Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, they have died 5,937 Russian soldiers. The data was presented by the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
The Russian military ministry hasn’t given a death toll since March 25, when the ministry reported 1,351 deaths. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, casualty figures have only been published twice.
“I can’t help saying that we haven’t talked about it for a long time: our losses. Our losses in the special operation were 5,937 people,” Shoigu said immediately in an interview with the Russia-24 television channel after Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a partial mobilization in the country.
Shoigu estimated the Ukrainian army losses at approx 61,000 dead and over 49,000 injured, explaining that in the initial phase the Ukrainian armed forces numbered about 201-202 thousand people. That is. according to Russian estimates, Ukraine has already lost almost half of its troops.
“Three hundred thousand reservists will be recalled“, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. According to him, hiring employees will not be one-off.
Russia is at war not so much with Ukraine as with the collective West as part of a special operation, the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also asserted himself and justified himself with the facts.
According to him, real in Kiev, the command was taken by the West. There is a Western command of 150 military specialists. This is the western command in Kiev, who is responsible for all these things, operations, “Shoigu said in an interview with the Russia-24 television channel.
“Here, of course, I cannot fail to emphasize that we are currently at war not so much with Ukraine, with the Ukrainian army, as with the collective West,” Shoigu said.
He explained it Ukraine has run out of weapons, left over from the Soviet era. Many European countries that also had Soviet-made weapons “they erased everything they hadall the warehouses and ransacked them “, handing over the arms to Ukraine. However, the West continues to send weapons to Kiev in large quantities, Shoigu is sorry.
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