The New Whats Wrong with the Russian Army

[mack7.62]

I sure would hate to be a Russian tanker. Looks like 3 guys were riding on top, possibly another tank crew, survived the hit that set the turret ammo on fire and it looks like the driver managed to bail out so that is 4 lucky tankers.

https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/stat...36675663241219

BlueSauron��️
@Blue_Sauron
Russian T-72B3 tank chased down by the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade in Donetsk Oblast.
#Russia #Ukraine

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I sure would hate to be a Russian tanker.

https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/stat...36675663241219

BlueSauron��️
@Blue_Sauron
Russian T-72B3 tank chased down by the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade in Donetsk Oblast.
#Russia #Ukraine

What is that song in the background? I hear it a lot in these videos.

[mack7.62]

Looks like Russia "broke into the wrong damn rec room".

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/st...52522403004417

UkraineWorld
@ukraine_world
In the first 3 months of its so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine, Russia has likely suffered a similar death toll to that experienced by the Soviet Union during its 9-year war in Afghanistan.
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Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 23 May 2022

Find out more about the UK government's response: http://ow.ly/TRRL50Jf6E5

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[mack7.62]

Another case of Russia breaking it's word, again.

https://twitter.com/PaulNiland/statu...24714625159172

Paul Niland
@PaulNiland
There's no such thing as the "Donetsk People's Republic", quoting this non-entity as a source gives them recognition and status that is undeserved. They're Russian puppets. This move comes from Moscow, not Donetsk.
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Samuel Ramani
@SamRamani2
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BREAKING: The Donetsk People's Republic confirms that it will hold tribunals for Azovstal steel fighters

[mack7.62]

Interesting. What does this say about the Russian AF that they are giving mercenaries ground attack planes.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1529099517005639682

Rob Lee
@RALee85
The BBC confirmed Ukraine's claim that retired Russian Major General Kanamat Botashev was shot down, possibly by a Stinger MANPADS, in a Su-25 aircraft near Popasna on Sunday and killed. It appears he was flying for Wagner.
https://bbc.com/russian/features-61559430

Rob Lee
@RALee85
Botashev was a former regimental commander but was forced to retire after he decided to take a Su-27 fighter for a joyride and crashed it while performing acrobatics. 2/

[mack7.62]

Dang it's getting harder to be a war criminal now days.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/...43929077121025

The Kyiv Independent
@KyivIndependent
⚡️Prosecutors identify 8 Russians involved in war crimes in Ukraine.

Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said that they had taken part in the murder of the mayor of Motyzhyn in Kyiv Oblast and the torture of Ukrainian civilians.

These include Oleg Krikunov, Chingis Gonchikov, Alexander Vanchikov, Magomedmirza Suleymanov and Vitaly Dmitriev, who belong to Russia’s 37th motorized infantry brigade, as well as Sergei Sazanov, Sergey Sazonov and Alexander Stupnitsky from Wagner, a Russian military contractor.

[Wake27]

Interesting. What does this say about the Russian AF that they are giving mercenaries ground attack planes.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1529099517005639682

Rob Lee
@RALee85
The BBC confirmed Ukraine's claim that retired Russian Major General Kanamat Botashev was shot down, possibly by a Stinger MANPADS, in a Su-25 aircraft near Popasna on Sunday and killed. It appears he was flying for Wagner.
https://bbc.com/russian/features-61559430

Rob Lee
@RALee85
Botashev was a former regimental commander but was forced to retire after he decided to take a Su-27 fighter for a joyride and crashed it while performing acrobatics. 2/

Wagner has some serious capabilities for a PMC, I wouldn’t necessarily read too far into that part.


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[mack7.62]

I don't believe Wagner is really a PMC, more like a de facto private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin so yeah they get whatever Putin wants them to have. But if the Russian AF was performing up to snuff there would be no need to hire a retired General to perform CAS. Of course him getting shot down does prove the AF was right to be timid, I bet the Russian pilots were happier than the Ukrainians that he got shot down "see we told you it's not safe".

[mack7.62]

Documented Russian tank losses. Likely hundreds more with no photo or video record or that can't be identified as Russian or Ukrainian.

(711, of which destroyed: 389, damaged: 22, abandoned: 54, captured: 243)

https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/st...79155028152322

Oryx
@oryxspioenkop
#UkraineWar: Russia is now visually confirmed to have lost 700 tanks since it began its invasion of Ukraine three months ago.

This includes:

- 18 T-64s
- 417 T-72s
- 133 T-80s
- 20 T-90s
- 112 Unknown tanks

Full list: https://oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/at...equipment.html

[mack7.62]

See above.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status...04520828133380

Ukraine Weapons Tracker
@UAWeapons
#Ukraine: Videos recently appeared showing ancient T-62M & T-62MV tanks being moved from military storage in Rostov Oblast & Crimea, for possible use in UA.

These are stored in the Russian mobilisation reserve- but most were already donated to Tajikistan, LNA (Libya) & Syria.

It is quite possible that these relics will be transferred to LNR/DNR forces, as previously other vintage equipment was delivered to them from Russia, including Grad-1 MLRS and MT-12 AT guns.

But we can't rule out that in the end they will be used by Russian troops.

The T-62 series is inferior to others in UA in many ways- armour, gun, optics/FCS & 4-man crew.

The latter is quite a serious issue, as all other Russian MBT have 3 crew members, but to normally operate a T-62 a loader is required- how many trained crews Russia has is uncertain.