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  • Russian forces face mounting casualties among officers and increasingly frequent desertion and insubordination

    03/20/2022 4:32:35 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 41 replies
    Institute for the Study of War ^ | March 20, 4:00pm ET | Mason Clark, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko
    Russian forces face mounting casualties among officers and increasingly frequent desertion and insubordination. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported on March 19 that “some [Russian] naval infantry units” (unspecified which, but likely referring to Eastern Military District units deployed to the fighting around Kyiv) have lost up to 90% of their personnel and cannot generate replacements.[4] The Ukrainian General Staff reported at noon local time on March 20 that Ukrainian forces wounded the commander of the 346th Independent Spetsnaz Brigade and claimed that Ukrainian forces killed the commanders of the 331st VDV Regiment, 247th VDV Regiment, and the 6th Tank...