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On June 9, the Russian media shared video footage revealing the humiliating defeat Kiev forces suffered from while attempting to advance near the village of Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region a day earlier.
The video shows two German-made Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks and five American-made M2A2 ODS infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) which were destroyed or heavily damaged during the failed offensive. Several other vehicles, including additional Leopard 2 tanks, American-made MaxxPro mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles and Soviet-made BMR-2 mine-clearing vehicles, were abandoned by Kiev forces.
The attackers were initially slowed down by anti-tank landmines and dragon’s teeth anti-tank obstacles, and later reneged with artillery fire and airstrikes. Attack helicopters and tank hunters also played a key role in repelling the attack, according to the available information.
Russian Minister of Defense General Sergey Shoigu said in a statement that up to 1,500 troops and 150 pieces of armor from the 47th mechanized brigade took part in the ill-fated attack.
Kiev forces lost a total of 30 tanks, 11 IFVs and up to 350 personnel while attempting to advance, the minister revealed in his statement.
The fact that advanced NATO equipment recently supplied by the West, like the Leopard 2 tanks and Bradley IFVs, took part in the attack proves that this was not just a “shaping” or “probing” operation, as claimed by the Ukrainian and Western media. Kiev forces were clearly attempting to hold ground and failed in doing so.
Ukraine was promised around 90 Leopard 2 tanks and more than 100 Bradley IFVs by NATO states in recent months. Most of these equipment were delivered before the beginning of the so-called spring counteroffensive on June 4.
The humiliating defeat of Kiev forces near Orekhov confirms that these weapons, which were promoted as Wunderwaffe by the mainstream media, can’t change the balance of power in the battlefield. The Russian military remains the dominant force.
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i am nott sure if russia has currently the escalation dominance. russia is forced to hide in uts defense lines. so it is a force excess of ukraine there. but most import is that ukraine is only loosing manpower and equipment without any success. maybe in the summer russia gets the initiative back and can be successful when the afu is depleted from its attacks.
they have totsl advantage on the ground. the ukro loses are not anymore 10 to 1, but 20 to 1. gowever they are forced to make such suicidal attacks for their masters. remember thst ukroland don’t have army since october 2022 anymore. only nato toys, cannon fodder and terrorist attacks here and there. russia can sit down and eleminate the whole cannon fodder as it comes from a safe position. only then, when there are no more suicidal losers, probably nect year, will they advance, easily.
it should also be mentioned that in the past 70 years there’s probably nothing that raised russian morale as much as the start of this ukrainian counter offensive lmfao. we all anticipated that ultimately the imported western tech will be inevitably destroyed, but the sheer level of carnage is beyond anyone’s expectations. these poor sobs can’t even make it to the front lines….
russia is actually making some gains in the north around kupyansk. not much information on it but looks like actual shaping movements. the russians are probably planning to retake the norther area in a few weeks to months once the ukrainians die down a little more from these heavy losses in the south.
we will see in near future if you are right. at the moment this is not confirmed.
the ukrainian choice to attack like this may in fact indicate their depletion. they are pulling all their last resources in. remember that the ussr was still defending against german tank attacks using their shovels in 1945 at lake balaton, so the russians are aware that defense is the right thing to focus on when the other side is stupid enough to throw everything in
its not depletion if the data russia provides on ukro numbers is anything to go by. according to them they have a strike force of over 80000 in the area with thousands of armored vehicles.
“i want to congratulate on my own behalf and on behalf of the wagner pmc team, on behalf of the fighters and commanders, to congratulate those who destroyed enemy equipment in the zaporizhia direction – the same leopards that are now widely dispersed in the media and social networks. thank you, guys! well done!
the 58th army, artillerymen, motorized riflemen, who from the trenches attacked the enemy, on manpower, finishing them off, and the russian aerospace forces, who supported them from the air. we still have a lot of work to do to restore the former glory of the russian army and the brilliance of russian weapons.” (c) prigogine
nato boots on the ground will be coming in later. the aircraft will be flown by nato pilots.
and filled nato body bags would soon be going the other way.
possible. the russian general staff, are all seasoned professional soldiers, and are all at an age where they know what they are doing, if any slip up they get replaced, even in ww2 it was not uncommon for generals to be replaced with more capable generals, it is the same in every army around the world, no matter which uniform. military conflicts are a harsh but fair teacher.
we have all witnessed how leopards performed when turkey launched offensive against isis in syria. despite that, western media tells fairy tales how leopards are superior tanks.
this excellent news will be portrayed as a success by nato. lol.
with a fair wind, nato will be disbanded by the usa so that sleepy joe and the us is not blamed.
the usa always throws its allies under the bus ( max-pro ) before another hurried flight from reality.
hurrah to all the russian soldiers.
