Russia lost the biggest tank battle of this war, - The New York Times

Russia lost the biggest tank battle of this war, - The New York Times

The enemy's three-week offensive on Vugledar became the largest tank battle of the war at this time. The Russians lost more than 130 tanks, BMP/APCs

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's up with you homosexuals never fricking posting the damn link?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      give him a break he's using the internet on a Nokia brick while squating in the ruins of a bombed Kiev apartment.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Post power grid status

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-tanks.html

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://archive. ph/9woYF

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Thx.
          Not all heroes wear underwears.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          thanks man good read

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >In one instance, Ukrainian commanders called in a strike by HIMARS guided rockets; they are usually used on stationary targets like ammunition depots or barracks, but also proved effective against a stationary tank column.

          lmao, at this point every single HIMARS sent must be vet 3 with insane speed and accuracy bonuses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >"what Ukrainian officials say is"
        So basically negative truth index score.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Cope

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Russia literally never tells the truth on any of their numbers, so you can suck my dick homosexual

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            and that's it ? they lie, you lie more lol 😀

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          And there you have the reason why they never want to link the article in the OP.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Who's "they," glavset troon? Maybe if every goddamn word that came out of a Russian's mouth wasn't a lie people would be more inclined to believe you. Also that's not the source cited in the article, you brain damaged piece of shit.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What lack of chin does to a mfer.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tbf, nyt is shit source because they think people want to pay for it when you can get the same info for free at thousands of other sites. Doesn't excuse not archiving though

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        In about 70% of cases, I can circumvent the paywall javascripts in MSM sites by just opening and refreshing the page in reader mode on Firefox.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Are T-64s the most commonly used tank in Ukrainian service?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            yeah.

            Ukraine inherited the t-64 production line, since it was made by the Ukraine SSR.

            Russia inherited the t-72 production line since it was made in the Urals and did not need as much technical aptitude to make.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Name my band, /k/

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Bullet for my Vuhledar

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Tfw no arthoe midget gf

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              https://i.imgur.com/YOutUbb.jpg

              [...]
              they were before the massive russian lend lease equipment transfer starting with 24th feb 2022. Now it is the t-72

              I see. I’m not sure if T-64s are necessarily any better than T-72s, but I think they’re really cool for some reason.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/xaDtjS3.jpg

            yeah.

            Ukraine inherited the t-64 production line, since it was made by the Ukraine SSR.

            Russia inherited the t-72 production line since it was made in the Urals and did not need as much technical aptitude to make.

            they were before the massive russian lend lease equipment transfer starting with 24th feb 2022. Now it is the t-72

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    is no consequence
    we'll just excavate more from forgotten cold war dumps like we're poor miners looking for amber*~~))~~*~~*~~*(

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Brothers of the yard rejoice!
      (Swing, swing, swing with me!)
      Raise your wrench and raise your voice!
      (Sing, sing, sing with me!)

      Down and down into the deep
      Who knows what we'll find beneath?
      APCs, IFVs, tanks, and more
      Hidden in the frozen store

      Born under the Union
      Fed from Stalin's hand
      Raised in the dark
      The bitterness of our frozen land

      Skin made of ERA
      Steel in our bones
      To rearm and refit makes us free
      Come on, comrades, sing with me!

      I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
      fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
      I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
      fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nice

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >'ate west
        >'ate china
        >'ate israelites (not racist, jus don' like em)
        >luv vodka
        >simple as

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The sunlight will not reach this low
        (Deep, deep in the trench)
        Never seen the air support
        (Slavs won't fly so high)

        Grab a bottle and down some vodka
        To our starving bellies it's a feast!
        Stumble home and fall asleep
        Living as a pidorashka

        Born in Union
        Grown inside an uncaring womb
        Russia is our cradle
        This T-55 shall become our tomb

        Face us on the battlefield
        We will greet our doom
        We do not fear the mines beneath
        We will crush you beneath our feet!

