In eastern Ukraine, where the Ukrainians have launched a secondary counteroffensive, the T-54/55s have found a different purpose. Even if those reinforcements are 70-year-old T-54/55s.

All that is to say, Russian troops in southern Ukraine need all the reinforcements they can get. A defending army historically tends to suffer many fewer casualties than attacking army does, as an attacker must expose himself while a defender can dig in.īut Ukrainian forces’ aggression, adaptability and precise artillery support seem to have helped their counteroffensive corps to defy historical precedent. That’s weird, and a foreboding sign for Russian forces. Ukrainian losses along this front have been heavy-but Russian losses have been nearly equally heavy, if unofficial tallies of losses by independent analysts are even remotely accurate. The T-54/55 howitzers appear to be most popular with Russian units in southern Ukraine, where since June 4 Ukrainian forces have been conducting a grinding counteroffensive along several axes.

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