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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tom Watling

Russia suffering highest daily frontline losses since start of war, says UK army chief

Ukrainian soldiers from the Joint Assault Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine fire a Soviet-era howitzer D-30 at Russian forces in Toretsk, Donetsk region - (Getty Images)

Russian daily losses on the front line in Ukraine are the highest they have been since Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion nearly three years ago, the UK army chief has claimed.

Sir Tony Radakin told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day and were nearing the 700,000 mark for the total killed and wounded since February 2022. He described the cost of the war on the Russian people as “extraordinary”.

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