Russia has lost 70-80 thousand people in Ukraine since the beginning of the war-Pentagon

"I think it is safe to assume that the Russians are likely to lose 70 or 80,000 in less than half a year," Kal said, saying that this number of killed and wounded on the battlefield may be a little smaller, or slightly larger. According to the US Defense Ministry representative, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are noticeable losses, since none of Putin's goals, which he set at the beginning of a large -scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, was not achieved.

"The moral spirit of Ukrainians and their will to victory are not in doubt, and, I think, they are much higher than their willingness to fight on average in the Russian military. I think it gives Ukrainians a significant advantage," Kal added. The General Staff of the Armed Forces publishes data of 42 340 Russians killed in Ukraine. Official data on dead soldiers in the Russian Federation was last published on March 25: 1351 people killed and 3825 wounded.

In the conditions of long clashes, it is extremely difficult to confirm the dead. In early April, the Kremlin Prescribe Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Western journalists that the Russian Federation suffered significant losses during the war in Ukraine, without naming the exact number. It should be reminded that, according to researchers, more than a thousand Chechens and Dagestans were killed in Ukraine.

Having studied data from open sources, journalists confirmed the death of 1015 people from the North Caucasus and the South of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The real figures are at least 40-60% higher. Earlier, Focus reported that Christ Grozev found a cat of Ukrainian captive from the staff of propagandists from the Russian Federation.