Soviet Stockpiles End so Russia Digs Deeper

Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine is rapidly depleting its Soviet-era weapons stockpiles. With massive losses in tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery, Russia is struggling to replace these with refurbished Soviet reserves, writes The Economist. Experts predict a critical depletion of these reserves by mid-2025.
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[@HelHathNoFury1111]

I remember when Oryx started his Twitter account to document OSINT evidence of heavy weapons losses on both sides of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He didn't expect it to become such a big, life-changing project. From the beginning, he maintained a logical, professional approach to his work. I admire and greatly appreciate his personal investment in the critical work he does.

[@thefpvlife7785]

I always thought Putin to be a smart man but boy was I wrong. This decision tainted Putin for life.

[@paulurban2472]

Obviously your not smart sense your listening to American propaganda

[@edb3877]

This is what happens when a national leader surrounds himself only with people who tell him what he wants to hear. As is always the case, it goes poorly. The world is tired of endless wars and looks for leadership and cooperation among nations. Russia may be a very long time in recovering from this tragedy.

[@kaing5074]

So you were impressed by a dictator. Thats fucking stupid

[@AstroGremlinAmerican]

Putin is very smart. He is using old weapons and people he doesn't like to advance the border.

[@zopEnglandzip]

​@@kaing507499.99% of westerners are complicit in the greed Putin exploited to create this scenario until the war crimes were no longer able to be ignored, all the slaughter from Georgia and Chechnya to Syria with western investment greedily pouring in up till 2022, id say that's impressive, only overshadowed by our own impressive ignorance, doesn't mean it's good or admirable.

[@rogerrussell9544]

Hey Putin, why don't you give the troops your fancy cars and let them use something more comfortable?

[@OMWone6629]

Freedom for Ukraine!

[@migproductions4045]

Ukraine IS FREE thanks, we are trying to KEEP it that way!

[@TheStormtrooper00]

@@migproductions4045 No negotiations with terrorist state!

[@OMWone6629]

@migproductions4045 free from Russian invasion, I meant. Sorry. I wasn't clearer about that.

[@migproductions4045]

@@OMWone6629 My reply to you was deleted..a thousand curses these enemy BOTS!! Slava Ukraine 🤗

[@OMWone6629]

@migproductions4045 no worries! Victory to Ukraine!

[@harryhole5786]

Yesterday I saw (on you tube) that another train full of T-54 was sent to Ukraine. 1950th equipment, wow, they are done.

[@snidecommenter7117]

I certainly hope that the drawdown on their equipment is as stated.

[@arcaipekyun4232]

@@snidecommenter7117 It is. A youtuber (Covert Cabal) makes videos where he gives counts of the amounts of tanks left in Russian storage bases. They are down 2600 equipment pieces since the start of the war. Also they are down 1000 T-80's and all of their T-90's. They are constantly pulling more and more T-62's and rely on them on assaults because their "good" tanks are almost depleted.

[@sunshine4sue2]

🗽🇺🇸 🦅Stand proud, strong and ✝️Keep the faith🌻💙💛🕊️🇺🇸🇺🇦🕊️ 🫂with much Love from Indiana, USA🙏

[@eddastrohmayer251]

Do you also follow US Neocon Senators claim until the last uki ?

[@davidjagan2794]

Absolutely......great losses Russia. Russia military defense system has paralyzed right now.

[@enshk79]

Hahahahahahha

[@LinethGumapac]

@@davidjagan2794 In youre dreams..

[@nancygabionza4729]

​@@LinethGumapacyour point is nevertheless arrogance keep on deeaming

[@sirmustard5337]

@@nancygabionza4729it’s more stupidity than it is arrogance.

[@kapitanbomba7190]

Has paralyzed who???

[@Kvlvt]

Ban russia from the next 25 fifa world cups

[@marlenfras5490]

Good reporting. Thank you. Strong Ukraine. Strong NATO.

[@tveirken1]

Imagine all that old iron... masive sources of ground materials for rebuilding the Ukrainian Army!

[@williamyoung9401]

Ukraine doesn't want all of that old, Soviet rubbish. They want more modern kit from NATO, and who can blame them?

[@chillydawgg4354]

They will melt it down & rebuild their cities with it. The post war Ukrainian steel industry is gonna be off the chain

[@metalmicky]

China will clear all the scrap….

