Pentagon: 315,000 Russians Killed Or Wounded In War

The Hill reports:

Russia has suffered more than 300,000 casualties in the war in Ukraine, according to the latest U.S. estimate, and has also lost 20 medium-to-large ships in the Black Sea.

Laura Cooper, the Pentagon’s deputy secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, said 315,000 Russian soldiers have died or been wounded in the fighting so far. In addition to the naval ship losses, Russia has lost one tanker in the war.

The Pentagon puts the Russian death toll at about 60,000. And Russia is also spending massive amounts of money on the war, Cooper said, with around $211 billion spent so far. The war has cost Russia’s economy $1.3 trillion in anticipated economic growth through 2026, she added.

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“The Pentagon puts the Russian death toll at about 60,000, with the wounded three or four times that, totaling roughly 300,000 casualties”https://t.co/YDHe8iCQRd

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