Nicolas Cinquini

the saga of the Western Panzerkampfwagen in Donbass and Ukraine

• Overture

A little over 80 years ago, in 1941, under the leadership of Germany, Europe invaded the Soviet Union. In June 1942, Ukraine was the rear base of a Nazi offensive toward the Caucasus and Volga river, but in January 1943, the annihilation of Friedrich Paulus’ 6. Armee at Stalingrad reversed the tide of WW2. The last Nazi offensive, in July, triggered around Kursk the largest tank battle in history and a new Soviet victory. The Red Army liberated Kiev in November 1943 and seized Berlin in May 1945

Lviv is in western Ukraine the epicenter of a Nazi legacy since WW2. Late 2013, an economical dispute with the European Union led, in western Ukraine and Kiev, to a pro-Europe uprising against the legal government. With the help of Nazi political organizations from Lviv and likely, foreign provocative gunmen, NATO achieved a rightist coup in February 2014. Later, Russian-speaking residents of Crimea and Donbass have risen up against the Russophobia of the new authorities, which called them terrorists, cracked down on them with the loyal members of the armed forces and the same Nazi militants, legalized meanwhile as paramilitaries. That was the outbreak of war in Donbass. NATO countries are offering their military support to Ukraine since the beginning. Galvanized, the successive Ukrainian governments did not seriously negotiate, have not implemented Minsk peace agreements. Former German Kanzlerin, Angela Merkel confessed to der Zeit on December 7, 2022

2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to buy Ukraine time. It has used this time to strengthen itself, as can be seen today

France and Germany were hypocritical when they sponsored an agreement which was supposed to cease fire and bring peace. The Western goal was actually to gain time, in order for NATO to reinforce the military power of the Ukrainian Nazi deep State. Ukraine has carried on with the terrorist shelling of civilians and on February 24, 2022, Russia has started a special military operation, in order to liberate Donbass, demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. That is the proxy war that NATO was seeking. Why ? In order to preserve a hegemony on the decline if not already an illusion, against Russia, China and most of the wide world, for a new world order against a multipolar one, the US and their European vassals are regarding that war as an opportunity of strategic victory. Their wet dream is to dismember Russia and subdue China

Among other symbolic references to Nazism and German army during WW2, the Ukrainian military vehicles are displaying a white cross since September 2022

The Balkenkreuz [bar cross] was the common sign on German Panzer on September 1, 1939, when began the invasion of Poland and WW2. The symbol later evolved and remained until 1945

Russia is enforcing an attrition strategy. The operations are a carnage for the Ukrainian forces. While the Ukrainian artillery is firing around 6,000 shells a day all over the front line, the Russian consumption may raise to 50,000, has reminded late November 2022 a senior anonymous NATO official. In view of the Russian air supremacy, tactical, operational and strategic strikes on military targets, despite the massive involvement of Western intelligence, the Ukrainian casualties are obviously far higher

According to a Russian mathematical model, the Ukrainian military fatalities since February 24 are currently above 150,000. On November 30, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, confirmed that the death toll was already above 100,000. The fatalities are not restricted to the Ukrainian cannon fodder, Western mercenaries are also killed in the ranks of that Atlanticist army

Lock of the Atlanticist defense system in the still occupied part of Donbass, Bakhmut, also called Artemovsk, is a hot spot, where the Ukrainian reserves are currently sacrificed

For Wagner private military company (PMC), a major Russian force involved so far in the area, Yevgeny Prigozhin has already stated on November 26, 2022

Bakhmut is a large, well-fortified area with roads, suburbs, and water barriers. The Ukrainian army is well-prepared and offers decent resistance. Our task is not Bakhmut itself, but the attrition of the Ukrainian army to reduce its combat potential, which is why this operation has been dubbed the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder.’ In this regard, do not run ahead of the locomotive, we will let you know, happiness loves silence

In the hope of turning the tide in 2023, Ukraine should receive Western armored fighting vehicles (AFV), 59 US infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) Bradley, 40 German IFV Marder and 30 French AMX-10 RC, which are not tanks, despite their 105 mm gun, but old armored recce vehicles

On January 11, 2023, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in Lviv, western Ukraine, his counterparts from Lithuania and Poland, Gitanas Nausėda and Andrzej Duda. Together, they decided to reinforce in Ukraine the defense of the so-called Euro-Atlantic coalition. Poland would transfer a company of German-made Leopard tanks

In the wake, the UK has announced the delivery of 14 Challenger tanks. But in matter of Leopards, Poland and the other east European good wills need that Germany allows their export.

German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that in a phone call with US president Joe Biden on January 17, Kanzler Olaf Scholz has claimed to be ready to deliver Leopards to Ukraine, but on one condition : if the US in turn delivered Abrams tanks. On January 19, der Bundestag debated the delivery of Panzer to Ukraine. Member of parliament Peter Bystron, AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany, right-wing), stated

German Panzer against Russia in Ukraine ? By the way, you already tried that with the Melnyks and Banderas [Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian Nazi leader during WW2] and what is the result ? Unspeakable suffering, millions of dead on both sides and in the end, Russian tanks here in Berlin !

