Russia Counts Cost of Bloody Ukraine Winter
Posted on AllSides January 4th, 2023
From The Center
November and December proved the costliest months for Russian troops in Ukraine—per estimated casualty figures published daily by Kyiv—since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February, a Newsweek analysis has found.
Despite the slowed tempo of fighting on much of the front line due to difficult weather conditions, Ukrainian forces claim to have inflicted high casualties on the Russian occupiers in the first weeks of winter as Kyiv looks to prepare the ground for its next counteroffensives.
In November, Ukraine's armed forces claimed to have "liquidated" 17,060 Russian troops,...
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