BND (Federal Intelligence Service)
The BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, Federal Intelligence Service) is Germany's foreign intelligence agency. It is headquartered in Berlin and answers to the federal government through the Federal Chancellery (Bundeskanzleramt). Its remit is intelligence collection abroad, making it the foreign-focused counterpart to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which handles domestic intelligence. The BND is led by a president appointed by the federal chancellor.
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NATO estimates Russia lost more than 50,000 personnel in Ukraine in September
A senior NATO military official told Bloomberg that Russia's personnel losses in Ukraine in September exceeded 50,000, including up to 28,000 killed. The same official placed Ukrainian losses over the same period at roughly 5,000. NATO's summer estimate put Russia's total war losses at more than 1.4 million.