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Whole Russian casualties in Ukraine have reached an estimated 610,000 killed and wounded, based on the newest western estimates. 

That may be a giant leap from the earlier high-end estimate of 500,000 Russians killed and wounded for the reason that starting of the full-scale invasion, which was launched by Britain’s Ministry of Defence in early June. 

Western officers estimate that each day Russian casualties are working as excessive as 1,200 a day within the Donbas, the place the Russian army is grinding away at Ukrainian defences, particularly across the essential metropolis of Pokrovsk. 

To compensate, the Kremlin has launched a mobilisation drive, which is recruiting about 1,000 recent troopers a day, one western official mentioned. Regardless of monetary incentives, corresponding to greater wages and sign-on bonuses, that’s lower than the 1,500 recruits Russia was managing to mobilise final yr, the official added.