From CNN's Jessie Gretener, Eleanor Pickston and Laura Ford. Soldiers But there are no signs Kyiv is ready to give up just yet. A destroyed residential building in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2023. And I think their logistics support is not what it needs to be, Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said of Russias military in testimony to House lawmakers this month. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he has no plans to meet with his Russian or Chinese counterparts at the G-20 foreign ministers meeting. The two ministers assessed the current security situation in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and ironed out issues on the use of local currencies for settling trade, said a senior Russian official. Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in the opening ceremony of new hospitals in Russian regions via a video link at a residence outside Moscow, Russia, February 15, 2023. As Russian forces ramp up their offensive in the Donbas, the number of casualties has increased. Ukraine said an average of 824 Russian soldiers were dying every day in February 2023, and while those figures cannot be independently verified, the general That is a pretty high number if it is true. U.S. President Joe Biden extended an executive order that acknowledges the national emergency in Ukraine due to Russia's ongoing war. Its an estimate, the official said, based on the assumption that for every soldier killed, three are wounded. As of 16 September, the BBC Russian service, with independent Russian media outlet Mediazona, had counted 6,476 dead soldiers and officers, based only on confirmed death reports and estimated the true total to be at least 40% to 60% higher than this figure. The two discussed Zelenskyy and U.S. President Joseph Biden's meeting last week in Kyiv as well as updates on the battlefield. Ahead of that offensive, Zelenskyy said Bakhmut, a city in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine that has been wrestled over by Russian and Ukrainian forces for over six months, remains the epicenter of fierce fighting and fatalities in the war. Russia Losses in Ukraine Pass New Deadly Milestone: Kyiv Several thousands of civilians remain in the city despite the relentless fighting around them, which has been going on for more than half a year. He said that IAEA inspectors at the site documented at least 20 detonations on Monday. Profit from the additional features of your individual account. Essential reporting and analysis from correspondents around the world. Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported nine of these were shot down in the vicinity of Kyiv airspace.
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