In Ukraine, no one is quite sure exactly what that toll is, except that many many people have been killed. An “endless caravan of death,” said Petro Andryushchenko, an official for the devastated city of Mariupol. Credit... Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated PressThat toll has heightened dread about the losses in the 20 percent of Ukraine now under Russian occupation. In April, Western countries estimated that Russia had lost about 15,000 soldiers in Ukraine; on Friday, Ukraine put the estimate at 33,000. The true toll is unknown, and will not be coming from Moscow: Its last announcement, on March 25, said that a total of 1,351 Russian soldiers had died.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2022 12:54 UTC