Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow has lost 5,937 soldiers in the war in Ukraine — the first official figure on sustained casualties Russia has given since the end of March, when its Defense Ministry claimed 1,351 soldiers had died. Shoigu’s speech, coming on the heels of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” of Russian troops, highlights an apparent contradiction between the relatively low casualty count claimed by the Kremlin and its moves to conscript reservists.
