Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 21, 2025

Russian forces conducted a large-scale series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of July 20 to 21 that included over 400 drones as Russia continues to launch significantly larger strike packages in June and July 2025 than in January to May 2025. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 426 Shahed-type strike drones and decoy drones from the directions of Bryansk and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai.[1] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched five Kh-46 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the airspace over Tambov Oblast; four Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea; one Iskander-K cruise missile from Millerovo; and 14 Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace over Saratov Oblast. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces shot down and suppressed 200 Shahed-type drones and 203 decoy drones that Ukrainian air defense fire and electronic warfare (EW) downed all the missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that 23 strike drones hit three locations and that drone debris fell in 12 locations. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian strikes damaged civilian and critical infrastructure in Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, and Kharkiv oblasts.[2] Kyiv City Military Administration Head Timur Tkachenko reported that the Russian strike damaged the entrance to a metro station in the city.[3] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Russian strikes injured 15 civilians and killed two.[4] Russia rarely launched over 200 drones per night between January and May 2025, and an overnight strike package consisting of over 400 drones — even if far below Russia's latest record high of 728 drones in one strike package — demonstrates the dramatic shift in Russia's ability to repeatedly launch larger-scale drone strikes in recent weeks since May 2025.

Ukraine's Western partners pledged additional military and financial assistance to Ukraine during a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) on July 21. Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that Germany will transfer five Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine in the near future and that Germany will also send 200,000 Gepard shells to Ukraine.[5] German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also confirmed that Germany will send five Patriot air defense systems and necessary interceptors to Ukraine.[6] Shmyhal stated that Canada will contribute an unspecified amount toward financing Ukraine's defense industrial base (DIB) via the “Danish model” (in which Ukraine's partners buy Ukrainian-manufactured weapons for the Ukrainian military) and allocated 20 million CAD ($14.6 million) to Ukrainian tank maintenance. Shmyhal stated that the Netherlands allocated 200 million euros (roughly $234 million) to fund Ukrainian production of interceptor drones to counter Russian Shahed-type drones and 125 million euros (roughly $146 million) for F-16 fighter jet maintenance. Shmyhal stated that Norway also allocated one billion euros (roughly $1.67 billion) to fund Ukrainian drone purchases in 2025, including 400 million euros (roughly $468 million) specifically to purchase drones from Ukraine's DIB.

British Defense Secretary John Healey announced during the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting on July 21 a “50-day drive” to arm Ukraine on the battlefield and help push Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.[7] Healey noted that the group needs to seize on US President Donald Trump's threat to impose “severe” 100 percent secondary tariffs on Russia's trade partners if there is no peace settlement to end Russia's war in Ukraine within 50 days from July 14.[8] ISW has consistently assessed that only significant Russian battlefield setbacks, enabled by timely and sufficient Western military assistance to Ukrainian forces, will force Putin to reconsider Russia's ability to militarily defeat Ukraine and bring him to the negotiating table.[9] Such setbacks will not happen in a matter of weeks and will likely require several months or campaign seasons, assuming that the West commits to properly equipping and aiding Ukrainian forces to the point that Ukraine could successfully conduct such operations.

Ukraine officially proposed a third round of negotiations with Russia amid speculation in the Ukrainian and Russian informational spaces. Russian officials continue to feign interest in good-faith negotiations, despite failing to propose or agree to a third round of negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on July 21 that Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov recently proposed conducting a third round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul, Turkey.[13] A source told Ukrainian outlet Suspilne on July 21 that Ukrainian and Russian delegations could meet in Istanbul as early as July 22 or 23.[14] Unspecified sources cited by Kremlin newswire TASS confirmed that Ukraine proposed a third round of negotiations to Russia and stated that negotiations may be held on July 24 or 25.[15] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed on July 21 that Russia is in favor of conducting a third round of negotiations with Ukraine, that the Kremlin would announce when a date had been set, and that Russia's delegation to the third round of negotiations would be the same delegation that attended previous Istanbul negotiations in May and June 2025.[16] Russia and Ukraine last met in Istanbul on June 2 and only concluded agreements about prisoner of war (POW) exchanges due to Russia's refusal to provide Ukrainian negotiators with a memorandum of its terms for a peace settlement in advance of negotiations.[17] The Kremlin has since repeatedly claimed interest in a third round of negotiations as Russian officials have reiterated in June and July 2025 Russia's long-standing demands that amount to Ukrainian capitulation.[18] Russia's decision to send the same, mid-level negotiating team to the reported upcoming third round of negotiations indicates that Russia's disinterest in peace negotiations is unchanged. ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin remains dedicated to protracting peace negotiations to support continued offensive operations in Ukraine and extract additional concessions from Ukraine and the West.[19]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-21-2025

Metallurgical raw material prices fall to five-year lows
A ton of ferrous scrap metal fell in price to 15.25 thousand rubles, the minimum since the summer of 2020. Such prices are already below the level of profitability for scrap metal collecting enterprises. The reason for the decline is a significant reduction in electric steelmaking in Russia, for which scrap is the main raw material. To reverse the trend, demand for construction rolled products needs to recover, and there are no prerequisites for this.

Prices for scrap are already lower than the cost, taking into account the costs of scrap collectors for collection, transportation and processing, even if we do not take into account hard-to-extract scrap, for which the cost price is more than 21 thousand rubles per ton, says the director of Ruslom.com, Viktor Kovshevny.

Moreover, he points out, the problem the industry is facing today is not only price: often the payment deadline is postponed for six to nine months after delivery. “Therefore, due to the decline in demand and the decline in liquidity in the market, the number of scrap metal collecting companies continues to decrease. Even some subsidiaries of metallurgical plants have begun to look for demand on the side due to the lack of orders from parent companies,” says Mr. Kovshevny.

The decline in scrap metal collection continues and, according to Ruslom.com forecasts, will not exceed 12 million tons by the end of the current year, compared to 17.7 million tons in 2024. In metallurgy, demand for scrap will decrease by 20%, the association estimates.

The current price level for basic rolled products, including construction products, does not allow in many cases to generate a positive flow for manufacturers working on electric arc furnaces, notes Boris Krasnozhenov, Head of Securities Market Analytics at Alfa Bank. According to Rusmet, rebar on FOB Black Sea terms cost 35 thousand rubles per ton by mid-July. This, according to Mr. Krasnozhenov, leads to a reduction and shutdown of electric steelmaking production and a decrease in steel output at large plants that mainly use blast furnace and converter capacities. “Scrap consumption per ton of liquid steel during converter smelting is 150-200 kg. All this leads to a drop in demand for ferrous scrap,” he explains.

By the end of 2025, we can expect the volume of electric steel smelting to be about 18 million tons against 23 million tons in 2024, predicts independent expert Leonid Khazanov. According to him, if the situation does not change for the better in the next two to four months, the decline may be even greater. According to independent expert Maxim Khudalov, the rate of decline in electric steel production is almost twice as high as the rate of decline in steel smelting in general. According to Chermet Corporation, in June, all steel production in the Russian Federation decreased by 4.9% year-on-year, to 5.7 million tons, and by 5.3% in the first half of 2025, to 34.7 million tons.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7906217

Side note: The Burmese steel industry lived for many years after World War II on scrap from the battlefields.

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