Here's March updates to photo documented #Russia losses in #UkraineWar. These are not supposed to be monthly but since we've been busy with development and data processing lately *types with Rober De Niro voice* this is what it is 🤷♂️
But since they are, here's some higher level view of what's #RussianArmy has been up to last month. First, with little over 300 losses added, it successfully attacked... 3000 figure for IFVs and 1700 for tanks lost, pretty much as expected.
Speaking of the equipment types here's top 🇷🇺 losses in March:
🥇 106 IFVs
🥈 77 tanks
🥉 36 trucks
+ 13 SPGs & 13 MRLs
+ 10 AA systems etc, check out yourself: ukr.warspotting.net/search/?bellig…
In terms of loss type last month has been particularly uncool for #RareUnoffensiveRussiaTag with:
– 🟥 251 destroyed
– 🟨 10 captured
– ⬜️ 23 abandoned
– 🟦 22 damaged
Abandoned losses need to be taken cautiously, though, as we mentioned before:
Space dimension wise, out of 306 total vehicles lost:
1️⃣ 144 in Donetsk oblast, out of which:
– 25 in Bakhmut raion
– 37 in Volnovakha raion (Avdiivka etc)
– 40 in Pokrovsk raion (Vuhledar etc)
2️⃣ 38 in Luhansk oblast
3️⃣ 27 in Zaporizhzhia oblast etc
Mandatory disclaimer: as we pointed before, one must remember some of these have been lost earlier than March, only discovered/published now. Just like some of the recent losses are going to be discovered months later.
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2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ Good, bad, or ugly, one thing's for sure: this year turned nothing like #Russia was hoping it would be. With ~26 average confirmed daily losses, it seems to have become one of the greatest material dumps in recent history. Or has it? Let's find out 🧵
But first: while average figures are quite reliable, daily counts not so much, since loss dates are almost never known accurately. Good example is Mar 30, seemingly the worst day with 166 recorded losses: ukr.warspotting.net/search/?bellig…
Most of them didn't happen on that day, though, only discovered as #RuAF was 'regrouping' away from north #Ukraine. This applies to many more entries on our list with few exceptions. One of them: infamous river crossing attempt near Bilohorivka in mid May.
With fog of war settling down, and dozens of new losses being discovered daily as an aftermath of #Ukraine️'s counter-offensive in #KharkivOblast, we thought maybe it's time to stop for a moment and look back at what's been done 🧵
A lot, apparently. #Russia seems to have sustained unprecedented material losses. Total 533 lost units since Sep 6th to be precise: ukr.warspotting.net/search/?bellig… and counting. That's #Bilohorivka on steroids kind of things.
Out of those 533, total 137 have been found destroyed: ukr.warspotting.net/search/?bellig… It's important to acknowledge a lot of these have been lost much earlier when #Russia was taking over the area, and only discovered these days. Some of them known losses.