From the beginning of the war and until January 25, 2024, the Russian ground forces lost about 2,600 main battle tanks and 4,900 other armored combat vehicles in Ukraine.
What is the number of Russian armored vehicles destroyed in Ukraine
The summary notes that Russia lost approximately 40% less equipment in 2023 than in 2022.
It is highly likely that the reduction in the rate of destruction of armored vehicles attrition rates was to due to the increasingly positional nature of the conflict in 2023 and because Russia spent a significant proportion of the year in a defensive posture, the report says.
From the beginning of October 2023, the Russian army went on the offensive in eastern Ukraine. During this period, the losses of Russian armoured vehicles increased: Russian troops lost up to 365 tanks and 700 armoured vehicles but achieved only minor territorial advances.
However, Russia can probably generate at least 100 tanks per month and, therefore retains the ability to replace battlefield losses and continue this level of offensive activity for the foreseenable future, the British Ministry of Defense notes.
Russia's military budget
It will be recalled that in 2024, for the first time since Soviet times, the Russian authorities intend to allocate almost a third of all expenses to maintain the army and the defence-industrial complex.
At the end of December, the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, said that the corporation had dramatically increased the production of tanks, armoured vehicles, and shells for the army.
Tank production has increased sevenfold in two years, Chemezov told President Vladimir Putin. Production of armoured vehicles has raised more than fivefold, and ammunition production, from small arms to artillery shells, has increased 50-fold, Chemezov said, without giving figures.
