In recent months, Russia has sent tens of thousands of new troops to strengthen the front line in Ukraine, a senior US military official said on Monday, according to CNN.

Mobilization in RussiaPhoto: Kyrylo Braga / Sputnik / Profimedia

The troops had little impact on the conflict, arriving at the front “ill-equipped, ill-trained” and “rushing into the battlefield,” the official said.

Russia has so far only sent troops to replace or reinforce existing units, not newly organized and consolidated units. Troops began arriving on the battlefield after Russia mobilized 300,000 new troops in October, the official said later.

On Friday, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said that Russia had suffered “well over 100,000 casualties” killed or wounded in the fighting.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his close Kremlin advisers may have lost confidence in Wagner’s group of mercenaries led by Yevgeny Prigozhin after they failed to capture the key city of Bakhmut, according to the latest assessment by the US Institute for the Study of War.

The ISW assessment notes that despite the numerous defeats and setbacks suffered by the regular armed forces, Putin’s confidence would again turn to the military command in Moscow, as Wagner’s mercenaries failed to capture a city in Donetsk region, although they launched numerous bloody operations. has been attacking here since the beginning of August.

Almost a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the war in that country has left nearly 180,000 dead and wounded in the Russian army camp and more than 100,000 killed and wounded in the Ukrainian camp, according to an estimate released on Sunday by the head of the Norwegian Army, who warned that Russia is still has the ability to continue this war for a long time, reports AFP.

Also, according to these estimates, almost 30 thousand civilians died.

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