5,000 Russian Soldiers Dead Or Captured

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Damaged cars and a destroyed accommodation building are seen near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine's second-largest city Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — tactics Ukraine's embattled president said were designed to force him into concessions in Europe's largest ground war in generations. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

BRUSSELS — A senior Western intelligence official briefed by multiple intelligence agencies estimated Tuesday that more than 5,000 Russian soldiers have been captured or killed so far, and that Ukrainian forces have eliminated significant numbers of Russian aircraft and tanks and some air defense systems.

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The official said that Russian forces have increased use of artillery north of Kyiv and around the eastern city of Kharkiv and northern city of Chernihiv, and have been using heavier weapons over the last 48 hours.

The official also said that Russian forces are bogging down in the Donbas region in the east, where most Ukrainian forces are concentrated after eight years fighting Russian-backed separatists there. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence assessment.


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PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
2 years ago

Five thousand dead is certainly a start.

triumphinwhitehouse
triumphinwhitehouse
2 years ago

all this war so the senile illegitimate president of the United States druggie “artist” son can continue to get his $ from the corrupt Ukrainians.

Rats Rats DemocRATs
Rats Rats DemocRATs
2 years ago

As Orthodox Jews of course we support Putin. The Ukrainian history is full of jewish spilled blood.