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        Born under the Union
        Fed by Stalin's hand
        Raised in the dark
        The bitterness of our frozen land

        Skin made of ERA
        Steel in our bones
        To rearm and refit makes us free
        Come on, comrades, sing with me!

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You may not fear the mines, but they explode just the same

          As the oligarch collects billions and the Christian Slav dies for their puppets

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Men can joke, but this war is real, it is painful on a spiritual level to see so many Christians dying for the greed and lies of zionists

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I agree that the moslem, atheist, and shamanist churkas from the 7% Christian Nation of Russia should frick off from Ukraine.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              THEN DON'T INVADE PEOPLE.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        slavic scrap dwarves

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Can he even shoot an AK without falling on his ass?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The sunlight will not reach this low
        (Deep, deep in the trench)
        Never seen the air support
        (Slavs won't fly so high)

        Grab a bottle and down some vodka
        To our starving bellies it's a feast!
        Stumble home and fall asleep
        Living as a pidorashka

        Born in Union
        Grown inside an uncaring womb
        Russia is our cradle
        This T-55 shall become our tomb

        Face us on the battlefield
        We will greet our doom
        We do not fear the mines beneath
        We will crush you beneath our feet!

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        Born under the Union
        Fed by Stalin's hand
        Raised in the dark
        The bitterness of our frozen land

        Skin made of ERA
        Steel in our bones
        To rearm and refit makes us free
        Come on, comrades, sing with me!

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank
        I am a Slav and I'm fixing a tank
        Fixxy fixxy tank, fixxy fixxy tank

        what is this from?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I just changed it a bit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not a tank expert, but aren't at least 75% of the tanks 60-year old T-62s?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Most of those seem to be T-80s (U I think.) Pretty sure one of them is a T-55 for whatever reason

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Da, and when it comes time to crew those things you'll be the first in line, right comrade?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Like new, I know what I have.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Tank Battle
    >Vugledar
    What? That's not a "tank battle" that's tanks running over mine fields and getting smacked with artillery

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How do you lose a tank battle against FASCAM mines?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Step 1. Be vatnik.
      Step 2. Profit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Easy, you just keep driving into the mines like a fricking NPC.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Surely the Ukrainians would never be so bold as to put more than two anti tank mines next to each other.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          as far as im aware they are just lining them across the road BF4 style

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The enemy tanks were the other side of the minefield

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      HATO supersoldier mercenaries doing black magic on their chemical labs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Loads of russian tanks were blown up in WWII and they won, so obviously they just need to lose more tanks then they'll win

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >they won
        No, the allies won, the Russians barely survived with lend-lease from the U.S.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Why can't we lend them the 307th Bomb Wing out of Barksdale AFB?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        > Loads of russian tanks were blown up in WWII and they won
        “People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."
        -Zhukov
        “ "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war.”
        -Stalin
        “ It should be remembered that during World War I, the transportation crisis in Russia in 1916-17 that did a lot to facilitate the February Revolution [which lead to the abdication of the tsar] was caused by a shortage in the production of railway rails, engines, and freight cars because industrial production had been diverted to munitions," Sokolov wrote. "During World War II, only the supplies brought in by Lend-Lease prevented the paralysis of rail transport in the Soviet Union."

        They only could afford all those tanks because Americans Steel was being dumped on them, American factories were built for them, and Americans prevented their logistics from being typically Russified.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      go straight

    • 1 year ago
      T-I-G-E-R-S

      It's quite straightforward

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Every tank Russia builds raises their GDP. Ukropiggies are losing the financial war.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Every tank Russia builds raises their GDP
      Um, wow....what a moronic take.
      That is not how GDP works, wienerstain.

      >Ukropiggies are losing the financial war.
      Not when every other country (bar North Korea, Nicaragua and South Africa) is propping up Ukraine's economy, while deliberately hurting Russia's economy (almost as much as Russia is hurting their own economy.)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Russia has 1 tank factory and it produces 20 new tanks a month. They are losing like hundreds a month.

