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To: TobagoJack who wrote (196069)	2/14/2023 8:07:56 AM
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re <<China to operate in the development of Russian arctic titanium mine>> Russia has a labor shortage... Land forces at Kola reduced to one-fifth, Norwegian Intelligence says thebarentsobserver.com By Thomas Nilsen February 13, 2023 Tears are flowing to the Pechenga River from young widows and children as names of fallen soldiers are telegrammed north from Vladimir Putin’s battlefields in Ukraine. The bloody fate of the men that just over a year ago were based near Russia’s peaceful border with Norway and Finland is much worse than previously known, according to a report issued on Monday by the Norwegian Intelligence Service. 1,500 troops are killed. Maybe more. In the early stage of the war, the 200th Separate Brigade from the Kola Peninsula lost two battalion tactical groups. The Barents Observer reported about 645 killed during the first month, while other reports hinted the numbers of casualties were higher. Before schools started in the Murmansk region last autumn, regional authorities launched free meals for pupils whose parents were killed or wounded in Ukraine. At the time, 1,274 children qualified, a strong indication of the wave of deaths among fathers who would never again see their children become students. Wiped out Some of the men drafted under Putin’s mobilization to the 200th Brigade were simply given a rifle and sent more or less directly to the front. Others say they were given painted helmets from 1941 and vests without plates. Many are already slaughtered on the current battlefields in eastern Ukraine. Especially the first week of February this year was bad, with the British Defense Ministry on Sunday claiming the Russian mean average for the last seven days was 824 casualties per day. That is over four times the rate reported as daily average deaths in June and July 2022. About half of the original Russian invasion force of 200,000 soldiers are dead or wounded, the Norwegian Intelligence report said. How many of the later volunteers and mobiks that are killed is unclear. The Norwegian Intelligence, which since the second world war has kept close eyes on the military ups and downs in the Pechenga region, says in its FOKUS 2023 report that about three battalion groups, with 3,000 soldiers, were sent to the battlefields. The men with the 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade had their training camps along the Pechenga River; at 19 km, in Loustari and in the village of Pechenga. All are less than an hour’s drive from the border with Norway. In late 2021, the first orders were given to load up tanks, armored vehicles, guns, artillery, and other gear onto railway wagons at the train station in Loustari. Soldiers were ordered into passenger railroad cars. Exercise in southern Russia, they were told. On the night of February 24, Putin ordered his military commanders to invade Ukraine. A few hours later were vehicles from the 200th Motorized brigade rolling towards Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, just 30 kilometers south of the Russian border. Putin’s soldiers were met not with flowers, but fierce resistance. “About half is lost,” the report concludes. That is 1,500 dead soldiers. The Northern Fleet has in addition lost up to 100 tanks and armored vehicles. During the summer and autumn of 2022, the 200th Motorized Brigade got new soldiers earmarked for the war. Some volunteers, some veterans, and some mobiks, the Russian slang for the thousands of men mobilized after September 21. The vast majority of the newcomers had limited military experience, and the training at the Kola Peninsula lasted only for a few weeks. World War II helmets Some of the men drafted under Putin’s mobilization to the 200th Brigade were simply given a rifle and sent more or less directly to the front. Others say they were given painted helmets from 1941 and vests without plates. Many are already slaughtered on the current battlefields in eastern Ukraine. Especially the first week of February this year was bad, with the British Defense Ministry on Sunday claiming the Russian mean average for the last seven days was 824 casualties per day. That is over four times the rate reported as daily average deaths in June and July 2022. About half of the original Russian invasion force of 200,000 soldiers are dead or wounded, the Norwegian Intelligence report said. How many of the later volunteers and mobiks that are killed is unclear. What is clear is that Vladimir Putin’s regime has sent Russia into its worst self-inflicted disaster since Stalin’s cruel execution and starvation of his own citizens. Rosstat, the state statistics agency, has not yet published Russia’s excess mortality for 2022.