He added

The conflict in Ukraine cannot be solved with Panzer, only with diplomacy […] Only the US armaments companies benefit from arms deliveries […] The majority of the German people reject arms deliveries to Ukraine. The traffic light government [red-green] should finally start conducting politics in the interests of the German people

A number of parties were opposing the transfer and the decision was postponed. Meanwhile, the Russian regular forces started attacking in the south, are threatening Orekhovsky, 65 km southeast of Ukrainian-occupied Zaporojie, on the left bank of Dnieper river. If confirmed and successful, such an offensive could lead to the destruction of the Atlanticist forces east of the river

Andriy Melnyk is the previous ambassador to Germany, a revisionist and an apologist of his national hero, Ukrainian Nazi war criminal Stepan Bandera. On November 18, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed him deputy foreign affairs minister. On January 20, 2023, Melnyk called for a tank coalition in Ukraine

Representatives of the Atlanticist coalition, the US, Ukraine and their auxiliaries, met the same day in the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, but did not announce the delivery of Leopard or Abrams tanks

According to dem Spiegel, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, German intelligence) was then assessing that the Atlanticist forces were losing three-digit numbers of soldiers every day around Bakhmut.

On January 21, a Wagner fighter proudly displayed his trophies, including the chevrons that he had seized in Bakhmut area, on demilitarized foreign mercenaries from Canada, Georgia, Italy, Turkey, the UK and US

In the Ostgebiete [eastern territories] on January 23, the psychodrama went on when Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated

We will apply for such consent from Germany, but this is a secondary topic. Even if we do not get this consent at the end, as part of a small coalition, even if the Germans would not be in this coalition, we will still hand over our tanks [German Leopards] together with others to Ukraine. The condition for us at the moment is to build at least a just small coalition of States […] in Western Europe […]

The campaign #FreeTheLeopards was trending on social networks, with involvement of characters like Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin

and German stylist Frank Peter Wild, who was advocating for a while on Instagram, from his elevator in Berlin

Here was the distribution of Leopard Panzerkampfwagen across Europe on January 23, 2023

The French press may be the worst coterie worldwide of atavistic lackeys. The State is subsidizing them all. Their reports about the prospects of tanks delivery to Ukraine are hilarious. The public propaganda channel franceinfo asks on January 24

War in Ukraine: why does Germany have control over Poland’s [German] tanks ?

But the right-wing Point states

It would not be a good idea to deliver [French] Leclerc tanks to Ukraine

The suspense ends the same day, when according to dem Spiegel and other German outlets, Kanzler Olaf Scholz has agreed to send German Panzerkampfwagen to Ukraine. The historians will measure the part of the submission to the US and that of a pure German neurosis

My brief forecast : the Western tanks are carrying four crew members, require training, will not be soon on the front line. A few dozens will not turn the tide in Ukraine, but will be destroyed. According to the Russian defense ministry, the Atlanticist forces have already lost more than 7,600 tanks and other AFVs in 11 months, since February 24, 2022. The spectacle of the combustion on the battlefield of Western tanks may have a larger psychological and political impact than their military influence

• January 25, 2023

The government confirms that Germany will send 14 Leopards to Ukraine. The plan is to form two battalions, that is about 88 tanks, with contribution of other countries. New German defense minister, Boris Pistorius predicts that these formations may reach the front line in about three months, that is early May.

Poland has already announced the delivery of a company, that is 14 vehicles. Germany has managed to convince the US, which will deliver 31 Abrams, confirms Joe Biden. 14 British Challengers should be also part of the 88 Western Panzerkampfwagen ultimately engaged in Ukraine. 75% of mankind are eager to watch their wrecks on the battlefield. Government by grocers is a curse.

For a wide majority of Russians, the near involvement of Western tanks is a reminder of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Europe. Some channels are giving advice on how to burn the new German Panzerkampfwagen

Ukraine needs now crew members and more broadly, a new batch of cannon fodder. I guess some recruits were volunteer in March 2022, but the most are likely dead, now. The scenes of forced mobilization are increasingly cruel. An amateur video surfaces from Cherkasy. The woman has attempted to record the abduction of the man

• January 26, 2023

The first rewards are offered on social networks. One million rubles for the first captured Panzerkampfwagen, the half for the first destroyed one

The same day, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh states

we just don’t have these tanks [Abrams M1A2] available in excess in our US stocks

That is why the vehicles for Ukraine shall be manufactured. According to Politico, the sole plant is producing 12 machines per month, is overbooked for Taiwan and Poland, which is eager to replace its 250 T-72 already delivered to Ukraine.

• January 27, 2023

The near shipment of German Panzerkampfwagen to Ukraine makes people think in Charlottenburg, West Berlin

• January 29, 2023

The supposed Ukrainian crew members of British Challenger tanks have arrived in the UK for training

• February 3, 2023

Berlin has approved their exportation, Rheinmetall company plans to sell 88 Leopard I (one) to Ukraine for €100 million. The tank entered service in 1965. The version should be 1A5, an improvement in 1987, but the gun is still 105 mm and the armor is feeble. The Westerners have no regard for the Ukrainian cannon fodder

• February 7, 2023

German defense minister Boris Pistorius (left) visits Kiev, has brought the model of a Leopard 2 to Oleksii Reznikov, who is still his counterpart for a few days. Reznikov is falling because of a corruption scandal within his ministry. Surprising. The prosecution of a corruption case is surprising in Ukraine

Meanwhile, Ukrainian formations are training at Belarus border, are displaying their Balkenkreuze

• February 9, 2023

Handelsblatt has interviewed Armin Papperger, Rheinmetall CEO. The German company is talking to Kyiv about exporting the Panther […] in 15 to 18 months. Still under development, the KT (Kettenfahrzeug [tracked vehicle]) 51 Panther is based on the hull of the Leopard 2A4, with a new turret, a 130 mm gun and its auto-loader

The Panzerkampfwagen [armored fighting car] V Panther was intended to counter the Soviet T-34, was baptized in Kursk vicinity in July 1943, during the largest tank battle in history, a Soviet victory and a defeat for Nazi Europe

The disgrace is that so many Germans have forgotten so quickly that they are most offspring of Nazis. If modern Germany was a respectable country, its leaders would consider the legitimate demands of Russia, would strive to bring peace in such a situation, would not send Panzer.

