Russia suffers significant losses in military equipment on the battlefield in Ukraine, but it has enough reserves to continue the war.
This is stated in a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
According to the document, Russia suffered significant losses of tanks, artillery pieces, trucks, drones – their total number is approaching 10,000.
“According to various estimates, Moscow lost from 1845 to 3511 tanks in the first year of the war,” the report’s authors note, a significant proportion of them being modernized T-72B3s that entered service in 2013.
According to the calculations of the center, the Russian industry is not able to compensate for the losses with the supply of new tanks. The main tank manufacturer in Russia, Uralvagonzavod, produces 20 tanks per month, while Russia loses an average of 150 tanks per month on the battlefield.
As a result, it is forced to return to service tanks that have been in storage for decades, including the T-55, which entered service immediately after World War II, the report said.
At the same time, according to the center, Russia, thanks to reserves, still maintains significant superiority over Ukraine in military equipment.
The report speaks of Russia’s fifteen-fold superiority in aircraft, seven to eight times in tanks and four times in infantry fighting vehicles.
“Sanctions and export controls are not the ideal way to force Russia to end the war,” the report’s authors conclude.
The numerical superiority of technology will most likely allow Moscow to continue the war, counting on the fact that Ukraine, despite significantly lower losses, will at some point begin to experience a serious shortage of military equipment.
Neutralizing this numerical superiority in technology is only possible by continuing to supply modern Western weapons to Ukraine, the report says.
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