- British gen said Russia is hiring military personnel who have not served in the army since 2012.
- The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russia is dealing with “mounting forfeitures.”
- NATO estimates that Russia has lost between 7,000 to 15,000 troops during the war.
British intelligence says Russia is trying to expand its military capacity by hiring military personnel who have not served in the army since 2012, after the Russian military has been hit with “mounting negative cash flow deaths.”
In a statement on Twitter, as part of regular intelligence updates, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said that Putin’s army is in the work to “generate more fighting power.”
It also aims to bolster its numbers by recruiting fighters from the unrecognized Transnistria locality, a slither of disputed territory besides Moldova, said the UK intel.
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In an unprecedented acceptance, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Sky News on Friday, “we have significant losses of troops, and it’s a gargantuan tragedy for us.”
It is believed Russia is planning a major new offensive in eastern Ukraine and will need to strengthen its ranks after Putin’s army was mauled in an aborted go to conquer Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in the early days of the invasion.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday informed of a conflict that could result in the biggest war in centuries.
Speaking to the German newspaper BILD, owned by Axel Springer, Insider’s root company, Zelenskyy predicted intense fighting in the coming days.
“It could be a big war in Donbas — like the world has not seen in hundreds of years,” he delineated BILD reporter Paul Ronzheimer.
The Ukrainian government has said that 18,900 Russian soldiers have been assassinated since the start of the war, according to the Kyiv Independent. NATO estimates the death toll between 7,000 to 15,000.