Moscow confirmed taking over the key Donbass city on Friday while Kiev has claimed the fighting was still going on
The Russian forces have allegedly suffered heavy casualties in the months-long battle for the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk, US President Joe Biden told journalists at the G7 summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Sunday.
“The truth of the matter is that Russians have suffered over 100,000 casualties in Bakhmut [Artyomovsk in Russia]. That is hard to make up,” the US president claimed, without revealing the source of this information. He then downplayed Russia’s capture of the city by saying that “there are not many buildings left standing in Bakhmut” and calling it a “pretty devastated city.”
It is unclear where these estimates have come from. US officials have on various occasions used the number 100,000 when speaking about supposed Russian casualties in the ongoing conflict. In early May, the White House…
