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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

In this news episode, well, we're going to have a bit of an insight of what NATO says about

this whole matter. A colleague of mine talked to them and with some condition of anonymity,

he got some info from NATO people. NATO considers that from 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops have been likely killed in

Ukraine, which is per their official briefing data, and those total losses, including wounded,

captured or missing, could be in the 30,000 to 40,000 range. They base everything that they have on Intel coming from Ukraine

and observations, which, by the way, NATO numbers are, well, way higher than the very confirmed

ones that Marasna opposition journalists who are super, super careful and only count the very totally confirmed things

they publish, but it sounds realistic.

And this is, this is weird, this is, they commented that this whole fighting there in Russia

has gone almost to a stalemate, almost, quote, I don't know if you can go as far as to say stalemate, but it's clear that after a month, Russia has achieved almost none of their strategic objectives.

They are achieving more results in the South, but the price of it is absolutely horrendous. What they do is World War II, 70-year-old techniques.

They are carpet bombing the city, Mariupol, that is, as per another NATO official.

To reach this extreme, you need to be cornered and you need to be pushed to break all moral human rules to go to such brutality.

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