The high number of deaths so early on in the war is striking
2014 Major General Harold Greene was assassinated at a training facility outside Kabul. He was the first American general killed in combat since the Vietnam war, four decades earlier. Deaths of high-ranking military officers are rare, since they tend to avoid getting dangerously close to the front line . Yet in the three weeks of
, four Russian major-generals have been slain; there are thought to be only 20 or so in the theatre. In fact, Russia seems to have been losing soldiers of all ranks at an astonishing rate.is going to plan, has good reason to understate its human cost. By March 2nd after a week of war, 498 of his soldiers had died in combat, according to official Russian tallies. But the Pentagon’s Defence Intelligence Agency has put the count at between 2,000 and 4,000 in the war’s first 11 days.
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