Ukraine has already lost half of its tanks
According to high-level Ukrainian military sources reported by the Welt , the Ukrainian army has suffered huge material losses since the beginning of the Russian aggression war. " To date, as a result of active fighting, we have estimated between 30 and 40, sometimes up to 50 percent of equipment losses ," Brigadier General Volodymyr Karpenko told the US magazine National Defense. "About 1,300 infantry fighting vehicles, 400 tanks and 700 artillery systems are estimated to have been lost."
When we said in the past that the war of attrition was a lost war for Ukraine, we meant precisely this: on the battlefield, Russia can afford to attack, suffering losses even double compared to Ukraine, trivially because it has more means to sacrifice. . A bloody reasoning, which brings us back to the Great War, but which has a sad, dramatic, truth. You are thinking "But the powerful means that the West has sent?". The proportion is enough: for example, 700 Ukrainian pieces have been lost on the artillery pieces, and, between Europe and the US and other allies, just over a hundred will have been supplied. Tanks? Much less than the lost, and almost all T 72 Poles or from Eastern Europe.
The fighting in the war is currently concentrated in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region. The situation is particularly dire in the strategically important city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region, where the Russian army bombed the Azot chemical plant again on Friday. According to Ukrainian sources, there are more than 560 civilians, including 38 children, on the factory premises. in the meantime they are a territorial brigade still holding the city, isolated due to the destruction of the bridges, but, contrary to what happened in Mariupol, this time the support of the Ukrainian artillery is direct, since it is located on the hills on the other side of the SeverskyDonets River, in very difficult positions to attack, if not with significant losses or bypassing. But the Russians seem to be able to afford it.
So, even admitting a flow of aid like the current one in favor of Ukraine, it will be able to last for 5-6 months, at this rate, then it will be completely exhausted. The cost ? Huge: I am among the fighters, keeping the current pace, we will calmly reach the 150,000 dead, between both sides, by the autumn. For then what, will remain one of the many mysteries of history.
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