During the six months of a full-scale war against Ukraine, the Russian army lost more than 80,000 soldiers. This was announced by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace on BBC Radio 4, citing intelligence data, writes The Guardian.

He clarified that this number includes dead and wounded Russian soldiers, as well as deserters..

“We agree with this assessment of Russian losses - if you combine the death, injury, desertion - more than 80 thousand of their armed forces. That's 80,000 in six months compared to the 15,000 they lost in ten years in Afghanistan,” Wallace said..

According to the head of the Ministry of Defense, the aggressor state is now in a "

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Wallace is convinced that Ukraine is approaching the moment when it will be able to return all the territories occupied by Russian invaders. In particular, he noted that the morale of the Ukrainian defenders is much better than the condition of the Russian soldiers..

Earlier, the head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, said that Russia's military offensive is slowing down due to moral and physical fatigue in its ranks and Moscow's "