      Does every tank driven into a ditch by a drunk mobik and abandoned raise Ukraine’s GDP

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Tank Battle

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >In the protracted battle, both sides threw tanks into the fray, which rumbled along dirt roads and maneuvered around forested areas. The Russian army moved forward in columns, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine maneuvered on the defensive, firing from afar or from cover when Russian columns entered their territory.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Good read.
    I was hesitant at 1st because of the moronic title, but it was ok-ish article.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    It's more a matter of everyone accepted that Russia lies as it breathes, and just shrugs off the daily announcements that Bakhmut has fallen. But Ukraine still has enough credibility that lies are frowned upon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >But Ukraine still has enough credibility
      lmao

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Post Kyiv

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Muradov is a Ukrainian asset

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I is of agreeing, the wise bear is silent as he looms over the moonless night. Me is white Americanski from Puerto Rico Oblast.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    lol
    lmao

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Also, Leopard too.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        don't forget the Bradleys killed back on October

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What's the point of lying to your people this much? Don't the Russians understand that your lies catch up with you?

          Konashenkov made a mistake when somebody in the chain probably thought the first decked out Dutch M-113s destroyed were Bradleys. Then of course hohol shills take it out of context and post a clip of him saying it in January, implying he claimed it destroyed when the US confirmed they'll send them.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >the reason why the defense minister is openly lying on live tv is hohol shills
            those are some gold medal tier mental gymnastics right there

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they did it again today

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >that fricking 90's CGI tier flag

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://i.imgur.com/Sb4Dcmg.jpg

          Also, Leopard too.

          https://i.imgur.com/ulRYAdi.jpg

          [...]
          lol
          lmao

          They almost certainly will destroy a Leopard and Bradley.... why do they need to lie? Just wait until you do it for frick sake, seriously. Ukrainians didn't lie about destroying BMP-T's. They waited until they destroyed one.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The copium supplies are running critically low, they need some wins ASAP.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Bakhmut is probably unironically close to (finally) falling. Can't they wait
              >two
              >more
              >weeks?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/6fneljF.jpg

            >Don't the Russians understand that your lies catch up with you?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Why lie?
            Why tell the truth? Russians will believe anything and the earlier you destroyed the 4000 Leopard 2s the better.
            The Russian propaganda doesn't need to wait for facts and the Russian population does not ask for them either. Just lying constantly is easier

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >lying constantly
              It is not what Christ would do, the Russian population is getting sick and tired of Putin and his war, and brave Russians are challenging him

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Fortunately for russian leadership, russia is not a Christian nation

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            A con man need not be smart if his victims are stupid.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I assume it's just shitposting/falseflagging because that's an ancient meme image.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also killed Boris Johnson leading his crack team of SAS commandos on a daring barge raid to avenge the deaths of the entire NATO general staff at Snake Island

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's the point of lying to your people this much? Don't the Russians understand that your lies catch up with you?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Don't the Russians understand that your lies catch up with you?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Literally this

        https://i.imgur.com/6fneljF.jpg

        >Don't the Russians understand that your lies catch up with you?

        There’s a reason the terms slave and slav are so similar - our ancestors were wiser than us

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Not if you have a nice day first

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He's right, you vatnik shills made russia the most hated nation on earth with your lying spam

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I’m not Russian I’m saying your lies don’t catch up to you if you have a nice day first. Hence the suicide rates.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This offensive is such a fricking mystery to me. We've seen multiple videos of Russians attacking with maybe 6 or 8 vehicles and either driving into a minefield or being blasted by artillery. Where was the recon? And what's the point of sending daily waves of like 2 T-72s, 3 BMPs and 3 MTLBs instead of mounting a larger attack on a wider front? I know vatniks are morons, but this is utter lunacy even for their standards

