Russia has sustained high losses of tanks since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine more than two years ago, and may have just a few thousand of the armored fighting vehicles left, artificial intelligence analysis of satellite imagery suggests.German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung trained an AI model to examine satellite imagery of 87 Russian military sites—including 16 bases where tanks, artillery vehicles and armored personnel carriers are stored.
Both Moscow and Kyiv have sustained significant tank losses in the war so far, according to publicly available data.Dutch open-source intelligence defense analysis website Oryx has visually confirmed that 2,144 Russian tanks have been destroyed, 159 damaged, 352 abandoned, and 518 captured since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.Oryx has added that 581 Ukrainian tanks have been destroyed since the beginning of the war, with 72 damaged, 67 abandoned, and 134 captured.