A shocking report has suggested more than 500,000 Russian men have been killed in Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine – despite this the Russian despot has continued his relentless strikes
Evil Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly pummelled Ukraine in a new set of lethal strikes but his illegal invasion could have killed more than half a million Russians.
There has been reported progress on peace talks, held with Donald Trump’s envoys, but on the battlefield more aggression and destruction has been unleashed. Putin’s forces turned out the lights and cut the heating in a massive missile and drone strike on central Ukrainian city Kremenchuk. In Slavyansk – a city in the Donetsk region that Putin wants to grab – Russia wounded six people, aged between 38 and 69, in an aerial bomb strike on residential buildings.
Despite this, Trump envoy Keith Kellogg described the peace negotiations as being in the “last ten metres to the goal” while admitting outstanding differences were the “hardest” to resolve.
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These attacks on Ukrainians were spread across the country as a 50-year-old man was killed in his home following a Russian drone strike in Novhorod-Siverskyi, Chernihiv region. A day earlier, NATO was forced to scramble fighters in Poland amid the intensity of Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine.
Russia’s relentless bombing and strikes have continued despite The Economist indicating the number of Putin’s own men who have been killed in the horror invasion, which the dictator won’t stop, could be more than half a million.
The shocking report said: “Perhaps 1% of Russia’s pre-war male population of fighting age has died in Ukraine.”
Independent Russian outlet Astra extrapolated the data as 566,000 deaths – a horrific figure indicating the conflict has been a strategic failure for Putin. The site said: “A number of losses of less than 600,000 means that this year Russia could have lost more people in Ukraine than in 2022-2024.”
Astra added: “From the beginning of the full-scale invasion to January of this year, the Russian army’s losses amounted to between 640,000 and 877,000 people, of which 137,000 – 228,000 were killed.” The half a million estimate is at the upper limit of Russian men killed in the war.
Ukraine overnight hit back at the aggressor with a strike on the Engels airbase in southern Russia, triggering repeated “wall-shaking explosions” and a fire, with a suspected hit on Kristall oil depot used to fuel Putin’s strategic bombers.
Volodymyr Zelensky was also involved by phone in peace talks with Trump representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Ukraine’s president called it a “long and meaningful phone conversation” and a “very substantive, constructive discussion” which included talks about Ukrainian territory demanded by Putin as well as security guarantees post-war.
Zelensky said: “We paid attention to many aspects and quickly discussed key issues that can guarantee the end of the bloodshed and remove the threat of a third Russian invasion, as well as the threat of Russia not fulfilling its promises, as has happened many times before.”
Kellogg claimed the key disputes revolved around Donetsk region’s territory, which Putin wants to swallow in its entirety, and the future of Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Zaporizhzhia, are now in Russian hands.