But it’s not their oldest stuff. Their principal tank loss, by the hundred, is the T72BV3 mod 2016. And there hundreds of T-90’s committed, perhaps over half of those in their inventory.
Nor are the men their worst soldiers. In most cases they are their best. Most of those on the line in the bloody front West of Kiev are the bulk of their airborne troops, the VDV. Also on the line elsewhere are more VDV and their Naval Infantry.
There is lots of info in open source that doesn’t get into the MSM news except inadvertently. You can be your own open source intelligence analyst.
Their principal tank loss, by the hundred, is the T72BV3 mod 2016.
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Oryxs reports: 70 T-72B3 Obr. 2016: destroyed, abandoned, captured. They must have left the V out. But its only 70, not hundreds of them.
Only 300 tanks (in total to date) were lost; some of which were recaptured by the Russians.
That is like the stories about Russian aircraft losses - only 12 have been documented destroyed or damaged - of those NO SU-30s, SU-35s, TU-95s, TU-160Ms are in the mix or even reported active in the area. Air superiority or supremacy cannot be archived without them.