Kyiv, Ukraine – Donkeys are the latest transportation way that some Russian military units have started to use on the front lines of East Ukraine, according to Moscow soldiers and pro -war bloggers.

Retired Russian Lieutenant Victor Sobolif said that the use of Quadrupeds Braying to connect ammunition and supplies “natural”, according to what was reported.

“It is better to kill donkeys instead of the two men who offer goods in their car,” he told Gazeta.ru on February 6.

Last year, Russia began to use motorcycles, dirt bicycles, electric motorcycles and civilian cars for the front -to -party attacks.

Observers say the decline reflects the increasing trend that greatly exposes Russia’s slow progress on the main stage of the war – the southeast of Donbas.

Armored vehicle tanks

Military analysts told Al -Jazeera that the Ukrainian army had already destroyed the lion’s share of Russian tanks and armored vehicles.

It is increasingly difficult to renew the deficiency, even when Moscow is digging in the shares of the Soviet Mammoths to renew the vehicles that have been stopped and a dysfunction.

“Armored vehicles are used away from use at a terrifying speed,” Nikolai Metrokin, a researcher at Bremen University in Germany, told Al Jazerera.

He said: “The production of that new and the restoration of that damaged or covered fame falls behind the losses,” and the Russian armored vehicle garden for the crime will continue to “just months.”

Meanwhile, there are “enormous” problems in connecting supplies to the front line where Ukrainian drones are destroyed everywhere armored vehicles and civilian cars.

To prevent drones explosives from explosives from sneaking into tank screaming or beating shields, Russian soldiers are covered with metal tapes, nets and rubber covers, creating what Ukrainians call “royal barbecue parties”.

Russia cannot graduate more than 60 tanks annually, according to Pavel Lozin, a defense analyst at the European Policy Analysis Center, a research tank in Washington, DC.

“We are not talking about hundreds,” he said to Al -Jazeera.

He said that the biggest problem is the manufacture of constellations and guns, while complex electronic components, such as infrared thermal imaging systems and targeting once the European components are replaced, are replaced by less reliable.

However, retired Ukrainian General believes that Moscow “reaches two years” until it is completely running out of armored vehicles.

Lieutenant -General Air Romano, a former deputy public detailed in the armed forces, said that the Russian defense factories are working in seizures, and the renewal of old and effective tanks to stop them to put a job group.

“It is up to two years, given the current losses they suffer,” he told Al -Jazeera. “It is understood that the share of modern armored vehicles, tanks and other armored weapons will decrease.”

As a result, the number of tanks and armored vehicles that Russia has at hand is less than 7000-with a least 20 times compared to 140,000 from the Soviet Union in 1990, according to The Insider, an independent media outlet focusing on Russia.

The deficiency may have already led to a noticeable slowdown in Russia’s occupation of Donbas.

By early February, the number of Russian attacks fell along the confrontation line in the third, and the amount of occupied lands fell four times since January to only 21 square kilometers (eight square miles), according to Oko Goura, an Ukrainian analysis of a channel.

For the first time in months, the Ukrainian forces managed to attack the counter and restore small areas around the southeastern Boukerrovsk city.

However, despite the increasing deficiency of artillery, Russia has doubled three times the production of shells to about 3 million a year, while North Korea presented millions.

It is understood that Pyongyang and Taran have provided hundreds of missiles, adding up to hundreds of Russian -made Russian cities.

However, its effectiveness is in the question, and some observers have noticed.

Six ISKANDER missiles, at a total cost of about $ 18 million, were launched on Tuesday, killing one and wounding four.

Air defense

The Russian Bakrani border extends for about 2,300 km (1430 miles).

These days, drones and Ukrainian missiles reach the depth of Russia, hitting plants, bases, aircraft departure and oil refineries from the Arctic to the Black Sea coast.

Analyst Metrokin said that Moscow “could not build air defense lines parallel to the front line, and have not been able to cover many important sites.”

Although Russia has combat aircraft and advanced air defense systems, “they will not be able to increase [their capabilities] First Lieutenant Romanino said:

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s capabilities are “growing”, as Kiev collects the development and production of drones and missiles.

Camicase “Beauty”

Besides donkeys, Russia was accused of using the so-called human “beauty”- Soldiers He was running towards Ukrainian positions with a heavy load of ammunition for the upcoming assault team.

Service to survive for these soldiers and lowstroopers is low.

Corresponsors of war supported the death of Karmlin deaths or the demobilization of experienced soldiers with the arrival of the new recruits to the confrontation line after a short training.

“A perfect achievement for the duty of service published by the mass media is always linked to the death of the soldier in the battle,” wrote the pro -Kremlin analyst Victor Morchovsky on a telegram on January 16. , One must die heroic. “

The Kremlin claims that recruiting men is not a challenge. About 600,000 soldiers are fighting in Ukraine.

But the “price” of each recruiter has grown more than 10 times since 2022.

These days, the recruitment boost is approaching $ 30,000, and the monthly salary starts from $ 2000, while compensation for missing parties or a dangerous wound is about $ 40,000.

Without announcing a new round of mobilization, the Kremlin stands accused of forcing workers immigrants to “volunteer”. Quoted by dozens of soldiers, Verstka, an independent news published online, founded by Russian journalists, reported on Tuesday that the forces that are about to be demobilized are provided to expand their service.

They said, “If you do not sign the contract today, we will send you to the storm,” The positions of Ukrainian, and quoted one of them as saying.