The diplomat pointed to Moscow’s move to more than double contract payments for soldiers. “Look at the recent decisions to more than double the contract payments—it is becoming more and more difficult to find people even in some wild regions of Russia,” Klimkin said. Russia’s losses and conscription problemsAccording to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia’s losses as of Aug. 7 amounted to 586,370 soldiers. The Economist reported on July 7 that, according to classified Pentagon documents, between 462,000 and 728,000 Russian troops had been killed and wounded in the war agai…
