American intelligence believes that three brigades of Russian special forces during the full-scale war with Ukraine lost up to 90-95% of their personnel in killed and wounded.
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The Washington Post writes about this, citing Pentagon documents that escaped to the network.
The intelligence report also states that, according to intercepts of communications, only in the 346th brigade of the GRU special forces, out of 900 people, 125 remained in the ranks.
In addition, The Washington Post writes about heavy losses in military equipment. American intelligence, having studied satellite images, came to the conclusion that the 22nd GRU special forces brigade had lost about half of the Tiger armored vehicles since the beginning of the war.
The Washington Post notes that the high casualties among the elite fighters may be due to the fact that units intended for complex operations were used in direct combat engagements to reinforce the infantry. A US intelligence report says it could take years for Russia to replenish those losses.
High losses among the special forces were also confirmed by Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service. According to them, the special forces suffered the biggest losses in the first six months of the war. For the entire period of hostilities, journalists were able to establish the names of 438 dead special forces soldiers. 38 of them served in the 346th brigade, Mediazona specifies.
Source: Racurs
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