Sejourné says France estimates the total Russian loss at 500,000 soldiers, of which 150,000 have been killed since the full-scale Russian invasion began in February 2022.
– All this for what? It can be summed up: nothing, says Sejourné to the newspaper.
In mid-April, the BBC reported that the Russian military death toll exceeded 50,000, after the Russian BBC, Russian independent Mediazona and a group of volunteers counted the deaths. To help them, they had official reports, news coverage and social media, as well as names of newly dug graves.