• February 10, 2023

Public radio station Deutschlandfunk broadcasts the interview of 96-year-old Joachim Höppner, who was tank gunner within the Wehrmacht, 2. Panzerdivision, was involved in the battle of the Bulge, from December 1944 to January 1945, was later taken prisoner on the east front and detained in Soviet Ukraine. The interview provokes the ire of Andriy Melnyk and BILD, a grassroots reactionary tabloid for German rednecks. Melnyk is the current deputy foreign affairs minister in Ukraine, a revisionist and an ardent thurifer of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Nazi leader during WW2.

Höppner has become paficist, states about Panzerkampfwagen shipment to Ukraine

What are these heavy weapons which are being supplied ? What are the people who make such decisions thinking about ? You can’t solve any problems with weapons

BILD trolls hard, attacks Höppner and Deutschlandfunk over the military experience of the first, veteran within the Wehrmacht, but is supporting a modern Ukrainian State who is usually paying tribute to the Ukrainian SS and the UPA, a Nazi paramilitary formation during WW2. Its editorial line is for the Germans, the most in West Germany, who under the US umbrella, did not achieve their grieve about the German Nazi defeat against Soviet Union, which scored 80% of the German military losses during WW2. BILD is the prominent illustration of a German neurosis. How dumm or rather neurotic are such Germans, who become mad when Russia is conducting a special military operation in Donbass and Ukraine, but duck when the US sabotage Nord Stream.

• February 17, 2023

The Washington Post is a US militant outlet, which is expressing a strong support to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Ukraine. On February 14, Michael de Adder has drawn an interesting cartoon. The NATO team, no specific country, is hurrying up to prepare Ukraine for a spring offensive. And the tank is a German Leopard

But reality is more difficult. On January 24, the German government has agreed to deliver them and to allow their export by customers. Most of these leaders are exalted blabbermouths and soon, the announcements added up to dozens machines from several European countries. Three weeks later, the fever is gone. Der Spiegel has interviewed Boris Pistorius, the German defense minister. Germany should transfer 14 Leopard 2A6 and Portugal, three. Older versions and even archaic Leopards 1 could be delivered, but many of these tanks are in poor condition and need repairs. I stress that one German demand for the agreement was the shipment of US Abrams, but it could be postponed indefinitely.

• February 24, 2023

The Polish prime minister announces that the first batch of Polish tanks, already transferred to Ukraine, is including four Leopard 2. In the wake, the German defense ministry adds that Germany will send four additional ones. Platoon by platoon ? Warfare or communication ? Please hurry up, gentlemen, you can hardly imagine how the wide world is eager to watch them… in action

The Ukrainian government confirms later with photos the Polish delivery. The machines are an old version, Leopard 2A4

As usual in Ukraine, here in Odessa, volunteers are rushing to become crew members of the new tanks and defend democracy. The two men in military fatigues are recruitment officers. In black uniforms, two police officers watch the abduction

In the previous night, a damaged tank has been set up in front of the Russian embassy, on Unter de Linden avenue, Berlin. An art performance, that the administrative court had authorized in October. The T-72 has come from a museum in Kiev, was allegedly Russian, would have been seized during the special military operation. Still that German neurosis, I guess

I really love this splendid picture in May 1945 of a victorious T-34, in front of the Brandenburger Tor

• February 25, 2023

The organizers were hardly expecting how their propaganda operation is hijacked in front of the Russian embassy. While other demonstrators are gathering a few hundreds meters away, in front of the Branderburger Tor, Berliners are laying hundreds red flowers on the Russian tank, in protest to the Western military support, which is protracting the Atlanticist proxy war in Ukraine, despite a Chinese peace plan.

• February 26, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin states that according to intelligence, the Atlanticist command is sending the Leopards 2A4, four machines, one platoon, to Chasov Yar, a town about 15 km west of Bakhmut, a city that the Russian forces have caught in a vice.

I hope so, did not expect it.

The alternative is that the Panzerkampfwagen are game changers or they are not. In the first case, engagement by dropper will dilute them on the battlefield. In both cases, the pictures of destroyed machines will be a propaganda victory for Russia, while various countries are still wondering if they will deliver Western tanks.

never interrupt an enemy who is making a mistake

has said Corsican general Napoleone Buonaparte.

• March 6, 2023

No Western Panzerkampfwagen has been committed so far in the fighting, which have reached the outskirts of Chasov Yar, where a Ukrainian T-64 burns

• March 13, 2023

Ukrainian service members wrapped up a four-week training near Zaragoza

Spain has schooled 40 crew members and 15 mechanics, should deliver six Leopard 2A4.

