 Russia suffers costliest three months since Ukraine war began. Russia's third year of war will begin in the midst of soaring casualties as its forces press winter offensives at multiple points along the 600-mile front in southern and eastern Ukraine according to Newsweek. It is noted that January saw 26,220 Russian troops eliminated according to collated daily figures published by Ukraine's armed forces as well as 339 main battle tanks taken out of action. This makes January the third costliest month for Russian military personnel in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Per Kyiv's data, only December 2023, 29,970 troops and November 2023, 28,550 were bloodier for the Russians. The grim monthly figures bring Kyiv's total claimed number of Russian casualties since February 2022 to 386,230 and the total number of tanks destroyed to 6,322. Moscow has also lost 9,195 artillery pieces, 663 anti-aircraft systems and 11,757 armored fighting vehicles by Ukraine's count. Ukraine's tallies of Russian losses are staggeringly high, but broadly correspond with estimates from the US military and intelligence officials. In December, Reuters cited classified US intelligence analysis suggesting Russia has suffered 315,000 dead and injured troops in the full-scale invasion. If accurate, this means Russian casualties are equivalent to almost 90% of the total personnel it had when the conflict began in February 2022. Kostya Sam, the permanent secretary at the Estonian Defence Ministry, told Newsweek in December that Moscow was losing more than 50,000 military personnel every six months. Russia's offensive efforts, Sam predicted, will continue through 2024 with a very high attrition rate. Despite spiking losses, Russian troops are again on the offensive in Ukraine, seeking to reverse Ukrainian gains won in summer 2023 and hoping to seize new territory in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.