The war of aggression in Ukraine is not going as the Kremlin wanted. Even after 195 days, the battles continue. In the meantime, the Russian army is said to have lost more than 50,000 soldiers, according to sources in Kyiv. Russia itself has not given any information about its own casualties for a long time.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian army has already lost more than 50,000 soldiers in the more than six months of aggressive war in Ukraine. After 195 days of invasion, 50,150 Russian soldiers were killed, the Ukrainian general staff said on Facebook.
Likewise, the Ukrainian army claims to have already shot down 2,077 tanks, 4,484 armored vehicles, 236 airplanes and 207 helicopters. There is no independent confirmation of the information.
The British Ministry of Defence, on the other hand, assumes that only around 25,000 Russian soldiers were killed. The pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk last Friday put their losses at just over 2,900 since the invasion began. On the other hand, according to the rare Kiev reports of their own losses, around 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 7,000 were missing.
Russia itself has not provided any information on its own casualties for a long time. Instead, the Kremlin regularly declares Ukrainian attacks to have failed. In the counter-offensive in southern Ukraine, Russia claims to have inflicted heavy losses on the neighboring country's troops. More than 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers have already been killed, the Defense Ministry said in Moscow on Wednesday. In addition, according to army spokesman Igor Konashenkov, Russian troops destroyed 63 tanks, 48 armored vehicles and 4 fighter jets. This information could not be independently verified.
Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February and has since taken control of large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine. The United Nations has so far registered more than 5,700 civilian deaths, but, like Kyiv, assumes the number of civilian casualties to be far higher. The Donetsk separatists recently gave a number of around 870 civilian deaths in their area.
