A new video released by the Ukrainian armed forces shows nearly 100 dead Russian soldiers on one stretch of the front in Avdiyivka in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian army is trying to win by the end of the year.

Sergey Soigu with the Chief of the General Staff of Russia, General Valery GerasimovPhoto: Vadym Savitsky / TASS / Profimedia Images

The video, shot from a drone by the operators of the 110th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, shows dozens of dead Russian soldiers whose lifeless bodies were never found by their comrades. Carefully! Images that can have an emotional impact:

Tendar, one of the accounts on “X”, is known for monitoring the fighting in Ukraine and posting images during it. Write it down that recounts show that at least 97 dead Russian soldiers can be seen in the footage.

Other videos previously circulated on social media showed Russian soldiers on this stretch of the front fighting in dramatic conditions for survival, as well as Russian armored convoys reduced to scrap metal.

A US intelligence source told Reuters on Tuesday that a declassified report by the intelligence community in Washington said Russia had lost 315,000 soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine, or about 87% of the forces involved in that war. the beginning of the conflict.

Russia has transitioned to a war economy, but continues to suffer heavy losses

The same report estimates that Russia’s losses in personnel and armored vehicles have set back efforts to modernize the Russian military 18 years ago.

Last year, it was forced to mobilize more than 300,000 reservists, lower recruitment standards for sending prisoners to the front and return old military equipment to replace destroyed ones, such as restoring the operation of some T-62 tanks built in the 1970s.

But since the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Russia has adjusted its economy to cope with the military effort, and after a failed Ukrainian counteroffensive last summer, Russian forces are now on the offensive again in eastern and southern Ukraine.

The US intelligence services note that this return to the offensive comes at the cost of significant losses and that since October, on the front line between Avdiivka and Novopavlivka, approximately 13,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded and more than 220 pieces of Russian military equipment have been lost.

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