Russia on Track to Have Lost 500,000 Soldiers by Year-End: UK Intel
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- Russia is on course to have lost half a million soldiers by the end of the year, the UK Ministry of Defense said.
- Russia's forces have become "a low quality, high quantity mass army," the department said.
- It will likely take Russia five to 10 years to rebuild its forces to a high standard.
Russia is on course to have lost a total of 500,000 soldiers by the end of this year if casualties continue at their current rate, the UK Ministry of Defense said.
The average daily number of Russian casualties in Ukraine has risen by almost 300 during the last year, the department noted, citing data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Neither Business Insider nor the UK's MOD could independently verify the methodology used by the Ukrainian General Staff.
But the MOD previously said the figures are "plausible," putting it down to mounting casualty figures from Russia's attacks on Avdiivka, a small town on the edge of occupied Donetsk.
The increased casualty rate reflects how the quality of the Russian military decreased following the partial mobilization of military reservists in September 2022, the department said.
The mobilization turned Russian forces into "a low quality, high quantity mass army," according to the department.
Russia shows 'no regard for the lives of its own soldiers'
Analysts have said that Russia is employing "human wave" tactics in Ukraine, in which large numbers of poorly trained soldiers are sent to the battlefield and die in high numbers.
One example of this tactic was a recent report of near-suicidal attacks on a section of the eastern front in which Russian forces repeatedly tried to commit identical tank assaults in the same part of a Ukrainian forest that was thwarted by Ukrainian forces seven times.
John Kirby, the spokesperson for the National Security Council, said that the tactic demonstrated that Russia "continues to show no regard for the lives of its own soldiers, willingly sacrificing them in pursuit of Putin's goals."
The UK defense department said it will likely take Russia five to 10 years to rebuild a cohort of "highly trained, experienced readiness force."
Russia has been secretive about the numbers of its casualties, but US intelligence estimates that around 315,000 of Russia's troops have been killed or injured since the beginning of the war.
This is believed to be around 90% of the personnel it had when the war began.
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look at the bright side, chronic alcoholism among males is declining in russia ...
Hopefully this will be the end of Russia will conquer Eastern Europe after Ukraine nonsense, Russia is done. it’s declining, aging population won’t sustain a “mass army” much longer.
Russia was done a long time ago; but Democrats are still stuck in 2016.
Brandon is still screaming for his 100 plus billion to Ukraine.
China is thanking him profusely for wasting US resources on the failed proxy war with Russia.
And somehow, there is another pending shutdown of the government due to funding.
There is Hamas thanking him for all the aid that is supporting their terrorists as well.
China is probably getting better prices on the oil and gas they are importing from Russia. So I guess they can thank the US for that, also.
The people, who are not thanking the US, are the people in Europe who have been paying higher prices for their winter fuel due to US sanctions and possibly blowing up a major pipeline.
On the other hand ….
who’s is zoomin who now?
Seems the world forgets that sending massive waves of inexperienced, ill equipped, troops is a Russian tradition. Somehow they always seem to come up with more.
Wake me when they run out of tanks to pull out of moth balls.
Chances are the US will run out of money and munitions long before then. That is if Ukraine doesn't run out of willing bodies capable of fighting first.
The Russian meat grinder runs in both directions. It may slow down but never seems to clog.