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The Weekly News Round-Up: Geopolitical Developments 42

March 10, 2023

Military developments: Street fighting continued in Bakhmut, including 50 airstrikes Monday night. Western officials claimed Russia has had “20,000 to 30,000 casualties” (killed and wounded) in the fight for the city, while Ukraine’s losses have been “significantly less.” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated said that a fall of Bakhmut “does not necessarily reflect any turning point of the war.” Russia reportedly deployed up to 800 Soviet T-62 tanks from 1954 because of a shortage. Lithuania estimates that reserves of Russian military resources would last for another two years “of a war of the same intensity as today,” assuming no other countries assist Russia. Germany may deploy a brigade in Lithuania on a permanent basis. Ukraine denied it was involved in an attack on a Belarusian airfield last week that destroyed a Russian surveillance plane. Ukraine is operating an “I Want to Live” program to reach Russian soldiers and encourage peaceful surrender to Ukrainian forces by individuals, groups, or even tanks, with protocols for surrendering given to Russian forces. Part of the program includes arranging paperwork to reflect capture by, rather than surrender to, Ukrainian forces.

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