VLADIMIR Putin's remaining troops are being forced to wade done piles of fallen comrades arsenic Russia faced its deadliest time of fighting.
Moscow mislaid implicit 2,000 soldiers successful the past 24 hours, accidental Ukraine's defiant subject - but Putin's men are inactive storming done Ukraine astatine an alarming rate.
Russia's staggering decease toll marks helium Russian tyrants astir damaging play of his implicit 1,000-day-old struggle truthful far.
The erstwhile highest was 1,950 connected November 12 - with the General Staff of the Armed Forces stating Thursday saw 2,030 deaths.
It proves Putin's nutrient grinder attack is inactive miserably failing with implicit 738,000 Russian soldiers present dying nether Vlad's orders.
But contempt the harrowing figures continuing to soar Russia has recovered occurrence connected the battlefield.
Damaging projections accidental Russia person managed to summation conscionable nether 100 quadrate miles successful the past month.
They are capturing territory the size of 2 shot pitches each minute, according to the US-based Institute for the Study of War.
Russian forces person focused their blitz attacks astir Kupiansk, successful northeastern Kharkiv province, and Khurakove successful confederate Donbas.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey has warned the 600-mile frontline is present astatine the astir unstable it has been since February 2022.
The concerning statistic are thing caller to Ukraine's subject who were near scrambling during the archetypal penetration successful February 2022.
Russia’s latest complaint of beforehand is inactive obscurity adjacent its highest of 490 quadrate miles a time — oregon 125 pitches a infinitesimal — successful the archetypal weeks of the war.
Ukraine blasts Russia with much devastating ATACMS missiles arsenic troops effort to stem accelerated advance
Ukraine is besides taking anticipation from their ain acceptable of figures which accidental they person blasted thousands of Russian warfare weapons implicit the past fewer years.
Almost 20,000 drones, 10,000 tanks and hundreds of warships, planes and helicopters person each been eliminated from the dictator's arsenal, the Armed Forces say.
Despite Vlad's downfall appearing to beryllium drafting person respective times this struggle helium has continuously recovered much brainwashed troops and created terrifying caller weapons to usage connected Ukraine.
Putin called connected his pals implicit successful North Korea for other enactment to combat backmost against a surging Ukraine earlier this year.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un handed implicit astir 10,000 troops to beryllium trained up by Russia earlier being deployed connected the frontlines successful Kursk.
The Kremlin has besides been hard astatine enactment creating a caller chilling hypersonic rocket which Putin has already unleashed connected Ukraine.
The feared "Oreshnik" has been described arsenic acold superior to immoderate different limb successful Russia's arsenal.
Putin has adjacent claimed it tin crook astir thing it hits into dust.
The despot has threatened to onslaught the West with the limb "if necessary".
The Kremlin is besides said to person ordered the deadly 16,000mph Satan 2 to beryllium battle-ready sparking fears of a large escalation successful the war.
In caller days, Vlad's forces have continued to summation ground inside Ukraine with respective deadly strikes.
On Thursday, Ukraine was placed nether reddish alert with civilians taking screen successful weaponry shelters and 1 cardinal radical plunged into darkness.
Russia mounted a 2nd "massive" onslaught connected the country's energy infrastructure overnight with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones.
They present assertion to person grabbed adjacent much eastbound territory in caller weeks - leaving Moscow in a beardown position.