The Long War: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (June 5, 2022)
Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri Alperovitch
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Is the Russian Army Really a Top Heavy Regiment?
Multer: The issue i that when you look at the personel figures, the russian wold is actually very top heavy. And so because the they change the strength these units, right? So the motor rifle with motorize rightle atalions used to be the table rniation althorie strength was 539 or 461. Well, theyh they increased that to 300, forty five. But manyo, the battalions before they deployed, only had 222 hundred, 80 guys. They reducedt reduced companies tolike 75, 76 personel, platoons like 22, and squads to seven.
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