1/ Some more updates on depleted Russian storage facilities thanks to @waffentraeger (this time with his consent, heh). First the 7027th base at Pospelicha. Not a single piece of equipment left there, just an active surveillance radar station from the 590th Anti-Aircraft Missile
2/ It was already mostly depleted by late 2022. This base stored mostly engineering equipment, and specially pontoons.
3/ At another base near Atschinsk almost all the special pontoon and fording equipment is gone too, and even many trucks.
4/ Another base where most engineering equipment is gone is the one near Sosnovka.
5/ And I say most because by August most of what remains looks to be broken beyond repair. Just look at the state of the equipment left there by then:
6/ The 7022th arsenal is still abandoned too.
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8/ Another base I didn't know of until @waffentraeger told me about it is the 1015 Factory for Repair of Military- Technical Property. @Ath3neN0ctu4 mentioned it a while ago.
9/ As you can see, it's entirely depleted too. It stored a lot of trucks.
10/ And that's it for now. No, I don't mean these are the only ones depleted, not by a long shot. There are many more. It's just that Waffen deserves to be the one who talks in depth about these and many others of which he found the newer footage. Stay tuned for his content!
11/ As you can see, Russia is taking a huge number of equipment from storage which isn't usually talked about, like engineering eequipment, and even trucks too!
12/ The fact they're down to this (although obviously they can mostly replace their truck losses with new production and foreign trucks) says a lot about the state of their army.
13/ @HighMarsed will also soon bring you news on other types of usually oversighted equipment in storage.
14/ Once again, special thanks to @waffentraeger and kudos to him. You should follow him for more content.
15/ I forgot to mention the dates, but TL;DR all the newer footage from this thread is actually from the second half of 2023.
16/ And I said here, even most active unit bases are depleted by now:
Considering these satellite images are on average a year old, I wouldn't worry too much about that.
magic, because every storage site has less equipment with each newer picture. Plus, it doesn't make any sense. The equipment is only going to the army or to refurbishment facilities, they don't have the time right now to consolidate their storage facilities like they sho