Personnel turnover: the Russian Federation has lost 3 commanders of the prestigious VAT regiment-Britain's intelligence

According to analysts, two of the Russians were killed in the war during active fighting, and one because of "injustice" decided to make his own authority. Since the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Russian Federation has lost at least three commanders of one of the most prestigious airborne regiments of the Russian Federation. This is stated in the Intelligence Record of the UK Ministry of Defense of September 23.

According to analysts, they changed each other in the post with resignation, as well as deaths. For example, Colonel Vasyl Popov, the commander of the 247th Guards Airborne Regiment of the Guard, was most likely died in early September. It happened in the area of ​​Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhya region, where fierce fighting was carried out. "Just a few weeks before, in August 2023, his predecessor, Colonel Petro Popov, probably composed the command.

Independent Russian media claimed that he resigned as a sign of protest against the fact that the military could not return the bodies of the dead. Russians, " - the message reads. But the first of the commanders of the Airborne troops was liquidated in the first weeks of the Russian invasion in 2022. It happened near Nikolaev and is about the commander of the 247th Regiment Konstantin Zeschevsky.

"The experience of the 247th Regiment illuminates the extraordinary exhaustion and high turnover of personnel in the Russian Armed Forces, even among relatively high-ranking officers,"-summed up analysts in British intelligence. We will remind, on September 17 it was reported that in Ukraine the commander of the 31st DShBR Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Andrei Kondrashkin was liquidated with the call sign "Danube".