Ukraine already has more tanks than Russia - Pentagon

22 April 2022, 08:00 | Ukraine 
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At the Pentagon, at a closed briefing for journalists, they said that Ukraine now has more tanks than Russia. It's about Russia involved in the war against Ukraine, according to the Washington Post..

Information on how many sides had tanks initially differs depending on the source.. The weighted average of the total number of troops of the Russian Federation before the start of the invasion was estimated at 120 battalion tactical groups. In theory, each such group includes one or two tank companies.. Each company has 10 tanks, which gives from 1200 to 2400 tanks at the beginning of the conflict. The total number of tanks in Russia, various sources estimated over 10 thousand. units.

The number of tanks in Ukraine also floated in the range from 800 to 2600.

Ukraine's superiority in tanks is a milestone of sorts as the allies are gathering and sending military resources to Ukraine at an unprecedented rate to help Ukrainian troops fend off a Russian invasion that initially threatened to overwhelm them with numbers of soldiers and military equipment..

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The decisive resistance and stability of the Ukrainian army prevented the plans of the Russian Federation to succeed in the war against Ukraine in a short time, and also created the need for constant replenishment of personnel and military equipment of the Russian group due to heavy losses..

According to intelligence data, in order to restore the combat capabilities of the RF Armed Forces, they are increasingly resorting to the use of Soviet-made equipment, which has been at storage bases for a long time (since the 1970s)..

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