![]() ![]() But the Ukrainians also have access to those hundreds of derelict, ex-Soviet T-80s from the long-disbanded 20th Tank Division. In a year of hard fighting, the Ukrainian brigades have lost at least 42 T-80BVs that analysts can confirm: nearly half the inventory.īut the brigades have stayed in the fight, thanks in part to the roughly 98 T-80BVs that Ukrainian forces captured from the Russians. Ukraine’s total T-80 inventory in February 2022 was just 88 tanks, according to a count by one open-source analyst. ![]() The brigades each had a single company with 10 tanks. The other source, of course, is the Russian army.īefore Russia widened its war on Ukraine last February, the gas-turbine T-80BV mostly equipped a handful of army airborne and marine brigades. Today the Malyshev tank park might be the main source of 45-ton, three-person T-80s for Ukraine’s army and marine brigades. The Russians never managed to capture Kharkiv, even though the city lies just 20 miles from the border with Russia. By 2015, the tank parks were humming again as the Ukrainians scoured them for recoverable vehicles. ![]() walk around among the rusting tanks and stacks of tank parts and engines. As recently as March 2014, a month after Russian troops stormed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, a photographer could sneak into the Malyshev park and warehouses and just. ![]()
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