russian propaganda media cared as much as to post a 9-month-old video of a tank column of T-80U heading to Ukraine allegedly for participation in the military operations this winter; the footage was published on a number of Telegram channels.
However, the video is dated February 2022, the very beginning of the russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As the russian propagandists admitted themselves, these tanks "are very likely already rotting in the Ukrainian forests". So far, according to the estimates by Oryx, russian army has lost at least 89 tanks of the T-80U type only since February 24.
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Yesterday, the Kremlin military reporter posted a video of Russian T80U tanks going to Ukraine. It was dismissed by other Russians as having been filmed at the start of the war. One even went to explain how the tanks must be rotting now in Ukrainian forests. pic.twitter.com/0i0aRrV85z— Dmitri (@wartranslated) November 26, 2022
This is just one of those examples when russian media received a task to create a picture of the russian army, this time with "dozens of powerful tanks up and ready to fight in Ukraine" but mistook a video for that purpose.
At the same time, the situation with russian armor park manifests in the fact that almost 3,000 tanks overall have been lost in Ukraine, according to the estimates of the Ukrainian General Staff.
These losses include a whole variety of types and modernizations, even such advanced as the T-90M "Proryv" were no exception over the nine months of the war. One of them has just been confirmed destroyed on the march with a precise strike.
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