2023-12-13 09:19:07
07:24: The Russian army, the great bloodletting
American intelligence services estimate the number of Russian soldiers injured or killed at 315,000 since the start of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, an American parliamentary source told AFP on Tuesday.
This estimate appears in a declassified document transmitted to Congress on the occasion of the visit to Washington by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, intended to convince American parliamentarians to approve new military aid to kyiv.
According to the same document, which several American media reported, Russia lost 2,200 armored vehicles out of the 3,500 it had before the start of the war on February 24, 2022. Russia has never indicated how many men it had engaged in Ukraine since February 2022, nor really communicated on its losses, ensuring that Western estimates on this subject were largely exaggerated.
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