What are the issues I don’t think it’s mentioned enough is the survivability rate among Russian tank crewmembers.
The T-72/T-80 is not a very fun environment when hit. The crew sits on a carousel autoloader, and if the ammunition is hit, the results aren’t great.
In fairness, the autoloader makes the tank much smaller, and removes the need for a human loader.
Unfortunately, as you can see, it’s also extremely vulnerable.
The results are fairly consistent.
Russia is losing a lot of experienced armored vehicle crew members. Even if the vehicles themselves can be replaced, it’s going to take far longer to train up new crews.
This evening, multiple Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit Russia's Yeysk Airbase, home to the 859th Naval Aviation Training Center and multiple Russian strike aircraft, starting a large fire.
Multiple secondary explosions could be seen emerging from the blaze at the base.
Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone headed towards the base
NASA's FIRMS also detected multiple fire returns from the nearby 726th Air Defense Training Center.
Breaking- A Hunterbrook Media investigation found that a major global lithium supplier is draining water from the Argentinian Andes, forensic accountant finds red flags in financials.
Hunterbrook journeyed to the high Andes to investigate Arcadium Lithium $ALTM.
Responding to an “old claim” from the community, the company began an irrigation and revegetation project in 2020, which remains ongoing.
But satellite imagery we analyzed shows the area the company has targeted to restore accounts for less than 1% of the total damage.
Hunterbrook also found red flags in Arcadium's accounting:
Breaking: American food giant ADM lied about its major stake in two factories in Xinjiang — a Chinese region notorious for state-imposed forced labor.
Follow @hntrbrkmedia for more investigations like this one, which used sat imagery, trade data, light pollution data, and more.
In a document posted to the sustainability section of its website earlier this year, the company claimed there was “no identifiable direct or indirect connection between ADM and the region.”
But the facilities are owned by a subsidiary of Wilmar International, a Singapore-based conglomerate whose largest single shareholder is ADM.
ADM also has a seat on Wilmar’s board — and says it has “significant influence” on the company.
BREAKING: Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), an American agricultural giant, has a close partnership in Russia with Aston Foods, a major Russian agribusiness a new @hntrbrkmedia investigation revealed may be complicit in the theft of grain from occupied Ukrainian territories.
During the early months of the invasion of Ukraine, a peculiar scene unfolded in the heart of Ryazan Oblast. The Governor, Pavel Malkov, wearing gleaming silver aviators, strode through the corridors of the Ibred corn processing facility.
This may have seemed like an ordinary trip by a Russian official to a Russian business. But Governor Malkov is now sanctioned by a host of Western nations for his alleged role in the kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
Yesterday, Ukrainian forces conducted a trio of successful attacks in the Russian-occupied rear area, successfully targeting a Russian base outside of Luhansk city, an ammunition/fuel dump in Dovzhansk, and a third unknown target in Mariupol.
This morning, a Ukrainian SCALP ALCM hit a known LPR base at the former Luhansk Institute for Internal Affairs.
At least two adjacent apartment buildings suffered minor damage (broken/damaged windows)
Location (48.558409, 39.186161)
This afternoon, a possible Ukrainian strike (possibly ATACMS) hit a Russian ammunition/fuel dump outside of Dovzhansk, Luhansk Oblast