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hundreds of soldiers russians they fall daily in Ukraineaccording to Kiev estimates, which also focus on the destruction caused to Russian artillery and defenses as they attempt to open gaps in Ukrainian troops.
The total number of casualties in the Russian troops – between dead and wounded – stands at over 250,000 since the start of the large-scale Russian invasion, in February 2022, according to calculations by the Army General Staff Ukrainian, updated on Monday.
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According to the latest report from the General Staff, some 540 Russian soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours of fighting alone. Ukrainian military sources note that those figures are “provisional” and pending verification, since it is difficult to obtain exact numbers in full battle.
Added to these difficulties is the lack of transparency. Errors can occur in both directions, as explained to EFE Andriy BabichevUkrainian 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 based on the information available in the drone footage and taking into account the number of troops calculated inside the destroyed military vehicles.
Russiaas Ukraine, they do not disseminate data on the number of their own fallen soldiers. The last time your Ministry of Defence made the information public was on September 21, 2022, when it reported the deaths of 5,937 Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
The figure did not include combatants from the mercenary group “Wagner” nor to the forces of the Russian-controlled areas in the Ukrainian regions of lugansk and Donetskaccording to kyiv.
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One of the commanders of “Wagner”, known as “Marx”, he stated on July 19 through the Telegram channel “Razgruzka Wagnera” that the casualties of the group in Ukraine until May 20 were 79,000 combatants, among the nearly 22,000 dead and 40,000 who were wounded.
A recent study by two Russian opposition outlets, Mediazona and Meduza, put the number of Russian soldiers dead in Ukraine as of May 27 at 47,000 and another 78,000 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 areas in the Kharkov region last September and in Kherson last november.
March became the deadliest month for Russian troops storming Bakhmut, with more than 24,000 killed in combat, according to Ukrainian army estimates.
During the ongoing counter-offensive, Russia suffered the highest number of casualties in one day, 1,010, on June 8, when it occurred one of the first days of Ukraine’s attempts to break through the dense defense lines in the south and near Bakhmut.
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Since the end of June, Russia’s daily casualties have been below 700 soldiers a day. Instead, the estimated losses of artillery and anti-aircraft defense have been multiplied several times.
Between June and July, 688 and 677 howitzers and other artillery pieces were destroyed, compared to 238 in April. 56 and 73 air defense pieces were destroyed in June and July, compared to 16 in April.
Source: Elcomercio
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