The Cost of War: Russian Casualties in Ukraine.

The United States estimates that Russia has suffered more than 100,000 killed or wounded fighters since December alone, including around 20,000 Russians who have been killed in about six months. The casualty figure includes half of the Wagner mercenary group, the majority of whom were ex-convicts “thrown into combat” in Bakhmut, who lacked “sufficient combat training, combat leadership or any sense of organizational command and control.” The Kremlin swiftly rejected the figures. Ukraine has been training troops and accumulating Western hardware for a counteroffensive that it says is imminent and that will seek to retake land in the country's south and east.