They completed the game - Russians on horses

Finally, as Forbes writes, it happened.

A video circulating on social media this week shows two Russian soldiers riding horses across the muddy Ukrainian landscape.

They are forced to cross a mined, artillery-filled no-man's land, over which drones patrol, in order to maintain their long-standing offensive.

Along the way, they lose a huge amount of weapons and mechanized vehicles, the needs of which exceed 6,000 vehicles per year.

That's too much for Russian factories to produce, Forbes further states, and that, against those needs due to the war in Ukraine, Russia is producing perhaps 200 new BMP-3 combat vehicles and 90 new T-90M tanks a year, as well as several hundred other new armored vehicles, including the BTR-82 wheeled combat vehicle.

Russian war correspondent Roma Sapozhnikov blamed industrial managers. "The feeling is that those responsible for rearming the army with armored fighting vehicles and tanks ... have become frozen and abstracted from the problems of the battlefield and the armed forces of a warring country," he wrote.

It is recalled that in the first two years of the soon-to-be-three-year war, the Kremlin comfortably made up the four-digit gap between losses and production by pulling old Cold War vehicles out of storage.

Huge stocks of old tanks and other armored vehicles were kept in them. But now even such supplies are running low.

Analysts, on the other hand, believe that such vehicles, which have been standing for years, are actually unusable.

As proof that the Russians are really running out of armored vehicles, there are numerous videos on social networks, which show the Russian army driving around in civilian vans and compact cars.

On the other hand, this "demechanization", as Forbes called it, means that many soldiers, Russians, are needlessly killed.

Civilian vehicles pressed into the front line are "total crap that burns and kills our soldiers," one source told Russian war correspondent Sapozhnikov.

But that doesn't mean Russia is losing the wider war, because as bad as Russia's troop problems are, Ukraine's are even worse.

"Russian forces are suffering heavy losses," explained the Ukrainian analytical group Front Intelligence Insight. "However, they continue to advance in several areas where Ukrainian defenses are depleted due to lack of manpower — and where Russia has managed to concentrate a large number of them," the group said.