Volodymyr Zelensky has been talking up Russia’s battlefield fatalities and has asked his new defense minister to make it a priority.
In December alone, more than 35,000 Russian soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, Ukraine’s leader says, and the aim should be to raise the number even higher – to 50,000 per month.
“Make the cost of war for Russia one it cannot sustain, thereby forcing peace through strength” – this was the task set him by the president, Mykhailo Federov told reporters in his first briefing as Defense Minister.
The suggestion that Russia is suffering heavy losses is not new. A new report last week estimated that 1.2 million Russians have either been…