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nothing strange about it. Put yourself in the shoes of some Russian general. The monke orders you to attack well entrenched Ukrainian positions. You have a gaggle of untrained, poorly equipped mobiks and an armoured corps that hasn't seen maintenance since Brezhnev could get it up. Any attempt to attack is obviously suicide. Do you:
      1) Tell monke you can't do it, and get shot.
      2) Launch a doomed offensive, lose your entire army, and get shot.
      3) Launch some throw away troops, lose those, then shrug and say you tried. The offensive is cancelled and most of the army is still intact.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >and most of the army is still intact.
        155th lost 6800 people out of 2000 they initially had in less than a year.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          you can always press gang more meat. That is worthless as b***hes will birth more. What is not is preserving your machines which cant be as easily replaced.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >you can always press gang more meat
            Lol no, Monke is afraid to conscript more meat in big numbers after 300k already caused several regions protest and cancel their mooobilozation
            >captcha XXXXXH

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You know that meat is supposed to actually accomplish things, and to do so it’s best they be trained?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              In the Kiev feint highly trained VDV and Spetsnaz groups were being killed by TDF volkssturm. It does not matter how well trained you are as nothing will protect you from a random bullet and shell flying in.

              What you can do is spam your enemy to death with pure, raw fists of meat. Quality and training dont matter, every kid can shoot a gun. What matters is overwhelming the bandera faschist invaders with unstoppable walls like back in the Great Patriotic War.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >That is worthless as b***hes will birth more
            one thing russia has in common with the first world is the birth rate

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >the offensice is cancelled
        Well obviously it hasnt been cancelled since their still throwing shit at vuhledar
        Failure probably isnt a option so they just continue smashing their head against the wall until either they or ukies break

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those armored vehicles are just expendable prisoners. HATO is foolishly eating away at its ammo supply while Russia expends nothing but trash. Once the so called Ukraine has depleted itself, consequences will never be the same.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they havent got the logistics or intel to keep and maintain and protect such a large force

      it just makes them easier targets

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >And what's the point of sending daily waves of like 2 T-72s, 3 BMPs and 3 MTLBs
      This is the force structure of the new 'Assault Unit' that replaced the BTG

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    sources?

    and does Oryx still count them tanks?
    I haven't seen anyone mentioned about him for some time now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He does, but Russian vehicle losses have slowed down a little bit in recent months with Bakhmut being mainly an infantry affair and what not

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Russian vehicle losses have slowed down a little bit
        They have fried more than a hundred Russian vehicles in Vuhledar, so no

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    No one lies more than the Russians though, this simply isn't possible.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Russia: we will never abandon Kherson
    Ukraine: we will take Kherson
    so... who turned out to be lying?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no proof russia ever held kherson or even wanted to hold kherson

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >PROOFS!
        >NO PROOFS!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Russians planned to fill Kherson with a large amount of troops until the line near Kharkiv collapsed, then withdraw those troops to reinforce elsewhere
        So your argument is that Russians are moronic?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty sure Russia lost more armor and trucks during the pontoon fiasco.
    But well, could that be considered a battle?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >they fought a river
      >and lost

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      most of them were IFVs during the Great Pontooning, not tanks.

      Apparently these were actual tank tanks.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        can't believe I'm already nostalgic over this war

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you know, most vatniks still believe those are ukie losses

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The fact that Vuhledar is even in the same league as the pontooning is spectacular

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Our king has returned

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    The ghost of kyiv would wreck your stupid unfound claims

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >The Russians are now mostly just shutting up and saying nothing
    God I wish.
    How many times has irrelevant shithole de jure been taken by Russia this week?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if anything they kicked up a gear again recently.
      wonder if it has anything to do with the drop off of china's last shilling run where we got to discussing what a fricked up and backwards people they were culturally, and how their shills are government slaves, and suddenly the shills just vanished like the firewall had snapped into place.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It matters not, for they forever will hold the piss key.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >The Russians lost more than 130 tanks, BMP/APCs
    If that's true it's completely unsustainable. Just an absolutely enormous amount of armor lost to capture a strategically insignificant town and they haven't even taken Bakhmut. And if/when they do take Bakhmut, the Ukrainians have dug another series of defensive structures to the west and Russia will have to do it all over again. The Russians are gonna fricken lose

