Russia has lost almost half a million soldiers in the war in Ukraine, the head of GCHQ revealed yesterday.
Anne Keast-Butler disclosed the staggering scale of the military losses yesterday as she piled pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
In her inaugural annual lecture, the spy chief said: ‘Putin is going backwards on the battlefield with new intelligence showing that almost half a million Russian soldiers have now been killed since the conflict began.’
The figure is far higher than previous estimates of 350,000 deaths, which was calculated earlier this month by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think-tank.
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