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The 26th Tank Regiment is part of the 47th Guards Tank Division, which is a crucial point, according to Clarke, given the "elite" status conferred by the title of "Guards." It is typically awarded by the Kremlin for distinguished service, while the fact that the regiment is equipped with T-80 tanks rather than standard T-72s shows the unit's importance, Clarke stressed. In the early days of the war, the Ukraine military claimed there were morale problems in this Russian tank unit, with Ukraine's General Staff posting on Facebook in March last year that soldiers in the 26th Tank Regiment of the 47th Tank Division were asking to end their contracts to fight in Ukraine.ĭefense and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke told Newsweek on Sunday that the Ukrainian claim in Sunday's Facebook post was "plausible," given the "significant casualties" that the 26th Tank Regiment is thought to have suffered early in the war in March. The Russian Defense Ministry has been contacted for comment. In its latest combat losses report on Sunday, Ukraine's Defense Ministry claimed its forces had destroyed 3,106 Russian tanks and killed more than 115,000 Russian personnel since the invasion began last February, although Russia has not released casualty numbers recently. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed on Sunday that one of the battalions making up a Russian tank regiment fighting in the Kharkiv region has just 10 tanks remaining. Smoke rises from a Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainian forces, by the side of a road in the Luhansk region on February 26, 2022.
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