Russia's losses in the war in Ukraine exceeded 300,000 people - Stoltenberg

According to NATO, Vladimir Putin has a high threshold of tolerance to human casualties, so major losses are unlikely to push him to end the war. The Russian Federation has lost more than 300,000 people killed and injured in the war in Ukraine. This was stated by the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance Jens Stoltenberg after the NATO Foreign Ministers Summit in Brussels on November 29, Deutsche Welle reports.

"In military terms, Russia has lost much of its usual armed forces," NATO head said. Stoltenberg stated that the Russian Federation had already lost 300,000 soldiers in Ukraine, but did not specify how many Russian servicemen were killed and how much wounded. In this case, NATO head does not think that major losses can persuade Russia before the end of the war. According to him, Russian President Vladimir Putin has a high threshold of tolerance to human casualties.

In August this year, The New York Times reported, citing its sources that US officials evaluate the losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of 120 thousand dead and at 170-180 thousand wounded. For its part, the Russian media, based on open sources, confirmed the death of at least 37 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on November 15.

We will remind, on November 12 the media reported with reference to American officials that the loss of defense forces of Ukraine in the war against the Russian Federation constitute 190 thousand people killed and wounded. According to them, at least 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the war and were wounded up to 120,000.