80 Destroyed armored vehicles per day: Russians encountered a new defense line of the Armed Forces - Forbes

The calculations of open sources of Andrew Perpetua and the Oryx project are generally converging the losses of Russian and Ukrainian equipment for the first 700 days of a full -scale war: 14,000 and 5,000 respectively. For Perpetua March 1-2, the work increased significantly, it is a little less than February 3, which became a record day: 103 destroyed, destroyed or abandoned vehicles: 73-Russian and 33-Ukrainian. On March 2, there were 97 losses, 84 of them were Russian.

This is four times higher than the average daily for Russians and twice as the average average for the Armed Forces. The February record was the result of the four -month campaign of the Russian army to capture Avdiivka. The authors of the publication call the Victory of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Pirrova, since the 2-A and 41st all-military armies of the Russian Federation eventually lost 16,000 people killed, tens of thousands wounded and about 700 units of equipment.

The Ukrainian 110th Brigade retreated from Avdiivka in mid-February. Instead of stopping in the ruins of the city, the Russians continued to pursue the Armed Forces fighters in the first line of settlements a few kilometers west of Avdiivka. Russian troops quickly captured Steppe, swallow and northern. But in the next line of villages-Berdychi, Orlovka and Tonny-Ukrainian 47, 3rd and 57th Brigade moved from retreat to active defense, turned around and repelled tanks, artillery, mortars and drones.

By increasing the supply of ammunition from European allies of Ukraine (although not from the United States), Ukrainian brigades have stopped further Russian advancement. Analysts of the Institute of War Study expected such development on February 18. "Russian troops, who have suffered large losses of personnel and equipment during the capture of Avdiivka, are likely to reach the climax when they encounter fresh Ukrainian units in prepared defense positions," the ISW was said.

The certificates of such climax are scattered in the fields, roads and forest strips west of Avdiivka: hundreds of broken Russian equipment and much less broken Ukrainian. 84 The losses of Russian equipment that OSINT researchers celebrated on March 2 can be the result of the last major offensive of the Russians west of Avdiivka. It should be reminded that the forces of defense pushed the Russians from Ivanovsky and eliminated the hostile infantry near the mite.