A European defense official told Newsweek that top Russian airborne, military intelligence, and army units have taken 'severe' casualties since February.
The 25th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, a Russian Army formation based in the city of Luga, was reportedly badly mauled in thein northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, which stunned Moscow and liberated more than 500 settlements and 4,600 square miles.
The demands of Russia's war in Ukraine have forced Moscow to redeploy troops from border bases to the battlefields. In September, Foreign Policy cited three unnamed senior European defense officials who said that around 80 percent of the 30,000 Russian troops previously positioned along Baltic and Finnish borders had been diverted to Ukraine.
Sauer said Helsinki is closely following the performance of units traditionally positioned along Finland's borders, some of which he said have taken"severe casualties."
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