Putin "returned" 16,000 armored vehicles to Ukraine, which, according to him, were previously "destroyed"

During his speech at Valdai, Vladimir Putin said that since the beginning of the counteroffensive, Ukraine has lost 1,900 armored vehicles of various modifications, which is almost 10 times less than the figure he had estimated for Ukrainian armored vehicles a month earlier.

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In September, the Russian dactator spoke about the loss of almost 18 thousand armored vehicles by Ukraine.

Quote. "Only since the beginning of the counteroffensive, the latest data, only since June 4, Ukrainian units have lost more than 90 thousand people – these are sanitary irrecoverable losses. 557 tanks, almost 1900 armored vehicles of various classes. Convincing, isn't it?" – Putin said.

Less than a month ago, on September 12, at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin gave completely different figures when talking about armored vehicle losses.

"Since the beginning of this counteroffensive, the loss of personnel is 71,500 people. As for tanks, we have already lost 543 tanks, and almost 18,000 armored vehicles of various classes," Putin said.

In total, before the Russian invasion, Ukraine had 12,303 armored vehicles, according to the Global Firepower project (an analytical website that ranks countries by military power).

After the outbreak of the war, Western countries provided the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 1,803 armored vehicles (this figure includes armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers, and armored personnel carriers), according to the Oryx project. Thus, since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have had 14,100 armored vehicles, which is 3,900 less than the number of vehicles that Putin said had been destroyed since the start of the counteroffensive in September.