The next phase of the Russia-Ukraine war appears — finally — to be underway.
“It’s three times the number of killed in action that the United States faced on the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II, and that was over the course of five months,” Mr. Kirby said.
U.S. and Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have been badly depleted by a stalemated campaign to take the provincial town of Bakhmut. Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the head of Ukrainian ground forces, told The Associated Press that the Russian troops continued to exert “maximum effort” to take Bakhmut but Kyiv’s defenses have held.
“In some parts of the city, the enemy was counterattacked by our units and left some positions,” he said. Mr. Kirby would not estimate how many Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the fighting. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley said in November that Ukrainian casualties were probably close to the Russian losses.Those casualty figures could soon rise. Ukrainian officials have left little doubt that their spring counteroffensive campaign is on the horizon. They hope to build on battlefield gains Ukrainian forces made before winter.
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