[@jpa5038]

Listen there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for Russia using T-54 tanks. Russia isn't forced to react Soviet museum piece tanks, it's merely producing NEW Soviet museum piece tanks! /s LOL Russia is a dying joke.

[@nam3less14]

Jake Broe will run out of breadcrumbs to feed you before Russia runs out of anything. 😂

[@jpa5038]

@@nam3less14 that's pretty funny, where are all the T-90Ms? How about the T-80Us? MT-LBs? Where are they? Why is Russia using Chinese golf carts to assault the front line? Why are they using motorcycles to do so?

[@nam3less14]

@@jpa5038 Because they have all been replaced with shovels. A fun fact about tanks that you won’t hear from Biden supporter Jake Broe is that Ukrainian soldiers and so called foreign volunteers have the same life expectancy as an Abrams.

[@edwinnakamura1726]

No worries, Putin will use his stockpiles of bicycles!!

[@migproductions4045]

Thanks to UATV, Diana and team for another expert broadcast! I like the sound of depleted by mid 2025! 😀👍

[@godblessthelessfortunate3175]

The key number to know isn't so much how many Russia has lost, but how long can they last with what they have left. And how much longer can they last if they get replacement from their allies or increase production.

[@eddastrohmayer251]

And the same for Ukraine... and don't forget manpower...

[@arcaipekyun4232]

About 2 years, that is, until it goes down all the way to zero. But then there also is the quality of the tanks left. Their "good" tanks have about run out, they only have the modern tanks they produce fresh (which are nothing compared to their losses.) They almost do not have any more T-80's left in storage (down 1000 pieces) and do not have any T-90's left in storage. These two types made up nearly 25% of their reserves before the war. Now a mere 8%. The amount of their "decent" tanks left, which should also include the T-72B model (the reserves of which have halved) is 20% of all, compared to 38% before the war. Nearly 40% of tanks left in their reserves are T-62's and T-54/55's. Russia hasn't managed to significantly increase production since the war began, their production is still nowhere near their losses and the situation will remain so in the foreseeable future (due to their enormous loss rate.)

[@RobertFromEarth]

And Russia wants to attack Poland next? ...with what exactly?

[@tiburcio729]

Shovels

[@eddastrohmayer251]

He does not want. But if he would do it with something Ukraine does not have.

[@jamesschenk]

Horse cavalry that's all they will have left Poland will have no problems at all

[@looinrims]

Poland doesn’t exactly have lots of equipment either

[@zerogamer935]

@@looinrimsthat’s why they stocking up because Poland knows they’re next

[@carolutley6523]

💙🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦💙

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

The QUALITY of the stock pile has collapsed... already. Putin has to run faster and faster just to stay in place.

[@agrimensor6406]

God Bless Ukraine !!!

[@frios011]

Putin, the little fool!

[@DESMONDLanham]

They are defenseless…. That’s why the extreme rhetoric because that’s all they have left

[@eddastrohmayer251]

A nuclear power is never defenseless...

[@DESMONDLanham]

@@eddastrohmayer251 I am saying in the trenches…. Thy can’t win unless they use them. The strategy is to threaten with them so Ukraine backs down.

[@eddastrohmayer251]

@@DESMONDLanham There are only losers in that war except USA. Russia, U and EU have already lost.

[@WhoopityDoo]

@@eddastrohmayer251 If their nuclear stockpiles are as well maintained as their rust buckets inhabiting Eastern Ukraine, I'd doubt their reliability as well.

[@eddastrohmayer251]

​​ no side can win...

[@armchairwanderer1287]

👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@anotheruser9876]

Note: the footage of Canada is of the provincial and municipality government buildings of Ontario and Toronto respectively. The federal government buildings of Canada are located in Ottawa.

[@AK-ej5ml]

It's a shame that Belarus is following Russia so blindly - if another demonstration, like in 2021, broke out in Belarus now then Lukashenko would be able to suppress it.

[@TheShadowOfZama]

Most of their GDP is dependant on Russia so they are little more than a vassal state at the moment. Honestly I think lukashenko is improving, he's quite clearly no longer quite so certain Russia is going to win so he's probably trying to limit Belarus' involvement as much as he can. Look at how he acted in the beginning of the war to now.

