{"id":182194,"date":"2026-01-28T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/russias-1-2-million-casualties-in-ukraine-dwarf-all-its-conflicts-since-world-war-ii-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:00:12","slug":"russias-1-2-million-casualties-in-ukraine-dwarf-all-its-conflicts-since-world-war-ii-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/russias-1-2-million-casualties-in-ukraine-dwarf-all-its-conflicts-since-world-war-ii-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/28\/europe\/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml\">Russia\u2019s 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/28\/europe\/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/28\/europe\/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 00:38:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since its invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, Russia has sustained significant military losses, with over 1.2 million troops reported dead, wounded, or missing.<\/li>\n<li>In terms of territorial gains, Russia has only increased its control over Ukrainian land by 12% since 2022, a minimal increase considering the scale of the conflict.<\/li>\n<li>Contrary to some claims, including those from former US President Donald Trump, Ukraine has shown significant defensive advantages, utilizing a &#8220;defense-in-depth&#8221; strategy that has thwarted Russia\u2019s significant advances.<\/li>\n<li>The report highlights that over the last few years, Russia&#8217;s daily territorial gains are measured in yards rather than kilometers, reflecting the sluggish progress of their military campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>The war has severely impacted Russia\u2019s economy, pushing it down the ranks of global economic powers, marked by declining manufacturing, weak consumer demand, and lack of capital formation.<\/li>\n<li>Russia is also falling behind in high-tech advancement, ranking 28th out of 36 countries for artificial intelligence in a Stanford University ranking.<\/li>\n<li>Despite these setbacks, the report concludes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to settle for a peace agreement without significant additional Western economic and military pressure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2025-11-30t113440z-1105984536-rc2u6ias7ycf-rtrmadp-3-ukraine-crisis-donetsk-attack.JPG?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182196,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182194\/revisions\/182196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}