President Putin’s forces may have lost a third of their strength due to deaths and injuries following the invasion of Ukraine, the defense ministry said yesterday, as the NATO chief said Kyiv could still win the war.
The ministry’s latest assessment of the state of the conflict says that the main focus of Russia’s attack, the offensive in the eastern region of Donbass, has lagged “significantly behind schedule”.
“Despite small-scale initial progress, Russia has failed to make significant territorial gains in the past month, while maintaining consistently high levels of depletion,” the report said.
“Russia is now likely to have suffered losses from a third of its ground forces in February.
Russian forces at the beginning of what Putin called a “special military operation” were praised
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