Chefren
pfm Member
If you Google for this topic you can find some concerns online. This is not about propaganda pictures trying to pass off multiple pictures of the same equipment as separate cases, this is what Oryx is trying to sort out. It's that an Ukrainian loss is less likely to be posted online in general vs. a Russia loss.The Russians upload every last piece of video they can, they've just been crowing about that Ukrainian tank driving into the river with video in the last 24 hours. In reality, the Russians actually upload the same video several times claiming it's from different locations thus, trying to up their figures. The recent disastrous foray by Ukrainian armour was uploaded 3 times and claimed to be at differing locations for instance. I don't know where you have the idea it's biased towards Ukraine, they were clear about the loss of 69 of the 129 odd Ukrainian air frames in the early days of the war when the Ukraine was keeping totally silent about it all.
https://warsawinstitute.org/comparing-western-supplies-ukrainian-losses-war-russia/
The data from Oryx is regarded as one of the most accurate sources, however, there are concerns that there is a pro-Ukrainian bias as there might be more photos published about Russian destroyed equipment
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-...uipment-on-both-sides-who-is-winning-12561125
Firstly, this data is unlikely to be giving a true picture of events due to what Thomas Bullock, an open-source analyst at Janes, a defence intelligence company, calls "availability bias".
This bias arises from the fact that people are more likely to post images of destroyed Russian vehicles.
Mr Bullock told Sky News: "Open-source information is likely to be positively biased towards Ukraine, for a number of understandable reasons. Ukrainians don't want to post images of their forces in case it gives away their position.
"They are also more likely to post about Russian vehicles being destroyed as they are the enemy invading force. When we have seen posts of Ukrainian equipment it is often because people have mistaken it for being Russian."