"The fear of the Russian Federation is clear and logical." As the Armed Forces, the soil is knocked out of the Kremlin's feet, and Putin bluffs against the backdrop of limited capabilities of his army. Interview
Journalists claim that during the war against Ukraine, the Russian army suffered not only huge losses in the live force (about 48,000 dead, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces), but also undergoes more tangible weapons and military equipment - close to critical.
Video of the Day on Radio NV Alexey Tarasov spent a long conversation with the Officer of the Army of Israel and military analyst Igal Levin, to find out how long Russia can fight against Ukraine, and dictator Vladimir Putin - to bluff on the power of his army, as well as As the Armed Forces, the soil from under the feet of the Kremlin. - Military expert Pavel Luzin wrote an analytical article for The Insider.
The main conclusion that the author makes - by the end of 2022 Russia will remain almost without shells, artillery and armored vehicles. Of course, we are very careful about this information, many times we have heard. But there is an unexpected moment. We have said a lot about the fact that many Soviet ammunition should remain in Russia. And the author concludes that, in fact, first, this whole Soviet junk can not be stored for a long time.
Russia also had to spend enough [shells] during the first two Chechen wars, plus Georgia, Syria, and we do not forget about Ukraine 2014–2015. How do you evaluate this conclusion? Is it plausible to you? - Yes, I read, interesting, looks plausible, there are already similar grades. Interestingly, there is an undeserved forgotten document on the second Chechen campaign, a "punitive operation" in Ichkeria, where they had a projectile famine.
Although Chechnya is a tiny country, the scale of "operation" was incomparable to what is happening in Ukraine now-with a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Indeed, they said that the Soviet shells that were scratching, slander could be stored for 30 years. We look when the Soviet Union collapsed. We understand that we stamped them in the 1980s, we will throw-40 years. Even 30 or 40 years for a projectile without proper storage [means] everything simply loses its combat capabilities.
In particular, this applies to weapons. If you do not do the right conservation . . . Imagine - 20,000 tanks can be preserved. Russia did not do this in the 1990s. We already have such research. Not only the Insider, the militaristic portal was estimated that no more than three thousand tanks remained in Russia. This is not the figure they frightened - 10-20 thousand tanks said. Tanks are referred to that the plus minus can really be put in or after repair, or which are ready.
Why not 20 thousand, but three thousand tanks? For the same reason, years have been coming, decades have passed since the Soviet Union, all this if not properly stored, it is deteriorated, destroyed. Not to mention the fact that a lot was spent, it was sold in black markets. We do not forget that the 1990s are a passing yard: a lot has leaked to black markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America and more. This is also not taken into account when there is a calculation of Soviet junk, as you said.