Running Newsticker for the War in Ukraine

These are the latest statistics of the results of fighting against the Russian
invaders. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its latest update published on Facebook.

Ukraine's defense forces claim/report that the body count of Russian invaders killed is about 148,690 between Feb 24, 22 and today Feb 27 560 KIA in the past day alone.


In addition Ukrainian defenders destroyed 3,385 Russian main battle tanks ( 4 in the past day), 6,621 armored combat vehicles 6 today. 2,380 artillery systems, 475 multiple launch rocket systems, 247 anti-aircraft warfare systems, 300 warplanes +1 today, 288 helicopters, 2,048 tactical unmanned aerial vehicles +11 today, 873 cruise missiles, 18 warships/boats, 5,248 vehicles and fuel trucks (+6 today, and 230 pieces of special equipment.

The kill number of invaders was good. The weak point is that not enough battle tanks other armor, multiple launch The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in its latest update published on Facebook.missile systems, and anti air systems. Hopefully in the next few months after the initial modern tanks sent from friends will start to make a difference.

 

Let’s hope this was not for betrayal such as feeding Russia with info but that is not likely. If it is for corruption that is still betrayal of country and wounds the image of Ukraine. At least Zalenskyy took action.

 

World
Business Insider
A Norwegian guy woke Russian diplomats in Oslo after 2 a.m. with an air raid siren on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine

 

Totalitarian maniacs always tilt toward nihilism. Eventually they find ways to exterminate their own people when the people inevitably disappoint their rulers.
The Aztecs specialized in human sacrifice on a massive scale. Compared to Putin the Aztecs were humanitarians.

"'The following information reported by Souvarine, op. cit., p. 669, seems to be an outstanding illustration: "According to W. Krivitsky, whose excellent confidential
source of information is the GPU: 'Instead of the 171 million inhabitants calculated for 1937, only 145 million were found; thus nearly 30 million people in the USSR are
missing.' " And this, it should be kept in mind, occurred after the dekulakization of the early thirties which had cost an estimated 8 million human lives.
See Communism in Action. U. S. Government, Washington, 1946, p. 140.
THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, By Hannah Arendt, Meridian Books,New York, 1958.

Putin has now admitted that he has not just become a threat to Ukrainians he is also an existential threat to the people of Russia.

"10 A large part of these plans, based on the original documents, can be found in Leon Poliakov's Breviaire de la Haine, Paris, 1951, chapter 8 (American edition
under lhe title Harvest of Hate, Syracuse, 1954; we quote from the original French edition), but only insofar as they referred to the extermination of non-Germanic
peoples, above all those of Slavic origin. That the Nazi engine of destruction would not have stopped even for the German people is evident from a Reich health bill drafted by Hitler himself. Here he proposes to "isolate" from the rest of the population all families with cases of heart or lung ailments among them, their physical liquidation being of course the next step in this program. This as well as several other interesting projects for a victorious postwar Germany are contained in a circular letter to the district leaders (Kreisleiter) of Hesse-Nassau in the form of a report on a discussion at the Fuehrer's headquarters concerning "measures that before ... and after victorious termination of the war" should be adopted. See the collection of documents in Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, 1946, et seq., Vol. Vll, p. 175."
THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, By Hannah Arendt, Meridian Books,New York, 1958.
https://archive.org/stream/TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism/The-Origins-of-Totalitarianism_djvu.txt

 

Russian Beriev A-50 reportedly destroyed on the ground by Belarusian partisans
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_people's_militias_in_Ukraine


As per Belarusian organization BYPOL, who are opposed to Lukashenko’s government, an AEW&C A-50U aircraft was attacked and severely damaged by by Belarus Partizans.


According to Belarus Partizans information shared by BYPOL, the attack would have been carried out by Belarus Partizans using two drones.
The Russian aircraft the A-50U a RADAR Surveillance craft was severely damaged with causing extensive damage its structure and radar radome. The aircraft was reportedly taken out of service for an undetermined period of time.



Belarus and I am sure Russian security agents performed security check and stopped all cars in the vicinity after the attack.

Various sources report that the Belarusian partizans are reportedly already safely out of the country. Good that appears to be a win for the good guys..

I knew there were anti Lukashenko Partizans and that there were good Belarus people fighting Russians along side Ukrainian military. The world needs more of this good news so that this war could end by the good people pushing the evil ones out and back to Russians.
I recall an interview on one of the good networks speaking to a Bucha survivor. Asked about what Russians he thought about Russians now the man called the Russians “insects” e.g. not humans.

 

Russia shoots down China's peace plan for the Ukraine war

 

USA Today
'We are glad to see it': White House lauds Saudi Arabia plan to send $400 million to

 

Casualties? I can believe. Killed?! Maybe not

 

It seems high to be all KIA. I have tried to get some info that backs up the AFU reports of KIA but nothing concrete. Some UK sources seem to be more cautious about calling all as KIA. I need to try again.

