STORY OF THE WEEK: After more than six months of intense fighting and Russian victories in its invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian military is striking back with a large-scale counteroffensive.
"In early August, the Pentagon estimated that as many as 80,000 Russian troops have been injured or killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. This is the highest number provided by American experts so far, as in late July CIA Director William Burns had put the U.S. intelligence estimate 'in the vicinity of 15,000 killed and maybe three times that wounded.
""A lightning counter-offensive by Ukraine has retaken more than 700 square miles in the past few days, leaving Russian soldiers literally running for their lives — and Vladimir Putin bizarrely attended the opening of a new Ferris wheel during the height of his troops’ retreat...Meanwhile, Russian soldiers were abandoning their tanks, weapons and even clothes in the face of the Ukrainian onslaught, Ukraine’s soldiers claimed to the Telegraph.
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