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Marco Rubio: “Since January, over 80,000 Russian troops have been killed…”

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Published | Video Starts at 14:12

We think it's going to be a lot harder for them to achieve that than they think it's going to be. The truth is that in this year alone Since January, over 80,000 Russian troops have been killed just since January. I think you compare that to the Ukrainian numbers are far less. So the death ratio is very bad, but Putin keeps feeding into the war machine. (14:12–14:18)

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