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Originally Posted by Itse
In short, it's a lot less lopsided than what a lot of media has been reporting.
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Ukraine has a pretty sizable manpower advantage right now after mobilization and a definite organizational and structural advantage having put in tons of equipment modernization, training/structural reforms to near NATO standards, and anti-corruption changes of their military since the 2014 Russian invasion.
Meanwhile most of Russia's let their equipment rot, officers embezzle modernization funds, or focused spending in things that can't be used in Ukraine while cutting corners in places that would have been useful. Effectiveness of the cold war era armor aside, if Russians are truly sending in T-55s and one of a kind prototype tanks like is being reported in OSINT, their tank reserves probably are in worse shape than most aircraft boneyards and equipment loss rates are getting to truly desperate levels.
It's amazing to me the Ukrainians have more tanks/IFVs now than when they started this war, that's accounting for all the ones they lost.