NEW: Ukrainian forces reportedly destroyed or damaged over 3,000 Russian tanks and almost 9,000 armored vehicles in 2024 as Russia continues to accrue vehicle losses that are likely unsustainable in the medium-term. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar010425 - ThreadSky

thestudyofwar.bsky.social • 53 days ago

NEW: Ukrainian forces reportedly destroyed or damaged over 3,000 Russian tanks and almost 9,000 armored vehicles in 2024 as Russia continues to accrue vehicle losses that are likely unsustainable in the medium-term.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 4, 2025: https://isw.pub/UkrWar010425

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bobbyc68.bsky.social•52 days ago

thestudyofwar.bsky.social•53 days ago

2/ Russian forces have reportedly been using fewer armored vehicles in assaults in the most active areas of the frontline in recent weeks, possibly in order to conserve these vehicles as Soviet stocks dwindle.

thestudyofwar.bsky.social•53 days ago

3/ Ukrainian forces struck a gas terminal at the Ust-Luga port in Leningrad Oblast.

Ukrainian forces recently regained lost positions near Kreminna and likely maintain positions near Kurakhove.

Russian forces recently advanced near Kreminna, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and Kurakhove. https://isw.pub/UkrWar010425

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•52 days ago

💪🏽🇺🇦☝️

ajit4g.bsky.social•53 days ago

In addition, Russian troops are increasingly using electric scooters, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles during attacks in eastern Ukraine as part of Russia's ongoing efforts to compensate for armored vehicle losses.

"Won't last until 2026" - ISW 😭

thearmoredass.bsky.social•53 days ago

What are the Ukrainian losses? Are they sustainable?

endurex.bsky.social•53 days ago

glory to heroes

leanna-anneal.bsky.social•53 days ago

My hope is that Russia is getting closer to crumbling and being forced to stop this war. Although they are still wreaking devastation, many of the news updates, like this, are encouraging.

your-nyan.bsky.social•53 days ago

Ironically, mechanised assaults have been much easier to destroy for Ukrainians than when russians attack using small civilian vehicles, bikes, or just run on their feet. In the first scenario, you need just a few precise strikes with artillery and drones to destroy the column with personnel.

your-nyan.bsky.social•53 days ago

In the second one, you need to kill hundreds of “ants” charging at your position separately, one by one, which needs way more people defending on the Ukrainian side.

rbrauner.bsky.social•53 days ago

Interesting. Are there any UAF sources/ articles relating to that observation?

thechemist.bsky.social•53 days ago

But that second also means that no large breakthroughs are possible, only slow movement at the cost of thousands of dead soldiers per km.

your-nyan.bsky.social•52 days ago

Not thousands of dead soldiers, but less than a hundred. And Ukraine loses people every day, too, in the middle of the infantry crisis. From my observation of the UA soldiers’ posts and videos, it was easier for them to defend in 2023 against armoured vehicles than these never-ending meat assaults.

thechemist.bsky.social•52 days ago

You say this as if there is some insurmountable advantage for Russia over the last 6 months, and yet, there is no noticeable change to the front line. Unless you thinking reaching halfway across UKR to take Kyiv in the year 2203 the target of course.

chiefjoer.bsky.social•53 days ago

I hear this every couple months from you. Just stop. Please.

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