19 January, 2025
The Oryx OSINT project has recorded the loss of at least 20 thousand pieces of equipment by Russia during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.
Jakub Janowski, one of the project administrators, reported on this.
Oryx (Oryxspioenkop) is a Dutch open-source intelligence (OSINT) project on defense. It was founded in 2013 and covered mainly the war in Syria. However, after the full-scale invasion began, it focused on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Although the project ceased active operations in October 2023, some of its participants continue to record equipment losses during the Russian invasion.
Since Oryx’s calculations are based only on visually confirmed losses that can be found in open sources, the reported losses should be considered a minimum limit for the overall assessment.
Russian KamAZ-4385 destroyed in Ukraine, August 2024
In total, the project estimates that from the beginning of the invasion until January 18, 2025, Russia lost 20,004 units of equipment. Of these, 15,039 units were destroyed, and another 842 were seriously damaged. In addition, 1,115 units were abandoned on the battlefield with an unknown status, and the Ukrainian military captured 3,008 units as trophies.
Destroyed Russian T-80BV tank near the village of Soloviove in the Donetsk region. May, 2024. Ukraine. Footage from the video of the 47th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The losses of armored combat vehicles – tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and MRAPs – amounted to 11,597 units. Of these, 8,720 were destroyed, 367 were damaged, 975 were abandoned, and 1,535 were lost to captivity.
In addition, 437 units of towed artillery systems, 869 units of self-propelled artillery systems, and 451 multiple rocket launchers were lost.
The Russian Msta-S self-propelled artillery system is destroyed in the Kherson region. July 2024. Photo credits: t.me/lost_warinua
At least 298 air defense systems, 134 planes, and 151 helicopters were also lost.
As previously reported, an OSINT researcher discovered over two hundred cases of suicides of Russian soldiers on the battlefield.
Destroyed Russian Su-34 bomber at the Morozovsk airfield. Freeze frame from the video of the russia no context Telegram channel
The two hundredth suicide case was recorded on January 9, but as of today, January 18, there are nine more such cases.
Ukrainian troops record many cases of suicides by Russian soldiers after unsuccessful assaults, most often by wounded soldiers but sometimes even by infantrymen.
In three years of fighting, at times with an arm tied behind its back, with too late and too little military aid, Ukraine demolished all of these military vehicles. That’s at least 6 decades worth of Soviet Union military build-up, now just worthless scrap. An amount of equipment that could arm several average armies.
And there are many who are still afraid of mafia land … a wannabe superpower, now barely able to scrape together anything with four wheels to let its meat puppets meet death.
Yeah, and we get stories about russia attacking the whole of Eastern Europe in two years time. What the hell are they going to attack with?
Bicycles?