Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has praised Ukraine for eliminating nearly 4,000 Russian tanks since the start of the full-scale invasion, calling it “about 20 years” worth of current Russian production.
In 2022, Russia was estimated to have between 10,000 and 17,500 tanks in total, with about 3,300–4,000 in active service and the rest in storage. According to open-source data from the Oryx group, Russia has lost over 4,000 tanks in nearly three and a half years of war.
“Well done and thank you, Ukraine,” he writes on X.
In May, Sikorski described Russia’s war as a colonial campaign by a former empire against its “rebellious colony,” adding that history shows such wars rarely end quickly, and any faster resolution would be “a bonus,” Le Monde reports.
He suggested that peace could come only when the Kremlin sees the cost of occupying Ukraine as outweighing the benefits.
Earlier, Karl von Habsburg, an Austrian deputy and grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, called for the breakup of the Russian Federation, labeling it a classic colonial empire.
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