Britain’s Ministry of Defense says that Russia’s armed forces are seeking to respond to mounting losses by boosting troop numbers with personnel who had been discharged from military service since 2012.

In an intelligence update on Twitter, the ministry also said  that the Russian military’s efforts to “generate more fighting power” also include trying to recruit from Trans-Dniester, a breakaway region in Moldova that borders Ukraine.

It is unclear how many Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of the February 24 invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted on Thursday that Russia had suffered a “significant” number of military losses.

In the West, according to the BBC, between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far.
However, the governor of the attacked region, Luhansk, assumes that the Russians will soon launch a major offensive in eastern Ukraine.