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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/f...te-ukraine

Its headline count is that Russia’s number of tanks in its army have reduced by 38% from 2,927 to 1,800, while there have been particularly heavy losses of its workhorse T-72B3, an upgrade first delivered to its army in 2013.

Heavy losses on the battlefield have meant that Russia had lost “around 50% of its pre invasion fleet” of the tank and a related variant, Chipman said, and slow industrial production was “forcing Moscow to rely on its older stored weapons as attrition replacements”.

Wow.

BC

The article is actually an understatement. Russia has been visually confirmed to have 1700 tanks destroyed or captured. Ukraine ministry of defense claims 3290. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle. It is a staggering number.

[gocard14]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/f...te-ukraine

Its headline count is that Russia’s number of tanks in its army have reduced by 38% from 2,927 to 1,800, while there have been particularly heavy losses of its workhorse T-72B3, an upgrade first delivered to its army in 2013.

Heavy losses on the battlefield have meant that Russia had lost “around 50% of its pre invasion fleet” of the tank and a related variant, Chipman said, and slow industrial production was “forcing Moscow to rely on its older stored weapons as attrition replacements”.

Wow.

BC

The article is actually an understatement. Russia has been visually confirmed to have 1700 tanks destroyed or captured. Ukraine ministry of defense claims 3290. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle. It is a staggering number.