In a rare admission, admittedly, from officials of the Putin regime, was made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Moscow has "significant losses" in the ranks of Russian troops deployed in Ukraine, the Kremlin spokesman said, without specifying their number.
"We have suffered significant military losses," Peskov told Britain's Sky News network, adding: "it's a huge tragedy for us."
Dmitry Peskov did not, however, accept the term "humiliation" used by the British network's reporter about the war in Ukraine.
Furthermore, he said Vladimir Putin was not worried about being put on trial on war crimes charges.
Raising the tone, he said: "If Finland and Sweden join NATO, then we will respond accordingly."
Then, commenting on the withdrawal of troops from Kiev and Chernihiv, he stressed that it was an "act of goodwill" to "ease tensions" in the peace talks.
In the interview, Peskov argued that NATO was "flirting" with overstepping their boundaries.
Russia had said, in an earlier statement, that 1,351 troops had been killed. The exact number of dead is not known, but a NATO official said that casualties ranged between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers.
Another inflammatory statement was also made by Peskov, who stressed that Mariupol, which has come to be a ghost town, would soon be "liberated from nationalist battalions".
At the same time, he stressed that the air attack on a Mariupol maternity hospital, which caused an international outcry, was "fake."
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The new US sanctions imposed yesterday against Moscow for its military intervention in Ukraine target Russian banks and elites, including Putin's daughters Katerina and Maria, whom US officials believe are hiding their father's wealth.
Putin's daughter, Katerina Tikhonova, is a technology executive whose work supports the Russian government and its defense industry, according to details in the U.S. sanctions package announced yesterday. His other daughter, Maria Vorontsova, heads government-funded programs that have received billions of dollars from the Kremlin for genetic research and are personally overseen by Putin, according to the U.S.
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