New York Instances: “On Wednesday, the Russian Protection Ministry for the primary time introduced a dying toll for Russian servicemen within the war. Whilst casualty figures in wartime are notoriously unreliable — and Ukraine has put the whole of Russian lifeless within the hundreds — the 498 Moscow said within the seven days of combating is the biggest in any of its army operations because the warfare in Chechnya, which marked the start of President Vladimir Putin’s tenure in 1999.”
“Russians who lengthy have shyed away from attractive with politics at the moment are figuring out that their nation is combating a dangerous war, even because the Kremlin will get ever extra competitive in seeking to form the narrative. Its slow-motion crackdown on freedoms has change into a whirlwind of repression of overdue, because the remaining vestiges of a loose press confronted extinction.”
