Why should hatred be morally right? — baker
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark A. Milley said in mid-June that the international community had provided Ukraine with 97,000 various anti-tank weapons.
According to Milley, this is “more antitank systems than there are tanks in the world.”
Which basically means that Russia can still fight on for quite some time without it's tank fleet being finished.According to Oryx, an online investigative project documenting equipment losses in Russia’s war, Russia has lost at least 994 tanks as of Sept. 1.
However, according to estimates by the Conflict Intelligence Team, an independent Russian online armed conflicts monitor, the Oryx database covers nearly 70% of the total equipment lost in combat by both sides, as it includes only fully-verified losses -- not every single captured or destroyed vehicle is pictured and documented.
Based on these estimates, Russia has lost nearly 1,300 tanks – an impressive 40% of its total operational tank fleet.
Ukraine is surely given top satellite information. And don't forget the simply thing as people taking videos and posting them on the net.I'm guessing that moving 100s of tanks from wherever they are in Russia can be seen by satellites or whatever monitoring.
If so, then the Ukrainian defense might get a warning. — jorndoe
Death of Gorbachev at 91
"I don't care to know what happens next." — Olivier5
Après moi, le déluge. — Louis XV of France
Ukrainian fighters say that generally they have enough manpower, although many volunteers from the TDF are not ready for combat. Sometimes entire detachments collapse and leave long stretches of the frontline undefended. Tanks are precious, and they send them out sparingly. Ammo for Soviet guns is running out. They get enough ammo for the new Western guns, but those are few and far between, and getting worn out from intensive use.
On the opposing side it's the other way around. Russians have a seemingly endless supply of tanks, guns and ammunition, but nowhere enough men to go with them. They are still losing a lot of armor, but they are not as careless and undisciplined as they were at the beginning of the invasion. — SophistiCat
It is interesting to see how the Ukrainian counterattack goes. The simple fact is that even with military aid they have gotten, they don't have enough resources for a full on Materialschlacht, a battle of attrition. Counterattacks sooner or later go into this. — ssu
I am curious if the aim was always to attack in force up north after trapping so much of Russia's best prepared units down south by blowing the bridges, or if it was just opportunity and the ability to move resources north quickly. Guess we won't know until things settle down. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Russian milbloggers — Count Timothy von Icarus
rapacious boyars — Count Timothy von Icarus
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