The press-service of the 45th separate artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how Ukraine’s military effectively destroy russia’s equipment nearby Soledar: the video recorded the destruction of a russian self-propelled artillery gun (probably the 2S1 Gvozdika), as well as the D-20 howitzer.
Overall, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, russia has lost more than 2,200 artillery systems.
Oryx collects photos and videos of the destroyed or damaged equipment, it is possible to determine which systems the occupiers lost the most.
So, in the category of barrel towed howitzers the following systems were spot destroyed/lost (here and below they are arranged in descending order):
75 units of the Msta-B 152-mm howitzers 2A65, of which 32 are trophies;
39 units of the D-30 122-mm howitzers, of which 32 are trophies;
13 units of the Giatsynt 152-mm 2A36 towed howitzers, of which 8 are trophies;
11 units of the Nona-K 120-mm 2B16 artillery systems, of which 9 are trophies;
9 units of the MT-12 anti-tank guns, of which 7 are trophy guns;
8 units of the D-20 152-mm howitzers, of which 2 are trophies;
5 units of the Vasiliok 82-mm 2B9 automatic mortars, of which 4 are trophies;
4 unidentified systems.
In the category of self-propelled guns, the losses of the russian occupying forces are as follows:
99 units of the Msta-S 152-mm 2S19 self-propelled guns, of which 33 are trophies;
98 units of the Akatsiya 152-mm 2S3(M) self-propelled guns, of which 31 are trophies;
44 units of the Gvozdika 122-mm 2S1 self-propelled guns, of which 8 are trophies;
25 units of the Msta-SM2 152-mm 2C33 SPGs, of which 6 are trophies;
22 units of the Nona 120-mm 2S9 artillery systems, of which 5 are trophies;
20 units of the Giatsynt 152-mm 2S5 self-propelled guns, of which 6 are trophies;
9 unidentified systems;
6 units of the Malka 203-mm 2S7M self-propelled guns of which 1 is a trophy;
4 units of the Tiulpan 240-mm 2S4 self-propelled mortars;
4 units of the Nona-SVK 120-mm 2S23, of which 2 are trophies;
2 units of the Hosta 120-mm 2S34, of which 2 are trophies.
In the MLRS category, the losses are as follows:
101 units of the BM-21 Grad 122-mm MLRS, of which 36 are trophies;
47 units of the BM-27 Uragan 220-mm MLRS, of which 6 are trophies;
13 units of the 2B17 Tornado-G 122-mm MLRS, 8 of them are trophies
5 units of the TOS-1A 220-mm heavy flamethrower systems, of which 4 are trophies;
3 units of the 9P138 Grad-1 122-mm MLRS;
2 unidentified systems;
1 unit of the BM-30 Smerch 300-mm MLRS.
