Russia spent almost $ 115 billion in Ukraine in Ukraine - Forbes

Forbes presented its calculations of financial losses, as well as losses in living strength and equipment. During the year of the war in Ukraine, the Russian Federation lost a huge number of soldiers and destroyed entire army, as well as a huge number of equipment. The famous myth of the "Second Army of the World" was destroyed by the Armed Forces in 12 months.

According to Forbes, the Russian Federation has already spent almost $ 115 billion in our country, which can be compared to the third part of the Russian budget for 2021. But only costs for war are taken into account here, there are no economic losses from sanctions.

Where the money went: given the huge costs of salaries to the military, as well as compensation to the wounded and killed during the war, the question arises whether Russia will be able to mobilize another half a million Russian citizens, as it follows from rumors. That is, will the budget of the Russian Federation be able to withstand such a financial load? A real catastrophe for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has come over the last month of the war in Ukraine.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, only from January 24 to February 24, the Ukrainian military was able to destroy 23 680 Russian invaders. This is several times more than the average of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation per month during the last year. Forbes writes that such catastrophic losses have become possible due to the transfer to the front of poorly trained mobilized Russians, former prisoners, as well as through the offensive almost all over the front line.

During the year of a full -scale invasion, the whole tank armies of the Russian Federation ceased to exist. For example, in the fall of 2022 it became known that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost the first tank army of the Russian Federation, which was the largest tank connection in Europe. According to Forbes calculations, Russia lost 3 350 tanks in a year, which is even more than 20 tanks than the aggressor country at the beginning of a full-scale invasion in February last year.

Due to such horrible losses of armored vehicles, the Russian Federation had to resort to the warehouses of long -term storage of tanks. It is known that in August last year there were about 2,000 tanks in these warehouses that could fight. According to Forbes, the information that tens of thousands of tanks have been stored in Russia since the USSR, it has been false. Open source analysis showed that in 12 months of war, Russia was able to reconnect and produce from 1 000 to 1 800 tanks.

And this is 2-3 times less than the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. Forbes calculations show that during the war, Russia has lost both $ 25 billion tanks destroyed and captured by the Armed Forces. As for other armored vehicles and artillery, the loss of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the case of such catastrophic.

According to estimates of the issue of 12 months of the war, Russia lost from 40% to 70% of its entire land military equipment. During the year of the Armed Forces, the Armed Forces were destroyed: despite the reconciliation of hundreds of artillery systems by Russia, their systematic destruction by the Ukrainian army led to parity on the front on these types of weapons.

A particularly acute problem for the Russians was the loss of aviation, which, although it does not play such an important role in the war in Ukraine, but the restoration of lost aviation equipment is a very expensive activity. Russia has lost aircraft worth about $ 6. 5 billion and helicopters for $ 3 billion.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, at the beginning of a full -scale war, Russia had 2 727 long -range winged and ballistic missiles and more than 8,500 small radius missiles flying up to 200 km in its arsenal. The invaders have released more than 4 thousand rockets in Ukraine, but recently the rate of shelling has decreased-from 250-300 to 110-180 rockets per month. This may mean that the rocket arsenal of the Russian Federation is exhausted.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in the first 9 months of a full -scale invasion of Russian factories produced about 80 missiles per month. But now, according to the chief of GUR Kiril Budanova, now Russian plants can produce only about 40 missiles a month. This is with the action of sanctions and the absence of the required number of parts. But in Russia there is another stock of 1 100-1 300 long-range missiles, and small radius missiles are even greater.

According to the British intelligence report, which was presented on February 12, in 2 weeks Russia suffered the greatest losses since the beginning of the war of a full -scale war in Ukraine. We would like to remind that according to the IASW analysts report, the Ukrainian army destroyed under the collet columns of the elite unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It is the 155th Brigade of Marines, which was instructed to perform one of the most difficult operations on the front.