The shortage of personnel in the troops of the National Guard will prevent Russia from establishing full control over all the occupied territories of Ukraine, according to one of the secret documents of the US Department of Defense, which got into the Network and studied by Radio Liberty.
From a document dated late February 2023, it follows that in August 2022, at least 27,500 servicemen of the National Guard of the Russian Federation were on Ukrainian territory. Since then, as noted in the document, these troops have suffered significant losses. The report emphasizes: the National Guard has taken on numerous additional tasks to keep the territories captured by Russia behind the front lines, which further exacerbated the shortage of personnel.
Troops of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardia) were formed from employees of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2016. According to official data for 2017, 340,000 employees were in the ranks of the Russian Guard. At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, significant losses near Kiev and Kharkov were suffered by the OMON units that were part of the Russian Guard, with the help of which it was planned to maintain order in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
On August 30, Director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov reported to Vladimir Putin that “the troops of the National Guard in the special operation zone in Ukraine ensure security, law and order in Russian-controlled settlements, fight saboteurs, guard especially important objects.”
At the same time, in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, attempts are regularly made on the Russian military, officials, as well as on Ukrainians collaborating with the occupation authorities. According to Ukrainian journalists, in 2022 alone, in the occupied territories of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Ukraine, 12 officials and security officials were killed, mostly Ukrainian citizens who retained or took their positions after the occupation.
American serviceman Jack Teixeira was arrested on charges of leaking classified information from the Pentagon . The US Department of Defense does not comment on the content of the leaked documents.
Source: Radio Ozodlik