[@gherkamum]

🇺🇦❤🇺🇦❤🇺🇦❤🇬🇧🇺🇦❤🇺🇦

[@KianFloppa]

UA

[@kathrinekerns8398]

Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦💙🇺🇦

[@donwyoming1936]

Russia has enough Soviet armor & artillery to last 3 more years. But, older and older vehicles will become the standard. Each vehicle will be more & more difficult to get into working order

[@Smile200-z4y]

Most of those require significant repairs.

[@williamyoung9401]

Perun already did a deep dive into this topic. The T-72s and T-80s are gone. All that's left are the T-64s, T-62s, and T-55s. So you'll see more of them on the battlefield, along with more advanced, new models like the T-90. So T-90s alongside T-55s, lol.

[@DANIELWAGNER-tr1vh]

UA💙💛✊💪✌👍💖💯

[@migproductions4045]

Better to be good than bad or ugly eh Dan? 😀

[@jordancobb7553]

Russia using potato peelers in meat wave attacks

[@LinethGumapac]

@@jordancobb7553 yes!.. Russia using potato peelers to captured almost 1000 square kilomer of ucrain territory hahaha!...

[@chillydawgg4354]

Capturing & holding territory are 2 different things. Putln has neither unlimited time nor money.

[@collar1967]

Loser have the right to stay mad buddy​@@LinethGumapac

[@jamesferguson2353]

@@LinethGumapac triggered by a joke hahaha

[@raiderpilot8928]

What next, wooden armor wagon tanks out of trees

[@CthulhuInc]

snicker

[@Rottweilerdsq]

SLAVA UKRAINI 🪖🔱

[@nazistowskisnob543]

All this distruction and all the loss of ground.

[@namastezen3300]

Good news

[@gatorpython]

When your soliders run out of fuel and food aginst Ukraine they run back home to Russia but if you try that against American forces your troops get decimated with the quickness

[@gerryhouska2859]

The world is a wonderful place!

[@ibpsupplyman]

GERRY HOUSKA >>>>> RF "SOFT" TROLL >>>>> EDDA STROHMEYER'S "BROTHER" >>>>>>>

[@eddastrohmayer251]

​@@ibpsupplyman Supply man likes war, but only to supply... not with gun on the frontline ... coward

[@cameroncurrie7208]

To replace all that equipment with modern equipment able to fight NATO is now impossible for about 50 years.

[@chrissawyer901]

Slava Ukraini

[@Mike.Muc.3.1415]

"(From an article in the Economist)" Fun fact: This is not how you provide a source!

[@JK-br1mu]

Comrade Putin has reactivated the legendary IS/2, Iosef Stalin, from WW2...........122 mm main gun, 120 mm thick front armor.

[@braveworld2707]

Слава нації. 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 Смерть усім ворогам! 🇷🇺

[@tabithan2978]

How many new tanks and planes can they build without computer chips?

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Should be quite a lot, but they are not modern. That is bad if you really can't outproduce.

[@iris1224wwad]

Maybe they'll take weaponry from the age of the russian empire out of museums next?

[@kingofbengland]

The Russian navy does have a ship from that time period. By all accounts it works better than their aircraft carrier.

[@CH-tp4wz]

Just imagine what Ukraine could do if we supplied them with the amount they need. I mean out western governments they won't even allow Ukraine to use longer range weapons on Russian soil yet and Russia is using Iranian drone's and other weapons on Ukrainian civilians. Come on US UK and the other few western countries governments lift the restrictions. Support for Ukraine from the UK ✌️.

[@DougguoD]

3:00 That's not goose stepping, right? 😼 Always loved the BIGLY hats, though 👒

[@geoffreylee5199]

Interesting robot voice …

[@sethtelander29]

Maybe they will go back to horse drawn carraiges 😅

[@Dirtywesterner]

people are quick to forget that the warsaw pact had 50k tanks and hundreds of thousands of armored vehicles, many of which are surely mothballed. China and North Korea used the same vehicles for many decades and there is no danger of the russian federation running out of tanks, no matter how outdated or low-tech they may be. A t34/85 can still be a formidable weapon if used properly, drones and atgm's aside...

[@arcaipekyun4232]

there is extreme danger of them running out precisely because Russian storages have been dwindling. Russia did have thousands of tanks in its storages before the war, yes. Except nowadays they have gone through most of that.

