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Russia’s T-90 Tank Nightmare in Ukraine Just Won’t End
Defense expert Caleb Larson breaks down the brutal arithmetic of Russia’s war in Ukraine: more than a million casualties and at least 13,000 armored vehicles lost, with open-source trackers recording over 200 T-90s destroyed,
Russia suffered approximately 1,187,780 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and December 13, 2025, with 1,300 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.
The Kremlin relies heavily on oil and gas exports to fund its grinding and illegal invasion of Ukraine. Over the past few months, Ukraine has hit more than 50 oil depots, causing mayhem to the Russian economy. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed its drones targeted and caused severe damage to Temryuk Seaport in Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia.
In the early months of the invasion, in 2022, the Russians tried to suffocate Ukraine’s economy by imposing a naval blockade of its ports. About 20 million tons of grain got stuck in the port city of Odesa, causing global food prices to spike and raising fears of famine in parts of Africa and the Middle East that rely on supplies from Ukraine.
On the night of 8, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck several Russian military targets. In the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region, an ammunition depot and a fuel and lubricants storage site were hit,
Russia Loses 1,010 Soldiers In Ukraine War Over Past Day. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. <a href = target=_
Russian Air Defenses Constraining Ukraine’s Attempts To Strike Back is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.
Ukraine’s navy says it has struck an “elite” Russian special unit located on a Black Sea oil rig. An anti-tank missile crew was killed in the strike and reconnaissance equipment was destroyed at the Syvash drilling rig, near Russian-occupied Crimea ...
Photos emerging from the battlefields of Ukraine show a strange, spiky new "hedgehog" armor being used on tanks and armored vehicles to protect the hardware from drone strikes.