Russian Forces Suffered ‘Extremely High’ Losses In Ukraine – Western Officials Confirm

Russian forces have suffered “extremely high” losses in Ukraine and are becoming increasingly desensitised by the war revealed by the “degrading, revolting and barbaric” atrocities committed, western officials said on Monday.

They did not put a figure on the death toll among Russian troops, but Ukrainian military chiefs claim it is nearly 20,000, though this may well be an exaggeration.

The number of injured and incapacitated Russian soldiers is estimated to be three or four times as high as the death toll.

Western officials stressed that so for the execution of Vladimir Putin’s invasion plan had failed and his generals were having to readjust and scale back their ambitions as the Russian campaign is refocused in the eastern Donbas region.

They added that these series of setbacks inflicted on the Russian president’s forces, who have now retreated from Kyiv and northern Ukraine, were an “enormous achievement” by Ukrainian fighters and Volodymyr Zelenksy’s government.

“It’s also symptomatic of a poorly-led, ill-disciplined and frustrated set of Russian forces who have sustained extremely high casualties and are becoming increasingly difficult to lead and ineffective,” one western official explained.

“Unfortunately, they are also becoming increasingly desensitised in the course of this conflict.

“The Russian way of urban warfare was never pretty and we are seeing that in degrading, and revolting and barbaric detail at the moment.

“These indiscriminate attacks targeting of civilians, alleged war crimes, have all shocked and horrified us all.Photo Credit: Getty