Forbes: Since beginning of war Russia lost $16.5B in military equipment

During the six months of the war started by Russia in Ukraine, the Russian side lost 12,142 units of military equipment worth $16.56 billion, excluding missiles.

Report informs that such calculations are given by the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian army lost 1,924 tanks, 234 aircraft, 199 helicopters, 15 ships, 196 cruise missiles during the six months of the war.

Forbes named the most costly losses of the Russian army. This is the Moskva missile cruiser (the publication estimates its cost at $750 million); Il-76 aircraft (Ukraine reported that it was shot down in late February in the Kyiv region; according to Forbes, the aircraft costs $86 million); the large landing ship "Saratov" (according to the magazine, it costs $75 million).

Among the aircraft destroyed are Su-30SM fighters and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft, estimated at $230 million.

Also on the Zmiinyi Island and in the surrounding waters, Ukraine destroyed Russian equipment and ships worth $165 million. In particular, eight anti-aircraft systems of the Tor, Pantsir and Strela types worth over $100 million.