Russia loses up to 200,000 people in Ukraine, most deaths are due to non-combat causes - UK intelligence

The UK Defense Ministry wrote about this on Twitter. 

The experts emphasized that although Russia has suffered up to 200,000 casualties since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a 'significant minority' of them were caused by non-combat-related causes.

Citing a Russian news channel, the experts noted that there is an “extremely high” number of incidents, crimes and deaths related to alcohol consumption among the deployed Russian troops.

“Other leading causes of non-combat casualties likely include poor weapon handing drills, road traffic accidents and climatic injuries such as hypothermia. Russian commanders likely identify pervasive alcohol abuse as particularly detrimental to combat effectiveness. 

However, with heavy drinking pervasive across much of Russian society, it has long been seen as a tacitly accepted part of military life, even on combat operations,” the UK Defense Ministry tweeted. 

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 02 April 2023.

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