The Paikin Podcast Transcripts
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Facts are facts but every issue has multiple sides, and Steve Paikin wants to hear them all.
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Bill Browder: Is Russia Losing the Ukraine War?
June 30, 2026
Steve Paikin (0:00)
According to Russian military bloggers, the average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit, from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone, lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, Russian soldiers survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. By some accounts, Russia…
According to a British intelligence agency, Russian war deaths have likely reached almost half a million, and various Western sources put total Russian casualties that's killed and wounded at significantly more than a million. Is Russia, population 140 million, actually losing the war to Ukraine, population 40…
Bill Browder (1:28)
I'm doing very well, particularly well since we're watching Ukraine scoring all these points on the battlefield, which I think is kind of unexpected.
Steve Paikin (1:39)
Well, let me follow up on that. We gave some stats off the top about how badly this war is going for Russia at the moment. How would you characterize the state of the war today?
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