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  • Russian troops survive an average of 30 minutes on the Ukrainian battlefield, CIA director says

    07/17/2026 3:23:18 AM PDT · by Apparatchik · 86 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 17 July 2026 | Matthew Loh
    The average life expectancy for a Russian soldier entering battle in Ukraine is 20 to 30 minutes, Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday. Ratcliffe was speaking at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, where he attributed the deadly conditions to Ukraine's combat drones equipped with AI. "What I would say is, our intelligence is consistent with some of the open-source reporting you may have seen in Ukraine," Ratcliffe said. "So the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit, right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes." "And that's...
  • Russia’s Use of Iranian Kamikaze Drones Creates New Dangers for Ukrainian Troops

    09/17/2022 7:08:09 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 69 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Sept. 17, 2022 8:51 am ET | Yaroslav Trofimov
    Russia has inflicted serious damage on Ukrainian forces with recently introduced Iranian drones, in its first wide-scale deployment of a foreign weapons system since the war began, Ukrainian commanders say. Over the past week, Shahed-136 delta-wing drones, repainted in Russian colors and rebranded as Geranium 2, started appearing over Ukrainian armor and artillery positions in the northeastern Kharkiv region, said Col. Rodion Kulagin, commander of artillery of Ukraine’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade. In his brigade’s operational area alone, the Iranian drones have destroyed two 152-mm self-propelled howitzers, two 122-mm self-propelled howitzers, as well as two BTR armored infantry vehicles, he said....