“In this situation, potentially, the losses would be about 25-30,000 Russian soldiers and mercenaries killed and wounded in the first week of military operations. but” even more significantly, Zulfanov adds, “during this week the Ukrainian army would already be able to reform and throw additional reserve forces” against the Russian advance. That would increase Russian losses still further. And consequently, “the Russian army just in the course of the first two weeks would lose about 35,000 killed.” In sum, Russian forces would lose hundreds of lives each day the conflict continued. euromaidanpress/2014/11/05/why-a-new-russian-offensive-in-ukraine-would-cost-moscow-more-casualties-than-ussr-suffered-in-afghanistan/
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