Just for funsies, I decided to compare
The Military Balance 2022's estimates of Russia's active tank force to Oryx's visually confirmed losses of Russian tanks. This has the obvious gap of not accounting for reactivated tanks, but it gives at least an idea of how their losses compare to their original tank fleet. For the purposes of this count, I included derivatives (so a T-72B obr. 1989 is counted as a T-72B), but did not include other variants (so a T-72A loss is not counted at all because Russia had no active T-72A in February 2022), and also did not count the T-90S even though they're identical to T-90A because Russia stole them from India, they weren't part of the pre-war fleet.
Older (pre-Svinets) tanks
T-72B/BA - 650 in service - 354 lost - 54.5% fleet loss
T-80BV/U - 310 in service - 357 lost - 115.2% fleet loss
T-90/A - 350 in service - 35 lost - 10.0% fleet loss
Newer (Svinets-capable autoloader) tanks
T-72B3 - 850 in service - 294 lost - 34.6% fleet loss
T-72B3M - 530 in service - 209 lost - 39.4% fleet loss
T-80BVM - 170 in service - 71 lost - 41.8% fleet loss
T-90M - 67 in service - 14 lost - 20.9% fleet loss
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What concerns me is that numerous reports seem to indicate that the US is advising Ukraine to pull out of the city but the Ukrainians continue to insist that they can and will hold it. Some reports indicate an orderly withdrawal is underway; others that reinforcements are still being sent into the city. What's really going on there?
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Being mildly flippant, if we're not sure what's going on, imagine how confused the Russians must be!