Troops From Russian Dying At Large Scale Over 11,000 Killed By Ukraine

From the looks of things Russian ground forces were reported to be making even slower progress on several key fronts, with a 40-mile column of tanks and other military vehicles near the capital Kyiv having advanced very little in recent days.

According to report, Russian soldiers have suffered the heaviest losses after 13 days of Vladimir Putin’s invasion having been “let down by appalling leaders,” Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Tuesday.

 He said Russian troops were dying “at large scale”, with Ukraine claiming more than 11,000 have already been killed, including four commanders.

 Mr Wallace later told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Whatever we think about President Putin, he is done, he is a spent force in the world, no-one will be taking his phone calls in the long-term.

 “He has exhausted his army, he is responsible for thousands of Russian soldiers being killed, responsible for innocent people, civilians being killed in Ukraine, he is reducing his economy to zero because the international community has decided it is absolutely unacceptable what he does, so he is a spent force in the world.”

 However, the fear is that Russian military commanders will resort to even more artillery and air strikes on cities and towns given the setbacks suffered by their ground troops.

 Speaking on Sky News, Mr Wallace stressed that “indiscriminate” shelling had killed many civilians.

 But he added: “Probably the biggest single casualties so far in the war are Russian military soliders who have been let down by appalling leaders, appalling leadership, and appalling plans.

“Now you see them literally at large scale dying, that’s something that will be interesting in the Kremlin, whether they will admit to each other the failure of their aggressive and illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

He highlighted the failure to advance the tank column north of Kyiv and reports that Ukrainian special forces destroyed 20 helicopters at an airfield near Kherson in southern Ukraine.

“We can see that the Russians are having real logistical problems,” he added.

“That affects morale, they are not getting through, you can see them getting more desperate because they are shelling more and more innocent people.”

Hundreds, if not thousands of civilians, have also been killed in the conflict, as well as many Ukrainian troops.