"Continue to move": the military of the Russian Federation began to move to horses - forbes

According to journalists, Russian factories do not have time to produce new armored equipment, which is why "horses" can be "next". Such "demechanization" makes the Russian infantry vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery. Due to the huge losses of armored equipment on the battlefield, Russian servicemen began to move to horses. Forbes writes about it. Journalists noted that the losses of Russian equipment in Ukraine exceeded 15,000 units.

At the same time, the production of new equipment was lagging behind, and the reserves of the Old Technology of the Cold War were exhausted at the end of 2024, which forced the Russian troops to eventually move to horses. The authors of the material recalled a video that spread on social networks. On it, two Russian soldiers go on horseback. "Russian mechanized shelves lose armored vehicles at a speed of 6,000 units a year. This is too much for Russian plants to replace them.

armored vehicles, including wheeled BTR-82 fighting vehicles, "the material reads. During the first two years of the war, the Kremlin successfully filled the gap between losses and production, extracting the old Cold War for long -term storage. But now even these stocks are exhausted. "Since armored vehicles, even very old, are becoming more and more rare in the Russian service, more and more Russian assault groups are moving on civilian vans and compact cars.

The next can be horses," journalists said. Such "demechanization" makes the Russian infantry vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery and leads to great losses. At the same time, journalists emphasized that this does not mean that Russia is losing the war, because Ukraine is experiencing serious problems. "Russian troops suffer great losses.