Russia's Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin

Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to the UK may have just let slip how many troops Russia has lost in Ukraine.

Moscow has been exceptionally tight-lipped about its casualty rate in Ukraine since invading back in February 2022.

The UK estimates that Russian forces have endured around a million losses, injuries and deaths, since the war began.

While ambassador Andrei Kelin dismissed that figure when speaking to CNN – and insisted he would not “speak about casualties” – the numbers he did provide painted a picture about the reality of Russia’s losses.

Kelin did tell CNN that “about 600,000” Russian troops were currently fighting in Ukraine.

That’s a notable decrease compared to last June, when

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