{"id":18041,"date":"2026-07-17T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:42:10","slug":"cia-director-russian-soldier-in-ukraine-survives-an-average-of-30-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/18041\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA director: Russian soldier in Ukraine survives an average of 30 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The average life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the battlefield in Ukraine is around 20-30 minutes due to Ukrainian AI-powered attack drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Source: CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as quoted by <a data-ylk=\"slk:Bloomberg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-07-15\/cia-says-ai-drones-give-russian-troops-only-30-minutes-to-live\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>, European Pravda reports<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Details: Although Russia has a significant numerical advantage over the relatively small Ukraine, Ukrainian forces have managed to limit the advance of Russian troops, partly thanks to innovations in various types of attack drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US officials have suggested that Russia is losing around 7,000 soldiers per week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our intelligence is consistent with some of the open-source reporting you may have seen in Ukraine: the average life expectancy of a Russian recruit right now, arriving on the battlefield in Ukraine, is estimated to be between 20 and 30 minutes,&#8221; Ratcliffe said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said that this is because AI-based drones &#8220;have gotten to be such specialised, low-cost killing machines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ratcliffe&#8217;s remarks come as Washington and its allies consider allocating new funding for Ukrainian drone development programmes and seek access to the technologies underpinning artificial intelligence systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Background:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Your support on <a data-ylk=\"slk:Patreon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Patreon<\/a> helps us keep the news free and accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average life expectancy of a Russian soldier on the battlefield in Ukraine is around 20-30 minutes due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[530,7142,4144,7158,25,2706,26],"class_list":["post-18041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-attack-drones","tag-average-life-expectancy","tag-cia-director","tag-john-ratcliffe","tag-russia","tag-russian-soldier","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}