UK offers new assessment of Russian losses
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12:29 02 May, 2022
UK offers new assessment of Russian losses
The UK's Ministry of Defence has offered a new sense of the scale of Russian losses during the invasion of Ukraine, Qazet.az reports.
It is likely that more than a quarter of the Russian battalion tactical groups sent to the conflict have been rendered "combat ineffective", the MoD estimated in its daily update, though it did not elaborate more on this.
More than 120 such units had been committed to the Ukraine invasion, the MoD said in a tweet. This was around two-thirds of Russia's entire ground combat strength.
Most battalion tactical groups are thought to have 700-800 personnel, according to British security think tank RUSI.