During the year and two months of the war in Ukraine, the Russian army lost more than 10,000 units of military equipment, according to Oryx experts who track losses on both sides, writes the independent publication The Moscow Times. The Ukrainian army would lose three times less.

Oryx only counts damage documented by photographs or video, so the true scale of material losses suffered by Russia since February 24, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, may be higher.

Almost two-thirds of the Russian equipment was destroyed by the Ukrainian military, more than a quarter was donated by the Russians when they hurriedly left the territories conquered by Kyiv last year.

Thus, many tanks, carriers, missile systems, communication systems left behind by Russian troops are used by Ukrainian engineers to repair weapons used against the Red Army.

Oryx classifies losses into four groups, and in the case of Russia, they are distributed:

• destroyed – 6477;
• damaged – 304;
• abandoned – 394;
• prisoners – 2,834

The most significant losses are BMP (2,286) and tanks (1,928), including 60 of the most modern T-90 tanks (18 of them are T-90M of the latest model).

Hard failure from Ugledar

Among the failures of the Russian military are nine ill-advised attempts to force the river Siverskyi Donetsk in May 2022, as a result of which about 80 units of armored vehicles and more than 400 people were lost.

The same list includes the loss of almost 100 tanks in 100 hours during the Ukrainian counteroffensive near Kharkiv in September and the failed offensive near Vugledar in February 2023.

At Vugledar, Colonel General Rustam Muradov threw his army into minefields and artillery fire, losing two elite marine brigades and 103 vehicles, including 36 tanks, in just three days, according to Oryx estimates.

In early April, Putin dismissed Muradov as commander of the Eastern Military District and removed him from command of the troops fighting in Ukraine.

The inability to fight effectively is demonstrated not only by generals, but also by front-line commanders who lost 240 pieces of equipment that served as command posts and communication stations.

At the beginning of the war, Ukrainian troops neutralized the Russian aviation, repulsing the landing in Gostomel near Kyiv, destroying more than a dozen helicopters at the airfield near Kherson and effectively using air defense.

Russia, struck from within

In December, drones attacked the Engels-1 airfield in the Saratov region, where two Tu-22M3 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers were damaged on the ground, Oryx reports.

Then the bombers were moved from the airbase to an unknown location.

In total, Russia lost 79 planes and 81 helicopters, Oryx reports.

Although Ukraine did not take part in combat operations at sea in the first days of the war, it managed to destroy eight Russian warships and damage four more.

The main “victim” was the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser “Moskva”, which was killed by the Ukrainian missile strike “Neptune”, according to Kyiv, but Russia has never acknowledged this loss.

According to the official data of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, of approximately 500 crew members, only one was killed, and 27 are considered missing.

According to the New newspaper of Europe and Meduza, estimated losses will be about 40 dead and 100 wounded.

Losses of Ukraine

Ukraine’s losses, according to Oryks, are disproportionately small. In total, Kyiv would lose 3,164 pieces of equipment:

• destroyed – 2,032;
• damaged – 176;
• abandoned – 89;
• prisoners – 867.

Among them are 480 tanks, 523 BMP, 10 command posts and communication stations, 61 airplanes and 29 helicopters, as well as 25 ships, some of which were sunk by the Ukrainians themselves.

Pentagon documents leaked on social media contain US estimates of the losses of the two armies during the year and a half of fighting.

Russia may have lost between 189,500 and 223,000 soldiers, including 43,000 killed in action, and Ukraine between 124,500 and 131,000 soldiers, including up to 17,500 killed in action.