According to Ukraine's military, Russia has lost hundreds of vehicles, including tanks, armored personnel vehicles, and fuel tanks, in the past week of fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Russia has lost hundreds of vehicles of various types in the past week, according to figures from Ukraine 's military, as fighting rages on in eastern Ukraine .On Thursday, the military said Russia had lost five tanks, 12 armored personnel vehicles , and an additional 50 vehicles and fuel tanks in the past day.In the past seven days, Russia has lost 119 tanks, 293 armored personnel vehicles and 437 cars and fuel tanks , according to Ukraine 's General Staff of the Armed Forces.
The Kremlin has also pulled old tanks out of storage and repurposed antiquated vehicles to ferry and detonate explosives around a target.In the initial stages of the full-scale war, Russia lost a slew of its tanks and armored vehicles, largely because of what analysts described as organizational and planning failures, broken chains of command and poor training. Heavy casualties in the first weeks left gaping expertise holes in Russia's tank crews, experts previously told Newsweek.
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