UK ministry: About 1 mil. Russian casualties likely in invasion of Ukraine
The British defense ministry says the Russian military has likely sustained about 1 million casualties -- killed and wounded -- since it began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The ministry made the announcement on Thursday, more than three years and three months into the conflict. It said it is likely that around 250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or are missing.
The ministry said, "Russia's senior leadership are almost certainly prepared to tolerate continuously high resultant casualty rates so long as this does not negatively affect public or elite support for the war, and those losses can be replaced."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday also said the number of Russian casualties in the invasion has reached 1 million.
Zelenskyy wrote on social media that the tally is the price Russian President Vladimir Putin "is willing to pay for his sick geopolitical fantasies." He added that Putin still "refuses to end this war."
Zelenskyy plans to attend the Group of Seven summit in Canada next week. The agenda of the meeting will include how to deal with Russia.
Zelenskyy spoke in a joint news conference with German defense minister Boris Pistorius on Thursday. He said, "It is clear that we are very close to important sanctions decisions."
Zelenskyy also expressed the hope for a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
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