The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its latest estimate that Russia had lost 88,880 personnel since the start of the war on February 24.
lost more than 6,000 of his troops in two weeks, adding further casualties to a hefty estimated Russian death toll from the war in Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in its latest estimate on Wednesday that Russia had lost 88,880 personnel since the start of the war on February 24. This is an increase of 6,170 from the estimated Russian death toll of 82,710 as of November 16, two Wednesdays prior. In addition to losing thousands of troops, Russia has also faced considerable artillery and vehicle losses in the two-week period, according to Ukraine's General Staff.
near Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, one of the areas where Ukraine has been conducting a counteroffensive, reflect that Russia must go on the defensive rather than the offensive in the war. Soller also noted that Russia has been attempting to capture the city of Bakhmut, a"super important transportation hub" in the eastern Donetsk region, for some time, a move that could potentially allow it to secure both Donetsk and the Luhansk region and fend off further Ukrainian advances. But he cast doubt on whether Russia would actually be able to capture Bakhmut, and even if they did,"strategically everything else is lost.
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