All the way back to 2022, and the same day holds 8 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this very 2022-ish scene near Storozheve, Volnovakha raion with 5 BMPs-2 (and T-80) on it: 3 destroyed, one later seen captured, and one of unclear status — damaged, and possibly recovered by now.

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Fast rewind to 2023, and the same day holds 13 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this BREM-L 'Beglyanka' ARV from near Oleksandrivka, Donetsk raion, one of only 10 losses of the type, +2 since the last time we looked at it earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/wars...

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All the way back to 2022, and exact same day now holds 8 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this ZS-88 capture from Kherson oblast. We've looked at this weird family of PsyOps vehicles in our Twitter thread from Sep 2024 here: x.com/WarSpotting/...

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Fast rewind to 2023, and the same day only holds 5 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this T-80BV near Novomykhailivka, Pokrovsk raion that appears to have gone through entire series of explosive events until its final obliteration.

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That being said, Dec is going to be this year's last chance to surprise anyone with anything — and maybe go under 100-a-month. Not that it would mean anything but stay tuned!

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Even so, 2025 is clearly stagnating — at least in terms of lost 🇷🇺 vehicles. Increased abandoned counts suggest larger than usual grey zone, though, and, to an extent, sustained conflict intensity — just without much heavy armour involved any more.

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All the way back to 2022, and the same day holds 6 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this curious case of franken-MT-LB-VM wreck somewhere in Kherson oblast. Even though it's VM variant (armament) it seems to be equipped with narrow tracks of base MT-LB model for whatever reason.

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Fast rewind to 2023, and the same day holds 5 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this what looks like BMP-3 rolling over landmine in Polohy raion presumably full of ammo, which yielded unusually powerful 💥 and virtually annihilated entire vehicle judging by sat footage.

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All the way back to 2022, and exact same day now holds 16 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this boring 'Orlan-10' with no one else but Robert 'Magyar' himself holding it. Only a unit — not even a company — Magyar Birds were rapidly gaining combat UAV fame back then.

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Fast rewind to 2023, and the same day only holds 4 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Interestingly, 3 of them were KamAZ 6x6 from 3 completely unrelated locations in 3 different oblasts: Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk.

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All the way back to 2022, and the same day now holds 51 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Most of them from near Kherson airport soon after 🇷🇺 withdrew, and obviously old losses. Most interesting of those was probably this 9S18 'Kupol' radar for 'Buks' — the only one confirmed till today.

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Fast rewind to 2023 and the same day holds 4 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this 'Bukhanka' that seems to be a genuine military asset, and we only count those but not ex-civilians. It may sound strange but we must draw a line of what lands our list, and that's where it is now.

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All the way back to 2022, and the same day now holds 9 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them BMP-3 and BREM-1 that apparently tried to tow it away from near Stelmakhivka, Svatove raion but failed.

The latest footage of the two is from Oct 2024, hence both still abandoned on our list.

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Fast rewind to 2023, and the same day holds 11 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this BMP-2 East of Kupiansk that did spectacular and rather uncharacteristic 💥 probably caused by unusual kind of munition on board that day.

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