With the war reaching it's fourteenth day the three high level talks that took place between Russia and Ukraine in Belarus does not seem to come in effect.
Though the West is slapping sanctions on Russia with Canada and the EU sending weapons million worth of dollars for Ukraine to defend itself it's does not seem to back away the Russian troops as they seem to be capturing more and more territories of Ukraine.
The figure varying from who you ask.
Russia says only 498 soldiers killed and over 2800 Ukrainian soldiers have died and more than 3,700 soldiers injured. Though it claims to attack only the military and government infrastructures,the Ukrainian defence ministry claims more than 300 civilians have been killed and about 2000 civilians injured.
Moscow claims it has brought down 1,218 Ukrainian military facilities, 65 command posts, 50 missile systems, 52 radar stations 635 tanks, 67 multiple rocket launchers, 253 artillery fields and mounts, 442 special military vehicles and 54 unmanned aerial vehicles
Ukraine meanwhile has not released casualties for its armed forces but it has put out a lot of data on the Russian side with 9000 Russian troops killed and 2090 injured
Ukraine claiming it has brought down 2 Russian boats, 3 unmanned aerial vehicles, 18 anti-craft aerial vehicles, 33 military planes, 50 multiple rocket launchers, 60 fuels tanks, 105 artillery pieces ,251 tanks ,939 armed personnel carriers though it's hard to verify on the either version.
The UN said on Monday that more than 2 million people have fled since the war started i.e., 4% of Ukraine's population to neighbouring countries such as Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia etc.
The sanctions seeming to have some impact on Russian economy with 30% drop in Ruble value and the Russian billionaires losing more than 90 billion dollars since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Is it enough for Putin to bring an end to the war?
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