Vladimir Putin's top commanders are ‘terrified’ by demands for a new offensive in Ukraine amid fears of a ‘mass slaughter', it has been claimed.
They fear yet more deaths among military personnel as a new analysis suggests the Kremlin has now lost a staggering total of more than 175,000 troops in the war.
Putin's demand for his war supremo General Valery Gerasimov to unleash “an assault in several directions at once” has evoked deep divisions in his high command.
