Perhaps it is inevitable, since the losses of Russian vehicles in Ukraine exceeded 15,000, the production of new vehicles and the stocks of the old cold war cars saw a decrease at the end of last year, that the Russian troops in Ukraine would end up rising In horses.

It’s finally happened. A video that circulated on social media this week depicts two Russian soldiers riding horses across the muddy Ukrainian landscape. “Look, the lads in Ukraine saddled up a horse,” one soldier quipped.

Forced to cross the land of man infested with mines, blocked by artillery, for its one -year offensives in eastern Ukraine, as well as its slightly more recent counteroffensive against the observer in western Russia, Russian mechanized regiments have lost armored cars at an annualized rate of 6,000 according to the year.

It is too much that Russian factories replace. Russia builds two hundred new BMP-3 Fight cars and 90 new T-90m tanks consisting of the year, as well as other hundreds of new and armored cars, adding fighting cars with BTR-82 wheels.

The correspondent of the Roma Romai War Sapozhnikov blamed commercial managers. “The feeling is that those who are guilty of the army with [armored fighting vehicles] and Tanksarry . . . have frozen and summarized from forehead disorders and the country’s armed forces,” he wrote.

For the first two years of the three-year wider war, the Kremlin comfortably made up the four-figure gap between losses and production by pulling old Cold War vehicles out of long-term storage.

The cold war garage sites once had vast stock of old tanks and other armored cars. But now, even those movements are low. The open source analyst Jompy tested 3 vehicle parks and concluded that the maximum of the remaining cars had moved for years. “A vehicle that moves so much time is a dead vehicle,” Jompy said.

With armored cars, even very old, they move rarely in Russian services, more and more Russian aggression equipment roll in civil and compact cars. The horses can be the following.

This decrease in mechanization exposes Russian infantry to Ukrainian firepower and kills many troops unnecessarily, Sapozhnikov wrote. Civilian vehicles, squeezed out of frontline service, are “complete shit that burns and kills our soldiers,” Sapozhnikov said.

But that doesn’t mean Russia is losing the wider war. As bad as Russia’s force-generation problems are, Ukraine’s are worse.

“Russian forces are suffering heavy losses,” Fronelliagence told Insight Ukrainian. “However, they continue to make progress in various spaces where Ukrainian defenses are stretched due to a shortage of hard work, and where Russia has been concentrating the top numbers. “

Sources:

1. Oryx

2. Anton Gerashchenko

3. Jompy

4. Front-facing insight

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