A declassified but restricted access intelligence report provided to Congress estimates the Russian Army has lost 87 percent of its pre-Ukrraine invasion strength on the battlefield.
Since the beginning of the war Russia has suffered from a staggeringly high number of losses, according to another newly declassified assessment shared with Congress. At the start of the war the Russian army stood at 360,000 troops. Russia has lost 315,000 of those troops, forcing them to recruit and mobilize new recruits and convicts from their prison system.
Moscow’s equipment has also been crushed, according to the assessment. At the start of the war, Russia had 3,500 tanks but has lost 2,200, forcing them to pull 50 year old T-62 tanks from storage.
To be clear, the Russian Armed Forces numbered about 900,000 personnel in all the military services and the paramilitary Rosgvardiya. The 360,000…
