Reasonable and credible estimates of Russian losses so far in the attack on Ukraine are that more than one fourth of their ground forces are lost either to casualties, wounded soldiers, capture or desertion.
Combined with estimates that around two thirds of the total amount of ground forces in the Russian army were lined up for the attack, the losses are mind-boggling. Putin has wasted almost one fifth of his entire army on taking a tenuous grasp of only a small part of Ukraine -- in regions that were supposedly at least somewhat friendly to Russia when his invasion started. His initial attempt to take Kyiv is now a lost cause.
Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have been lost. Putin appears lost, as he insists that the operation is going well and keeps sending his troops to die. With that kind of leadership, Russia's war is lost.
