Bloodthirsty Putin sending so many troops to slaughter ‘he can’t even equip them all’ but still plans a bloodier 2025
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VLADIMIR Putin will continue to pour troops into his "meat grinder" war in 2025 at such a rate he won't even be able to arm them all, experts have said. Analysts said Putin will keep sending men to their doom on the front line with propaganda and promises of cash in order to pry more land off Ukraine this year.
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But Putin may pay for his arrogance, with experts predicting Russia will fall short "at some point in 2025" of enough military equipment to to supply its forces. Some 3,500 Russian tanks and 7,500 armoured vehicles have already been taken out of action.
![[Workers replace broken windows after a Russian rocket attack in Pokrovsk, Ukraine]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/local-workers-replace-broken-windows-960108564.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Russian soldiers were slaughtered at an ever-growing rate in 2024, with each of the last five months breaking the record for the highest losses yet. On November 4, Russia lost 2,030 men - the first time during the war that figure exceeded 2,000 for a single day.
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Luke Pollard, the UK's under-secretary for defence, predicted Russian losses - soldiers killed, wounded or captured - would reach one million within six months. And Nick Reynolds, a land warfare expert at RUSI, warned that Putin Putin's conscience is untouched by the mass death.
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Mr Reynolds told The Sun: "Putin is notorious, historically, for being not particularly moved by human suffering.”. The dictator is had plenty of what British Defence Intelligence calls "tolerance for casualties". Despite the valiant efforts of Ukrainian soldiers, and a surprise invasion of Russia's Kursk region in 2024, the communist power has been making record advances in recent months.
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