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10-02-2025, 11:41 AM
Shortage of Armored Vehicles Forces Russian Troops to Assault in Civilian Cars, in motor cycle and horses. 
The continuing war in Ukraine has resulted in a serious shortage of Russian operational armored vehicles forcing some frontline units to attack in unmodified civilian cars.
The open-source intelligence group Oryx has compiled statistics that show, since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost a nearly 11,000 armored vehicles, including more than 3,500 tanks, 5,000 armored personnel carriers, 1,000 self-propelled artillery, and almost 300 howitzers.Speaking in 2023 Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said: “This year alone, we will produce 1,500 tanks.”
According to reports from Royal United Services Institute [RUSI] around 85% of Russian tanks & armored vehicles deployed to front since his claim are not newly manufactured but “mothballed” equipment brought from long-term storage – those are running short too.
Recent satellite imagery shows depots such as Vaghzhanovo depot in Buryatia have been stripped almost 1/2 it stocks seen be4 invasion. Most of equipment is decades old & much has been shipped directly to the battlefield without modernization or refurbishment.
Even the limited numbers of “new builds,” including T-80 & T-90 main battle tanks, have fielded without critical components, such as explosive reactive armor laser-guided targeting systems.
The growing shortage of op armored assets has resulted in Russian troops having to use motorcycles, quad bikes, buggies, modified civilian trucks, and even horses as standard to assault Ukrainian defensive positions. According to the Atesh partisan group, Russian soldiers are also using civilian cars, trailers move artillery ammunition dressed in civilian clothing too.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/45118
The continuing war in Ukraine has resulted in a serious shortage of Russian operational armored vehicles forcing some frontline units to attack in unmodified civilian cars.
The open-source intelligence group Oryx has compiled statistics that show, since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has lost a nearly 11,000 armored vehicles, including more than 3,500 tanks, 5,000 armored personnel carriers, 1,000 self-propelled artillery, and almost 300 howitzers.Speaking in 2023 Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said: “This year alone, we will produce 1,500 tanks.”
According to reports from Royal United Services Institute [RUSI] around 85% of Russian tanks & armored vehicles deployed to front since his claim are not newly manufactured but “mothballed” equipment brought from long-term storage – those are running short too.
Recent satellite imagery shows depots such as Vaghzhanovo depot in Buryatia have been stripped almost 1/2 it stocks seen be4 invasion. Most of equipment is decades old & much has been shipped directly to the battlefield without modernization or refurbishment.
Even the limited numbers of “new builds,” including T-80 & T-90 main battle tanks, have fielded without critical components, such as explosive reactive armor laser-guided targeting systems.
The growing shortage of op armored assets has resulted in Russian troops having to use motorcycles, quad bikes, buggies, modified civilian trucks, and even horses as standard to assault Ukrainian defensive positions. According to the Atesh partisan group, Russian soldiers are also using civilian cars, trailers move artillery ammunition dressed in civilian clothing too.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/45118
