in total, Russia lost 32 pieces of equipment, and Ukraine lost 175.
The ratio is 1:5.5.
If armored cars/MRAPs are excluded — they distort the ratio, because Russia barely uses them while Ukraine uses them in huge numbers for transport — Russia lost 32 pieces of equipment and Ukraine lost 69. The ratio is 1:2.2.
As for self-propelled artillery, a good indicator of the ability to inflict damage, Russia lost 7 pieces and Ukraine lost 37. The ratio is 1:5.3.
Of course, all equipment-loss data is geographically tied, and only fully destroyed vehicles are counted. There can, of course, be some inaccuracies.
One often hears the following: “But Russia uses only civilian vehicles! Ukraine really cares about the lives of its soldiers! Civilian vehicles are not counted here!”
Do we still seriously believe in “massive offensives with heavy losses” in 2026?
A) I have spoken with Ukrainian soldiers who confirmed that the AFU also use civilian vehicles, but not in combat, only for transport. Russia does the same. In a war of attrition, cheaper but good-enough equipment is better than extremely expensive but perfect equipment.
B) In addition, Russia has a huge domestic military economy that can produce so much civilian equipment that it does not matter how much of it is destroyed. If Ukraine’s military equipment — self-propelled artillery, armored personnel carriers, and so on — is destroyed, it has to wait for deliveries from the West.
C) If the AFU command cared about the lives of its soldiers, mass casualties like those at Robotyne and in Kursk would never have happened. Ukraine literally burned through tens of billions of dollars of Western equipment in the Kursk region alone.
D) Even if equipment losses are twice as high on Ukraine’s side, that is still far from the level of losses needed to inflict substantial damage on Russia — because of Russia’s industrial capacity.
E) Remember that armies collapse long before they run out of people or equipment, as in historical examples such as the Germans in the First World War. Collapse comes when the overall level of losses reaches a critical point. Drones only mask these losses and delay the final outcome. Ukraine is clearly much closer to that critical point than Russia.
@svezhesti
