leedrake5
commented
1 year ago Not sure the right way to address it. Oryx/Jakub report unevenly. A day could be 0 (thus 50/50) focus on Ukrainian backlog (1/99) or Russian backlog (99/1). So there has to be some time increment to average over. There is a daily ratio plot with a loess trend (the quad plot) that captures this, but based on the point scatter you'll see how noisy a daily could be.
For now the current ratio is the whole war. Note that Ukraine has seen a pretty steady degradation since fall of 2022 when it was close to 4. Though important to note that equipment is not itself a war objective - Ukraine will want to spend equipment to attain strategic objectives. So a change in the ratio doesn't directly map on to progress.
batransitrist
Hello,
If I understand correctly the total loss ratio shows the ratio of equipment loss since the beginning of the war so for example the fact that it shows about 2.7 in July-2023 does not mean that in July-2023 Russia lost 2.7 more equipment than Ukraine, right?
If this is true, would it be possible to show the numbers only starting with June-2023, so we get a new plot "Total equipment loss since 1-June-2023? I know that some new discoveries are referring to old data but still it would be a better indication on the recent trend. (1-June-2023 roughly corresponds to the start of UA counteroffensive)
thx