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[David Morris]

https://twitter.com/jackdetsch/status/1504935429770027008?s=21

Russia is beginning to lose so many troops after 3 weeks of war in Ukraine
that frontline soldiers are starting to worry about how long they can hold
out, officials told @ak_mack & me

But it's not clear Putin is hearing that, one European diplo said.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/18/russia-putin-ukraine-war-three-weeks/

“I’m fucking tired from bandaging everybody and loading their fucking
limbs,” one Russian soldier fighting close to Mariupol, Ukraine, said in a
message intercepted
<https://twitter.com/ServiceSsu/status/1504453085111930886> by Ukraine’s
Security Service. “Never in my life have I seen so many limbs. No hand, no
leg, no fucking head.”

This is not how U.S. and European officials, and particularly the Kremlin,
expected the campaign to go.