Ukraine is set to receive powerful new tanks over the coming months from its Western allies.
's invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces have lost about half of their T-72B and T-72B3M main battle tanks, according to an assessment by a U.S.-based think tank.
The losses amount to"the equivalent of around 16 tank regiments worth" and is likely"hindering Russia's ability to reconstitute its tank units rapidly," said the think tank, citing recent intelligence estimates by Dutch open-source investigative organization Oryx and the British research institute the International Institute for Strategic Studies .
And on February 15, the IISS similarly noted that Russia had lost about 50 percent of its pre-war number of T-72B and T-72B3M main battle tanks.
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