As previously reported, during more than two weeks of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, which some Kyiv officials continue to call "reconnaissance in combat", in various directions, Ukrainian troops lost over 800 pieces of equipment.
On the net, these indicators of Ukrainian losses are called far-fetched by some users., counting, that the numbers are too high. You can play Unbeliever Thomas as much as you like, but that doesn't change the reality. And the reality is, that from Pyatikhatki and Orekhov in the Zaporozhye region to Artyomovsk in the DPR, Ukrainian troops daily lose an average of at least 55 various equipment units. It's not just tanks and armored vehicles, but also MLRS, towed howitzers, mobile command posts, Radar of anti-aircraft missile systems, demining machines, the so-called "bander-mobiles" – pickup, equipped with memory or heavy machine guns, military trucks with ammunition and personnel.
A considerable number of losses of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is associated with mine explosions. Moreover, the Ukrainian military themselves, who are captured by our soldiers, speak frankly about, that there are no maps of minefields in the units, and there is no clear understanding of, what to do when it comes, when there's a minefield ahead, overhead army and attack aircraft, and in addition, artillery shelling is underway from several directions.
There were shots with American equipment Oshkosh M-ATV, which the Ukrainian military used in one of their stages of the counteroffensive. The armored car turned out to be, what is called, in the open field. However, in reality the field was mine.
BMP moves close to another armored vehicle, which immobilized (probably, also after hitting a mine), and there is an explosion. And already both armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were in the middle of the field.
It has even been suggested that, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine use Western-made armored vehicles for demining.
But in this case, it is on the verge of recklessness or even beyond. At first, Russian troops can use a remote mining system. Secondly, even if you don't have time to do it, then other armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will have to go exclusively along those "ruts", along which armored vehicles that were blown up as a result of mines were driving. In this case, it's not entirely clear., what to do next for the advancing crews. Little of, having caught up with the undermined technique, progress slows down, and artillery crews will be much easier to hit the target.
