Russia is desperate for tanks. Is it desperate enough to use T-64s?
642 of Russia's last remaining 2,500 tanks are T-64s Russia can't easily use without massive investment.
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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2025
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All news about the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022.
Russia’s last 2,500 tanks are in very sorry shape
Russia's oldest tanks—some 50+ years old—are all that stand between Moscow and forced mobilization
Ukraine saved Pokrovsk-Russia broke through where the brigades weren’t
With more troops and vehicles, the Russians have the edge in southern Donetsk. The Ukrainians have hard choices to make.
Russia adapts military strategy, posing new challenges for Ukraine and Western allies
The Kremlin’s evolving approach to warfare threatens Ukraine and demands a NATO response
Ukraine’s 59-kill cargo plane proves low-tech can beat high-tech
Ukraine is launching every possible light plane to defend against swarms of Russian Shahed drones. The latest is an An-28 transport.
Putin’s $330mn spy plane spotted in Ukraine’s kill zone
Moscow risked one of its few remaining A-50U early-warning aircraft at a southern base—lose it and Ukraine's drones reach Crimea undetected.
Russia turns old tanks into “new” T-90Ms—and it’s almost out of old ones
How many tanks Russia can produce every year—and how—is a major mystery. We've got some new clues. Old T-90As are becoming 'new' T-90Ms.
Ukraine plays deadly whack-a-bridge at Lyman—but Russian engineers are winning
One river is helping to protect a key Ukrainian town. The Russians are building bridges. The Ukrainians are blasting them.
Russia’s biggest tank division is heading straight for Zaporizhzhia and its 700,000 residents
Unnoticed by the wider world, the Russian army is steadily marching west through south Donetsk, toward a crucial regional center
Near Pokrovsk, Ukraine discovers chaos favors the bigger army
Every attack exposes flanks to counterattack, and Russia has more troops for the chaos
Ukraine hits the planes that haul Russia’s missiles
Ukrainian drones are targeting the cargo planes that make Russia's own air raids on Ukrainian cities possible.
Russia’s war destroyed Ukrainian family orchards—this new Tamagotchi-style app lets you restore them for $1
Reroot app turns your donations to real fruit trees in a de-occupied villages near the front line, helping to support Ukraine's war-torn nature and families who depend on orchards and gardens to literally feed themselves.
Russia’s last 1,000 tanks are 50 years old—but Ukraine should still worry
In a war where drones rule and tanks function as glorified artillery pieces, 50-year-old steel kills just as effectively as billion-dollar armor.
Ukraine and Russia now hunt each other’s missile crews in deadly “left of boom” race
It's so hard to intercept a Russian Iskander missile in mid-air that the Ukrainians are now hunting the launchers, instead. But their Neptune crews can suffer the same fate.
Russia is so scared of Ukrainian drones, it’s stripping the turrets off tanks
When you've lost 22,000 armored vehicles, converting a T-72 into a Franken-IFV to attack Pokrovsk makes total sense
Russia’s D-30SN built with Irish, Swiss, US components destroys 15,000-m² Ukrainian civilian facility in single strike
Foreign parts flow from factories to battlefields, powering strikes that ordinary people cannot outrun.
Italy sends Ukraine an APC “on steroids” to evacuate WIA soldiers under drone fire
The VCC-1's extra steel stops what aluminum cannot.
Ukraine uses Russian kill-zone playbook—Russian troops fall for it every time
Ukraine studied 'The Russian Way of War.' Russia apparently didn't.
The Bulat tanks are tired. But Ukraine can’t afford to ditch them.
They used to be Ukraine's best tanks. But they're worn out and they're too heavy, so the Bulats are fading away.
The battlefield around Pokrovsk is “a total mess.” And it’s about to get worse.
How many Russians are left in their salient northeast of Pokrovsk, and where are they? No outsiders know for sure.