Russia’s military death toll in Ukraine surpassed 50,000, the BBC reported in April, citing the Kremlin’s so-called “meat grinder” strategy of sending waves of troops to fight the war. Civilian casualties in Ukraine exceed 30,000.  But today in the biggest court case to land before the Commercial Court in Dublin, the cost of the war was being counted purely in monetary terms. Six aircraft lessors, with global reach, are suing their insurers after they were refused cover for aviation assets detained in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and the imposition of economic sanctions by the…

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