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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Joe Middleton

Russian casualties in Ukraine top 80,000, says US

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Russia has suffered between 70,000 and 80,000 casualties, either killed or wounded, since its invasion of Ukraine began, a top US official has said.

The Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for Policy, Colin Kahl, told reporters on Monday that Vladimir Putin’s forces are taking a “tremendous number of casualties”.

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