We accidentally learn the number of Russian losses

A pro-Kremlin website Readovka posted on vk.com, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, that 13,400 Russian troops had been killed during the war and a further 7,000 might be missing in action. The report, which was hastily deleted, said the casualties were announced at a briefing behind closed doors by the Russian Ministry of Defence.

This compares with 3,519 American servicemen and women who died in the second Iraq war. 179 British soldiers also died in that unprovoked, illegal and pointless invasion