US Intelligence Reports: Russia Suffers 13,000 Losses Near Avdiivka In Two Months

• 12.12.2023, 20:01

And more than 200 combat vehicles.

Since October, the army of the aggressor country Russia on the Avdiivka-Novopavlivka axis in the Donetsk region has lost more than 13,000 soldiers and 220 combat vehicles. This is evidenced by new declassified intelligence, US National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson told CNN.

According to him, Russia’s losses in two months in the Avdiivka direction are equivalent to the loss of “six maneuver battalions in terms of equipment alone.”

Despite this, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin remains committed to an offensive to conquer Ukraine, but his army's assaults have produced “no strategic gains,” Watson notes.

He suggests that Russia is hoping for a stalemate on the front this winter, which could allegedly weaken Western support for Ukraine. Therefore, Putin, according to Watson, “is clearly monitoring what is happening in Congress.”

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of December 12, over the past 24 hours the Ukrainian Forces liquidated 800 Russian invaders. The total losses of the Russian army since the beginning of the full-scale invasion exceeded more than 340 thousand military personnel.