{"id":53426,"date":"2023-10-15T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53426"},"modified":"2024-10-15T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T22:05:36","slug":"the-disaster-of-russian-tanks-in-ukraine-these-are-the-current-figures-of-their-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/15\/the-disaster-of-russian-tanks-in-ukraine-these-are-the-current-figures-of-their-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"The disaster of Russian tanks in Ukraine: these are the current figures of their losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the focus of world attention has been fixed on the Middle East due to the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, the war continues in Ukraine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/08\/the-total-destruction-of-the-most-modern-tank-that-russia-is-using-in-ukraine\/\">The total destruction of the most modern tank that Russia is using in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/29\/the-mystery-of-the-t-14-armata-and-the-old-tanks-that-russia-is-sending-to-the-front\/\">The mystery of the T-14 Armata and the old tanks that Russia is sending to the front<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Russia has lost 28 more tanks in the last week<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Russian invasion that began on February 24, 2022 is having a disastrous result for Russia in regards to its armored vehicles. <strong>The Russians have suffered heavy losses in recent days.<\/strong> Jakub Janovsky, contributor to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/2022\/02\/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a> (which has been visually documenting the losses of both sides since the beginning of the invasion), <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rebel44CZ\/status\/1713244442650391004\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has posted two loss updates this week<\/a>, totaling <strong>28 more tanks lost to the Russians<\/strong> and an even larger number of infantry fighting vehicles and armored transport vehicles. <strong>This week's figures include the loss of 5 T-80s of various types<\/strong>, one of the most modern tank models in the Russian army, which has more units of the T-80 than the more modern T- 90.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52804720556_04c6aab5e0_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A Russian tank destroyed near kyiv at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko\/EPA).<\/div>\n<p><big>Russian losses already amount to 2,389 tanks<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rebel44CZ\/status\/1713562324466897076\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janovsky published a Twitter thread<\/a> reviewing <strong>the figures of Russian tank losses since the start of the invasion<\/strong>. Let us keep in mind that we are not talking about estimates, but rather losses documented with graphic material. <strong>The numbers are so large that one wonders how Russia hopes to replace these losses<\/strong>, which will end up seriously affecting the capabilities of its army.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52685104852_d6ba704397_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A Russian T-72 destroyed in Kupiansk, Ukraine, in December 2022 (Photo: Chris McGrath).<\/div>\n<p><strong>Russian tank loss figures<\/strong> compiled today by Janovsky are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 T-55.<\/li>\n<li>84 T-62.<\/li>\n<li>70 T-64.<\/li>\n<li>More than 1,100 T-72.<\/li>\n<li>More than 630 T-80.<\/li>\n<li>87 T-90.<\/li>\n<li>279 unidentified tanks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/2022\/02\/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a> totals <strong>2,389 tanks lost by the Russians in Ukraine.<\/strong> These are considerable figures, especially if we take into account that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/01\/01\/russia-ended-2022-reaching-the-symbolic-number-of-1600-tanks-lost-in-ukraine\/\">Russia ended 2022 with the figure of 1,600 tanks lost in Ukraine<\/a>, that is, <strong>so far in 2023, Russia has lost another 789 tanks<\/strong>. A lower figure than last year, perhaps because the operations in which Russia suffered the most considerable losses were those at the beginning of the invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52881467689_0755730cbf_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A Russian T-62M captured by the Ukrainians in the Kherson region in October. It has the typical anti-Javelin grill that the Russians put on their most obsolete tanks to protect them, in vain, against modern anti-tank missiles (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAWeapons\/status\/1577645612891361281\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine Weapons Tracker<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>Russia has had to resort to obsolete tanks to cover its losses<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro-Russian propagandists usually downplay these losses<\/strong> by assuring that Russia has colossal reserves and that these losses would be proportionally insignificant. <strong>It is true that Russia has large reserves of tanks, but they are very old models<\/strong> and in many cases they are not operational. It is significant, in fact, that the Russian army had to resort to such obsolete tanks as the T-55 and T-62 to cover its losses of more modern tanks in the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52452037381_4c35405596_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">A Russian T-72B3 tank destroyed Mariupol on March 23, 2022 (Photo: Maximilian Clarke).<\/div>\n<p><big>Before the invasion, Russia had between 2,609 and 2,849 active tanks<\/big><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/26\/russias-tank-losses-in-ukraine-some-data-from-2021-to-verify-hoy-serious-they-are\/\">at the beginning of the invasion Russia had between 2,609 and 2,849 tanks in its standing army<\/a>, so <strong>those 2,389 tanks lost are equivalent to between 83, 85% and 91.56% of its active armored fleet<\/strong>as of February 2022. Obviously, the unknown number of older tanks removed by Russia from its warehouses and the new tanks - not many, due to Western sanctions - put into service, but despite this, <strong>we are talking about enormous loss figures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52859440234_874c07c48e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Three T-14 Armata on parade in Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2022. The Kremlin announced its deployment to Ukraine in April 2023, but so far not a single photo of any Armata has been seen on the ground Ukrainian (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/es.mil.ru\/es\/mission\/practice\/all\/kavkaz-2020\/news\/more.htm?id=12420546@egNews&_print=true\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mil.ru<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><big>The famous and modern T-14 Armata still does not appear<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To complete this disaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/29\/the-mystery-of-the-t-14-armata-and-the-old-tanks-that-russia-is-sending-to-the-front\/\">the famous and modern T-14 Armata still does not appear<\/a>, months after the Kremlin announced its deployment. An absence that reinforces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/30\/reality-vs-propaganda-the-problems-of-the-russian-tank-t-14-armata-and-its-deployment-in-ukraine\/\">the information that points out its technical failures<\/a>. Many pro-Russian propagandists had pinned their hopes on the T-14 Armata to counter the modern Western tanks that Ukraine is receiving, but <strong>so far not a single image of the T-14 participating in this invasion has been published<\/strong>. Everything indicates that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/30\/reality-vs-propaganda-the-problems-of-the-russian-tank-t-14-armata-and-its-deployment-in-ukraine\/\">its announced deployment in Ukraine was a mere propaganda operation, as I already pointed out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Ukraine has captured and received many more tanks than it has lost<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Compared to Russian losses, Ukrainian losses are very minor. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/2022\/02\/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a>, <b>Ukraine has lost 664 tanks so far<\/b>. It is a considerable figure for an army like the Ukrainian one, but it must be taken into account that according to the same website, <strong>Ukraine has captured 550 Russian tanks<\/strong> and, in addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/22\/the-more-than-700-tanks-donated-to-ukraine-by-other-countries-their-numbers-and-models\/\">has received more than 700 tanks donated by other countries<\/a>. Ukraine is having a much easier time than Russia in replacing its losses and, furthermore, with more modern tanks. <strong>And the American M1 Abrams is yet to come into action<\/strong>, which could tip the balance even further in favor of the Ukrainian forces.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: A Russian T-73B3 tank destroyed in Ukraine in May 2023.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the focus of world attention has been fixed on the Middle East due to the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, the war continues in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[12043,19159,15349,16085,16520,15458,14532,16374,16151],"class_list":["post-53426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-russian-army","tag-t-14-armata","tag-t-55","tag-t-62","tag-t-64","tag-t-72","tag-t-80","tag-t-90","tag-ukrainian-army"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 22:22:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}