Burns, who spoke at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, said that he believed Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was wrong in his assumption that he could fracture the NATO alliance before the war began.

“I think the latest estimates from the US intelligence community would be something in the vicinity of 15,000 killed and maybe three times that wounded. So a quite significant set of losses,” Burn said. said.

He also added that the Ukrainian military has suffered as well in the ongoing war. (ILKHA)