Russian President Vladimir Putin has lost up to half his crack airborne troops in the Ukraine war, an expert in Moscow’s military has admitted.
The elite paratroopers were already hit hard by the time he launched his controversial mobilisation of “cannon-fodder” recruits in September 2022.
It means as many as 20,000 of his elite forces have been killed out of a suspected total toll of 127,500 Russian troops killed since almost a year ago.
