The Russian commander of the ‘13th tank regiment’ within the ‘4th tank division of the Russian Federation’ shot himself after discovering that 90 percent of the tanks in reserve were unusable, Kyiv’s Ministry of Defense claims.
The report also said that Moscow’s troops were struggling with poorly maintained vehicles and are facing “the problem of the impossibility of restoring equipment after ‘deconservation’ from warehouses.’
It added that electronic equipment containing precious metals had been stripped for some parts from many tanks kept in reserve.
“Currently, the enemy RVB is trying to ‘put into operation’ a significant amount of equipment coming from long-term storage facilities,” the update said.
“The condition of this equipment is mostly extremely unsatisfactory, which makes its full use impossible.
“At present, plans to transfer equipment taken from storage to the front have actually been thwarted.”
Kyiv said that the commander of the 4th Panzer Division took his own life after discovering that only 1 out of ten of the tanks were ‘more or less’ operational.
It suggests that 9 out of the 10 were not operational due to missing engines, Kyiv reportedly said.
The commander’s suicide came after Western officials named seven Russian generals who have been killed during the invasion of Ukraine.
The latest to die, Lt. Gen. Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of the 49th Combined Arms Army in the southern military district.
According to military blog Oryx, Russia has lost 1,891 military vehicles as of March 26. Of those, 939 have been destroyed, 688 have been captured by Ukrainian troops, 229 have been abandoned, and 35 have been damaged.
Putin’s armies have made little progress in invading strategic cities and have suffered heavy losses as brave Ukrainian troops defend their country.
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