Russia will now scale back its invasion of Ukraine after losing 20 battles

Putin on the run? Russia will now scale back its invasion of Ukraine after losing 20 battles.

The Russian Defense Ministry also updated its losses in Ukraine to 1,351 soldiers.

The number is much lower than Western intelligence estimates of tens of thousands.

Today, Moscow tried to put a positive note on its disastrous conquest

She achieved her goals in the country, despite her handicap

And in another embarrassing blow, it was revealed today that a Russian brigade commander was killed after his forces ran over him with a tank.

Despite the apparent change in tactics, artillery bombardment of Ukrainian cities continued.

Western officials have said Ukraine has disabled 20 Russian battalions. The Kremlin's army chief hinting that Moscow might ease its all-out offensive on its neighbor and focus instead on "liberating" the eastern Donbas region.

The Russian Defense Ministry also updated its losses to 1,351 soldiers, adding that 3,825 soldiers were wounded - numbers far below Western intelligence estimates that put Moscow's losses in the tens of thousands.

In today's military update, Moscow tried to put a positive spin on its disastrous invasion, saying that the first process of the military campaign in Ukraine was over.

But the modernization — along with the West's claim that Russia lost 20 of the 120 battalions originally mustered on the Ukrainian border — is the latest sign that Vladimir Putin has backed away from his ambitions and is on the run.

Today, a Russian brigade commander was killed after his forces ran over him with a tank in another embarrassing blow to Putin.

Western officials believe that rebel soldiers brutally drove out Colonel Yuri Medvedev after their 37th motorized rifle brigade suffered heavy losses.

But despite the apparent change in tactics, strikes on a smaller scale continued unabated, with Russia incurring heavy losses and little progress against key targets and continuing a relentless bombing campaign against Ukrainian cities.

In one of the attacks on Friday, Ukraine said a Russian missile attack hit a military command center in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. Officials in Kyiv reported the attack on Friday, adding that it was not known if there were any casualties.

"Today, around 4.30 pm, the Russian occupiers launched a missile attack on the territory of the Air Force Command in Vinnytsia," the Ukrainian Air Force said via Telegram.

It posted a picture of the alleged center under the rubble and said the missiles hit "several buildings and caused significant damage to infrastructure."