![]() ![]() A destroyed Russian column outside of a town north of Kyiv, where Russian forces were trying to break through, for example, will indicate that their efforts aren’t going too well. Long before the Pentagon disseminates news of battles and areas of control in the briefing room, it is possible to determine the outcome of offensives from the documented equipment losses. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here”. Their list, they add in a preamble, “only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Any money they make through their Patreon goes to charities that help civilians in Ukraine. The pair run the tracking operation in their spare time and tweet their discoveries as they go. Among that number are 331 tanks, 235 armoured fighting vehicles, 313 infantry fighting vehicles and 40 surface-to-air missile systems, according to Oryx Blog, which is run by military analysts Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans. They have been able to painstakingly document thousands of images and videos of destroyed and abandoned equipment to tell one of the most important stories of this war so far: the destruction of Russian military equipment on a grand scale, and the stalling of a military superpower.įrom open-source data alone – namely images and videos shared online – one team of part-time weapons trackers has documented a total of 2,055 Russian military vehicles destroyed, abandoned or captured by Ukrainian forces. ![]() ![]() That mass of information has allowed open-source intelligence experts and volunteers to gain an insight into this war that might have been available in the past only to state intelligence agencies. ‘Cover the town with artillery fire’: Online sleuths are intercepting Russian radio communications and revealing potential war crimes. ![]()
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