Leaked personal information? The commander of the Russian Air Force revealed what number of infantrymen inside the force had been injured

The British Ministry of Defense posted this morning (Sunday) its modern day intelligence record, in keeping with which the leak of casualties in Russia’s elite airborne forces reputedly overshadowed the country’s annual celebrations.

In a speech recorded at the event of VDV Day, that is proud of the forces of the Russian Air Force and this yr celebrated 93 years of the pressure, the commander of the airborne forces, Lt. Col. Mikhail Teplinsky, leaked that eight,500 paratroopers were injured and then lower back to responsibility or refused to depart the front line in any respect. The video changed into speedy deleted from the official channels of the Russian Ministry of Health. In his speech, Teplinski did now not comment on how many infantrymen have been killed or too badly wounded to return to obligation.

An examination of Teplinsky’s facts showed the estimate that at least 50% of the 30,000 paratroopers deployed to Ukraine in 2022 had been killed or wounded.

Russia rarely releases figures on troop losses, however whilst it does, its estimates are plenty decrease than Ukraine’s. The BBC Russian Service reported in September 2022, citing publicly available data, that Russia had lost more than 900 special forces squaddies, paratroopers, marines and pilots in greater than six months when you consider that Putin’s complete-scale invasion of Ukraine.