(Seoul = Yonhap News) It has been revealed that the ‘200th Independent Mechanized Infantry Brigade’, dubbed Russia’s most elite combat brigade, has almost disintegrated after being deployed in the war in Ukraine.
According to internal documents obtained by the Washington Post (WP) through Ukrainian security authorities on the 16th (local time), the brigade, which started with 1,400 to 1,500 people in two battalions, reduced its number to 892 by the end of May. .I heard.
The document also states that 21 of the remaining soldiers are in hospital, 6 are missing, and 9 refuse to fight.
Medical records also confirmed that the brigade commander was seriously injured on the battlefield in April and left the brigade in July after receiving treatment and being transferred to hospital.
Pekka Toberi, the former head of Finland’s military intelligence agency, who analyzed the documents, diagnosed that “only about 60 percent of the fighting force was carried out,” and that “we had to rely on reinforcements that could not be adequately considered.”
In June, when the battlefields were victorious, the elite army was filled with personnel with no ground combat experience, transforming into a de facto ‘mixed unit’.
The Ukrainian army said it ended the battle by defeating the siege of Kharkiv in September.
In the final battle, most of the officers were killed or wounded, and Ukrainian forces destroyed or captured 70% of the brigade’s military equipment, including 32 tanks and 100 vehicles.
The WP analyzed that the collapse of Russia’s elite military resulted from the chronic corruption of the forces behind President Vladimir Putin, strategic miscalculations, and a failure to understand the combat capabilities of allies and enemies.
The 200th Brigade is based in Sparta, Murmansk, 10 miles (about 16 km) from the peacetime Russian-Norwegian border, and is tasked with guarding against North Atlantic Treaty Organization powers. (NATO). Let’s see it in the video.
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