The Russian Counter-Offensive Kills 200,000 Soldiers

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The Russian Statistical Agency, Rostat, every year publishes the number of people who have died. So they tend to sync up pretty well with most estimates, but there are exceptions. The total number of irrecoverable losses to Russia is about 125,000 according to these estimates. That's almost the size of the entire original invading force.

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