Is Russia exhausts of weapons and labor for its war in Ukraine? | Russia-Ukraine War News

Kyiv, Ukraine – Donics are the latest way of transport that some Russian troops have begun to use on the front lines of Eastern Ukraine, according to the soldiers of Moscow and wire bloggers.

The use of thickening four -legged ammunition and deliveries is “normal”, according to reports, retired Russian lieutenant Viktor Sobolev.

“It is better to kill a donkey instead of the two men who supply goods to their vehicle,” he told the Gazeta.ru website on February 6th.

Last year, Russia began to use motorcycles, dirt bicycles, electric scooters and civilians for frontal attacks in Ukrainian positions.

Observers say that reduction reflects the growing trend, which significantly strengthens that Russia is already a slow progress in the main theater of war – the Southeast region of Donbass.

The tank of armored vehicles

Military analysts told Al Jazeera that the Ukrainian army had already destroyed the lion's share in Russian tanks and armored vehicles.

The shortage is increasingly difficult to fill, even when Moscow is digging into a Mammoth supply from the Soviet era to update the famous and dysfunctional vehicles.

“The armored vehicles are being released at a terrifying speed,” Nikolai Mitrochin, a researcher at German University of Bremen, told Al Jazeera.

“The production of new ones and the restoration of damaged or motivated are far behind the losses,” and the Russian park of armored vehicles for the crime will continue “only months,” he said.

In the meantime, there are “colossal” problems with the supply of delivery to the front line, as ubiquitous Ukrainian drones destroy armored trucks and civilians, he said.

To prevent the tiny drones loaded with explosives, to sneak into the hatches of the tanks or to hit the bumper, Russian servicemen cover them with metal bars, nets and rubber covers, creating what Ukrainians differently call “royal barbecues”.

Russia cannot explode more than 60 tanks a year, according to Pavel Luzin, a defense analyst at the Center for Analysis of European Politics, Brain Trust in Washington, Colombia County.

“We're not talking about hundreds,” he told Al Jazeera.

The largest problem is the production of towers and weapons, while complex electronic components, such as infrared thermal images and guidance systems once made by European components, are replaced by less reliable Chinese, he said.

However, a retired Ukrainian general believes that Moscow has a “up to two years” until it is completely leaked from armored vehicles.

Russian defense factories work in shifts, updating old and exploited tanks to form a functioning, said Lieutenant General Ihor Romanko, a former deputy manager of the General Staff of Ukraine of the Armed Forces.

“It's up to two years, given the current losses that suffer,” he told Al Jazeera. “Understandably, the share of modern armored vehicles, tanks and other armored weapons will fall.”

As a result, the number of tanks and armored vehicles that Russia has on hand is less than 7000-20 times a decrease compared to 140,000 of the Soviet Union in 1990, according to The Insider-oriented Finded Russia, an independent media.

The shortage may have already led to the remarkable delay in Russia's occupation of Donbass.

By the beginning of February, the number of Russian attacks on the front line fell by one third, and the amount of occupied land fell four times from January to only 21 square kilometers (eight square miles), according to the eye of the forest, a Ukrainian analytical channel analytical telegram.

And for the first time in months, the Ukrainian forces have been able to counteract and return small areas around the strategic southeastern city of Pokrovsk.

Despite the growing shortage of artillery, Russia tripled the production of the shells to about 3 million a year, while North Korea has supplied millions more.

Pyongyang and Tehran are thought to have provided hundreds of rockets, adding to hundreds of Russian produced, which is raining in Ukrainian cities.

However, their effectiveness is questionable, some observers say.

Six Iskander missiles, with a total price of about $ 18 million, were fired on Kiev on Tuesday, killing one and wounded four.

Air defense

The Russian-Ukrainian border extends for almost 2300 km (1,430 miles).

Nowadays, Ukrainian drones and rockets reach deep in Russia, striking military plants, bases, airports and oil refineries from the Arctic to the Black Sea coast.

Moscow “failed to build lines of air defense parallel to the front line and could not cover many important sites,” said analyst Mitrochin.

Although Russia has fighter jets and advanced missile and air defense systems, “they will not be able to increase (their capabilities) quickly and from many,” said Lieutenant General Romanenko.

In the meantime, “Ukraine's capabilities and potential are growing,” he said, while Kiev is intensifying the development and production of drones and rockets.

Kamikaze 'camels

Along with donkeys, Russia is accused of hiring so-called human “camels”- servicemen Ordered to run to Ukrainian positions with heavy ammunition for the upcoming attack team.

The chances of surviving these soldiers and Stormtroopers are low.

Prof. War reporters have determined the death or demobilization of experienced servicemen, as the new recruits reach the front line after a brief training.

“Exemplary fulfillment of Serviceman's obligation, commonly distributed by the media, is almost always related to the death of the serviceman in the battle,” writes Pro-Cramp analyst Victor Murakhovski on Telegram on January 16th. “The association is justified or involuntarily, to become a hero on January 16th. , one has to die heroically. “

The Kremlin claims that dialing men is not a challenge. About 600,000 soldiers are fighting in Ukraine.

But the “price” of each rookie has grown more than 10 times since 2022.

Nowadays, paying the entry is approaching $ 30,000, the monthly salary starts at $ 2,000, while the compensation for a lost limb or a serious wound is about $ 40,000.

Without declaring a new round of mobilization, the Kremlin is accused of forcing migrants of labor to Volunteer. Referring to dozens of soldiers, Vrstka magazine, an independent online news publication, founded by Russian journalists, announced on Tuesday that the troops to be demobilized were made to expand their service.

“They said,” If you do not sign the contract today, we will send you a storm “Ukrainian positions, one of them was quoted.