US documents suggest Russian officials disagreed over how casualties were being counted.
Leaked US documents have revealed that disagreements in Russia's security apparatus led to the defence ministry being accused of undercounting casualties of the war in Ukraine.But the files show the FSB security service claimed officials were not counting deaths of the Russian National Guard, Wagner mercenaries and others.
The same document says under-reporting of casualties within the system highlights the military's "continuing reluctance" to convey bad news up the chain of command. Tellingly, the assessment in the leak asserts that significant losses suffered by Russia's National Guard, or Rosgvardia, will "probably hinder Moscow's attempts to fully secure all of its annexed territories".
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has suggested that the US may have dumped the documents deliberately. As a "party to the conflict" he argued that , Washington may have sought to "mislead the enemy, that is the Russian Federation".
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