Well , laid it down the counter sources information then ... I'm all ear here . The bear are fucked up .that's obvious . But , how about the ukranians ?? How many bodies and equipment ( they haven't paid for !! ) they would sacrificed for tilting and tending those minefields ??? Nobody from the western sources eager the share of those grieving informations ...
While the equipment could be replaced/repaired easily enough trained operator are not !
Forgive me for being blunt .. at this rate , i'm afraid the ukranians ( or what's left of them ) would get buried/overwhelmed by the very equipment they getting while we were jokingly mock the russian incompetency ....
Ukraine has likely suffered close to 150,000 casualties (WIA, KIA, MIA and POW) since the outset of the war. I'd say the range is probably 120,000-160,000. They've also lost a lot of armor, artillery and aircraft Namely, at least the following...
MBTs: 700-900
IFVs / AFVs: 800-1000
APCs / MRAPs: 500-700
Other military vehicles: 2000+
Towed Artillery: 200-300
Self-Propelled Artillery: 200-300
MLRS: 50-100
Air defense systems: 150-200
Aid Defense / Counter Battery RADARS: 100-150
Helicopters: 40-60
Aircraft: 50+
Make no mistake about it, Ukraine has lost a ton of manpower and equipment. There are three reasons, however, that it's so much less than what Russia has lost.
1. Russia has been on the offensive for the majority of the war. Inevitably, during offensives, you lose a lot more equipment because you are trying to advance, against pre-preapred, dug in defensive positions.
2. Russia, arrogantly, used huge convoy type tactics early in the war, allowing Ukraine to destroy lots of equipment in "kill zones" that had been dialed in with artillery and mined to hell. Russia also used a multi-directional approach, but couldn't support many of their axis' logistically. Tons of their equipment was destroyed in the early days as it broke down stranded, ran out of fuel and ran out of ammunition.
3. The West specifically sent thousands of systems such as Javelins and NLAWs, that were specifically built to defeat Russian armor. Small Ukrainian units were able to wife armor out from long distances, largely unopposed in the early days.
4. Russia lost somewhere between 500-1000 pieces armor / military vehicles when they rapidly fled from both the Kharkiv and Kherson regions. They left hundreds of MBTs, IFVs, APCs, Artillery and logistics trucks behind for the Ukrainians to take. Dozens of Russians vehicles got stuck in the mud and were abandoned, as the Russians tried to retreat.
5. For about 4 months, Ukraine has been using counter battery RADAR, combined with GPS guided artillery shells and long range HIMARS strikes, to absolutely devestate Russias conventional towed / self-propelled howtizers and GRAD MLRS. We've seen drone football of HUNDREDS of these systems being destroyed as Ukrained looked to soften the Russians up before their counter offensive. There is an enormous disparity in counter battery fire right now between Ukraine and Russia. It's costing Russia entire battalions worth of artillery, multiple days per week. They're often outranged, by more accurate systems, with better counter battery capability.
Ukraine has lost a thousands of pieces of equipment. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. But there are clearly reasons why Russia has lost much, much more.