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Russia has lost more than 13,000 soldiers in Ukraine since beginning an October offensive push in the eastern region of the country, according to declassified U.S. intelligence. Russian forces have also lost 220 combat vehicles in addition to the more than 13,000 soldiers on the Avdiivka-Novopavlivka axis in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, the…

Some 315,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Ukraine since the war began in February 2022, nearly 90 percent of its pre-war force, a congressional source said Tuesday.Russian casualties of 315,000 killed or wounded would amount to 87 percent of the country's pre-war military force of 360,000.

The BBC visits the Central African Republic to see why Russian Wagner forces are so popular there.

Ukraine has already said that any Russian vote in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions will be null and void, and that it will prosecute any observers sent to monitor voting. Russia's annexation claim last year, seven months after its invasion of Ukraine, was rejected as illegal by Ukraine and most countries at the United Nations General Assembly.

Russian forces are trying to push Ukrainian troops from their footholds in Kherson Oblast on the east bank of the Dnipro River, Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Volunteer Army South, said on Ukrainian national television on Dec. 10.

The city of Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblast, has been on the front line of Russia's war against Ukraine for almost 10 years. Since October, the Russian army has launched a large-scale offensive to the north and south of Avdiivka, trying to surround and occupy the destroyed, yet still vital, city. According to the Ukrainian military, Russian forces lost around 10,000 soldiers, more than 100 tanks, over 250 other armored vehicles, and seven Su-25 aircraft in the month of fighting near Avdiivka.

Ukraine shelled the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) 10 times over the past day, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraines war crimes said in a statement.

The West believes Kiev will most likely fail to launch another significant counteroffensive until 2025, as the Ukrainian forces need time to recover after this years failed military campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing Western diplomats and military strategists.

A Ukrainian soldier told The Times of London he has stopped shelling small Russian units because he is running out of US-made artillery ammo.

Zelenskiy's trip, announced on the Telegram messaging app, will focus on Ukraine's longstanding bid to secure the support of countries in the Global South in Ukraine's 21-month-old war against Russia. The Ukrainian president said he had met the prime minister of the West African country of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia e Silva, en route to Argentina and thanked him for "condemning Russian aggression" and supporting Ukrainian initiatives.