Russian casualties are now pushing 200,000 — with 1,000 killed or injured every day

A THOUSAND Russian troops are killed or injured every day, Western officials have claimed. Total Russian casualties are now pushing 200,000 — almost double Ukrainian battlefield losses over the past 12 months. APA thousand Russian troops are killed or injured every day, Western officials have claimed[/caption] Ukraine had been “very effective at holding Russians back and killing lots of Russians,” the officials added. They said that was the reason Ukrainian defenders had clung on in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Donbas which President Zelensky described as “soaked in blood”. About 300,000 Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries are currently based in Ukraine, Western experts believe. But Kremlin commanders have no reserve of trained troops they can draw on. A source said: “That is why they are struggling to generate any kind of punch.” Up to 30,000 Russian troops are being trained in Belarus. But that is not enough to replace eye-watering battlefield losses. The officials said a Russian push in eastern Donbas was “running at enormous cost and already out of steam”. Nonetheless, they believe Ukraine will withdraw from Bakhmut soon.