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Estimates suggest Russia has spent a quarter of its annual budget on the warRussia's budget revenues last year amounted to £340bn - meaning Moscow has spent a quarter of its annual budget on the war.
The expenses incurred by the invasion include salaries for troops, compensation for the dead and wounded, buying or producing weapons and ammunition, and replacing lost equipment. But Ukrainian forces are hitting back, shooting across the river and hoping to push back the Russians out of range of the city, which was liberated from Moscow's control two weeks ago.
Still, it will be logistically difficult for Ukraine to push back Russia further as both sides have blown up the bridges across the Dnieper River. A child has been pictured charging her inhaler in a petrol station in Kyiv, as the city still suffers from energy blackouts. "If the solution [does not involve] de-occupation and [Crimea] is part of the Russian Federation, no one should waste their time on this. It's a waste of time."At the start of Russia's invasion, few had thought Ukraine had any chance of regaining Crimea after eight years of Russian rule.
Russian reservists 'killed in large numbers' and some called up despite having 'serious, chronic health conditions' They have also"highly likely experienced particularly heavy casualties after being committed to dig ambitious trench systems while under artillery fire around the Luhansk Oblast town of Svatove", the MoD said.
The former soldier had been arrested by Russian forces at a checkpoint in Kherson three months ago and was never released. "Where is he now? I don't know. I would go to the end of the world to find out. He's my only son. He was always nearby. Now..." she said, tearing up. Almost 400 civilians have been killed in the region, prosecutor's spokeswoman Anastasia Vesilovskaya said. "Unofficially, it could even be thousands, if we include the dead ... We just can't establish the number now. When the territory is completely de-occupied, we'll be able to establish this," he said.In our previous post, we detailed the situation in Kyiv as many residents remain without power or water following a Russian strike that took out basic infrastructure.
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