foreign companies that provide the staples of day-to-day life, like mcdonald s and dozens of others, they have left russia. so, life is not the same. and once the costs of this invasion have sunk in both the economic and human costs, in terms of over 10,000 dead russian soldiers during this war this combination of dissent in all parts of society will inevitably lead to a political crisis that will in turn lead to change in how russia s run. i don t have a timeframe. i don t have a scenario. but that is how things work politically. your organization, and the anti corruption fund, has been
total combat forces of the entire country to the war in ukraine. as many as 15,000 russian soldiers are believed to have died, including at least seven high-ranking generals. the new york times is reporting today that russia is running its military strategy out of moscow with, quote, no central war commander to call the shots, and quote. that perhaps explains the haphazard nature of the invasion, from one of the largest militaries on planet earth. the times reports that with a majority of their military already deployed, russia has now begun looking for reinforcements outside of russia, drafting soldiers from the nation of georgia, bringing in mercenaries from private military company. putin has signed a decree to call up tens of thousands of conscripts. the british ministry of defense said today that it is highly unlikely that russia planned on tapping reinforcements this way indicates that the scale of the losses that it has sustained during the invasion is higher
restructuring their military, restructuring things to the east, to focus on that instead. so, the war is still going and the ukrainians are really calling for more and more weaponry. because they expect the fight to continue. and with this by keeping the russians out of the capitol, it has also boosted their morale significantly. so, they are going to bring that confidence into whatever conflicts arrive in other parts of ukraine. particularly those in the east. so, with more weaponry, that s going to make them more capable of preventing the from seizing more parts of their country. [inaudible] sudarsan, we are in the same city, and the normal circumstances you would be standing here with me. but it is four in the morning and there is a curfew. and we are actually under an air raid warning as we speak
what we have is another face of the war. we get it not from the russian state. this is something just because of the very nature that has changed over the last week or so. and this is clear in terms of the battle of kyiv and i personally believe that the battle of kyiv is over with a russian defeat. with russia on the retreat all around ukraine s capital it is a good opportunity to take stock of what russia has lost since this invasion began. u.s. officials believe that the russian army has already committed more than half of its total combat forces of the entire country to the war in ukraine. as many as 15,000 russian soldiers are believed to have died, including at least seven high-ranking generals. the new york times is reporting today that russia is running its military strategy out of moscow with, quote, no central war commander to call the shots,
helicopters, it s extremely significant for several reasons. chief among them is that, first of, all it shows that ukrainians have the capability to go across and do something like this. and take the battle into russian soil. but at the same time, it also challenges russia s narrative of the war. fiercely challenges it. the russian propaganda machine has told the russian people and the world that, basically, they are in control. that they have destroyed the ukrainian air forces and the air bases. and so this attack literally shows that the russians were wrong and that they don t have the war under control. and that ukrainians will have the capability, the air capability, of doing such a massive hit. sudarsan, you reported this week from a town near kyiv where ukrainian forces were engaged in pushing the russians back. i want to play a little bit of the video that accompanied your