Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Pavlograd, said dozens of buildings, including schools and homes, were damaged in the strikes, which set off a massive fire that lit up the night sky. Putin’s goal of seizing the Donbas region. American officials believe the losses have grown for Russia as it has sent waves of poorly trained recruits and convicts to the front lines in Ukraine’s east, where months of intense fighting has engulfed the area around Bakhmut, a city that has been central to Mr. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported that 100,000 fighters on each side had been killed or wounded since the war began in February 2022. The claims could not be independently verified. Prigozhin that recruited heavily from Russian prisons to bolster its ranks and carry out a brutal campaign around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. About half of those were mercenaries for the Wagner group, the paramilitary force founded by Yevgeny V.
John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the figure included 20,000 Russian fighters who had been killed in action.
Lynsey Addario for The New York TimesĪt least 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine in just the past five months, the White House said on Monday, offering the latest estimate of the vast human toll of President Vladimir V. An abandoned Russian tank in the forest in the village of Ruski Tyshky, north of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in January.
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