British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that Russia's total losses in the war with Ukraine amount to more than 80,000 people. As the Evening Standard reports, Wallace made this statement on BBC radio on Wednesday.

 "We generally believe that, taking into account certain observations, Russia's losses amount to more than 80 thousand of its armed forces, if we count the killed, wounded and deserters together. This is 80 thousand in six months - as opposed to 15 thousand in ten years in Afghanistan," he noted. he.

 Wallace added that Russia's progress in Ukraine today can be measured "not in kilometers, but in meters per week."

 "I think we are at the point where Russia is in a very uncertain position," the British defense minister emphasized.

 It should be noted that, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the total losses of Russian troops in Ukraine as of Thursday are about 45,850 servicemen.