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Russia already lost 600 tanks and Ukraine 149<\/big><\/p>\n
Both sides are using models made in the former USSR, such as the T-64, T-72 and T-80<\/strong> (a development of the T-64), as well as T-90<\/strong> made in Russia since the 1990s, and developed from the T-72. The Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a> website, which has been tracking losses on both sides since the invasion began on February 24, has already documented the loss of 600 Russian tanks<\/strong>, mostly T-72 (106 T-72B, 94 T-72B3, 93 T-72B3 Obr. 2016 and 45 T-72B Obr. 1989, among others), but also considerable numbers of T-80<\/strong> (66 T-80U, 21 T-80BV and 20 T-80BVM, among others), plus 19 T-90A.<\/strong><\/p>\n In turn, the same source has documented the loss of 149 Ukrainian tanks<\/a>, mostly T-64BV (113 in total). It should be noted that the real losses of both sides will be greater<\/strong>, since the aforementioned figures only include those losses that have been documented with photos and videos published on social networks.<\/p>\n Tanks delivered to Ukraine by the Czech Republic and Slovakia<\/big><\/p>\n However, Ukraine is receiving armored reinforcements from several NATO countries<\/strong> that also have Soviet-era battle tanks, models that Ukrainian crews already know. A month ago the Czech Republic sent some of its T-72M1s to Ukraine<\/a> (Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a> indicates that 12 tanks were sent) and Slovakia has also sent T-72M2<\/a>. Although they are small amounts, these are very worthy donations, since both countries have small armies.<\/strong><\/p>\n Poland reportedly delivered hundreds of modernized T-72s to Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n Even more notable is the help from Poland. Last week, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed that they are sending tanks to Ukraine<\/a>, but did not want to reveal the number for security reasons.<\/strong> All the sources that speak on the subject indicate that they would be old T-72s that were modernized to the T-72M1, T-72M1R and T-72M1D versions.<\/p>\n According to UNROCA data from 2019<\/a>, Poland had 382 T-72s<\/strong>, in addition to 232 PT-91 Twardys, a modernized version of the T-72 manufactured in Poland and which entered service in 1995. Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a> estimates the number of tanks to be more than 230 sent by Poland to Ukraine<\/strong>, indicating that they would be T-72M and T-72M1R, and that deliveries would have started in April. In the last few hours, these images of the T-72s delivered by Poland to Ukraine have been released, already in use by the Ukrainian Army<\/strong>, and still with the three-tone Polish camouflage:<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52048481554_22e0012876_b.jpg\")
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