If the summer offensive fails, Ukraine will be re -armed, and the Armed Forces will spend the entire army - Forbes

According to journalists, even the elite units of the Russian Federation now have to use 50-year tanks T-55. In some cases, storms are carried out without transport and armored vehicles. Ukrainian UAV operators could not believe their eyes when on March 30 focused their cameras on the Russian assault group, which was approaching the positions of the Armed Forces near Novoprokopivka in the Zaporozhye region. Forbes writes about it.

Apparently, the landing group included troops and armored vehicles of the 76th Division of the Airborne Corps, once elite formation with better preparation and equipment than in most Russian units. It is noteworthy that the tank that headed was not a modern T-72 or T-90, which was once full-time in the 76th Division. It was a T-55 sample of the 50s of release, which was added primitive armor from drones. The attack ended in a catastrophe for the Russians.

The Ukrainian 118-A OMB has used artillery, PTRC and FPV-therots. At least 11 Russian vehicles were destroyed, including 40-ton T-55 with rough optics, 100 mm gun and 200 mm armor. The unit, which was one of the best in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, now uses tanks that are outdated 50 years ago. For several decades, they have been in open storage before they decided to attract them in 2023 to compensate for stunning losses.

According to journalists, it is now obvious that the Russian industry cannot produce enough modern equipment to replace 400 tanks, combat vehicles and howitzers, which it loses monthly this year. The Russian leadership could suspend attacks on the front line and gradually restore the combat units, replenish with modern equipment and well -trained troops, the authors of the publication believe.

Instead, the command decided to continue the offensive and send the units at the front all the equipment and people they could find. "Russia is constantly recovering its strength and trying to fill the losses. Recating a new personnel and creating new parts and military districts," Ukrainian analysts from Fronetelligence INSIGHT reported on the eve, April 4. At the same time, this does not mean that you can completely recover.

According to analysts, there is evidence of replacement of T-72 tanks of different modifications on T-62 and T-55 (1960s) at least in one tank part. Oryx calculations on the basis of open sources indicate that the loss of Russian equipment since the beginning of a full -scale invasion in February 2022 exceeds 15,000, including almost 2,900 tanks. These are as many tanks as two years ago were in service with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

This amount will not be replaced in two years, noted in Fronetelligence. Russian factories produce about 600 new tanks annually, with a little more removed from the preservation of old ones. Alternatively used unnecessary civil transport, such as Chinese Golfs Desertcross, or go into attack without equipment that has recently happened in the Bakhmut direction. This was reported at the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies.

Today, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation spend much faster than they can replenish them. Moscow goes Va-Bank, now or never, troops seek to capture as many territories as possible against the background of reducing assistance to Ukraine, to force Kiev to surrender on their terms, wrote on February 13, Royal United Services Institute analysts. The authors of the publication point out that the moment of truth is coming to the Russians in Ukraine.

"If the current offensive fails, the Americans will finally vote for their help. The Ukrainians will be re -armed, and the Russians may find that they have spent their whole army and there will be no ways of rapid recovery, as Ukrainians will return the initiative," the article reads. Recall that DeepState analysts have analyzed three days of battles for the settlement of thorns.