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they didnt even take Vuhledar. They advanced 0 meters

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Technically Russia has advanced 33,768,000 miles in the offensive*~~))

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Russians lost more than 130 tanks, BMP/APCs
      >If that's true it's completely unsustainable.
      It's not true

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >visually confirmed losses from 26/01 to 27/02
        Off to go call Oryx liar again are we?
        Well, hop to it then, vatnik.

        How long will you suffer under the delusion your foes lie as much as you do?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Oryx's page doesn't include location though, so how would you know which losses are from Vuhledar?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >so how would you know which losses are from Vuhledar
            Because that's what the other several dozen visually confirmed losses are for, stuff not from around Vuhledar.

            Oh? Did you assume that 137 was ALL visually confirmed losses in the ENTIRE theater during that time span?
            Haha. No. Those are just the subset Ukrainians are claiming are from Vuhledar. Everything extra is from elsewhere, like Bakhmut.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Here ya go. Geolocated losses. You should know better than to challenge the collective autism of the internet.
            https://ukr.warspotting.net/

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Jesus titty fricking Christ

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >60 planes
              >77 helicopters

              where? ive only seen a couple

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Maybe if you click, you'll see a fricking list with pictures and locations where available.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                are you some kind of fetal alcohol syndrome optimized vatnik AI chatbot? they are right fricking there. click the pictures of planes and helicopters to see the full list. jesus christ you are ever dense.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous
            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              What the frick is this kek

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Bukhanka is hot

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Allah will strike down the invaders and their prostitutes.
                >https://streamable.com/b9dfry

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >If that's true it's completely unsustainable
      That's been this whole war since April. To USSRs credit though, Russia has lost more equipment than most countries even have combined. Any other nation would have backed all the way back in August. I used to question if both sides were just needlessly paranoid during the Cold War. But those Vodka Black folk really did want WW3.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Russia still has 8k tanks, 20k AFVs and 100k artillery pieces to grind Ukraine into dust.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why not just stop trying at this point? Those fake numbers are thousands higher than even their pre-war ones.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >over 120 vehicles
    So about 2 battalions. A noticeable defeat, but it's not special and it's not a gamechanger. Russia has more conscripts and 1960s APCs where those came from.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      BTR-50 is not from 60s

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Russia has more conscripts
      General Bald is saying Russia needs to stop the SMO and formally declare a war.

      Wanna know why?
      Hint: They're running low on immediately available meat, and the last time that happened Kharkiv collapsed.

      >1960s APCs
      1950s, actually.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah but piggies lost 130 mines

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Russia lost the biggest tank battle of this war, - The New York Times
    >The enemy's three-week offensive on Vugledar became the largest tank battle of the war at this time. The Russians lost more than 130 tanks, BMP/APCs
    mud season has started early the Russian offensive is fricked now. Ukraine will tear them a new butthole on dry ground in spring

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wouldn’t be very surprised if there’s an impending limited Ukrainian counter-offensive like this week. That’d be neat.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm really looking forward to this year's Victory Day parade.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    KURAKHOVE, Ukraine — Before driving into battle in their mud-spattered war machine, a T-64 tank, the three-man Ukrainian crew performs a ritual.

    The commander, Pvt. Dmytro Hrebenok, recites the Lord’s Prayer. Then, the men walk around the tank, patting its chunky green armor.

    “We say, ‘Please, don’t let us down in battle,’” said Sgt. Artyom Knignitsky, the mechanic. “‘Bring us in and bring us out.’”

