2024-07-24 22:17:50
According to Tony Radakin, Chief of the Defense Staff of the United Kingdom (UK), the Russian military has already lost around 550,000 soldiers during the nearly two and a half year long full-scale war in Ukraine.
“According to our estimates, V. Putin will need five years to restore the Russian military to the level it was in 2022.” in February,” T. Radakinas said at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) land warfare conference in London. After that, it would take another five years to “remove the weak points that the war revealed,” he added.
The number of victims indicated by T. Radakin is slightly lower than the figures announced by Kiev – on Tuesday, the Ukrainian army indicated that from 2022 February. Moscow lost 568,980 soldiers.
The exact number of casualties is very difficult to determine, but Western estimates of Russian casualties in recent months largely coincided with the numbers reported by Ukraine.
The BBC’s Russia Service and the Russian independent media outlet Mediazona said earlier this month that they had confirmed the identities of nearly 60,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine up to mid-July.
Russia is silent about its losses. Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in 2022. said in September that just under 6,000 Russian soldiers had died in Ukraine during the first six months of the full-scale war.
Ukraine has said that Russia could introduce up to 30,000 new soldiers into its ranks every month. Figures from Kiev show that Moscow is losing slightly more soldiers than this figure each month.
Ukraine has also suffered significant losses, but rarely publishes specific figures. in 2024 In February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of the war.
In early June, Putin stated that Ukraine’s “irreversible losses” were five times higher than Russia’s, but did not provide total figures.
Western intelligence and experts say many Russian soldiers currently on the front lines are poorly trained — often volunteers or convicts — and unable to carry out complex operations. Data from the BBC Russia Service and Mediazona also show that a number of dead Russian soldiers are former prisoners or volunteers.
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2024-07-24 22:17:50