PolitiFact - Despite Putin’s claim, Russia has lost plenty in Ukraine invasion

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech his country had lost nothing by invading Ukraine in February. The country has lost thousands of lives, military equipment and brainpower. It is also mired in an economic struggle.

But when a journalist asked him how Russia has fared since its invasion of the neighboring country, Putin denied it had suffered any loss at all.The statement came at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.

"I have a question: for our country — what do you think we have gained and what we have lost, as a state, since February 24?" Precise figures of Russian lives lost are unavailable as the country has not regularly shared its estimates. But Russia has conceded loss of life: In March, itDr. Colin Kahl, the U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, said in a

 

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He has lost nothing personally. Dictators tend to conflate their personal interests with that of their countries.

Sounds like us too….different reasons maybe but same problems

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