 Russia has lost up to half its tank fleet in war with Ukraine. Reports suggest that Russia has lost up to a half its tank fleet since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine. About reported CNN, with reference to data provided by Oryx monitoring group and its analyst Yakub Yanovsky. The group said this week it has verified 1000 distinct Russian tank losses in the war. It said a further 544 Russian tanks had been captured by Ukrainian forces, 79 damaged and 65 abandoned. According to Oryx, military analyst Yakub Yanovsky, these statistics only include losses that the monitoring team was able to confirm. He estimates that the real number may be about 2000 tanks. Russia started the war with around 3000 operational tanks, so there is a good chance that Russia has lost one half of its usable tanks, Yanovsky added. He said that before the start of the war, the Russian Federation had about 4000 tanks in reserve. However, many of them have only survived on paper. Thus, even if we assume that all of them can be repaired, the Russian Federation still lost about 30% of its pre-war tank fleet, according to Yanovsky. Oryx reports that the total number of losses of Russian equipment is almost 9100 units. The total losses of Ukraine amount to 2934 units of equipment. At the same time, Ukraine has lost 459 tanks and captured more than 500 Russian ones.