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  1. Foreign mercenaries reveal shocking casualty rates in Ukraine: Some Ukrainian units have suffered casualty rates of 85% during their ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces, Western mercenaries told ABC News on Thursday. The report aligns with casualty figures released by Russia, which claims that its forces have incapacitated 43,000 Ukrainian troops in two months. An US army veteran fighting with Ukrainian special forces near Donetsk told ABC that his unit of "dozens" of men took "85% casualties" during an assault on a village near the city two weeks ago. Of those hit, 40% were injured so badly that they were left “combat ineffective” afterwards, he added. His comrade, another American, said that the unit met "very organized resistance" from Russian troops. A third mercenary, from an unidentified Western nation, told the network that he had been seriously injured in the early days of the counteroffensive, and that around 80% of his battalion had since been wounded. "We lost three Leopards [German-made tanks] in one day because they were just told to drive forward into a minefield," one Western mercenary told ABC, adding that newly-conscripted Ukrainian soldiers lack the requisite training for complex offensive operations . It seems Ukraine’s Western allies are indeed prepared to wage the war to the last Ukrainian.
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