Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

And those 68 destroyed and abandoned Russian vehicles are just the ones that Andrew Perpetua, an open-source intelligence analyst, has verified in photos and videos on social media. Actual Russian losses almost certainly are much, much higher.

The Ukrainian general staff for its part claimed its forces destroyed a shocking 175 Russian armored vehicles just between Thursday and Friday, including 55 tanks. On average, the Russians have been losing just three tanks a day since February 2022; the recent loss rate is nearly 20 times higher.

Manpower losses are commensurate with vehicle losses. The general staff in Kyiv claimed 1,380 Russians died in Ukraine in a 24-hour period ending Friday. That would be one of the greatest single-day losses on either side of the wider war.

It’s obvious what’s driving up Russia’s casualties. For a couple of weeks now, seven or eight Russian regiments and brigades—each with up to 2,000 troops—have been trying, and failing, to surround and cut off one of the best-defended cities in free Ukraine: Avdiivka, which lies just northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/20/the-russians-may-have-lost-55-tanks-in-one-day-trying-and-failing-to-capture-avdiivka/?sh=78d03c706912