 

“Ukraine said an average of 824 Russian soldiers were dying every day in February 2023, and while those figures cannot be independently verified, the general analysis was supported by the U.K. government, which estimated this month that Russia has suffered between 175,000 and 200,000 casualties during its war in Ukraine, including 40,000 to 60,000 killed. “

Usually the KIA to wounded is 3:1… so 40k to 60 k KIA is the real figure.

The 824 RUSSIAN KIA per day in Feb is probably an outlier ..

If the Russian medical care post combat is not good the ration of 3:1 will be maybe 5:1 or 7 1. If at 7:1 the KIA would be 140,000. The AFU say 148,000 Russian KIA since war started.
Is the real KIA somewhere between 100,000 and 148,000? Even at 100k is high but if the Russian military medical care is bad it could be the number.

 

Ukraine Conflict Updates
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 27, 2023

Click here to read the full report.
Key Takeaways

• Russian officials are promoting an information operation that falsely frames Russia’s war in Ukraine as existential to the continued existence of the Russian Federation.
• Russian officials continue to conduct information operations in an attempt to discourage the Western provision of military aid to Ukraine.
• Ukrainian military officials continue to respond to Western concerns over Ukrainian capabilities and suggest that Ukrainian forces are preparing for a spring counteroffensive in southern Ukraine.
• A reportedly captured Russian military manual suggests that Russian forces are implementing new assault tactics to compensate for the current limitations on combat capability in light of continued offensive failures.
• The manual suggests that Russian forces are trying to adopt smaller and more agile combined arms formations than were employed earlier in the war.
• The tactics of the assault detachment additionally suggest that the Russian military may be attempting to institutionalize tactics used to marginal tactical effect by the Wagner Group in Bakhmut.
• US Central Intelligence Director William Burns stated on February 25 that the CIA is confident that Chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment to Russia but has not made a final decision or provided lethal aid to Russia.
• Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces have been concentrating and escalating operations along the Luhansk Oblast front line.
• Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks northwest of Svatove and near Kreminna.
• Russian forces continued to conduct ground attacks across the Donetsk Oblast front line, and Russian sources widely claimed that Wagner Group forces made territorial gains north of Bakhmut.
• Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces continue to focus on establishing defensive fortifications in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast and Crimea.
• Russian forces are continuing to expend their already limited stocks of precision munitions.
• Russian officials announced that all social support measures will enter into force in occupied territories on March 1. . . .

Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces have been concentrating and escalating operations along the Luhansk Oblast frontline. Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty stated on February 26 that Russian forces concentrated infantry, airborne (VDV), and Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) forces in eastern Ukraine and have attempted to use armored vehicles in combat in the past several weeks.[19] The Ukrainian General Staff reported on February 27 that Russian forces deployed 200 conscript recruits from Rostov Oblast to Luhansk Oblast on an unspecified date.[20] Ukrainian Luhansk Oblast Head Serhiy Haidai stated on February 27 that Russian forces have escalated operations in the Svatove, Kreminna, and Bilohorivka directions in recent weeks and have been concentrating equipment and reserves in occupied Luhansk Oblast.[21] . . .

Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces continue to focus on establishing defensive fortifications in east (left) bank Kherson Oblast and in occupied Crimea. Head of the Ukrainian Joint Coordination Press Center of the Southern Forces Nataliya Humenyuk stated on February 26 that Russian forces tried and failed to mine islands in the Dnipro River Delta and that Russian forces are dispersing forces to move further from the Dnipro River bank.[44] Humenyuk also stated that Russian forces continue equipping engineering and defensive fortifications in Crimea. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on February 26 that Russian forces are increasing efforts to build defenses in Crimea and have transported 150 personnel from Chelyabinsk Oblast to perform engineering work in Crimea.[45] Satellite imagery dated February 25 shows that Russian forces recently established trenches and roadblocks along the M17 and T-2202 highways approaching Armiansk from the northwest.[46] . . .

Russian forces are continuing to expend their already limited stocks of precision munitions. Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Representative Andrii Chernyak stated that Russian forces use missiles at a faster rate than they can produce them.[49] Chernyak stated that Russian forces can produce no more than 30-40 cruise missiles per month and have fewer than 100 Kh-101 and Kh-555 high-precision missiles remaining. ISW previously assessed that Russian forces continue to expend increasingly limited stocks of precision munitions.[50] . . .

A Ukrainian source confirmed that the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade has suffered continually catastrophic losses in assaults on Vuhledar. The Ukrainian Resistance Center cited a prisoner-of-war interview with a 155th Naval Infantry Brigade infantryman who claimed that the brigade lost 6,800 people during the year (even though the brigade has a total complement of 1,200). The infantryman stated that the brigade has undergone seven or eight reformations and received recruits from volunteers, mobilized, convicts, and Pacific Fleet sailors who were removed from ships.[57] . . .