• March 20, 2023

Annabel Goldie is Minister of State for Defense, a subordinate of defense minister Ben Wallace. She answers a question on the site of the parliament and confirms that the UK would send to Ukraine depleted uranium (DU) armor piercing rounds with the Challenger tanks

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Anglo-Saxon troops shot between 1,000 and 2,000 tonnes of DU munitions. Their debris are chemically and radiologically toxic for their users and later, for the population of the former battlefield.

• March 21, 2023

An amateur video surfaces on social networks, is showing a Leopard 2A4, allegedly in Ukraine or Donbass

• March 22, 2023

The Daily Mail explains to its readers what are the DU armor piercing rounds

• March 27, 2023

The Ukrainian defense ministry publishes a photo where Oleksii Reznikov stands in front of Western vehicles

From the left, the second one is a US Stryker Interim Armored Vehicle (IAV), the third, a British Challenger tank and the fourth, a German Marder Schützenpanzer.

• March 31, 2023

Ukraine has received so far several dozen Western heavy armored vehicles, Panzer and infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) like German Marders, is about to receive US Bradleys. None has been engaged in fighting. They are gathered in the prospects of a counteroffensive, which may begin in April.

Its goals could be the rescue of Bakhmut garrison or to the south, the Russian continental lines of communication to Crimea.

• April 11, 2023

A leak of classified documents from the Pentagon has wrecked havoc within the US intelligence community. They look authentic and as Big Serge writes, are a Russian nesting doll of embarrassment

First of all, they are showing how in this case, the US intelligence is relying on open sources (OSINT), because Ukraine simply does not share its data. The known facts are ascertaining that the country is facing a critical shortage of artillery and air defense ammunition, a deficit that the West is unable to bridge.

Besides, Ukraine is planning a spring offensive, that 12 brigades should carry out. NATO is equipping nine of them, which appear understrengthed, according to Western standards, will still be ill trained by late April.

Big Serge concludes

To salvage the situation, Kiev must place its hopes on one desperate dice roll with a mechanized attack package comprised of half-strength brigades wielding a disparate inventory of different vehicles and systems. This Frankenstein’s monster of armies – sewn together with a bevy of different tanks, IFVs, APCs, and artillery systems drawn from all corners of the NATO alliance, will likely be asked to smash through the heavily fortified and robustly manned Russian lines in the south, where it will be pulverized and become only so much more mulch for the Pontic Steppe

• April 13, 2023

The fighting are ongoing in Bakhmut, where Wagner fires a Fagot antitank guided missile (ATGM), in this splendid photo from RIA Novosti

In a video from Evgeny Poddubny’s team, a Russian T-90 is firing

• April 17, 2023

On social networks, Poles are sharing the photos of US made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), with Ukrainian camouflage but no 25 mm gun

Another one surfaces, is allegedly showing the aftermath of an accident on a training ground in Poland. Two facts are undeniable : the damage tank is a Leopard 2A4 and the two men are wearing Ukrainian uniforms

• April 19, 2023

A photo surfaces on social networks, allegedly from members of the Ukrainian 47th assault brigade, is showing modernized T-55 tanks from Slovenia and US Bradley IFVs

From a TV set, Ukrainian unter-defense minister Hanna Maliar states that the counteroffensive has already begun, along four axes, Bakhmut, Marinka, Avdiivka and Liman, all in Donetsk People’s Republic, Donbass, Russia. She adds however that no offensive actions are conducted, but a set of strategic measures. Indeed, the Russian fighters have noticed nothing so far

NATO is eager, despite the clear Ukrainian incapacity to conduct offensives with success. In the evening, Moscow time, the US announces an umpteenth military package, artillery ammunition. That proxy war is such a crime, such a caricature of the West, that it will be likely the end of the Western hegemony. The wide world is disgusted.

• May 13, 2023

In Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine, about 325 km southwest of Kiev, Russian cruise missiles or/and drones destroy an ammunition depot. Secondary explosions and blaze are tremendous. At 4:52 am, local time, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) records 3.4 magnitude shocks northwest of the city

When will we finally stop putting all the eggs in one basket ?

comments Yuri Kasyanov, a former Ukrainian official. The targeted facility was concealing a huge amount of ammunition and high-tech military equipment from NATO countries.

The day after, the firefighters will still be using robots to extinguish the destroyed ammunition depot. The European radioactivity monitoring will clearly be showing a rise of gamma dose rate in Khmelnytskyi since May 12

If Russia used nuclear ammunition, the radiation would start rising on May 13, not on May 12. Ukrainian journalist and member of Svoboda [liberty], a Nazi political party, Ihor Mosiychuk will sound the alarm, advise to take children away from the epicenters of the explosions.

A dirty bomb is combining radioactive material with conventional explosive, in order to disperse the former. Through the stockpile in Khmelnytskyi of British DUAP rounds (cf. supra, March 20), Ukraine has likely and unintentionally made its own dirty bomb.

• May 18, 2023

A moving spectacle. Who has imagined one year ago what we are now contemplating : the wreck of an armored vehicle, came from a declining but arrogant West, is lying in Bakhmut, Donetsk People’s Republic, Donbass, Russia, the current critical point of a proxy war that NATO is waging in that region

A video surfaces on May 18, 2023, is showing a damage British Spartan armored personnel carrier (APC), that the defeated Atlanticist forces have abandoned in the battered city.

• May 20, 2023

Wo sind die Panzer ?

