After almost a year from the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army would have lost almost 200,000 soldiers, a number 8 times greater than that of American soldiers who fell in twenty years of conflict in Afghanistan.

The budget, based on estimates by American and Western executives, is reported by The New York Times . Last November the Biden administration had released the data in its possession, through the chief of the joint staff Mark Milley, who spoke of over 100,000 dead and wounded soldiers on both sides.

Since then, the NYT points out, the number of deaths among the ranks of the Kremlin's armed forces would have skyrocketed, due to the battles in the cities of Soledar and Bakhmut , where Moscow would have sent less trained troops to the front line.

(Unioneonline/lf)