Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here, the Eric Erickson show. The phone number, if you want to call in 877-97-973-725.

This just breaking from Fox News, U.S. Intelligence Assessment says more than 4,500 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since the war began over 10 days ago.

That's more than the number of Americans killed during the Iraq war.

The estimate, however, was made with low confidence.

Ukrainian government says its forces have killed more than 11,000 Russians since the first day of the invasion.

That does not appear to be so.

It sounds like it's more about 4,500.

Now, speaking of the Russians in Ukraine, they've been bogged down in the mud, and the Russian

gas convoy has come in to try to fill up the tanks that got back down the bogged down

of the mud, and the Russian oil convoy is now bogged down in the mud.

There is a – you'll hear a lot of people who want to sound smart, talking about the

resputata.

Rasputata.

I thought they were mentioning Rasputin at first, but nope, it is.

The Ukrainian fall and spring, the fields get very, very, very muddy.

And this winter, there was never a hard freeze.

And so the fields got even muddier.

So basically Ukraine's a giant swamp right now.

And the Russian tire treads aren't very good to begin with.

And they've gotten stuck.

Now, to the phones on this issue, Lance, you're going to be up next.

Welcome to the program, Lance.

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