John Alden Wagner, age 70, of Strongsville, passed away peacefully on May 13, 2022. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. estimate is based on newly declassified American intelligence. The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including more than 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. John Wagner | Obituary | The Daily Star Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in November that Russia had suffered well over 100,000 killed or wounded in the first eight months of the war. He was born in Great Bend, Kansas on October 4, 1948, the son of the late Ernest and Clara (Heronema) Wagner. On December 18, 1971, he married Juanita Hale and she preceded him in death on December 9, 1999. Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at His passing was sudden and unexpected, but we are U.S. says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December John Wesley Boyer, age 85, of Newark, passed away on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at Morrison House Hospice in Zanesville. Kirby said the Russian casualty count for this little town of Bakhmut was in line with some of the fiercest periods of fighting during World War II, including the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front, and the Guadalcanal campaign, the first major Allied offensive against Japan. Witnesses offer conflicting accounts, Mars Voltas lead singer broke with Scientology and reunited with the band. U.S. says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December With heavy hearts, we announce the death of John Wagner (Ann Arbor, Michigan), who passed away on October 31, 2022 at the age of 71. JOHN WAGNER OBITUARY. Obituary National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the White House on Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Far from Russia, a pro-Moscow sliver of land tries to cling to its identity and keep war at bay, With war in next-door Ukraine, this tiny country fears its in Russias crosshairs too, US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week, Multiple fatalities on Illinois highway during a blinding windstorm, U.N. envoy says Sudans warring sides agree to negotiate, Yellen says U.S. could hit debt ceiling as soon as June 1. He said the Wagner forces were thrown into combat and without sufficient combat or combat training, combat leadership, or any sense of organizational command and control., The White House has repeatedly sought to highlight the cost both human and weaponry to Russia of Bakhmut, which it argues has limited strategic importance to the overall trajectory of the war. Milley said in November that Ukrainian casualties were probably also about 100,000. Both sides have cited gains in recent days. In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the fiercest battles have been in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia is struggling to encircle the city of Bakhmut in the face of a dogged Ukrainian defense. Its three times the number of killed in action that the United States faced on the Guadalcanal campaign in World War II and that was over the course of five months, Kirby said. (AP Photo/Susan Reverend Robert John Wagner. Father Robert J. Wagner, at the age of 86 and a priest for 59 years, died on Saturday, October 14, 2017 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. John W. Wagner - Wikipedia