Russia Has Lost 5,000 Military Vehicles In Ukraine: Newsweek

Photographic evidence collected in Ukraine shows that the Russian military has lost some 5,000 military vehicles since the beginning of the war on February 24, Giulia Carbonaro reported for Newsweek.

Photo Insert: A Ukrainian soldier steps on a destroyed Russian tank.

Oryx, an open source site tracking military equipment losses around the world, has reported that Moscow has lost 5,020 military vehicles since the beginning of its invasion.

The site said 3,202 of those vehicles were destroyed, 103 damaged, 323 abandoned and 1,392 captured by Ukrainian troops. Among the Russian losses listed by Oryx, there are 916 tanks, 556 of which are estimated to have been destroyed.

Russia's army was estimated to have over 12,000 tanks and 20,000 armored fighting vehicles before the war in Ukraine began, far outnumbering Ukraine's estimated force of an estimated total of over 2,500 tanks and over 2,800 armored vehicles.

According to US official estimates, 4,800 Russian armored fighting vehicles were involved in the invasion of Ukraine in February. Russia has lost an estimated 900 tanks since the beginning of the war in Ukraine on February 24.

Since then, it's been estimated that Russia has already lost over a quarter of its available tanks for its campaign in Ukraine, and rumors have spread about Moscow's inability to repair its damaged tanks and its capacity to build new tanks.

Ukraine's state media and armed forces claimed Russia's largest tank manufacturer, Uralvagonzavod, halted production because of supply shortages in March.

According to Oryx, it is likely that the actual number of equipment losses suffered by Russian troops in Ukraine is higher than what has been documented in photos and videos.

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