Except some APCs, mostly destroyed or seized, no other Western armored vehicles, no Panzekampfwagen, have been involved so far on the battlefield. At 3:50 pm, local time, one year after another liberation, the surrender in Mariupol of Nazi Azov regiment, Yevgeny Prigozhin announces that the Russian forces have achieved a complete victory in Bakhmut, Donetsk People’s Republic, Donbass, Russia. No Atlanticist fighter remains alive in the city

I do not think that a few dozen Western tanks would turn the tide in Donbass or Ukraine. But the spectacle of their combustion may have a larger psychological and political impact than their military influence. That is the reason why failing a real counter-offensive so far, they have not been involved. Because the way the Atlanticist forces have been bled since August 2022, in the trap of Bakhmut meat grinder, may have ruined the opportunities for such a counter-offensive.

• May 25, 2023

Remake in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, of what happened in Berlin, Germany, on February 25. In partnership with the Ukrainian authorities, the municipality displays a Russian damaged T-72 tank in the city. But people are later coming to lay flowers on the vehicle and demonstrate against the military support to Ukraine

The mayor is 57-year-old Femke Halsema (left), member of GroenLinks [green left], the same political affiliation than Annalena Baerbock, the cataclysmic 42-year-old German foreign affairs minister.

• June 5, 2023

I think that the counteroffensive will be when and where NATO Panzerkampfwagen will be committed. In a region about 140 km north of Berdyansk, where Ukrainian formations have already tested the Russian defenses the day before, a few Leopard 2 are spotted in Novodonetskoye, a village that the assailants manage to seize, about 80 km southwest of Donetsk

As expected, the Atlanticist losses are already significant and the first photos of abandoned, likely damaged Western AFVs, surface on social networks. These are French AMX-10 recce vehicles

In the night, the Russian defense ministry counts 137 enemy armored vehicles, including 25 tanks, all destroyed that day in the same region. The Atlanticist forces would have lost eight Leopards and three AMXs.

• June 6, 2023

Russia has regained Novodonetskoye, Donetsk People’s Republic, that the Atlanticist forces seized the day beforeo9 at a heavy price. The Ukrainian counteroffensive appears so far as a bloody failure.

• June 8, 2023

On social networks, some members of Azov regiment are bragging

tonight is the night of the nights

At 1:30 am, a new attack begins south of Orekhov, Zaporojie region, about 100 km southwest of the failure on June 6

The assault on the front line is synchronized with shelling in Tokmak, 40 km further south, 60 km north of Melitopol, which could be a new goal, in order to isolate Crimea from mainland Russia. The ammunition are US made GMLRS rockets, that HIMARS are launching

In the evening, the Russian defense ministry releases a splendid video from Orekhov vicinity. An Atlanticist mechanized column is entangled in minefields and shelled, a platoon of Leopards 2 in front, US made M113 behind. At least one Leopard is burning, more seem disabled.

• June 9, 2023

Volodymyr Zelenskyy publishes on Telegram the photo of a military meeting. Commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, colonel general Oleksandr Syrskyi stands at his right. Valery Zaluzhny, the chief of staff, is missing

At midnight, the Atlanticist attack resumes south of Orekhov. One mechanized battalion is committed, according to journalist Alexander Sladkov. The assailants do not succeed and for the first time, Russian sources are reporting the destruction of several US made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs)

The outcome appears in the afternoon, through a video which has surfaced on social networks. One German made Leopard 2 and several Bradleys are burnt along a trail. The analysis of the whole document shows, in that sole section of the battlefield, the wrecks of 5 Leopards, 6 Bradleys, 3 MaxxPro mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAP), one French VAB [véhicule de l’avant blindé] armored personnel carrier (APC) and several others

• June 10, 2023

A third time in a row, the Atlanticist forces attack the same positions, south of Orekhov, of the 42nd -Evpatoriyskaya Red Banner- guards motorized division. Minefield, artillery, kamikaze drones and anti tank guided missiles (ATGM) repel the mechanized columns. The offensive is losing steam and that time, the Russian defenders do not even need air support

On June 7, Olaf Scholz has stated

we are at war for so many weeks and now, it is important that we take decisive steps forward

Seid ihr ? But the situation has worsened for the German Panzerkampfwagen, since the battle around Kursk, in July 1943. Nowadays, the Nazis are unable to break the first Russian defense line

New Bradleys have agglomerated at the site spotted the day before. Such a traffic jam of wrecked armored fighting vehicles is rare in history

• June 11, 2023

On another site of the battlefield, south of Orekhov, members of the 22nd -Joukov- guards special brigade have recorded a video. Here are new wrecks of Leopard 2A6 tank, Leopard 2R heavy mine breaching vehicle (HMBV), Bergepanzer 3 armoured recovery vehicle (ARV), Bradley and MaxxPro

In Strasbourg on September 14, 2022, Ursula von der Leyen, the German president of the European Commission, stated

Russian military is taking chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix their military hardware, because there are no semiconductors anymore. Russia’s industry is in tatters

Let us have fun

• June 15, 2023

An alleged plan of the Ukrainian offensive surfaces on social networks. The operation would have begun on June 4, with a feint south of Velyka Novosyolka, Donetsk People’s Republic. A limited attack indeed occurred there. The breakthrough should have been achieved toward Tokmak on June 6. Kakhovka dam was blown up that day and the attack in Zaporojie region, on June 8, was actually a bloody failure for the spearhead of the Ukrainian armed forces, their Western Panzerkampfwagen. The main goal would have been Berdyansk, in order to isolate Crimea from mainland Russia.