    Their respect for their tank is understandable. Perhaps no weapon symbolizes the ferocious violence of war more than the main battle tank. Tanks have loomed over the conflict in Ukraine in recent months — militarily and diplomatically — as both sides prepared for offensives. Russia pulled reserves of tanks from Cold War-era storage, and Ukraine prodded Western governments to supply American Abrams and German Leopard 2 tanks.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The sophisticated Western tanks are expected on the battlefield in the next several months. The new Russian armor turned up earlier — and in its first wide-scale deployment was decimated.

      A three-week battle on a plain near the coal-mining town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine produced what Ukrainian officials say was the biggest tank battle of the war so far, and a stinging setback for the Russians.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In the extended battle, both sides sent tanks into the fray, rumbling over dirt roads and maneuvering around tree lines, with the Russians thrusting forward in columns and the Ukrainians maneuvering defensively, firing from a distance or from hiding places as Russian columns came into their sights.

      When it was over, not only had Russia failed to capture Vuhledar, but it also had made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks earlier in the war: advancing columns into ambushes.

      Blown up on mines, hit with artillery or obliterated by anti-tank missiles, the charred hulks of Russian armored vehicles now litter farm fields all about Vuhledar, according to Ukrainian military drone footage. Ukraine’s military said Russia had lost at least 130 tanks and armored personnel carriers in the battle. That figure could not be independently verified. Ukraine does not disclose how many weapons it loses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        We studied the roads they used, then hid and waited” to shoot in ambushes, Sergeant Knignitsky said.

        Lack of expertise also bedeviled the Russians. Many of their most elite units had been left in shambles from earlier fighting. Their spots were filled with newly conscripted soldiers, unschooled in Ukraine’s tactics for ambushing columns. In one indication that Russia is running short of experienced tank commanders, Ukrainian soldiers said they captured a medic who had been reassigned to operate a tank.

        The Russian army has focused on, and even mythologized, tank warfare for decades for its redolence of Russian victories over the Nazis in World War II. Factories in the Ural Mountains have churned out tanks by the thousands. In Vuhledar, by last week Russia had lost so many machines to sustain armored assaults that they had changed tactics and resorted only to infantry attacks, Ukrainian commanders said.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The depth of the Russian defeat was underscored by Russian military bloggers, who have emerged as an influential pro-war voice in the country. Often critical of the military, they have posted angry screeds about the failures of repeated tank assaults, blaming generals for misguided tactics with a storied Russian weapon.

          Grey Zone, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Wagner mercenary group, posted on Monday that “relatives of the dead are inclined almost to murder and blood revenge against the general” in charge of the assaults near Vuhledar.

          In a detailed interview last week in an abandoned house near the front, Lt. Vladislav Bayak, the deputy commander of Ukraine’s 1st Mechanized Battalion of the 72nd brigade, described how Ukrainian soldiers were able to inflict such heavy losses in what commanders said was the biggest tank battle of the war so far.

          Ambushes have been Ukraine’s signature tactic against Russian armored columns since the early days of the war. Working from a bunker in Vuhledar, Lieutenant Bayak spotted the first column of about 15 tanks and armored personnel carriers approaching on a video feed from a drone.

          “We were ready,” he said. “We knew something like this would happen.”

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They had prepared a kill zone farther along a dirt road that the tanks were rumbling down. The commander needed only to give an order over the radio — “To battle!” — Lieutenant Bayak said.

            Anti-tank teams hiding in tree lines along the fields, and armed with American infrared-guided Javelins and Ukrainian laser-guided Stugna-P missiles, powered up their weapons. Farther away, artillery batteries were ready. The dirt road had been left free of mines, while the fields all about were seeded with them, so as to entice the Russians to advance while preventing tanks from turning around once the trap was sprung.

            The column of tanks becomes most vulnerable, Lieutenant Bayak said, after the shooting starts and drivers panic and try to turn around — by driving onto the mine-laden shoulder of the road. Blown-up vehicles then act as impediments, slowing or stalling the column. At that point, Ukrainian artillery opens fire, blowing up more armor and killing soldiers who clamber out of disabled machines. A scene of chaos and explosions ensues, the lieutenant said.

