US intelligence releases report on large-scale Russian losses in Ukraine

A declassified US intelligence report says the war in Ukraine has cost Russia 315,000 killed and wounded soldiers, or almost 90% of the personnel it had at the start of the conflict.

Source. Reuters writes about this with reference to a source familiar with the intelligence.

The report also states that Moscow's losses in personnel and armored vehicles to the Ukrainian military have set back Russian military modernization by 18 years.

The source said that a recently declassified US intelligence report estimated that Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 with 360,000 troops.

Since then, according to the report, 315,000 Russian troops, or about 87% of the total number with which they started the war, have been killed or wounded, the source said.

These losses have forced Russia to relax its recruitment standards and conscript prisoners and older civilians into the war.

"The scale of the losses has forced Russia to take extraordinary measures to maintain its ability to fight. russia has announced a partial mobilization of 300,000 troops at the end of 2022 and lowered standards to recruit convicts and senior civilians," the report said.

The Russian army is left with 1,300 armored vehicles on the battlefield and has to bolster these forces with T62 tanks produced in the 1970s, the source said.

Kyiv considers its losses to be a state secret, and officials say that disclosing the figures could harm its war effort. A New York Times report in August quoted U.S. officials as putting the number of Ukrainian deaths at around 70,000 and up to 120,000 wounded.