ON 2/10/23 AT 6:18 AM
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Pedestrians look at the destroyed Russian military vehicles at an open air exhibition of destroyed Russian equipment in Kyiv on January 5, 2023. Russia has likely lost half of the tanks it deployed to Ukraine in Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the ISW said.SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Russia
has likely lost half of the tanks it deployed in Vladimir Putin's
full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to an assessment by a U.S.-based
think tank.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based in Washington, noted
in its daily assessment of the conflict that on February 9, Dmitry Medvedev,
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, visited a tank manufacturing
plant in the Omsk Oblast and highlighted the need for Russia to ramp up
production of modern tanks.
Reports were
circulating as far back as May 2022 that Russia was losing a significant number of tanks in
the conflict and that Moscow had moved 50-year-old T-62 tanks from "deep
storage" to be deployed for use by its Southern Grouping of Forces.
The think tank observed that Dutch open-source
group Oryx reported Russian forces have, throughout the course of the war, lost
1,012 destroyed tanks in Ukraine, with an additional 546 tanks captured by
Ukrainian forces.
These combined losses represent roughly half
the tanks that Russian forces committed to Ukraine at the start of the
invasion, the ISW said, citing Oryx data.
"The Russian military needs to quickly
replenish these tank losses to maintain the ability to conduct large-scale
mechanized maneuver warfare ahead of a likely increased pace of offensive
operations in eastern Ukraine."
The
assessment comes as Ukraine is set to receive dozens of powerful new tanks from Western allies over
the coming months, including 31 M1 Abrams tanks from the U.S.
"Medvedev likely framed his calls for increased production
as a response to Western military assistance to obscure the fact that
substantial military equipment losses are driving the need for increased
production," the ISW said.
On Thursday, Serhiy Haidai, who is head of the Luhansk regional
military–civil administration, said Ukraine destroyed a Russian Terminator
tank-support fighting vehicle near the city of Kreminna in Ukraine's eastern
Luhansk region.
russian defense minister Shoigu: "Currently, combat operations in the Vuhledar area are going successfully."
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) February 10, 2023
So true. pic.twitter.com/oCxcRRwK2l
And in a failed attempt to take the eastern Ukrainian city of
Vuhledar, Russian forces are believed to have lost dozens of armored vehicles,
the British ministry of defense assessed on Friday.
Denis Pushilin, Russia's leader in the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People's Republic, has said that the capture of the Vuhledar region will be a
game-changer for Russia's war efforts. "Taking control of this settlement
will provide our troops with access to the Krasnoarmiysk (Pokrovsk) and
Kurakhovskoye directions," he told state-run news agency RIA Novosti last
month.
"Russian troops likely fled and abandoned at least 30
mostly intact armored vehicles in a single incident after a failed
assault," the ministry said in a daily assessment of the conflict.
Newsweek has contacted Russia's defense ministry for comment.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-loss-tanks-terminator-vuhledar-1780353
Opinion: Ukraine
should not ask the West to send modern fighter jets, because it takes a lot of
time to train pilots, secondly, if the plane is shot down, Western countries
will hesitate to send the weapons (rocket,Howitzer, excalibur rocket, drone, tank…)
that are much cheaper than the value of an airplane…
Then..
High
technology in fighter jets is big problem if it fall in the hand of ennemy!
However,
Ukraine should study and use F-4 Phantom II, that’s a good weapon! (don’t
underestimate it!)
The weapons that Ukraine needs now are: long-range rockets HIMARS, Howitzer, excalibur rocket, armored fighting vehicle, tanks, mortier…drone and intelligence.
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