A declassified U.S. intelligence report found that the war in Ukraine cost Russia 315,000 soldiers killed and wounded, or nearly 90 percent of the forces involved when the full-scale invasion began.
The declassified report was announced Tuesday by a source familiar with the intelligence.
According to the source, the report also notes that Russian losses in personnel and armored vehicles have set back the modernization of the Russian army by 18 years.
According to the data, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 with a force of 360,000 soldiers, and since then 315,000 Russian soldiers, or about 87% of the number of troops that invaded Ukraine, have been killed or injured. .
The losses caused Russia to relax recruiting standards and draft convicts and older civilians into the military, the source said.
“Russia announced a partial mobilization of 300,000 people by the end of 2022 and relaxed rules to allow the recruitment of convicts and elderly civilians,” the report says, according to the source.
The Russian army has 1,300 armored vehicles left on the battlefield and they must be replenished with T62 tanks produced in the 1970s, the source said.