1 leopard, 4 bradley, 1 t64 in video and 3 more pieces of equipment
no dead around
attack with 150 pieces of equipment and 1500 person and defender caused less than 10% of the attacking force?
the helicopter pilots get paid extra per kill so each helicopter destroys the same piece over and over. it’s like if software developers were paid for fixing bugs.
so there was a break-through and envelopment of the russians by the attacking forces of the failed ukrainian cia project? got those pictures, urinal-puck muncher?
what a pathetic, moronic cope lol yeah they should publish every dead ukroid or never happened. go to hell and count them yourself
but here bitch just for you: one more destroyed bradley crap with dead ukros around. cope bitch!
t.me/novichokrossiya/33071?single
the russians as a rule only photographed the ukrainian corpse heaps when they crossed into belgorod dressed in the wrong uniforms, claiming to be russians, and were illegal combatants. they also executed all of them and took no prisoners in that case
😱😱😱😰😰😰
so. did yall gain any ground?
no.
dead inside.
regardless of how russia does it, the main objective is ‘demilitarization’ of the ukraine. that objective is being met.
exactly, the russian generals would have asked ukraine to do this offensive in this way if they could. it was what they have wanted since the start, nice rows of nato vehicles to blow up with every rocket they have created for that task, and like they have trained for
most weapons on ukraine is russian.
demilitarization = destroy them all
no hope for the ukris. their loses are already 20 to 1. suicidal failed state. but most important is the west impotence. really beautiful and everybody is watching.
unfortunately the western media is providing limited coverage to hide the tracks of failed western economic, military and political decision making until the next scheming plan evolves, i.e. 100s of blow up dolls pictured from space showing russian aggression.
fun fact: immediately post ww 2 such was the german losses in man power there was 7 german women for every german man.
after russia is done breaking up the counter offensive all ukraine will have to recruit is boys and old men, zelenskky’s days will be numbered.
ukraine has already declared a general mobilsation of all men from 16 till 63 years. this is why ukraine has so many soldiers. some of the volunteer battalions are already slaughtered.
excellent! too early to celebrate yet but so far so good.
the reward for a léopard 2 has been reduced to 10 rubles…..
circa 15 mila costosi armamenti usa-nato sono stati distrutti dai russi in soli 15 mesi di guerra !
la propaganda occidentale continua a dichiarare che le armi usa-nato sono superiori !
le persone ignoranti è stupide credono dopo 15 mesi di disfatte militari ucraine che queste false notizie pubblicitarie usa-nato siano informazioni vere !
sono 15 mesi che la delirante ed ossessiva propaganda di guerra fatta dai paesi usa-uk-ue-nato ed ucraini nazisti ripetono sempre la stessa storiella che le armi e le munizioni usa-uk-ue-nato regalate agli ucraini nazisti sono armi superiori rispetto a quelle russe !
sono ormai 15 mesi che l” ucraina nazista subisce sonore ed umilianti sconfitte militari !
i really wish this war would stop, but i’m afraid these neo-cons and nazis are not going to until the last ukrainian, it’s shocking to say the least, when this is over i really hope there held accountable and go to jail for the rest of there miserable life and then go to hell…
i think any sane person would, unfortunately russia now has to see this war to it’s end, or ukraine will be rearmed and we’ll be back where we started in 2022.
essentially it shows how hard it is to attack. both sides found it difficult. i think the ukrainians are missing the initiative from the point of view that they need a d-day scale operation, not sending once company at a time to its death. in the iran iraq war 80,000 iranians died in one day in certain battles. waves of troops and tranks with artillery and air support.
no, ukro tactic is ok. but attacking prepared defenses was difficult even in ww2 (kursk), today is much worse. we are not talking about some tribal army like iraq but real defenders with modern weapons. even in syria it was extremely difficult. so these small formations have better chance of survival (or retreat if it fails), send an entire brigade and it will be a bloodbath.
but… but… leos and bradleys are invincible 😱😰
clearly the ukranians need more women on the front line. along with a more diverse strike force including windrush contingents and indians, only a gender nuetral multicultural force can work together as a team to defeat truth and goodness as mad putin defends his people.
yeah it’s funny ukro bitches like to scream on tik tok and pose in uniforms under bandera pictures, but not many (if any) on the frontline.
they even seemed to have painted their vehicle in a dark color and put a cross on them, making them not only an easy target for russian troops but marking themselves out as having a death wish
the reality of usa and nato weapons … they will be destroyed like other system …
the reason why american didn’t send abrams’, they forced germans to be humiliated. i’m surprised they even sent bradleys, probably because europeans don’t even have large number of ifvs available
la russia ha sbagliato il calcolo della guerra lampo ma l’occidente ha sbagliato il calcolo di distruggere la russia. l’america ( e l’europa politica) non pensavano di sconfiggere la russia sul campo di battaglia ma mandandola in fallimento con le sanzioni cosa che avrebbe dovuto creare malcontento e un cambio di governo favorevole agli usa. la distruzine di costosa attrezzatura è poca cosa rispetto a questo fallimento.
anche l’occidente ha calcolato male le sanzioni, da cui l’effetto boomerang.
most of the nato weapons which arrived with much fanfare have been rendered useless by now. himars not hitting targets due to gps jamming, bayraktors have all been shot down, leopards getting destroyed, patriots finished, jdams going wayward, storm shadows intercepted. now it’s the turn of f 16 and abrams tanks. but in most part of the globe western media alone are available. these media are spreading stellar lies to convince everyone that ukraine is winning and superiority of western weapons.
i think when the russians can counterattack and exploit afu defeats, they can be considered dominant. right now, they have a dominant amount of fire power with no ability to maneuver.
another great video, massive carnage of afu/nato equipment
https://t.me/ddgeopolitics/68189
beautiful sight… they will keep attacking tho, their masters from washington demand attack at all costs. but they can’t sustain these losses for long…
burn baby burn 🔥🔥🔥
did the russian army managed to capture the leo 2 a6?
could we lose the front 242 soundtrack and have a narrator, instead. thanks