Although Russia is estimated to have about 5,000 tanks left, many are very old models that have been in storage for decades, according to NATO. Open source researchers have visually confirmed the destruction of more than 1,300 tanks as well as thousands of armoured fighting vehicles, artillery pieces and other equipment in just over a year. “This tracks with our intelligence analysis that determined Russian elite units are barely functioning after massive losses in the first year of the war.” “Instead we mostly saw new conscripts and military cadets and the Russian’s didn’t announce the participation of their elite units with roots back to the Second World War as they normally would,” said the official. Military analysts have concluded that at least half the VDV’s manpower – representing a large portion of Russia’s better trained professional soldiers – have been killed or wounded since the invasion began last year. “We know why the VDV wasn’t there today, they’re mostly dead outside Kyiv and Kherson,” said the official of the paratroopers and their distinctive blue berets, which play an outsized role in Russian Army propaganda efforts. A NATO official in Brussels, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to speak on the record, said this year’s parade lacked the typical displays of Russian military technology such as the normally parade ubiquitous modern T-14 Armada and T-90 tanks, columns of long range ballistic missiles, motorised heavy artillery, and elite Russian paratroopers (known as the VDV) because of the heavy fighting taxing Russian forces.
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