            Russian commanders have sent armored columns forward for a lack of other options against Ukraine’s well-fortified positions, however costly the tactic, he said.

            Over about three weeks of the tank battle, repeated Russian armored assaults floundered. In one instance, Ukrainian commanders called in a strike by HIMARS guided rockets; they are usually used on stationary targets like ammunition depots or barracks, but also proved effective against a stationary tank column.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              The Ukrainians also fired with American M777 and French Caesar howitzers, as well as other Western-provided weaponry such as the Javelins.

              The Ukrainian tank crew that prayed before each battle nicknamed their tank The Wanderer, for its wandering movements around the battlefield. Between missions it remained hidden in trees under a camouflage net, beside a road churned into a panorama of mud by passing tanks, five miles or so from the front line.

              During the battle for Vuhledar, Private Hrebenok, the commander, was ordered to drive forward from that spot on dangerous missions, three or four times per day.

              Private Hrebenok, only 20 years old, had no formal training in tank combat when the war started. But in the frantic first days of the war he was assigned to a tank, and has fought continuously in them since, picking up tricks along the way.

              Training still looms as a problem. Ukraine, too, is losing skilled soldiers and replacing them with green recruits. And many Ukrainian tank crewmen are being trained on Western tanks in countries like Germany and Britain.

              “All my knowledge I gained in the field,” he said. The Russian tank crews, he said, are in contrast mostly new recruits without the benefit of any combat to season them.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              In ambushes, the crew hides the tank within range of a road that Russian tanks or armored personnel carriers might travel down. Then it waits quietly. As they sit and prepare for ambush, they must keep the engine warm, because restarting it would take too long. Idling would be noisy. Instead, they burn a small kerosene heater beside the motor.

              Once, while they were waiting, a Russian armored personnel carrier passed through their sight and they fired but narrowly missed, damaging but not destroying the machine.

              In the last major engagement, a week ago, the order came in during the gray pre-dawn to prepare an ambush for a column of 16 Russian tanks and armored vehicles advancing toward the Ukrainian lines. The crew said their prayer, patted their tank and drove forward.

              “We hid the tank in a tree line and waited for them,” Private Hrebenok said. “It’s always scary but we need to destroy them.”

              In this instance, they stopped about three miles short of the ambush site, just out of range of return fire, and shot in coordination with a drone pilot who called in coordinates on a radio for targets they could not see directly.

              The Russian column stalled on mines and, Private Hrebenok said, The Wanderer opened fire. The Russian tank crews had little chance once they were in the kill zone, he said.

              “We destroyed a lot of Russian equipment,” he said. “What they did wrong was come to Ukraine.”
              Maria Varenikova contributed reporting.
              Full article copied sorry I can't include pics but 12 ft ladder is dog shit now and I dont know ant alternatives for this

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >When it was over, not only had Russia failed to capture Vuhledar, but it also had made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks earlier in the war: advancing columns into ambushes.
        Russian are learning btw*~~)

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Russian are learning btw*~~)
          should've learned before the invasion hwo to take Kyiv

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            pls understand
            large scale mechanised war has never been done before, no one could have known
            small indie country~~*

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              hato mercanries were inside Mriya directing b-2 hato strikes against brave vdv fighters who were executing hohol pigs
              Mriya was then destroyed in false flag b2 strike using direct energy weapon

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >pls understand
              >large scale mechanised war has never been done before, no one could have known

              Putin said, 3 days if he wanted too.
              But then again, Puccians generals are too cowardice to tell that to him
              Also, Puccia just lacked "talents" to do these

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      praying to the machine spirits is part of the soviet manual of arms, please understand.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I never knew I was a soviet tanker, because I do the same every morning before I start my shitbox of a car

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm sick of the Russia tank fetish. This is just one more reason why they need to be broken

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >noooo, don't pray to vehicle on which your life depends

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