Rollback for 50 years. How the Russian army weakens in the war

The Russian army began using tanks in Ukraine, which were built immediately after World War II.

Before the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia called its army the second in the world. Now this expression has become a meme. Western officials are convinced that Russia’s military has “significantly weakened” during Russia’s war against Ukraine, CNN reports.

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“They are devastating compared to the force that originally entered Ukraine,” said an unnamed Western official.

Russia is falling behind in terms of equipment, officials say, and the aggressor country has begun using Ukrainian tanks built just after World War II as it tries to replace lost armor.

Officials added that the invaders started with T-80 and T-90 tanks, moved to T-72s, and then T-55 tanks were on the front line.

The T-90 was first introduced in 1992, the T-80 in 1976, the T-72 in 1972, and the T-55 after World War II in 1948.

Personnel problems

Russia is still experiencing a manpower crisis. Despite the ability to gather large numbers of personnel, Moscow does not provide them with proper training.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is a decrease in the number of personnel in Russian units trained in training areas. This is probably due to the constant sending of small groups to the areas of combat operations to make up for the losses of combat units.

The General Staff also reported that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation decided to postpone the start of the training process for officers in some higher educational institutions of the military from September 1 to December 1.

Military expert, reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Roman Svitan, claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy almost the same number of inhabitants per day as Russia mobilizes.

“The Russians now call about 20,000 people a month, about 700-800 a day,” Svitan said.

According to a military expert, Ukraine needs to destroy up to a thousand invaders a day, “to level the speed of the approach of the newly arrived Russians.”

“There are three to five companies in the battalion, the battalion is about 500 people. Here, along the entire front line, we were canceling them by more than a battalion. There are about five or seven such companies at points along the front line, it is mainly Avdeevka, Marinka, also Belogorovka, the region of Svatovo-Kremennaya and, of course, Bakhmut. In Bakhmut this happens up to a battalion, sometimes even for a day. But not full 200s, but 200s and heavy 300s. We have a common figure now, we are only getting closer to the figure that Russia mobilizes every day,” he said.

In addition, according to experts, Russia lost almost all of its special forces in Ukraine, because they were used not for their intended purpose, but as assault infantry.

The Washington Post, citing “leaked” Pentagon documents, writes that Russian special forces have lost up to 95% of their personnel.

“The situation, rather, is not that the special forces are not well trained. Here, the problem, obviously, is that they were used incorrectly – they were used as assault infantry. break the defenses “The Spetsnaz are not intended for it, it is intended for certain tasks, quite specific and specific. Spetsnaz is an artificial product trained for certain purposes, in particular, to work behind enemy lines, to work on specific tasks, “said military observer Denis Popovich.

In his opinion, the use of special forces of the Russian command for attack attacks indicates a lack of qualified infantry. The expert said that it will take many years for the continuation of the Russian special forces.

“We can agree with the intelligence data that it will take many years to restore this potential of the Russian Federation. I am not ready to judge that it will be 10 years. But the fact that it is years, and not a year , is absolutely certain ,” Popovich summed up.