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by E4YomzYIN5YEBKe 1536 days ago
Ukraine uses the same equipment. How can you know whether they were Russian or Ukranian tanks that were destroyed? You could also take pictures of the same destroyed tank from different angles and claim more tanks were destroyed.
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The people who do the visual analysis of the losses put a lot of effort into making sure they don’t count duplicates. The tanks despite being the same have some differences between them because they have been upgraded with differently. Russia also fields different variants then Ukraine.

You can also generally tell from the markings on the side of the tank who it belongs to.

A large number of the confirmed tank loses are likely from videos of the two forces attacking each other which makes identification quite easy.