 

AP News
Blinken in Central Asia as tensions soar over Ukraine war

 

AP News
Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio are hacked

 

https://menafn.com/1105672169/Serbi...ns-to-Russia-amid-ongoing-invasion-of-Ukraine

Serbia refuses to send weapons to Russia amid ongoing invasion of Ukraine

 

Serbia wants to join the EU so they are very conflicted with support for their historical friend Russia. The Russian empire helped the Serbs ( and the Bulgarians ) in the fight against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. For over a hundred years Serbia was grateful to the Russian Empire.

 

So Ukraine’s Sloviyansky Braty (“Slavonic Brothers” as Russians often claim they are) who invaded Ukraine and are still committing murder and genocide are now whining about possible maybe or maybe not Ukrainian drone attacks against Russian military targets in Russia. Boo Hoo if true! So Putin are you waiting for Lukanhesko to come kiss your boo boo?

 

Good move since the Central Asian Stans are just now starting to free themselves of Russian influence. Kazakstan is not drifting away from Russia because Kazakstan has about a 40% ethnic Russian infestation in its population. Some of the former Soviet Stans have started a DeRussification process. Russianized names , Russian languageand manner of dress are starters.

The possible unintended consequence is that they are drifting towards China the future enemy of the free world.

 

Another facet of Russia's strategic defeat:
Al Jazeera
Europe leaps towards energy autonomy as sanctions undercut Russia

 

World
The Daily Beast
Drones Attack Russia From All Sides

 

This post in a continuation of a conversation Tough Talk and are having about Russian troop deaths in Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-troop-losses-50k-invasion-178430

Russia Loses 50k Soldiers in Two Months—Kyiv
https://Russia Loses 50k Soldiers in Two Months—Kyiv

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 2/28/23 AT 6:57 AM EST


On Tuesday, Feb 28,2023 the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 550 Russian troops had been killed in the previous 24 hours.

That brings the total for Russian deaths since the start of the war to 149,240. While the conflict has raged for just over a year, the statistics provided by Ukraine suggest that one third of Russian losses took place in only the last two months. I will check that out …….TBD


The level of 100,000 Russian soldier deaths per Kyiv hit on December 21, 2022. In the subsequent 69 days, Ukraine has tallied deaths of Moscow's troops at 48,440. I will check that out.

I should have kept the reports of Russian KIAs on a spreadsheet. I am not certain there are reports for every day of Russian KIA in the last two months but hopefully most days are available so a good average or mean can be extrapolated.

I have “warned “ the Ukies not to exaggerate in replies to post and that this is not over until the fat lady sings. Too much exaggeration will undermine credibility. The Russians have no credibility so why warn them.

 

• Local authorities report fire at oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region
  Kyiv Independent
  
• Explosions heard in Krasnodar Krai in Russia, oil refinery on fire
  Ukrayinska Pravda
  

 

This got duplicate . Attention mods how can we delete rogue posts ?



This post in a continuation of a conversation Tough Talk and are having about Russian troop deaths in Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-troop-losses-50k-invasion-178430
I have “warned “ the Ukies not to exaggerate in replies to post and that this is not over until the fat lady sings. Too much exaggeration will undermine credibility. The Russians have no credibility so why warn them.

 

This post in a continuation of a conversation Tough Talk and are having about Russian troop deaths in Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-troop-losses-50k-invasion-178430
Russia Loses 50k Soldiers in Two Months—Kyiv
https://Russia Loses 50k Soldiers in Two Months—Kyiv

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 2/28/23 AT 6:57 AM EST


On Tuesday, Feb 28,2023 the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that 550 Russian troops had been killed in the previous 24 hours.

That brings the total for Russian deaths since the start of the war to 149,240. While the conflict has raged for just over a year, the statistics provided by Ukraine suggest that one third of Russian losses took place in only the last two months. I will check that out …….TBD


The level of 100,000 Russian soldier deaths per Kyiv hit on December 21, 2022. In the subsequent 69 days, Ukraine has tallied deaths of Moscow's troops at 48,440. I will check that out.

I should have kept the reports of Russian KIAs on a spreadsheet. I am not certain there are reports for every day of Russian KIA in the last two months but hopefully most days are available so a good average or mean can be extrapolated.

I have “warned “ the Ukies not to exaggerate in replies to post and that this is not over until the fat lady sings. Too much exaggeration will undermine credibility. The Russians have no credibility so why warn them.

 

Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind.


Flurry of drone strikes hits Russia as TV, radio hacked

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv.

Flights briefly shut down in St. Petersburg »

 

Nice——TYOPCE ( I do not have Cyrillic alphabet imbibed on this iPAD) is as I thought very close to Sochi where the Moskhaiylnyks are free to move their Black Sea Naval fleet since they killed off the Circassians as I believe the ancient peoples of Sochi were called. No time to verify right now.