(Moscow) In a huge act of embarrassment for the Russian government the pro Putin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published a update from Moscow’s defence ministry that 10000 Russian troops have been killed inside the Ukraine with another 16000 injured, the story was quickly purged , with questions raised if it was aired by mistake ,was it put on air by an anti-war Russian or as the newspaper claims it was hacked. But if true, those figures explains a news article I read yesterday from the Institute for the Study of War, where they claimed that Moscow has lost the momentum of its invasion and is now, no longer in a position to effectively prosecute its war aims due to the huge troop and equipment losses might explain the following;
- Russian troops around Kyiv have dug in behind minefields and intend to shell the city into submission
- Moscow has started recruiting troops from Libya and Syria to fight its war.
- Universities in the DNR and LNR are conscripting students above the age of 18 and that most units in the DNR’s 1st Army Corps are comprised of the “mobilized population,” rather than trained soldiers, and face low morale and equipment shortages.
- Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu signed an order to prepare to admit Unarmiya (Russian Youth Army, a Kremlin-run military youth organization) personnel aged 17-18 to fight in Ukraine on March 15
All of which aren't the actions you would expect of a vastly superiour and numerious miltary which expected the Ukrainians to be a push over and the war to be over in a matetr of days. It appears that Putin shouldn’t have listened to the experts
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