Ukraine claims the real figure is more than 10 times as high.
Rudskoi, the General Staff official, on Friday acknowledged 1,351 deaths among Russian soldiers. The costs of Russia's "special military operation" have been steep. Their logistics problems have been apparent to everybody, they've got serious manpower issues and the resistance has been way beyond anything they could have possibly imagined." "Clearly they do not have the ability to continue sustained large-scale offensive operations. army forces in Europe who now works for the Center for European Policy Analysis. "Obviously they have completely failed in everything they've set out to do and so now they are redefining what the purpose is so they can declare victory," said Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. makes it possible to focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbass."ĭonbass, where Putin has accused Ukraine without evidence of waging "genocide" against ethnic Russians - has long occupied a prominent place in Moscow's litany of grievances against Ukraine.īut if capturing the whole of Donbass had been the objective from the start, Moscow could have mounted a much more limited offensive and spared itself the effort and losses involved in invading Ukraine from the north, east and south. "The combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been considerably reduced, which.
"The main objectives of the first stage of the operation have generally been accomplished," said Sergei Rudskoi, head of the Russian General Staff's Main Operational Directorate.
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