Over 7,000 Russian troops killed since start of invasion -Ukrainian official

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a destroyed Russian Army all-terrain infantry mobility vehicle Tigr-M (Tiger) in Kharkiv

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Over 7,000 Russian servicemen have been killed since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while hundreds have been taken prisoner including senior officers, a military adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday.

A Russian army commander was taken to Belarus after being severely wounded, adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said in a televised briefing.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

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