Russian Ka-52 helicopter downed with MANPADS near Robotyne frontline: Kyiv.Ukrainians on rubber boat destroy Russian command post in night raid video.Putin reinforces Rosgvardia troops with heavy armor after Wagner coup. Some of the Soviet tanks and armored vehicle stocks will have been cannibalized as well as deployed, analysts added. Referencing these reports, the British Ministry of Defence said the Kremlin's fighters were using "antiquated armored vehicles packed with several tonnes of explosives," largely in Ukraine's contested eastern Donetsk region. In June 2023, reports said Russian forces had used these mothballed tanks as vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices. Experts said these tanks would be far less effective against Ukrainian troops than newer, more advanced and better maintained military vehicles. Reports and analysts had previously suggested Moscow had resorted to pulling Soviet-era tanks, like the T-54 and T-55, from storage. When Kyiv's tally reached 4,000 tanks lost for Moscow in mid-June, experts told Newsweek this figure-which was likely accurate-probably included mothballed Soviet-era tanks, and some armored vehicles, as well as main battle tanks. Contributor/Getty ImagesĪccording to statistics published by Kyiv on Tuesday, Russia has lost 4,254 tanks and 8,278 armored personnel vehicles since February 24, 2022, when Moscow launched its invasion. Russia's military has deployed more than 40 percent of the mothballed, Soviet-era, armored vehicles and tanks from its largest storage facility, according to a new report from Russian independent media. A T-72 B3 battle tank is seen in Alabino, near Moscow, on August 27, 2022.
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