21.07.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP
The aggressor country Russia is increasingly using irregular military formations in offensive operations against Ukraine. Such units are more vulnerable and have apparently suffered significantly heavier losses than other enemy units over the past nine months.
The British Ministry of Defence announced this on 21 July. As noted on the department’s page on the X social network (former Twitter), the Russian Federation is using the aforementioned formations despite the fact that they are
unprepared, untrained and have no artillery or air support.
This makes them more vulnerable than units of the regular Russian army.
One example of such Russian units is the “Volunteer Corps”, created in 2023, consisting of more than 20 thousand reservists, mercenaries and ex-convicts, the British Ministry of Defence noted.
The agency also states that these formations serve in irregular units under a single command and control.
“These formations have probably suffered proportionally greater losses over the past nine months compared to Russian regular units,” the ministry said.
As reported by OBOZ.UA, over the past 24 hours, the Russian Federation lost 229 units of military equipment and about 1,100 occupiers in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the great war, the aggressor’s losses have reached 566,710 people.
Earlier it became known that an 18-year-old Russian occupier who wanted to “earn money for his family” in the war was liquidated at the front. The invader turned 18 a month before his death, and he decided to sign a contract instead of being drafted into the army. He was liquidated seven days later.
Another occupier who deserted from the Russian army said that the reasons for the huge losses of Russians are the insane orders of commanders, the practice of “zeroing out” the unwanted and the use of “blocking detachments”.
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Sending green troops into the thick of battle? Suicide missions? Blocking troops that kill their own? Insane and incompetent commanders? Anything that eliminates the invaders is fine with me.