Russia Loses 12 Tanks, 11 Armored Vehicles and 1,040 Troops in a Day: Kyiv

[Couchpotato]

Well, had...

Something about those 10K tanks in reserve- they are mostly rusty hulks that have had everything stripped off that can be sold on the black market. The sights, radios, in some cases even the drive trains have been removed and sold.

They had about 2850 modernized T-72,T-80, and T-90's at the start of the invasion. And probably a couple thousand older T-72A'a and B's that were functional but not really combat effective.

They've lost a shitload of armor, which is why they're dragging out obsolete T-62's, and putting 1980's era thermal sights on them, and sending them off to Ukraine.

Ok. You believe whatever you want to believe but I'm going to go ahead and trust that the CSIS knows more about this than random guy on the internet.

 

[blackhawk]

What I am seeing is a war that has ground into a stalemate. Russia cannot take over the country and Ukraine cannot drive them out but the death, destruction and suffering will continue for the foreseeable future.

 

[para bellum]

Ok. You believe whatever you want to believe but I'm going to go ahead and trust that the CSIS knows more about this than random guy on the internet.

Oh, they would tell you the same thing if you asked them.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Russia Loses 12 Tanks, 11 Armored Vehicles and 1,040 Troops in a Day

Very good.

 

[struth]

***ouch***
I keep hearing that Russia's on the verge of wiping out the Ukrainian forces--but I keep seeing Russians getting smashed..over and over again. Their troops and equipment sub-par, at best...and their Generals..incompetent.

MSN

Russian forces continue to suffer high losses of troops and equipment in their invasion of Ukraine, according to Kyiv.
Ukraine's latest figures, about which Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry via email, have not been independently verified. But they come amid reports of substantial Russian losses in both personnel and equipment as the fierce months-long fight for the Donetsk city of Bakhmut continues to rage.
In an update on Thursday, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said that 1,040 Russian troops had been killed over the previous 24 hours. This took its estimate of the total number of Russian troop losses since the start of the war to 162,560.
The update also said that Russia had lost 12 tanks and 11 armored vehicles the previous day. This put the total number of tank losses to 3,504 over the course of the war and the number of armored vehicle losses at 6,810, according to Kyiv.
Kyiv first started reporting more than 1,000 Russian daily deaths in February, a figure which has been surpassed several times. However, Ukraine's tally of Russian personnel losses is higher than Western estimates. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in February that in the first year of the war, there were approximately 70,000 Russian combat fatalities.
Ian Stubbs, a senior military adviser within the British delegation to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OCSE), told Ukrainian news outlet Ukrinform on Wednesday that since May 2022, as many as 30,000 Wagner and regular forces have been killed and wounded around Bakhmut alone.
He described this as "a huge loss of human life for a total territorial advance of approximately just 25 kilometers [15.5 miles]."

wow that’s all? xiden lost more then that to the taliban

 

[struth]

It's a simple equation. Bang for the buck. Never in history have we done so much damage to the Russian military and the Russian economy, for so little money.

what are you talking about? we destroyed the Soviet Union…Reagan did that spending far less then the $75 billion xiden’s spent