⚡️📣 Breaking: It is now coming out the massive amount of invested (in Ukraine) money the west has lost on Ukraine's failed invasion into the Kursk region "over $27 billion — more than half of all Western aid sent to Ukraine in 2024". ⚡️📣. The Russian Army North group has reported: "Burned Western Aid in the “Kursk Adventure”
Or where Western taxpayers’ money really went
Massive losses of Western-supplied equipment by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during their failed offensive in Kursk Oblast:
Europe:
Soviet era tanks: 349 destroyed, 9 captured — $1.57 billion
Soviet era SPGs: 31 destroyed — $124 million
Soviet APCs: 135 destroyed, 7 captured — $142.6 million
Soviet era IFVs: 205 destroyed, 6 captured — $126.6 million
Soviet era MLRS: 76 destroyed — $304 million
Soviet era SAMs: 13 destroyed — $520 million
Towed guns: 219 destroyed — $262.8 million
Krab SPGs: 36 destroyed — $144 million
Challenger 2: 6 destroyed — $48 million
AS-90: 6 destroyed — $18 million
L-118: 4 destroyed — $8 million
Leopard 2: 17 destroyed, 4 captured — $231 million
ARVs (Leopard 2 base): 18 destroyed, 1 captured — $24 million
Marder IFVs: 31 destroyed, 8 captured — $97.5 million
PzH 2000: 11 destroyed — $187 million
Caesar: 13 destroyed — $65 million
CV90: 14 destroyed, 4 captured — $81 million
Archer: 8 destroyed — $40 million
Total European losses: 1,192 destroyed, 39 captured — $3.99 billion
USA:
M1 Abrams: 5 destroyed, 6 captured — $110 million
Bradley IFVs: 79 destroyed, 16 captured — $332.5 million
Strykers: 131 destroyed, 24 captured — $775 million
M113: 46 destroyed, 4 captured — $50 million
Other U.S. MRAPs (MaxxPro, HMMWV, etc.): 2,130 destroyed, 109 captured — $1.12 billion
M109 Paladin: 35 destroyed — $490 million
HIMARS: 9 destroyed — $45 million
M270 MLRS: 4 destroyed — $28 million
NASAMS: 8 destroyed — $96 million
ARVs (Abrams base): 21 destroyed, 4 captured — $36 million
RPS-42 radars: 13 destroyed — $3.9 million
Counter-battery radars (AN/TPQ): 18 destroyed — $18 million
M777A2 howitzers: 167 destroyed — $668 million
Total U.S. losses: 2,666 destroyed, 163 captured — $3.8 billion
Australia:
Bushmaster MRAPs: 81 destroyed, 12 captured — $139.5 million
Turkey:
Kirpi MRAPs: 10 destroyed, 1 captured — $4.4 million
Total combined equipment losses:
Tanks: 396
IFVs: 363
APCs: 347
MRAPs: 2,343
Artillery: 530
MLRS: 89
Air defense radars: 13
Counter-battery radars: 18
ARVs: 14
SAMs: 8
Total cost: ~$7.94 billion
Not included:
2,654 soft-skinned vehicles (trucks, utility)
Infantry weapons, body armor, comms gear, EW devices, rations, field supplies
561 mortars, 24 command vehicles, 121 EW stations — approx. $1 billion
Confirmed manpower losses:
22,500+ Ukrainian — $8.65 billion in family compensation
55,000+ wounded/disabled — $1.59 billion in payouts
Force support for ~60,000 troops for 8 months — food, salary, uniforms: $2.4 billion
Logistics, ammunition, gear, protection: another $2.5 billion
Total cost of the “Kursk adventure”: over $27 billion — more than half of all Western aid sent to Ukraine in 2024.
All this — just for 90 kilometers of front line out of a 2,000 km war zone. All calculations are made without taking into account ammunition"