• June 16, 2023

The Atlanticist forces are attacking in vain Pyatikhatki, a village 15 km northeast of Vasilyevka, on the left bank of Dnieper river, in Zaporojie region

The 19th -Red Banner of Labor- motorized division is defending the area, has been reinforced with T-62 tanks, which are used as assault guns

Along the front line, Russian special forces (SSO) are hunting the Western Panzerhampfwagen with ATGMs, sometimes onboard customized civilian vehicles

• June 18, 2023

After the breakage of dozens Leopard Panzerkampfwagen and Bradley IFVs, a British Challenger tank appears close to the front in a video that Ukrainian channels are sharing on social networks

According to the Russian defense ministry in the evening, the Atlanticist forces have lost 33 tanks and 65 other armored vehicles in Zaporojie region in just one day, the equivalent of two NATO armored/mechanized battalions.

• June 23, 2023

CNN has interviewed two western officials and a senior US military official, who have conceded that the Atlanticist offensive is not meeting expectations on any front. The US and its allies are likely to wait until at least July for a fuller assessment of the results. After the Western Panzerkampfwagen have been bogged down, the assailants are carrying out more dismounted operations, which means waves of cannon fodder. The Blitzkrieg is over. And in this screenshot, south of Velyka Novosyolka, Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian servicemen are holding the line

• June 25, 2023

An impressive drone video surfaces from Makarovka, south of Velyka Novosyolka, where the Atlanticist forces started attacking three weeks before, in Donetsk People’s Republic. A Russian T-80 tank erupts through a main street, a few hundred meters from a pair of US made MRAPs, fires a first shell, turns back, fires a second shell and leaves

• July 2, 2023

Here is a french wheeled tank [the sole expression makes me laugh] that the Atlanticist forces have abandoned during the bloody failure of their offensive in Zaporojie region and Donetsk People’s Republic. The picture surfaces when the Ukrainian defense ministry states that the vehicle is unfit for attack

I could have told them for a long time, was a kid when the French army was testing it before commission, maybe 45 years ago. The AMX-10 is not a tank but an armored recce vehicle, compliant with an outdated French doctrine. Its 105 mm gun is not bad, but its armor, inadequate. The Russian soldier says

The Russian land is too tough for French wheels

• July 7, 2023

Die Welt broadcasts a report from a camp where Ukrainian troops have withdrawn after the failure of their attack. A tank battalion commander tells that during training abroad, he asked

How do you get through a minefield ?

The German instructor replied

Simply drive the tank around it

Funny are the bitter comments on the web of pro-NATO nerds who have never handled an assault rifle. The German instructor was simply right. A tank, even a Leopard Panzerkampfwagen, is not intended to drive on anti tank mines. How to avoid them is an operational and tactical issue which is the sole responsibility of the Ukrainian command.

• July 23, 2023

In a splendid video which surfaces on social networks, Chechen operators drone one Leopard 2A6 Panzerkampfwagen somewhere in the south, between Zaporojie region and Donetsk People’s Republic, where the Atlanticist counteroffensive is failing since early June.

• July 25, 2023

How hopeless the situation must be for NATO. BHL is now leading the Atlanticist counteroffensive ahead of a Swedish CV90 IFV

Bernard-Henri Lévy is a french author, was a long time a supposed philosopher. He is actually involved for years in all NATO dirty tricks.

• June 26, 2023

NATO armchair generals are reproaching the Ukrainians for their tactics, are demanding an armored Schwerpunkt [main focus], in accordance with NATO doctrine and the training of Ukrainian servicemen in the West. The blames have leaked in German media and the Ukrainian command obeys its US masters. Massive mechanized attacks resume in Zaporojie region and Donetsk People’s Republic, where the assailants are once more repelled with heavy casualties.

• July 27, 2023

The Russian forces have seized an AMX-10 armored reconnaissance vehicle, that French chauvinistic commentators were calling wheeled tank. But despite its 105 mm gun, the vehicle is unfit as tank. The Atlanticist forces have likely abandoned that one in June

In Rabotino direction, Zaporojie region, ATGMs, artillery and kamikaze drones chop another Atlanticist mechanized infantry company.

• July 29, 2023

On July 29, 2023, a splendid video surfaces on social networks, from Zaporojie region, where a single Russian tank (left) chops a whole Atlanticist mechanized company (right). With artillery support and a top-notch tactical leadership, the three crew members manage first to destroy two enemy tanks. After that, the fighting is a slaughter. The Atlanticist forces lose two tanks and six infantry vehicles. The event dates back to no later than July 8

• August 4, 2023

According to the Russian defense ministry, since the beginning early June of their counteroffensive, the Atlanticist forces have lost

• 43,000 killed fighters, excluding the casualties of strategic strikes in the deep.
• 26 jets,
• 9 helicopters.
• 1,831 armored vehicles, including
• 25 German Leopard Panzerkampfwagen,
• 7 French AMX-10 wheeled tanks, actually armored recce vehicles,
• 21 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles.
• 747 artillery pieces and mortars, including
• 84 NATO self-propelled howitzers,
• 76 US M777 howitzers.

