2023-08-07 20:11:06
Updated Monday, August 7, 2023 – 20:56
According to the latest report from the General Staff, some 540 Russian soldiers died in the last 24 hours alone.
Rubble in a building after a Russian attack in Odessa. ODESA REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION / EFE Directo last hour of the war in Ukraine Ukraine Foils a Russian attack against Zelensky
Hundreds of Russian soldiers fall daily in Ukraine, according to kyiv estimates, which also focus on the destruction caused in the artillery and the Russian defenses in their attempt to open gaps in the Ukrainian troops.
The total number of casualties in the Russian troops – between dead and wounded – stands at over 250,000 since the beginning of the invasin rusa on a large scale, in February 2022, according to the calculations of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, updated on Monday.
According to the latest report from the General Staff, some 540 Russian soldiers died in the last 24 hours alone of combat. Ukrainian military sources point out that these figures are “provisional” and pending verification, since it is difficult to obtain exact numbers in the heat of battle.
Added to these difficulties is the lack of transparency. Errors can occur in both directions, as explained to EFE Andriy Babichev, Ukrainian army drone operator, since Bakhmut.
Accessing the bodies of fallen enemies is complex. Together with the information coming from the soldiers themselves, the estimates are made from the information available in the drone footage and taking into account the number of troops calculated inside the destroyed military vehicles.
Russia, like Ukraine, do not release data on the number of their own fallen soldiers. The last time his Ministry of Defense made the information public was on September 21, 2022, when he reported the death of 5,937 Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
The amount did not include the fighters of the Wagner mercenary group nor to forces from Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine’s Lugansk and Donetsk regions, according to kyiv.
One of Wagner’s commanders, known as ‘Marx’, stated on July 19 through the “Razgruzka Wagnera” Telegram channel that the group’s casualties in Ukraine until May 20 were 79,000 combatants, among the nearly 22,000 dead and 40,000 who were injured.
A recent study of two Russian opposition outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, figures in 47.000 the number of Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine up to May 27 and another 78,000 that of those seriously wounded.
These data cannot be verified, but their dynamics correspond to the great battles and the Ukrainian advances on the front. The peaks were reached during the liberation of zones in the Khrkov region last September and in Jersn last November.
March became the deadliest month for the Russian troops, who assaulted Bakhmut, with more than 24,000 dead in combat, according to the estimates of the Ukrainian army.
During the ongoing counteroffensive, Russia suffered past June 8 the highest number of casualties in one day, 1,010, when one of the first days of Ukraine’s attempts to break through the dense defense lines in the south and near Bakhmut occurred.
Since the end of June, Russia’s daily casualties they are below 700 soldiers a day. Instead, the estimated losses of artillery and anti-aircraft defense have multiplied several times.
Between June and July they were destroyed 688 and 677 howitzers and other artillery pieces, compared to 238 in April. 56 and 73 anti-aircraft defense pieces were destroyed in June and July, compared to 16 in April.
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