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The British military believes more than a quarter of all troops Russia deployed for its war in Ukraine are now “combat ineffective.”
The comment Monday came as part of a daily briefing on Twitter the British Defense Ministry has offered about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The British military believes Russia committed over 120 so-called “battalion tactical groups” into the war since February, which represents 65 per cent of all of Moscow’s combat strength.
The ministry said, “It is likely that more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective.”
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Russia has committed roughly two-thirds of its ground combat strength since the start of its war in Ukraine, which has gone on for nearly 10 weeks.
Russia devoted roughly 120 battalion tactical groups to its military operation, and the United Kingdom Defense Ministry said on Monday that it’s “likely” that “more than a quarter of these units have now been rendered combat ineffective.”
The latest updates from the U.K.'s Defense Ministry mirror comments from the Pentagon in recent weeks.
A senior U.S. defense official told reporters in mid-April that the Pentagon believes Russia still has roughly 75% of the capabilities that it had at the beginning of the invasion. It has 92 “operational battalion tactical groups” within Ukraine, and another 20 in Russia, though it started with between 125 and 130, the official said last week. Each BTG consists of roughly 800-1,000 service members. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to +++++relevant+++++ and related stories:
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