A senior Russian official on June 19 inadvertently confirmed the staggering troop losses incurred by Moscow's forces during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with CNN, Russian Ambassador to the U.K. Andrey Kelin was asked about Moscow's maximalist intentions in Ukraine and its ability to recruit enough
  • @[email protected]English
    15•22 days ago

    It alludes to the staggering number in the title and in the abstract but does not give the number which means it’s clickbait.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      13•22 days ago

      The discrepancy tallies with Western analysis of Russia’s staggering losses. “They lose somewhere in the ballpark of 35,000 to 45,000 people per month, and perhaps they recruit a little bit north of that number,” George Barros, Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), told the Kyiv Independent earlier this month.