Russians Losing Tanks, Armor At Shocking Pace

 

In spite of the increasingly dire situation that Ukraine faces with it's war against Putin's war criminal army,  Ukraine can point to the huge loss it is inflicting on Russian armored units while suffering far fewer losses of its own. From David Axe at Forbes.com:

"Russian losses have been staggering. In the first 700 days of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russians on average lost 19 tanks, fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons every day. On Sunday, analyst Andrew Perpetua tallied 54 losses in a single day. [snip]

The Russian assault group was a mixed bag of new, old and even older equipment: T-62M tanks, built in the 1960s and upgraded in the ’80s and again in 2022; gas-turbine T-80BVs from the ’80s; newly-built T-72B3Ms; 60-year-old BMP-1s; 40-year-old BMP-2s; and MT-LB armored tractors from the 1960s or ’70s. Also, a very rare BAT-2 engineering vehicle.

The age of the equipment made no difference as the Ukrainians struck the assault group in the usual way: hounding it with explosive first-person-view drones and artillery, killing crews and forcing the survivors to abandon their vehicles—and then finishing off the crewless vehicles with additional drones.

The Russians’ radio-jammers, if they had any, failed to ground the drones. [snip]  

In the end, an entire Russian mechanized company all but disappeared. What’s especially shocking is that the destruction of the company wasn’t even all that remarkable. Perpetua on Sunday counted wrecks comprising an entire battalion. That’s three companies the Russians lost—in a single day." (our emphasis)

The Russians are taking raw recruits, giving them just the most basic training, putting them in armored vehicles, and sending them out to overwhelm the Ukrainian lines (the "meat wave" tactic), resulting in their slaughter, but not before also inflicting casualties on the Ukrainians. Russians don't count casualties, only objectives reached. Their MAGA Republican allies in Congress have absorbed Russia's philosophy well in their own win-at-any-cost obstruction which aids their friends in the Kremlin.