[@Bjawae]

8% of the GDP seems like a fairly low number for a war effort, especially on-going. It either shows that Russia has more econmic issues and infrastructure construction to do, or that they're prossibly experimenting with their efforts. They aren't necessarily winning in the effectiveness of their production and strategy to sell what they make as superior equipment, later- which I am sure isn't going to help those that intended to make a profit without the buyer consider what they're purchasing and why. Banking on nukes is pretty stupid.

[@outtakontroll3334]

putin hopes to hold out for a trump win, lets not let that happen!

[@eddastrohmayer251]

True that would be a horror - end of War 🤡

[@chillydawgg4354]

Trump would serve Ukraine to Putln on a silver platter

[@dgart7434]

This projection of depletion is a little too optimistic. First it only looks at storage far away from the front, not weapons that have been in combat, have been damaged and are under repair. Also while production of new equipment isnt enough to replace what has been lost, it is still significant. Finally all this ignores what weapons exist outside of Russia that the Kremlin can buy. Right now they are buying ammo from North Korea, who's to say tanks won't be next? Same with places like Syria and Belarus. Will these tanks be any good? Not really but Russia is fighting a war based on quantity of equipment and troops, not quality. Given all that I would add at least another two years on projections that "Russia is running out" so mid 2027. It is an open question of if Ukraine can last that long and what the front lines will look like.

[@lapiedab4966]

It's like West, they jusr sending old weapons lol! It's good to destroy older weapons before using new ones!

[@bensom-nd6oy]

Time to buy some more TEMU golfcarts from the chinese!

[@Jenito120]

What about the ukranian and the west stock?

[@eddastrohmayer251]

And availability of Ukrainian soldiers...

[@arcaipekyun4232]

The West is basically barely scratching the surface of what they have. Like look at the amounts sent to Ukraine and look at the amounts in Western inventories and storages.

[@youareliedtobythemedia]

The US alone operates about 4400 M1 Abrams tanks. The west combined has a lot more than that. And that's modern tanks, not old T-64 and below. And both sides have manpower to continue the war for another 10 years at least.

[@eddastrohmayer251]

​​@@youareliedtobythemediaYou are obviously a follower of US Neocons thinking til the last uki ! West will always send only that weapons to U which they can spare for the moment. And they will not sacrifice their people for a silly war in Eastern Ukraine.

[@dgart7434]

@@youareliedtobythemedia 4400 US tanks does not mean much if they remain sitting in the desert far from Eastern Europe. What matters is what Ukraine has on hand and what it can get in the next year or two.

[@goorgert1364]

Why is Belarus not sanctioned like russia is?

[@dr.williams5251]

What soviet equipment ? ☭🇷🇺 destroyed all the old Soviet stockpiles in the 1990's, to comply with the CFE treaty. If they violated their commitment, someone should report them to the authority having jurisdiction.

[@arcaipekyun4232]

T-55's, T-62's, T-72A's... thousands of these were remaining in Russian bases as of 2022.

[@justinhatguy]

T34s soon

[@godskull5788]

I really like this channels content, it’s the narrators that don’t work for me. They use this strange reporter speak that all tv reporters use, where they over enunciate words, but it just sounds so strange with the heavy accent, I always end up turning it off. I’d rather listen to the AI narrators than this, unfortunately. No disrespect at all, I do like this content.

[@johntaylor6243]

70 oh no rus has no more 70 year old tanks!

[@stevemitchell1908]

hmmm!!!!!

[@robotorch]

Slava Ukraini from the heartland of the USA! Rossiya delendum est!

[@shaneconnor86]

why isn't below-ruzzia in the cross hairs? Слава Україні 🇺🇦 from 🇦🇺

[@brianhammer5107]

what is "U-Kwane" ???

[@kapitanbomba7190]

Second half of 2025???In december 2024 come Trump and you are all done UAKAKATV!!!

[@Gypsum179]

You need a new crystal ball. Yours is full of vodka

[@chillydawgg4354]

Trump has not gained popularity since he lost last time.

[@kapitanbomba7190]

@@Gypsum179 And you need to let farts out,becouse if you held in, then they go up to your brain,and thats how you hawe this shitie ideals!!!

[@samuelkata7635]

Of course, Russians are running out of everything. I remember them out of shells, out of missiles, out of chips... Fortunately, they found many microwave ovens and washing machines in Ukraine that were full of chips and it helped them keep their military production up and running. Keep up your work!

