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The energy war between Russia and Ukraine has entered a new phase of more systematic aerial attack on Ukraine's grid and Russia's oil infrastructure.
Russia has lost as many as 325,000 troops, according to some estimates, with more than 200,000 deaths verified by researchers.
The cost in Russian lives for those modest territorial gains, meanwhile, continues to mount. Russia is suffering “crazy losses” in Ukraine, tallying around 65,000 soldiers dead or injured over the last two months, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said at February’s Munich Security Conference.
Ukraine hit a factory that produces some of Moscow’s most sophisticated ballistic missile systems more than 1,400km behind Russian lines.
Hundreds of Ukrainian women and girls have reported sexual violence by Russian troops during the four-year war in Ukraine.