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200,000 casualties, including as many as 60,000 deaths. that british defense secretary said on the bbc this week that nearly two thirds of russias tanks have been destroyed or broken, like these you see behind me. russias combat effectiveness has continuously been depleted by 40%. listen to this. 97% of the whole russian army is in ukraine! these are staggering figures. ukraine, though, also continues to suffer serious losses, both soldiers and civilians. norways defense chief revealing at the e...

Russias hurried retreat from Kherson is a portent of things to come.

Independent analysts and ukrainian officials say a series of setbacks are forcing russia to scale back its ambitions with russian forces now focusing on securing a smaller portion of eastern ukraine. a new intelligence briefing by britains defense ministry said russia has now likely lost one-third of the ground campus forces it committed in february and is quote increasingly constrained by degrading capability and low morale and reduced combat effectiveness. the ukraine officials say russian for...

And as they tried to then refocus their efforts on the donbas particularly that eastern part of ukraine, he has already put more reinforcements in, and tried to shore up battalion tactical groups that were almost completely depleted from their combat effectiveness. now, hes done that, hes put some together in a patchwork way and reintroducing them into the east. hes got about 90 or so battalion tactical groups and we continue to see him want to reinforce them with additional manpower. so, look, ...

Pro—maidan rioters and then pro—russian rioters, and eventually, in ways that were not entirely clear about, most of those pro—russian rioters ended up in a building which then ignited and they were killed. so this is part of his narrative for why russia needs to go to war and its really the only part that has any kind of truth in it. it would be a big victory for him to capture 0desa by may the 9th, by world war ii victory day. ok, that is interesting, the strategic reasons why. do you th...

Coming closer. this capital is clearly in their sites. but they are advancing very slowly. if they are going to try to come closer that is still going to take a long time. lyce doucet in the key. thank you very much for that. lets pick up some of what she was there with michael. michael, ithink some of what she was there with michael. michael, i think you came on the programme a couple weeks ago. you said the russian forces have three weeks before combat effectiveness becomes increasingly exhaus...

Russia is resorting to that kind of indiscriminate violence against ukrainian civilians seemingly because the fighting is having a devastating toll on its own troops. new reporting from "the new york times" details how the increasing number of russian troop deaths is severely impacting morale. the pentagon estimates 7,000 russian troops have been killed in the three-week war so far, which is greater than the number of american troops killed over 20 years in iraq and afghanistan combined. between...

Russian soldiers killed in the thousands. how hobbled is the russian military right now? >> it is very hobbled, don. first of all, i was a -- secretary austin and i were classmates. it was interesting to hear him talk about the military. the comments he used were the comments the united states uses at our various training center what is we look for in a competent force and the secretary said every area of combat effectiveness in any kind of unit we have seen deficiencies in the russian army. the...

Some progress in the south, they remain stalled in the northern pushes down into the major cities of ukraine including the capital of kyiv. so this combat effectiveness is something pentagon officials are watching very closely as we enter this critical phase of the next week to ten days. >> radio free europe reports that according to local residents, russian soldiers killed in battle in ukraine are filling up morgues in belarus. the number of bodies was unbelievably large. people at a city were ...