Gb: Russian losses in three months equal to Soviet losses in Afghanistan in 9 years

The death toll among Russian troops in Ukraine in the first three months of the country's invasion is similar to that recorded by the then Soviet Union during its nine-year war in Afghanistan: British intelligence writes in its update on the situation in Ukraine in the report published today by the Ministry of Defense on Twitter.

London does not estimate dead soldiers but does evidence that the "high death rate" is due to a number of factors, including limited air coverage, a lack of flexibility and a command approach that reinforces failures and leads to repeat mistakes.

And the losses, he points out, continue to increase in the Donbass offensive.

This continuous increase in the number of deaths in the ranks of the army, the intelligence concludes, could lead to a growing dissatisfaction on the part of the Russian population, in addition to its willingness to express it in public.