Recruits hold their weapons during military training at a firing range in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia in October 2022.
CNN: Russian ground forces ‘bigger today’ than at start of the war in Ukraine, US general says
While Russia has suffered thousands of losses in its war against Ukraine, a senior US military commander in Europe told lawmakers Wednesday that they have plenty more firepower left in their arsenal.
“[T]he Russian ground force has been degenerated somewhat by this conflict, although it is bigger today than it was at the beginning of the conflict,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli, the commander of US European Command, told the House Armed Services Committee.
“The Air Force has lost very little, they’ve lost 80 planes. They have another 1,000 fighters and fighter bombers,” he said. “The Navy has lost one ship.”
Classified military documents allegedly leaked by a junior enlisted National Guard airman for months gave a snapshot of where Russia’s ground forces were committed in the war. One document, dated February and March, said that 527 of 544 of available Russian battalions have been committed to the war against Ukraine; 474 of them are already in the country, the intelligence said.
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WNU Editor: The Russian sources that I follow say that there are about 500,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine, and another 250,000 near its border. The Ukraine sources that I follow say that the upcoming Ukraine counter-offensive will involve up to 40,000 soldiers …. others say 80,000.
How can such a counter-offensive succeed?