The stats don’t include countless more who were mown down fighting for pro-Putin organisations like the Wagner group.

The fresh estimates from British military intelligence highlight just how big the blow is to Putin’s war effort as he continues to hopelessly push forward in Ukraine.

Russia is said to have suffered its biggest losses of the year in a failed push to surround Avdiivka, where vidoes show tanks blown up and bodies strewn on the battlefield.

The recent UK figures of Russia’s casualties chimes with earlier US estimates of 120,000 Russian dead and 180,000 injured.

Armed Forces minister James Heappey said: “We estimate that approximately 302,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded, and tens of thousands more have already deserted since the start of the conflict.”

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