Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacrificed an estimated 1 million of his soldiers, killed and wounded, in a three-year campaign to crush Ukraine

Russia rejected pressure from Donald Trump after the US president threatened to impose stiff economic penalties on Moscow if it doesn’t end hostilities with Ukraine within 50 days, though the Kremlin indicated it would review his latest stance.

Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a "fortress Russia" economic model during the war in Ukraine,