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The officials provided rare insights into their intelligence of Russia’s sustained capabilities via Telegram on Friday, saying, “The Kremlin leadership probably will try to freeze the war for a while in order to convince the West to lift sanctions, but then continue the aggression. Russia’s economic resources will allow the occupying country to continue the war at its current pace for another year.”
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The comment appears to align with what many officials have said in recent weeks, describing the possibility of a “protracted war,” which is how the Institute for the Study of War put it in its assessment last weekend.
Earlier this week, the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that Ukraine has suffered “significant losses in manpower, weapons, and military equipment.”
“This is an artillery war now,” Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, told the Guardian. Aand we are losing in terms of artillery.”
“Everything now depends on what [the West] gives us,” Skibitsky said. “Ukraine has one artillery piece to 10 to 15 Russian artillery pieces. Our Western partners have given us about 10% of what they have.”
The U.S. military is planning to train a platoon of Ukrainian service members on how to use high-tech multiple-launch rocket artillery, Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that “at least tens of thousands” of civilians have been killed in the three-month war, and he said roughly 60-100 Ukrainian soldiers are getting killed daily while 500 are wounded in the Donbas.
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Russia’s military had amassed roughly 170,000 troops along the Ukrainian border in both Russia and Belarus before they invaded on Feb. 24. It has lost roughly 31,500 troops since then, according to the Ukrainian military, though death tolls are nearly impossible to tally accurately.
The British Defense Ministry said on May 15 that the Russians had lost roughly a third of the ground combat forces that had been committed to the fight, while the U.S. Department of Defense no longer attempts to calculate this.