As ever, war is a simple art, all execution [Corsican general Napoleone Buonaparte], the Russian forces are well entrenched, are developing a greater fire power, their own losses are far lesser. According to a well known Russian mathematical model, Ukraine, only Ukraine, has lost 245,823 killed in action fighters since February 24, 2022, beginning of the Russian special military operation. Negotiations could have stopped the fighting in March 2022, but the US and UK vetoed peace

The same day, defense minister Sergey Shoigu inspects a Swedish CV90 IFV, that the Russian forces have seized on the battlefield

• August 5, 2023

Defense minister Sergey Shoigu awards the title of Heroes of the Russian Federation to three servicemen, one from Yakutia, the crew members of Alyosha tank, for their achievement on the battlefield before July 8 (cf. supra, July 29)

The tank crew under the command of Senior Lieutenant Rasim Baksikov came under massive artillery fire, as a result of which a driver was wounded. The crew commander Baksikov evacuated the wounded serviceman from the vehicle and gave him first aid. Having transferred the driver to the forward medical unit, Rasim decided to take his place in the battle.
Lieutenant Aleksandr Levakov, having assessed the situation, decided to replace the wounded crew member and took the tank commander’s workplace and moved in the direction of the positions of Russian motorized rifle regiment to provide support to the defenders.
On the approach to one of the settlements, Lieutenant Levakov detected 8 enemy vehicles, including two tanks, in one of the nearby wooded areas.
Having assessed the situation, Senior Lieutenant Baksikov made a decision and immediately engaged the superior enemy forces. Thanks to skillful control of the combat vehicle and competent use of the terrain conditions for stealthy movement, the Russian tank’s entry into the firing line was unexpected for the enemy.
Rasim Baksikov, at the driver’s seat, skillfully manoeuvred on the battlefield and directed the work of the crew. Lieutenant Aleksandr Levakov, in the commander’s position, promptly and competently relayed target guidance to the gunner and directed the tank’s fire.
In the first minutes of the battle, the gunner-operator Alexey Neustroyev destroyed both enemy T-72B tanks with accurate fire. In the next 30 minutes, one M113 armoured personnel carrier and five U.S.-manufactured MaxxPro armoured personnel carriers, together with the troops, were destroyed.
After the last enemy combat vehicle was destroyed, the tank crew continued to cover the motorized rifle units deploying in combat formation for about 40 minutes. When the combat vehicle ran out of ammunition, crew commander Rasim Baksikov decided to go to reload, and another tank was sent to the battle site.
Having fired three shots at the advancing infantry, the second tank was damaged by enemy artillery fire. Having quickly orientated himself in the situation and realizing that the crew of the damaged vehicle required immediate assistance, Senior Lieutenant Rasim Baksikov and his crew decided to evacuate the damaged tank from the line of contact to a safe place.
The towing of the tank was carried out under incessant enemy fire. Thanks to the resolute actions of the servicemen, the crew of the tank was rescued.
During the battle, the enemy losses, apart from destroyed hardware, were up to 100 fighters killed and wounded

• August 15, 2023

Seized NATO armored vehicles are displayed in Patriot Park, near Moscow

Here are for example one French wheeled tank, actually an AMX-10RC armored recce vehicle, one Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicle, one British Saxon armored personnel carrier and one British Husky protected support vehicle.

• August 16, 2023

For the first time, the Atlanticist forces have committed US Stryker armored personnel carriers (APCs), which have burnt near Rabotino, Zaporojie region.

According to Western media, a single Ukrainian formation is equipped with Strykers, the 82nd air assault brigade, which was kept within the strategic reserve. That suggests that the Atlanticist command is about to launch its last fresh troops against the Russian defenses in the south. And all available British Challenger tanks would have been delivered to the same brigade

After the success of a previous information campaign (cf. supra, January 25) on how to disable a German Leopard Panzerkampfwagen, Russian social networks are now sharing advice against the Challenger

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Someone had blundered.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

• August 22, 2023

In Zaporojie region, after 75 days of almost daily attacks from Orekhov to the south, exhaustion of the formations which were supposed to breakthrough, involvement of the 82nd air assault brigade from the strategic reserve, the Atlanticist forces are still in the Russian cover area. They are tackling 15 km south of Orekhov, in Rabotino village, the first of three successive defensive lines, still 80 km from Melitopol, which was their goal in June

The drittes Reich performed better 80 years ago. Despite their own defeat in July-August 1943, in a similar battle around Kursk, Soviet Union, the German Nazis managed to advance deeper than the Atlanticist forces, today in Zaporojie region.

• August 24, 2023

The day before, he attended a ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory at Kursk, largest tank battle in history, against the Nazi armies. On August 24, 2023, Vladimir Putin hosts in the Kremlin five servicemen, the crew members of Alyosha tank and fellow fighters of the 127th motorized infantry division / 5th combined arms army, who received the title of Heroes of the Russian Federation for their achievement on the battlefield (cf. supra, July 29)

In June in Zaporojie region, Alyosha chopped a whole Atlanticist mechanized company. With artillery support and a top-notch tactical leadership, the crew members managed first to destroy two enemy tanks. After that, the fighting was a slaughter. The enemies lost two tanks and six infantry vehicles.

• September 2, 2023

A video surfaces, is showing in Zaporojie region a demilitarized German Leopard 2A4, which had been upgraded with explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks

• September 5, 2023

A Ukrainian amateur video surfaces, is showing a burning one. Here is the first ever British Challenger 2 tank destroyed on the battlefield, likely in Zaporojie region

Later a Russian drone ascertains the historical kill

• September 6, 2023

While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Ukraine, which in order to stimulate the Western support, commits a new false flag war crime, the slaughter of civilians in Konstantinovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, the Pentagon announces the shipment of depleted uranium (DU) armor piercing (DUAP) rounds, as part of a new $175 million aid package. The 120 mm shells are for US Abrams tanks, which should be delivered in autumn.

