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2/12/23 AT 6:49 AM EST
This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukranian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia has lost 13 tanks in the past 24 hours, Ukraine's General Staff said on Sunday.
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Russia lost more than a dozen tanks and
armored vehicles in Ukraine within the last 24 hours, according to an update
published by Ukraine's armed forces.
Ukraine's General Staff reported on Sunday
that Moscow's forces had lost 13 tanks, 14 armored vehicles and a Russian
aircraft since its previous update on Saturday. It said Ukraine's forces had
shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft, a single-seat, twin engine Soviet-era
plane.
The General Staff reported that 900 Russian
soldiers had been killed during the same time frame, but that couldn't be
independently verified.
On Friday, the British defense ministry said Russian
forces had "abandoned" armored vehicles near the Donetsk town of
Vuhledar, which has seen heavy fighting in recent weeks.
After relaunching an offensive around the
western edge of Vuhledar late last month, the "inexperienced units"
sent by Russia's military command "likely suffered particularly heavy
casualties," the defense ministry said.
"Russian troops likely
fled and abandoned at least 30 mostly intact armoured vehicles
in a single incident after a failed assault," the government department
wrote on Twitter.
On February 10, Russian ultra-nationalist
"milblogger" Igor Girkin wrote on Telegram that "more than 30
units of armored vehicles were lost" in attacks on Vuhledar.
Deputy Chairman of the
Russian Security Council and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on
Thursday that Russia was going to up its tank production after Western countries committed
further military aid to Kyiv.
"How should we respond?" Medvedev
said on Telegram on February 9, following a visit to Siberia, according to
Reuters. "It is clear that in this case, it is natural for us to increase
production of various armaments including modern tanks."
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On February 9, citing
the Dutch open-source monitoring outlet Oryx, the Institute for the Study of
War think tank said Russia had lost around half of
the tanks it had committed to Ukraine at the start of the
invasion in February last year.
As of Sunday, Oryx had confirmed 1,008
Russian tanks as destroyed in Ukraine, with a further 79 damaged and 85
abandoned. Ukrainian forces have captured 546, according to its tally.
The open-source outlet said Russia had also
lost 483 armored fighting vehicles, with 12 damaged, 27 abandoned and 258
captured. Moscow's forces had lost at least 295 armored personnel carriers,
with 182 destroyed and 96 captured by Ukraine, it added, in addition to the
loss of 176 infantry mobility vehicles.
However, these numbers are likely to be much
higher in reality, according to Oryx, as the outlet only counts vehicles where
there is photographic or video evidence.
"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 ISW said on Thursday.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-losses-tanks-armored-vehicles-aircraft-planes-ukraine-1780638
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