Why does this article smell like pre-Russian propaganda?
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The Russians Are Losing 10 Tanks A Day As The Ukrainians Advance
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/10/19/the-russians-are-losing-10-tanks-a-day-as-ukrainian-troops-advance/?sh=7dfd55171536
Oct 19, 2022
The Russian army has been losing 10 tanks every day on average since the Ukrainian army launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine six weeks ago. The Ukrainian army’s own tank losses have been much lower—just two a day.
The gap is startling. An attacking army usually loses more equipment than a defending army does, as the attacker has to cross terrain and the defender can just hunker down in trenches and bunkers and open fire.
Moreover, the Russian army in theory still has a firepower advantage over the Ukrainian army, although that advantage has declined as Russian losses pile up and the Ukrainians induct more and more equipment from foreign donors—and from the Russians themselves.
No, Russia’s accelerating tank losses are the result of leadership and morale problems more than they are any technological imbalance on the battlefield. Half of the tanks the Russians have written off since early September were abandoned by their crews and seized by the Ukrainians.
The Ukrainian army is blowing up plenty of Russian tanks. It’s capturing just as many … and adding them to its own order of battle.
The Russian army’s losses were staggering even before the counteroffensives began in late August and early September. By Sept. 1, the Russians had lost 994 tanks that outside analysts can confirm: 614 of which were destroyed. That’s five tanks a day since Russia widened its war on Ukraine in late February.
A thousand tanks is more tanks than most armies have in their entire inventory.
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