The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, Valeriy Zlauzhnyi, also predicted at the time that Russia had lost 278 aircraft as of November 3, which was over twice what the Russian military lost during the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1989.The Kremlin's army has been largely overwhelmed by Ukrainian troops after severely misjudging its ability to capture the post-Soviet state.One report from British think tank Royal United Services Institute on Friday showed four key assumptions that Russia had banked on before its invasion, according to copies of orders signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.On Friday, Putin reportedly told German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that targeting civilian infrastructure had "become an unavoidable and inevitable response to Kiev's provocative attacks against Russia's civilian infrastructure.""London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and other capitals ... We are strengthening our position everywhere, accumulating the support of our partners," Zelensky said."