Russian spy chief says loss of NATO-trained soldiers will reduce Kyiv's combat potential -RIA

The director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, said that the deaths of a large number of NATO-trained Ukrainian soldiers and the destruction of their hardware would undermine Ukrainian army combat capabilities, the Russian state news agency RIA reported on Monday.

Moscow has repeatedly said that Kyiv has suffered major losses, including of Western-supplied equipment, during its ongoing counteroffensive.