In his traditional morning report British Ministry of Defense draws attention to Russian military equipment lossesthat the command is unable to compile in a timely manner, reports the Russian service of the BBC.
Russian soldiers in Ukraine resent being forced to fight in old infantry fighting vehicles (IPVs), which they call “cans”.
In mid-October, under the conditions of the Ukrainian offensive, Losses of Russian armored vehicles have increased to over 40 units per day, roughly the size of a battalion.
In the last weeks Russia appears to have acquired at least 100 additional tanks and infantry fighting vehicles from Belarusian stocks.
Armored units and artillery are at the heart of the Russian military strategy. Currently, Russian units in Ukraine are experiencing difficulties due to lack of artillery shells and repairable armored vehicles.
On November 2, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced that US intelligence believes in this. North Korea secretly supplies Russia with artillery shells.
