UK Intelligence states Russia has lost at least 50% of its paratroopers in Ukraine

Russia has lost at least half of its airborne troops during its war of aggression against Ukraine, which corresponds to a figure of 15,000.

Source: UK Ministry of Defence intelligence update on 6 August, as reported by European Pravda

Details: UK Defence Intelligence says the annual celebration of Russian Airborne Forces Day on 2 August 2023 was "overshadowed by an apparently unsanctioned disclosure of the scope of the casualties the elite force has suffered in Ukraine."

This refers to an address by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian airborne forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, where he said that 8,500 paratroopers had been injured but had still returned to duty or had not left the front.

"The video was quickly deleted from the Russian Ministry of Defence channels. He did not comment on how many troops were killed or were too seriously wounded to return to duty", the intelligence report states.

However, UK Defence Intelligence notes, "extrapolating Teplinsky’s figures endorses the assessment that at least 50 per cent of the 30,000 paratroopers who deployed to Ukraine in 2022 have been killed or wounded."

In its previous report, UK Defence Intelligence noted that the Olenegorskiy Gornyak, a ship which had been attacked the day before in the port of Novorossiysk, has become the largest seriously damaged Russian warship after the sinking of the Moskva cruiser.

Before that, the UK MoD reported Russia was attacking Ukrainian infrastructure in the country’s south with Iranian-made drones, as it believes that such strikes will not lead to a significant escalation.

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