ISW said that "the Kremlin has previously used reports of wildly inflated Ukrainian armored vehicle losses to portray Russian defensive operations as extremely effective."
The ISW report went on to cite claims that the Russian military may be launching attacks on Ukrainian military equipment that had already been destroyed "to report inflated Ukrainian losses." "The failure to conduct any rotations will likely result in a quicker rate of degradation for Russian formations defending against Ukrainian counteroffensives in southern Ukraine." "Russian forces likely lack combat-ready reserves," ISW said. A report from the Institute for the Study of War on Thursday said that Russia was risking troops "degradation" due to a shortage of battle-ready reservists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is shown on June 27, 2023. The report notes a military blogger's claim that Russian troops mobilized in the southeastern Ukraine region of Zaporizhzhia had "been on the frontlines since October 2022 without any rotations," due to "no available personnel to replace them."
The ISW report suggests that it may become more difficult for Moscow to halt the counteroffensive the longer it continues. Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said in a tweet earlier this week that the Ukrainian counteroffensive-focused on Russian-occupied regions in southern and eastern Ukraine-had "been particularly fruitful" in recent days, maintaining that progress was being made "calmly, wisely, step by step." ISW suggested that the shortcoming would impact Moscow's ability to defend against the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive. Russia is risking troops "degradation" amid the war in Ukraine due to a lack of "combat-ready" reservists, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).Ī report published on Thursday by the U.S.-based think tank cited pro-Russian military bloggers who said that Russia's army was lacking defensive capabilities in southern Ukraine due to an inability to "rotate" troops in and out of combat.
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