Analysts believe Russia could have lost so much military equipment in Ukraine that replenishing its inventory might take 'years.'
London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies and Santa Monica-based political think tank RAND estimated that Russia had a total of some 2,700 tanks at the beginning of the war in February. Oryx estimates that Russia has so far lost 571 tanks in Ukraine, on top of 4 naval ships, 38 helicopters, 26 aircraft and hundreds of armored vehicles.
The military setbacks suffered by Russia in the past almost nine weeks of war are matched by unexpectedly high troop losses among the ranks of Moscow's soldiers in Ukraine.estimates that Russia might have lost between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers - a quarter of its initial ground combat force estimated at 140,000, as Cancian writes.
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