Putin’s bizarre delusion of bringing back the boundaries and hegemony of the USSR is what’s driving this war. Somebody in Russia needs to overthrow Putin to put the country on the road to sanity.

#invasion of ukraine #russia #russian losses #fatalities #armored vehicles #artillery #vladimir putin #imperialism #revanchism #реваншизм #россия #владимир путин #нет войне #руки прочь от украины! #это ВОЙНА а не 'спецоперация' #военные преступления #долой путина #путлер #путин хуйло #Наступает зима для Владимира Путина #слава україні!

[lonestarbattleship]

Just learned one of my favorite Ocean liner/Titanic artists, Anton Logvynenko, is dead.

From the Titanic community, I've learned he is Ukrainian and joined their military last year, to protect his homeland from Russia. He was killed fighting in the front lines on November 27.

His post from his Facebook page talking about joining the fight: link

"Hello there ocean liners lovers!

I'm sorry for not being posting here my new artworks or any updates for a while... The process of creation one digital drawing takes about 3 months itself but now situation is more complicated.

As you may know, russia has attacked my country and they are trying to occupy the whole Ukraine and even move forward to Europe. So I joined our Military Forces of Ukraine to protect my homeland.

I hope to get back to you soon with my new drawings after our Victory. But till this happens I ask you to support Ukraine and our army in any suitable for you way.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely yours, Anton Logvynenko"

Some of his artwork

#Ukraine-Russia War #Invasion from Russia #RMS Titanic #Titanic #Ocean Liner #loss #Russian Invasion #russian invasion of ukraine #artist #RIP #2023 #November #my post

[mewlabu]

Is it irony that the people who keep screaming at Ukranian to not be "Russiaphobic" because "not all Russians" have demonized everyone even vaguely related to Israel, let alone just Jewish people existing in the last few months?

I'm well aware there are people still on the left who are actual functioning human beings who have capacity to be self critical and self reflect. But I feel like they are increasingly the baffled minority wondering wtf happened that people in the world of political inclinations meant to be a more humane and kinder approach to humanity have become so blood thirsty and ghoulish.

#anyone who uses numbers to suggest palestine deserves more attention based on numbers aloke #i guarantee wouldnt give to fucks with Ukraine was seeing worse losses of civilians hecause thats never what any of their thing qas about #its the same way they decided every ukrabian deserved death because a small group if far right exists but have bever held palestine Hamas #to even remotely the aame fuckibg standard #and no i don't support what israel is doing in Gaza i just hate the hypocryticial valuless pit of egotistical petulence that the western #left has become #russian invasion of ukraine #war in ukraine #stand with ukraine #n

[herukapadmajungiansworld]

#russian losses #russia wil crack first #ukraine resistance #putin war criminal #putin war ukraine russia #ukraine war #i stand with ukraine #slava ukraini

[knopartt]

mila from the russian series "vampires of the midland" inspired by shortparis' music video of the choir version of the song яблонный сад (apple orchard) :)

#i need this series to be popularized outside of russia i NEED it but also #i realize that the amount of cultural comperhension needed is IMMENSE #svyatoslav's whole vocabulary is drenched in oldtimey + colloquial speech that just is untranslatable.......... a loss #kyaaaaaaa im so normal about my smolensk vampires #especially mila #im so emotional about her #doomed narratively babygirl #vampires of the midland #central russia's vampires #<- saw it called like that on imbd (insane) #mila #russian #russian shows #russian tv shows #вампиры средней полосы #мила #shaking #fanart #digital illustration #digital art #knopart #shortparis

[outstanding-quotes]

After all, living did mean accepting the loss of one joy after another…

Vladimir Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols”

#vladimir nabokov #signs and symbols #prose #fiction #short story #russian literature #quote #literature #lit #loss #joy #life #life quote