28-04-2022, 09:36 AM
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Wrecked Kremlin equipment now amounts to 939 tanks, 185 planes, 155 helicopters, 421 artillery units and eight ships, the Ukrainian army estimated this morning.
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The Ukrainian Army updates its latest - and rising - estimates of Russian losses each morning
Kyiv estimates its forces have now killed 22,400 Russian soldiers, up from 22,100 yesterday.
Military analyst Henry Boyd from the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Putin could still draw on sizeable, Soviet-era reserve forces stationed across Russia.
But most Russian soldiers could be unable to use it, he added.
Mr Boyd told the newspaper: 'They kept a large number of Soviet-era tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery.
'You can probably compensate in terms of sheer numbers by reactivating older systems but there is a question mark over whether they will have the crews to man the vehicles and if they do, whether they have had sufficient training.'
The bad news for Moscow comes as Russia continues its pivot to the east of Ukraine, where it has had more military success than elsewhere in the country.
But UK armed forces minister James Heappey warned yesterday 'the Donbas will be a difficult nut for the Russians to crack'.
Mr Heappey added Russian and Ukrainian forces are now 'evenly matched'.
He also hit headlines yesterday when he backed Ukraine's right to attack targets inside Russia using British-made equipment.
He told Times Radio: 'It is completely legitimate for Ukraine to be targeting in Russia's depth in order to disrupt the logistics that if they weren't disrupted would directly contribute to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil.
'There are lots of countries around the world that operate kit that they have imported from other countries; when those bits of kit are used we tend not to blame the country that manufactured it, you blame the country that fired it.'
Russia's land army consisted of 280,000 full-time active soldiers compared with Ukraine's 125,600.
But the amount of Russian soldiers needed to seize the whole country and control the entire population would be close to 1 million, according to Michael Clarke, a visiting professor at King's College London's Department of War Studies.
That suggests the Kremlin woefully underestimated the amount of force needed to pummel its neighbour into submission.
A flood of Ukrainian conscripts, high-tech weaponry sent by NATO countries and Russian strategic failures have all helped to turn the tide in Kyiv's favour.
Wrecked Kremlin equipment now amounts to 939 tanks, 185 planes, 155 helicopters, 421 artillery units and eight ships, the Ukrainian army estimated this morning.
The Ukrainian Army updates its latest - and rising - estimates of Russian losses each morning
Kyiv estimates its forces have now killed 22,400 Russian soldiers, up from 22,100 yesterday.
Military analyst Henry Boyd from the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Putin could still draw on sizeable, Soviet-era reserve forces stationed across Russia.
But most Russian soldiers could be unable to use it, he added.
Mr Boyd told the newspaper: 'They kept a large number of Soviet-era tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery.
'You can probably compensate in terms of sheer numbers by reactivating older systems but there is a question mark over whether they will have the crews to man the vehicles and if they do, whether they have had sufficient training.'
The bad news for Moscow comes as Russia continues its pivot to the east of Ukraine, where it has had more military success than elsewhere in the country.
But UK armed forces minister James Heappey warned yesterday 'the Donbas will be a difficult nut for the Russians to crack'.
Mr Heappey added Russian and Ukrainian forces are now 'evenly matched'.
He also hit headlines yesterday when he backed Ukraine's right to attack targets inside Russia using British-made equipment.
He told Times Radio: 'It is completely legitimate for Ukraine to be targeting in Russia's depth in order to disrupt the logistics that if they weren't disrupted would directly contribute to death and carnage on Ukrainian soil.
'There are lots of countries around the world that operate kit that they have imported from other countries; when those bits of kit are used we tend not to blame the country that manufactured it, you blame the country that fired it.'
Russia's land army consisted of 280,000 full-time active soldiers compared with Ukraine's 125,600.
But the amount of Russian soldiers needed to seize the whole country and control the entire population would be close to 1 million, according to Michael Clarke, a visiting professor at King's College London's Department of War Studies.
That suggests the Kremlin woefully underestimated the amount of force needed to pummel its neighbour into submission.
A flood of Ukrainian conscripts, high-tech weaponry sent by NATO countries and Russian strategic failures have all helped to turn the tide in Kyiv's favour.