In the summer, Russia tried to create a new army corps. This is necessary to replace 80,000 killed or wounded soldiers.
The occupiers cannot mobilize the required number of people for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin has no reason to be optimistic.
Besides, the new grouping was supposed to compensate for 5 thousand different equipment that the Russians lost at the front.
They were supposed to stop the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
According to the documents, the Third Army Corps includes several brigades of 10 thousand soldiers each. They are divided into more than 10 battalions armed with hundreds of T-80, T-90 tanks and many other armored vehicles.
However, the new corps is actually filled with volunteers who are either old or in poor physical shape. Among them, there are also many people with alcohol or drug addiction, Forbes said.
The Third Army Corps visited the Kharkiv region last week. He was sent to prevent the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, the new Russian group was defeated. It fled from the Kharkiv region with all the other invaders.
What the Russian killers lost
According to Forbes, the 3rd Army Corps left tanks and BMP fighting vehicles in the Kharkiv region -2 and BTR-80. The invaders left characteristic insignia in the form of a circle inside a triangle on them.
The fate of the corps is still unknown. It may still be re-formed, but the Kremlin is not optimistic after the defeat near Kharkov.
The hole in the workforce that the 3rd Army Corps was supposed to fill is now much deeper. The Kharkov counteroffensive cost the Russian army hundreds of pieces of equipment and possibly thousands of soldiers. Among the losses was a significant part of the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, Forbes emphasized. manpower.
