I wonder how long it'll be before someone decides to take advantage of >95% of the Orcs army committing suicide in Ukraine ?
Another Long read
Land forces at Kola reduced to one-fifth, Norwegian Intelligence says
"The land forces on Kola are reduced to a fifth of their original numbers before the invasion of Ukraine," says Chief of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes to the Barents Observer. He warns that the consequence is a Russia which may lower the threshold for nuclear escalation, also near Norway.
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Tears are flowing to the Pechenga River from young widows and children as names of fallen soldiers are telegrammed north from Vladimir Putin’s battlefields in Ukraine. The bloody fate of the men that just over a year ago were based near Russia’s peaceful border with Norway and Finland is much worse than previously known, according to a report issued on Monday by the Norwegian Intelligence Service.
1,500 troops are killed. Maybe more.
The men with the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade had their training camps along the Pechenga River; at 19 km, in Loustari and in the village of Pechenga. All are less than an hour’s drive from the border with Norway.
In late 2021, the first orders were given to load up tanks, armored vehicles, guns, artillery, and other gear onto railway wagons at the train station in Loustari. Soldiers were ordered into passenger railroad cars.
Exercise in southern Russia, they were told.
On the night of February 24, Putin ordered his military commanders to invade Ukraine. A few hours later were vehicles from the 200th Motorized brigade rolling towards Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, just 30 kilometers south of the Russian border.
Putin’s soldiers were met not with flowers, but fierce resistance.
In the early stage of the war, the 200th Separate Brigade from the Kola Peninsula lost two battalion tactical groups. The Barents Observer reported about 645 killed during the first month, while other reports hinted the numbers of casualties were higher.
Before schools started in the Murmansk region last autumn, regional authorities launched free meals for pupils whose parents were killed or wounded in Ukraine. At the time, 1,274 children qualified, a strong indication of the wave of deaths among fathers who would never again see their children become students.
The Norwegian Intelligence, which since the second world war has kept close eyes on the military ups and downs in the Pechenga region, says in its FOKUS 2023 report that about three battalion groups, with 3,000 soldiers, were sent to the battlefields.
“About half is lost,” the report concludes. That is 1,500 dead soldiers.
The Northern Fleet has in addition lost up to 100 tanks and armored vehicles.
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https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/secur ... -wiped-out
I'd happily give some random locations for a suitcase full of cash if they're still paying out.