• September 8, 2023

The Russian political head of Zaporojie region announces the destruction of a second British Challenger tank.

• September 20, 2023

I am wondering if US magazine Newsweek is making jokes. 108 days after the start of the Atlanticist counter-offensive, which is a bloody failure, after the fighting have shown that Leopards and Challengers, top notch European tanks, are also burning, the journalist asks if US Abrams would be a game-changer. $1 is definitely too expensive

Like for the two previous Western Panzerwunderkampfwagen, the Russians are waiting for Abrams, are sharing advice on how to burn it

• September 26, 2023

The Russian fighters have burnt one more Marder Sonderkraftfahrzeug [name of the German halftracks during WW2] in the vicinity of Rabotino, where according to the Western propaganda, the Atlanticist forces are supposed to have broken through

• October 31, 2023

Joe Biden’s administration and the Ukrainian authorities are unable to bring themselves to officially end their counter-offensive, which is a failure since early June. Rather the opposite, the Russian forces are advancing, are threatening to encircle in Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic, the Ukrainian troops which since 2014, are deliberately shelling civilians in Donetsk city

Some Atlanticist armored formations have been transferred from the south to Avdeevka area, in an attempt to thwart the Russian advance, where the 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade manages to burn one more Panzerwunderkampfwagen [wonder tank], a German Leopard 2A6

In the evening, German tabloid Bild takes us back in time, a leap about 80 years ago.

• December 14, 2023

Russia has completed on December 12 the cleansing of Marinka, where the Atlanticist forces were entrenched since 2014, in the southwestern suburb of Donetsk

A video surfaces, is showing an ablaze French VAB armored personnel carrier (APC) in the same area.

• December 18, 2023

It took the arrogant Western leaders 6 months to admit the failure of the counter-offensive. The perspective of a Ukrainian [Atlanticist] defeat has become the issue. Ukraine is still widening the mobilization criteria, military police is carrying on with the chase of draft-dodgers

A video surfaces, is showing on a snowy battlefield the work of Russian drones, demilitarization of a dozen armored vehicles, including several tanks and one Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV).

• December 22, 2023

A video surfaces, is showing in Kupyansk area an ablaze Stridsvagn [fighting car] 122, improved version for Sweden of the German Leopard 2A5.

• December 27, 2023

A splendid photography surfaces, is showing another Swedish Stridsvagn 122, which has lost its engine near Kremennaya, Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR).

• January 2, 2024

When an ecologist leader begs arms dealers, the situation is serious. Die Welt has interviewed Sebastian Schäfer, who has written for help to Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), the manufacturers. He is defense expert within the Green Party, a political fellow of the foreign affairs minister, prodigious Annalena Baerbock.

Of the 18 German Leopard 2A6 Panzerkampfwagen delivered to Ukraine in March, only a very small number are still in use. Vehicles have suffered battle damage and significant technical wear and tear are also due to driving and shooting. Moreover, Ukrainian repair attempts have led to further damage to the tanks. Schäfer is calling for faster steps to make them operational again. According to the industry repair workshop in Lithuania, suitable spare parts are lacking.

We also know that battle damage is often an euphemism.

• January 15, 2024

An epic video surfaces, is showing in Avdeevka area the ambush of one Russian T-90M, that several kamikaze UAVs strike and two Bradleys pound during several minutes with their 25 mm guns. The damage prevent the tank from destroying the two infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) with its 125 mm gun, but the crew manages to escape to safety.

• January 26, 2024

Slowly but steadily, the Russian forces are advancing in most areas of the battlefield, with minimal losses. Destroyed or discarded Atlanticist armored vehicles are scattered across the former no man’s land

Here in former Bakhmut, now Artemovsk region, in the operations area of the 200th motorized rifle brigade, a Dutch YPR-765 armored personnel carrier (APC) is still in moving order, was previously assigned to the 110th Ukrainian mechanized brigade.

• February 22, 2024

North of Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic, that the Russian forces liberated on February 17, a drone documents the destruction of one M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV). According to Forbes, Ukraine may have received 6 such mine clearing systems from the US.

• February 23, 2024

The Ukrainian army releases a video which is showing an Abrams tank in operation in the northwestern vicinity of Avdeevka

After the failure of the German Leopards, the US has previously demanded that its tanks were kept in reserve, in order to avoid their public destruction. But the military situation is so serious that such PR issue seems now negligible.

The 47th Ukrainian mechanized brigade is already equipped with US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) and Leopards, was trounced during the failed Atlanticist counter-offensive in Zaporozhye region.

• February 26, 2024

In the northwestern vicinity of Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic, that the Russian forces liberated on February 17, fighters of the 15th Guards Motorized Rifle brigade manage to drone their first US Abrams tank

The kill is the achievement of a drone platoon that Kolovrat, his call-sign, is leading.

The same day, a seized US Bradley IFV is freighted to Russia.

• March 3, 2024

A new video surfaces, is showing another knocked out US tank in the northwestern vicinity of Avdeevka, Donetsk People’s Republic. Abrams hunting is going on in Donbass

• March 19, 2024

Russian intelligence officers inspect a damaged Abrams tank in the northwestern vicinity of Avdeevka.

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