[@arcaipekyun4232]

Well, clearly it hasn't been enough to keep their military production up and running because their tank and armoured vehicle production rates have been nowhere near enough to replace their losses. We do have visual evidence (through satellite imagery) that their tank reserves, which by the way were deemed endless by many before the war, have gone down to less than 60% of its pre-war amount. More importantly, most of what remains are decades old unmodernised Soviet trash (like T-54/55 and T-62) and their decent tanks have almost run out. They have but 16% of the MT-LB's they had before the war.

[@zerogamer935]

They lost 8k tanks

[@ThoreVeldur]

Better english and more people would watch/listen to the videos.

[@triple777kodiak]

You poor thing...boo who who😢. Go back to CNN/CZZ

[@ThoreVeldur]

@@triple777kodiak Take a look at the viewer count for this channel. It should be improved by 1000%. Better english is the way.

[@triple777kodiak]

@@ThoreVeldur Please clarify this; was your first remark: sarcasm against the Ukrainians and Ukrainian 'accent'? Am very interested in your answer, so would appreciate a reply... OR, are you BOT, doing what BOT's do...

[@ThoreVeldur]

@@triple777kodiak It's not sarcasm. It's my real opinion which I also stated before on this channel. Improve the verbal presentation. Just like Biden. Look at the very low numbers watching on this channel. In a private firm someone would have taken action immediately.

[@triple777kodiak]

@@ThoreVeldur Am curious if [the] channel is using computer generated voicing or is a human narrating?

[@LinethGumapac]

😅😅😅😅2022 I hear it already that Russian forces out of ammo, Out of missiles, out of tank, and economy collapse..😅😅😅😅 but, now Ukraine territory almost 1000 square kilometer captured by Russia?..😂😂😂😂.

[@arcaipekyun4232]

visual evidence or critical analysis may be hard to comprehend for you, but Russia has lost a LOT of tanks that yes, the prospect of them running out of those as well as armoured vehicles is very much on the horizon. Also you did not hear about Russia "running out of tanks in 2022". That's straight up a lie.

[@jordancobb7553]

@@LinethGumapac ukraine has been finished since Feb of 2022 why is russia still bitching about getting it's ass kicked? It's good you know English, russian is about to be an extinct language

[@emmanuilushka]

Озвучке совет. Перестаньте копировать британский акцент, потому как невозможно ничего понять. Говорите естественно и не осложняйте жизнь ни себе ни собеседникам.

[@robertfindley921]

Well, with today's announcement in the US, it's a foregone conclusion that Russia will soon occupy all of Ukraine. So sad. So scary. I hope Eastern Europe can somehow survive.

[@LisaChristiansen-wj3wn]

Terrible journalist voices...this isn't India!

[@PaulMcKendrick]

Dumb comment as usual. Troll tripe

[@jameskotsch8271]

The information you are putting out is so far off of the actual figures, I have to wonder if you are purposefully lying or do you just not know the truth.-if you do not know better about the figures you reported, perhaps you should find another profession.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

You obviously spamming yourself.

[@PaulMcKendrick]

Brain and Richard. Head and Knob.

[@ignaciourena5692]

Be careful Ukraine! russia has been using old Soviet-era weapons with success and must be reserving modern armament for the last push.

[@Julian-zj2qy]

Unlikely that they would have retreated from Kyiv, Kherson and Kharkiv if they could have avoided it. There is no modern reserve.

[@Vladimirthetiny]

ooooo scary 😂😂😂

[@ibpsupplyman]

@@Vladimirthetiny FARMINKY >>>>> U STINKY >>>>> RF TROLL FROM KRINKY >>>>>>>

[@Vladimirthetiny]

@@ibpsupplyman Oh such a poet! All in caps too, such an eloquent and well-educated person whose powers of peception are so deep in the negative range 🤣🤣

[@alainpannetier2543]

@@ibpsupplyman Same comment again. 🤡🤡

[@alainpannetier2543]

Speak English please.

[@ibpsupplyman]

ALAIN PANNETIER >>>>> RF TROLL >>>> SPEAK S FOOLISH NONSENSE

[@alainpannetier2543]

@@ibpsupplyman I'm pro-Ukraine. But this video is just gibberish.

[@DrakonlordEreshkihal-vf5o]

うわー、ロシアのトロールは本性を現したね。それでも彼らは親ウクライナの定義を証明したね。君は悪の枢軸の一員なのに、彼らに英語を話してもらいたいのかい？