(Photo by Sergei BOBYLYOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI BOBYLYOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)] Ukraine, with its smaller population and military, has held the line far longer than the Kremlin expected – at the cost of staggering Russian losses that the government has so far refused to acknowledge.
Figures from a Ukrainian report released today show that altogether, as many as 10,177 tanks, 21,157 armored fighting vehicles, 38,444 vehicles and fuel tanks, 23,626 artillery systems, 1,299 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,081 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 331 helicopters and 26,645 drones have been destroyed.
(Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)] The invasion that was supposed to last a few days has now stretched into its fourth year, and the numbers paint a grim picture for Russia.
In remarks to a gathering of Ukraine’s allies, he said the new package will go after Russia’s so-called shadow fleet as well as companies in China and elsewhere providing Russia with military components.
Separately, the UK MoD said Russia had lost 3,750 battle tanks, and 8,400 armored vehicles, number that are much lower to what Ukraine released.
