Nobody knows the real number of troops who have died in Ukraine so far. But the evidence suggests it's staggeringly high.
worth of new weapons announced last week by U.S. President Joe Biden—should refresh the resistance for some time.Yet the massive outflow of refugees, the savage killings of civilians, the endless bombing and shelling, and themoving from Russia’s eastern regions toward the war zone must be taking their toll on Ukrainian citizens too.
No one knows how many people—civilian and military—have been killed so far. On Monday, the Moscow newspaperquoted the Russian ministry of defense as saying that 9,861 Russian servicemen had been killed and 16,153 wounded in the three weeks that this war has been slogging on. By comparison, Russia lost 15,000 troops in its decade-long war in Afghanistan.
It’s unclear how long this can go on. Yet it’s still less clear who can stop it. There is no overriding entity that can step in, knock heads together, enforce a cease-fire, then impose or moderate a political settlement. The United Nations was created to do this sort of thing, but even if it had sufficiently large peacekeeping forces , Russia is one of the fiveAdvertisement
Nor are there any countries with sufficient power and leverage to fill this role in the same way that, say, President Jimmy Carter corralled the leaders of Egypt and Israel into peace talks at Camp David in 1978. Maybe if President BidenChina’s Xi Jinping jointly imposed a deal on Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, something would come of it—but first, Biden and Xi would have to get on the same page, and that seems a long way from happening.
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