Ukraine's armed forces have reported a spike in Russian losses in the war over the last two months.
In its daily update, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on Thursday that over the previous day, Russian forces had lost 715 troops. This took its tally of Russian losses after 371 days of war to 150,605—a daily average of just over 405.
However, Ukraine's figures have noted a recent spike in casualties, with one third of those losses occurring in the last two months. of 100,000 soldier deaths had been reached on December 21, 2022. The latest figures have not been independently verified and Ukraine's total is higher than other estimates.A destroyed tank in the village of Tsupivka, Kharkiv region, on March 1, 2023. On March 2, 2023, Ukraine's armed forces announced that Russian losses since the start of the war had surpassed 150,000.
It comes as a brief by the Center for Strategic & International Studies estimated that more Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine than all of Moscow's wars since World War II.
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