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The US intelligence has claimed that 188,000 Russians have been killed in Ukraine since the invasion, a news report stated. The shocking figures were revealed with allies at yesterday’s Western summit to drum up support for Ukraine held at Ramstein Air Base in Southern Germany.
Related articles The figure is a significant increase to the estimation of 100,000 Russian soldiers who were wounded, deserted and killed, when outlined by UK’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace at the end of 2022.
Top US General Mark Milley said Russia has suffered a “tremendous amount of casualties” – but stopped short of revealing the exact figure publicly.
Asked about Russian losses he told The Sun the toll was now “significantly well over 100,000”.
He said: “They have really suffered a lot.. I would say significantly well over 100,000.”
US intelligence claims 188,000 Russian killed in Ukraine since the invasion (Image: Getty Images)
The intelligence also stated almost 2,000 tanks of Vladimir Putin’s army have been destroyed (Image: Getty Images)
But defence sources confirmed the startling estimate to The Sun.
Mr Milley expressed strong doubt on Friday that Ukraine would succeed in driving Russian troops out its territory this year.
Ukraine, he said, “has also suffered tremendously”.
Milley added: “There’s a significant amount of innocent civilians that have been killed as a result of the Russian actions.
“The Russians are hitting civilian infrastructure. There’s a significant amount of economic damage, a significant amount of damage to the energy infrastructure, and the Ukrainian military has suffered … This is a very, very bloody war.”
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The shocking figures were revealed with allies at yesterday’s Western summit (Image: Getty Images)
At a US-hosted meeting on Ukraine in Germany, Milley told reporters: “From a military standpoint I still maintain that for this year it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject the Russian forces from all, every inch of… Russian-occupied Ukraine.”
In comparison, the Russians claimed they only ever suffered 15,000 losses in the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan during the entire of the 1980s.
Meanwhile, Russia has claimed to have captured a small village just five miles away from the major city of Bakhmut after months of fighting in a ‘meat-grinder’ offensive designed to push further into Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Trending Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the village of Klishchiivka, which is located nine kilometers south of Bakhmut, had been ‘liberated’.
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