So if I understand correctly that Ukraine forces that many Russian military vehicles in one month?

Could you verify and disambiguate the dates, ie, 01-Sept.-2025?

I keep trying. I understand the importance of the label not falling off, but surely there is a less extreme alternative.

When I was a teenager, my Dad often described my arguments for what I wanted as "rationalization", which he invariably described as a kind of a sausage, the "skin of a reason, stuffed with a lie". Sounds like a pretext to me.