https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/politics/russia-ukrain…
The article gets into the Russian moral. It is missing in some interesting ways. Russian soldiers are not bringing their dead comrades home.
Snippet on losses:
Neither side’s claims have been independently verified, and Biden administration officials have refused to discuss casualty figures publicly. But one American official put the Russian losses as of Monday at 2,000, an estimate with which two European officials concurred.
Senior Pentagon officials told lawmakers in closed briefings on Monday that Russian and Ukrainian military deaths appeared to be the same, at around 1,500 on each side in the first five days, congressional officials said. But they cautioned that the figures — based on satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and on-the-ground media reports — were estimates.