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On 11 November, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the Atlantic Future Forum that Russia loses about 40,000 troops killed or seriously wounded monthly in Ukraine. Rutte said Vladimir Putin is failing on the battlefield and turning to winter infrastructure strikes and hybrid warfare across Europe, and he compared the monthly Russian losses with the 56,000 US dead over 14 years of the Vietnam War. He said early reporting indicates October's figure may have risen above 50,000. Rutte said Putin is trying to break Ukraine's will to fight by attacking civilians, striking cities with missiles and drones, and destroying critical infrastructure before winter. He also cited arson, drone incidents and cyber-attacks in Europe as part of Russia's campaign, which he said was failing. NATO's own earlier estimates, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda, put Russia's September casualties above 50,000, including 28,000 killed, and said Russia had lost more than 1.4 million troops in the war over the summer. Ukrainska Pravda reported the speech as relayed by European Pravda.