A senior defense official said the Department of Defense assesses that Putin's combat power has dropped as Ukrainians continue to stall Russian forces.
"We've assessed, for the first time, that the Russians may be slightly below a 90% level of assessed available combat power," a senior defense official told reporters.
But there is scant evidence that any foreign fighters have headed to Ukraine despite reports that Putin has offered incentives to fighters from nations like Syria. "Of the battalion tactical groups that Mr. Putin has available to him across Russia, he's used about 75% in this particular operation," the senior defense official explained."So I think our assumption would be he'd pull from outside the country first."
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