Staggering Russian Losses in Ukraine Eroding Popular Support at Home, as Putin Resorts to World War II Tactics and Begins Looking for Women Prepared To Fight
While the world’s gaze swiveled to Israel’s war against Hamas, the fight at Avdiivka became Europe’s bloodiest battle since World War II.
Russia has lost a staggering 302,000 soldiers killed or wounded in Ukraine, Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, said in response to a parliamentary inquiry this week. Yesterday, the Ukrainian government’s daily tally hit 315,620 Russian dead or wounded.
Either set of figures indicates that Russia has lost in 21 months more than four times the 68,700 Soviet soldiers killed or wounded during the Soviet Union’s decade in Afghanistan. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union had 288 million people — nearly double Russia’s population today.
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