Due to large-scale losses in the war, the Russian army is experiencing a growing shortage of junior officers, – GUR

Due to large-scale losses in the war, the Russian army is experiencing a growing shortage of junior officers, – GUR Sofia Rozhik

Russia continues to lose thousands of its servicemen daily in the war in Ukraine. Because of these large-scale losses, the enemy army is experiencing a growing deficit of junior officers.

That is why “drilling of drivers” has begun in Russia. This was reported by Channel 24, citing the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.

The personnel crisis in the Russian army is deepening

Due to losses among junior officers, Russia is making further attempts to expand the scope of their training.

“On the basis of civilian higher educational institutions, the aggressor state is creating military training centers where they should conduct basic training for platoon commanders, artillery battery commanders and deputy company commanders. A junior officer of the enemy army primarily performs the function of driving infantry to an assault directly on the battlefield, which explains the high level of losses and, as a result, an acute shortage of lieutenants in Russia,” the GUR said.

The intelligence service also added that the Russian military leadership began to establish a mechanism for the training and uninterrupted supply of junior officers to the front in Ukraine back in 2022.

Russia had plans to launch 33 new military training centers by the end of 2024. And this is despite the fact that there were already almost a hundred existing ones. ️

The latest activation of leaders in Moscow to force even more fresh lieutenants indicates that the personnel crisis of the command staff of the Russian occupation army is deepening, the GUR notes.