Senior Western officials, The New York Times reported, now say that "Hundreds of Ukrainian troops may have been captured by advancing Russian units or disappeared during" what they now call, "Ukraine’s chaotic retreat from the eastern city of Avdiivka." The Times was now calling it "a devastating loss."
And hundreds may have been an understatement. Further down in the article, the Times reports that "soldiers with knowledge of Ukraine’s retreat estimated that 850 to 1,000 soldiers appear to have been captured or are unaccounted for." There are unconfirmed reports of even higher numbers of dead and wounded.
So, it was 29,000 Uke soldiers killed killed in the last two years, and 2k in the last week.
