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Russia's 'Low Quality' Troops See Spike in Losses: UK
Russia's "low quality" troops see spike in losses: UK
Russia is on track to suffer 500,000 casualties by the beginning of 2025, a new British intelligence assessment says.
www.newsweek.com
Russian personnel losses in Ukraine have increased by "almost 300 per day," compared to those in 2022, due to Moscow's growing reliant on a "lower quality, high quantity mass army." This comes from the latest intelligence update published by the British Ministry of Defense.
The analysis said that Russia is on track to suffer 500,000 killed and wounded by the beginning of 2025, a figure dwarfing Russian losses in any other conflict since World War II.
Russian troops have spent the past couple of months trying to seize the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, situated in Donetsk Oblast, though they have made only limited gains.
On Friday, the Russians launched one of the biggest aerial assaults on Ukrainian cities since the war began in February 2022, with at least 39 people killed by 120 missiles and 36 drones, according to Kyiv. On Saturday, 10 people were killed and 40 injured by missiles and drones in the Russian city of Belgorod, according to Russian authorities. They said they have shot down dozens of projectiles fired from Ukraine. Newsweek has not been able to verify these casualty figures independently.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 reservists in September 2022. This was to make up for heavy losses suffered by the regular military during the initial invasion of Ukraine.
However, the British update said that Russia is on track to suffer 500,000 casualties, adding: "If casualties continue at the current rate through the next year, by 2025 Russia will have sustained over half a million personnel killed and wounded over three years of war. This is compared to the Soviet Union's 70,000 casualties in the nine-year Soviet-Afghan War."
Commentary:
Russia has also lost over 500 vehicles mainly APC;s and tanks, so mush so that they are sending in troops without armored support.
The Russian people revolted with 70,000 men killed in Afghanistan there may soon be internal problems for Putin.
As it is, Putin has been forced to block his opponent for the time being.
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Russia loses three large amphibious assault ships in Black Sea, 10 more to go
As Ukrainian forces have destroyed the Novocherkassk Russian landing ship tank (LST) in occupied Crimea, the number of such vessels lost by Russia has reached three, with ten more remaining in the Black Sea.
www.pravda.com.ua
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Russia loses three large amphibious assault ships in Black Sea, 10 more to go
As Ukrainian forces have destroyed the Novocherkassk Russian landing ship tank (LST) in occupied Crimea, the number of such vessels lost by Russia has reached three, with ten more remaining in the Black Sea.
www.pravda.com.ua
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Russia suffers heavy losses in Ukraine on Christmas Day: Kyiv
"In total, five 'Su' aircraft were shot down in the week before Christmas," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
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