If it stays on the current trajectory, Russia will lose another 115,000 dead and injured by May 9, when Putin and his stooges gather in the Red Square for their annual World War Two military parade.
On Thursday, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said at the G20 in South Africa: “If Putin is serious about a lasting peace it means finding a way forward which respects Ukraine’s sovereignty.”.
The MoD said Russia was forcing its mobilised soldiers to sign contracts to keep them in service — or they will be thrown into meat-grinder fights, where the chance of survival is just ten per cent.
Former Tory Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “Russia is facing catastrophic losses and a broken economy.
And the eye-watering figures undermine Donald Trump’s claims that Russia “holds the cards” in any peace talks.
