Russia has lost more than 8,000 tanks since the start of its full-scale invasion, according to the latest figures from Kyiv, which underscore the war’s even greater burden on Moscow’s apparatus and troops.
In its Saturday update, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, Russia, had lost 8 tanks the previous day, bringing the total to 8,009 since February 24, 2022.
The 8,000 mark, announced through Kiev on Friday, announced that in the last 24 hours Russia had lost 14 tanks. The precise numbers of victims are difficult to discern, and both sides are willing to keep the real figures secret. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry for comment on Kyiv’s latest figures.
However, other estimates continue to show significant losses of Russian aircraft, such as the Oryx, an argument that relies on photographs or videos as evidence, provided that the actual amount of destroyed Russian aircraft “is particularly high”.
However, as of Saturday, total Russian tank losses amounted to 3,153, 2,129 destroyed, 157 damaged, 350 abandoned and 517 captured.
The London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in February 2024 that Russian tank losses had exceeded 3,000 and that the number of Russian tank losses in kyiv increases during prolonged battles or concerted offensives against positions. Ukrainians.
On Wednesday, Ukraine said Russian artillery losses had exceeded 14,000, and at the same time Russian troop losses remained high. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry stated on Saturday that Russia had lost 1,110 infantry soldiers as of the final day (1,110), the ninth consecutive day it surpassed 1,000. The total number of Russian troop losses according to kyiv, which includes dead and wounded, stood at 533,090 as of Saturday.
On Friday, a report by independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with BBC Russia, showed the names of 56,858 Russian infantrymen killed since the start of the war, an increase from 2,677 in the past three weeks.
The draft notes that this figure is drawn from public resources such as social media posts, local news and obituaries and “offers only a partial picture” of the true losses.
Their figures also imply that more than 3,600 officials were killed, 424 of whom held the rank of lieutenant colonel or higher. General Oleg Tsokov, deputy commander of Russia’s Southern Military District, is the highest-ranking officer killed so far. Analysts also reported that at least 11,463 Russian detainees had been killed on Ukraine’s eastern front.
Brendan Cole is a senior reporter for Newsweek in London, UK. It focuses on Russia and Ukraine, specifically on the war unleashed through Moscow. It also covers other areas of geopolitics, adding China.
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