Russia is losing more than 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers every week in its war against Ukraine, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. According to RBC-Ukraine on Wednesday, citing The Guardian, Rubio said Washington had received new information about battlefield losses in the war, which has continued for more than four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “That’s how bloody this war is,” Rubio said. “The Russians, I believe, are losing more than 5,000-6,000 soldiers a week. That is a shocking amount.” Rubio did not explain how the estimate was calculated or specify whether the weekly figure referred exclusively to soldiers killed or to overall battlefield losses. “We saw the death of civilians, shelling in Kyiv. We have seen a certain increase in such cases. Of course, this war did not benefit Ukraine,” Rubio said. Rubio argued that the scale of the losses should give both sides an incentive to end the fighting. He also said the US would continue trying to facilitate an end to the war, despite the absence of a diplomatic breakthrough. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused more than 2 million military casualties, with Moscow’s forces bearing the brunt of the losses. “Combined Russian and Ukrainian casualties have exceeded 2 million,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said.