British intelligence: Russia loses third of ground troops in Ukraine

Russia has already lost a third of its ground troops in Ukraine, who participated at the beginning of the aggression in February.

The pace of the offensive in the Donbas has slowed down, significantly behind schedule, UNIAN reports, citing the UK Defence Ministry intelligence service.

Russia also failed to take control of the important ones in the last month and continues to suffer heavy losses.

According to forecasts of British intelligence, the loss of ferrying and reconnaissance vehicles, surveillance and reconnaissance drones will further increase the losses of ground forces.

Russia has already faced a shortage of unmanned aerial vehicles, which are very weak in front of Ukrainian air defence systems.

British intelligence believes that in the current situation, Russian forces cannot dramatically increase the pace of attacks in the next 30 days.