 Russia has lost more than 4,000 tanks in Ukraine. Russia has lost more than 4,000 tanks since the start of all-out war in Ukraine last February, Kiev's military said. In an update posted to social media, the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces said that Russia had lost a total of 4,006 tanks since February 24, 2022, according to Newsweek. The war has cost both sides significant numbers of both military equipment and lives. However, experts have told Newsweek that Ukraine's figure may well not be far from the truth, allowing room for error and a reflection of a pattern of failures in Russia's tank battalions since the early days of the conflict in February 2022. It's a very, very high figure, Ed Arnold, a research fellow at the London-based Royal United Services Institute think tank, told, It's a significant loss. The tallies published by Kiev are probably more accurate than other estimates because the Ukrainians are actually on the battlefield, according to former British Army Colonel Hamish de Breton Gordon. Ultimately, a figure of 4,000 tank losses, even if this estimate is on the high side, comes down to a combination of poor planning, a lack of movement, weak command, insufficient training and turning to older tech to fill the quickly emerging gaps.