2025 Worldwide Threat Assessment<\/a>, prepared by US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for Congress, dated 11 May 2025<\/p>\nDetails<\/strong>: The assessment states that Moscow is pursuing a strategy of attrition, aiming to undermine Ukraine\u2019s resistance, demoralise its population and await a decline in Western support. Despite slow progress, Russia\u2019s military command likely considers this acceptable.<\/p>\nAdvertisement:<\/p>\n
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Quote<\/strong>: “Putin almost certainly is committed to victory in Ukraine and his objectives remain mostly unchanged since the beginning of the war: Ukrainian neutrality and a further partition of the Ukrainian state. In the absence of a negotiated settlement or, alternatively, robust Western aid, the battlefield outlook probably will continue to slowly trend in Russia\u2019s favour through 2025, though Russian battlefield gains are slowing and continue to come at the expense of high personnel and equipment losses.”<\/p>\nDetails<\/strong>: Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost over 700,000 soldiers, including at least 170,000 fatalities, and more than 10,000 pieces of military equipment, including 3,000 tanks, according to US intelligence. Approximately 250 aircraft and helicopters have also been destroyed.<\/p>\nRussian forces continue their gradual advance in Ukraine\u2019s east, bolstered by additional troops, including over 10,000 North Korean soldiers deployed in Kursk Oblast to support the offensive.<\/p>\n
Russia is also heavily using kamikaze drones and long-range missiles to target Ukraine\u2019s critical infrastructure, aiming to break its will to resist.<\/p>\n
The assessment notes that Putin remains committed to imposing post-war neutrality on Ukraine, limiting its military capabilities and further fragmenting the state.<\/p>\n
Quote<\/strong>: “Although Putin and his military leaders probably would prefer more rapid battlefield gains, Moscow seems comfortable with the current cost of its slow advances, calculating they can steadily drain Ukraine\u2019s resources and will, and outlast the West\u2019s support for Ukraine.”<\/p>\nSupport Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin. Stock photo: Getty Images Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin remains determined to achieve victory in the war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[56951,2000,299,2046,657,659,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-129001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-defence-intelligence","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-putin","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-usa","14":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114564936914528482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}