 It came as the UK Ministry of Defence reported that many reservists sent by Moscow from the recent mass mobilisation were suffering from a lack of equipment and preparation for combat. A tweet on the MoD's official Twitter account @DefenceHQ on Monday said: ' Russia has deployed several thousand newly mobilised reservists to the front line in Ukraine since mid-October. In many cases they are poorly equipped. 'In September, Russian officers were concerned that some recently mobilised reservists were arriving in Ukraine without weapons.' Explosions were heard in Kyiv yesterday as Russia unleashed a new wave of missile strikes Open-source images purportedly showed Russian soldiers had been equipped with AKM rifles - an outdated weapon first introduced in 1959. Many of these were likely given to them in "barely usable condition following poor storage", the ministry added. It comes after a series of explosions struck Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine yesterday morning as Russian forces restarted missile barrages){kind=link}
Almost a thousand Russian troops have died in only 24 hours, officials in Kyiv say, as new intelligence claims Putin’s new recruits have been equipped with out-of-date rifles
Almost a thousand Russian troops have been killed in the deadliest day of fighting since the Ukraine war began, according to officials in Kyiv.
Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces made the claim on Monday after revealing 71,200 of Vladimir Putin ‘s soldiers were estimated have died since the invasion started in February.
A total of 950 of these had been killed on Sunday alone, they said, as Volodymyr Zelensky ‘s forces continue to advance on the key southern city of Kherson.
The latest count brought the number of Russian soldiers taken out by Ukrainian forces in October up to 12,730, an average of 400 day.