Russia Loses 52 Artillery Systems, 19 AFVs and 12 Tanks in a Day: Ukraine

Russia continues to face high losses of equipment in the war in Ukraine it started, according to the latest figures released by Kyiv that come amid reported gains by Moscow in the Donetsk region.

In its update on Tuesday, Ukraine's General Staff said that over the previous day, Russian forces lost 12 main battle tanks (MBTs)—the highest daily tally since August 13. Ukraine said Russia has lost a total of 8,563 tanks since the start of the war on February 24, 2022.

Tuesday's tally also listed the losses of 19 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) over the previous day, taking the total to 16,667 for the war. Moscow also lost 52 artillery systems in the previous 24 hours, the highest since August 20, taking Kyiv's estimate of losses of the key frontline equipment to 17,495 since the war began.

Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comment about the losses, which are not independently verified.

As of Tuesday, the monitoring website Oryx, which uses video or still imagery as evidence, said that Russia had lost 3,336 tanks since the start of the war. Of these, 2,283 were destroyed.

Oryx's tallies of AFVs and artillery system losses were 1,522 and 1,220, respectively, although it said that the amount of equipment destroyed "is significantly higher" given the standard of proof it requires.

It comes amid concern about Russian advances in the Pokrovsk sector as fierce fighting near the Donetsk town continues, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a U.S.-based think tank.

The capture of Pokrovsk would be a major boost for Moscow because of its status as a key logistics hub, while questions remain over the objectives of Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region that started earlier this month.

Crowd-sourced monitoring website DeepState has said that Russian troops have been advancing toward Pokrovsk during the Kursk operation and residents of the town have been urged to evacuate.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a press conference Tuesday that Russian troops had been advancing more quickly in the Pokrovsk sector before the Kursk operation started, and their gains had been slower, the Kyiv Independent reported.

Zelensky also said that Ukraine's Air Force used newly arrived F-16 jets to try to defend against Russia's mass missile and drone attack on 15 regions the previous day, one of the largest launched by Moscow during the war.

The Ukrainian president also said that next month he would present U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump with a plan for victory.

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