 Russians threw a whole tank regiment to escape from a crinky area. The Russians engaged the 17th Tank Regiment to evacuate the damaged Russian vehicles from the crinky area. The fact that a whole tank regiment ordered and evacuation mission indicates huge Russian losses. Forbes writes that in mid-2023, the Kremlin organized a new field army around the 70th Mechanized Division by combining three mechanized regiments, the 24th, 26th and 28th, with an artillery brigade and the 17th Tank Regiment. A couple of months later, in September, the new 18th Combined Arms Army deployed to the front line on the left bank of the Nipro River in southern Ukraine's Kursan region. It was just in time to meet the Ukrainian 35th Marine Brigade as it motored across the Nipro and secured a bridgehead in Krynki on the Russian-controlled left bank. Now, the 17th Tank Regiment is responsible for the evacuation of dozens of vehicles lost by the Russians during unsuccessful attempts to knock out Ukrainian Marines from Krynki. The 17th Tank Regiment of the 70th Motorized Rifle Division has been trying for two weeks to evacuate damaged and inoperable armored vehicles from the active combat zone in the Krynki area, the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies noted. This evacuation effort involves both regular repair and evacuation units and the second tank battalion of the regiment. While dedicating armored recovery vehicles with their cranes and winches, might be the best means of towing disabled vehicles. A tank can tow and defend itself if necessary. But a whole tank regiment with potentially tens of T-90 tanks apparently is dedicated to the recovery task speaks to the intensity of Russian losses around Krynki. The article reads, In three months of unsuccessful counter-attacks through the Ukrainian drone and artillery destruction zones as well as through the mines that drones drop at night, The 18th Combined Arms Army and other formations in the Kursan region lost at least 163 military vehicles. Ukrainian forces lost only 33 vehicles, mostly on the NEPRO's right bank.