Russia Has Suffered Up to 80,000 Military Casualties in Ukraine, Pentagon Says

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"Russia’s military has suffered roughly 70,000 to 80,000 casualties since it first attacked Ukraine in late February, the Pentagon’s top policy official said Monday.

Russia has seen 70,000 to 80,000 casualties in attack on Ukraine, Pentagon says
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Russia has seen 70,000 to 80,000 casualties in attack on Ukraine, Pentagon says
“The Russians are taking a tremendous number of casualties,” Colin Kahl, Defense Department under secretary for policy, told reporters.

“There’s a lot of fog in war but I think it’s safe to suggest that the Russians have probably taken 70 or 80,000 casualties in the less than six months. Now, that is a combination of killed in action and wounded in action and that number might be a little lower, a little higher, but I think that’s kind of in the ballpark,” Kahl said.

The Russian casualty figure is higher than previous U.S. estimates. CIA Director William Burns late last month estimated that 15,000 Russians have died in Ukraine and some 45,000 have been wounded.


Burns admitted, however, that intelligence estimates of battlefield casualties are “always a range,” and “there’s no perfect number.” "...