The Ukrainian armed forces said on Wednesday that the number of Russian fighters killed since the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 exceeded 200,000, a figure far higher than that recognized by Moscow.
The general staff of the Ukrainian army declared, in a post on the social network Facebook, that “some 200,590 people were killed”, including 610 in the fighting that took place in the last 24 hours, specifically in the city of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine. .
The Ukrainian army reported that, since the beginning of the war, 3,771 war tanks, 3,166 artillery systems, 318 air defense systems, 308 aircraft, 294 helicopters, 2,748 ‘drones’, 982 cruise missiles, 18 ships, 6,067 vehicles and fuel tanks and 417 pieces of “special equipment”.
Russia has not provided data on casualties in the conflict since September, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the deaths of 5,937 soldiers.
The Russian news portal Mediazona raised the total number of deaths to 22,055, of which 2,367 in the last 15 days. These figures were confirmed, according to the Russian media, by publicly available data, in a survey carried out in conjunction with the British television channel BBC.
The military offensive launched on February 24, 2022 by Russia in Ukraine has so far caused the flight of more than 14.7 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 8.2 million to European countries- from according to the latest data from the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The UN presented 8,836 civilian deaths and 14,985 wounded as confirmed since the start of the war, emphasizing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
