{"id":21807,"date":"2022-05-15T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=21807"},"modified":"2022-05-15T08:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T08:14:10","slug":"claims-russia-has-lost-a-third-of-forces-extraordinary-but-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/15\/claims-russia-has-lost-a-third-of-forces-extraordinary-but-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims Russia has lost a third of forces extraordinary &#8211; but possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_0\">Whether on the road to Kyiv, in the villages of Kharkiv, or on the banks of the Siversky Donets river \u2013 the burned-out shells of Russian military vehicles have been some of the defining images of this war.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">The claim that Moscow has lost a full third of its ground forces is an extraordinary one \u2013 but not beyond the realms of possibility.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">The UK&#8217;s Ministry of Defence also claims Russia is suffering from critical shortages of bridging equipment and surveillance drones.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">The MoD says these factors &#8211; combined with increasingly low morale &#8211; mean Russian advances are unlikely to accelerate over the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">Moscow is yet to respond &#8211; but given its previous claims about the state of the conflict, it is fair to assume its assessment would be markedly different.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".25vyn6wu1m0.0.2.0.0.1.0.1.0.$lx-tabs0.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6280a8e501eea2774308eacd.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">story by Joe inwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether on the road to Kyiv, in the villages of Kharkiv, or on the banks of the Siversky Donets river \u2013 the burned-out shells of Russian military vehicles have been some of the defining images of this war. The claim that Moscow has lost a full third of its ground forces is an extraordinary one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9330,10767,7445,6086,5342,10634,5572,5340,11973,9110,3457,5217,10841,12605,5180,5251],"class_list":["post-21807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-banks","tag-conflict","tag-drones","tag-kharkiv","tag-kyiv","tag-lost","tag-military","tag-moscow","tag-one","tag-river","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-surveillance","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}