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Putin admits Russia has suffered huge losses in Ukraine
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https://www.newsweek.com/putin-admits-russia-suffered-huge-losses-ukraine-1852660
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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The purported losses would be orders of magnitude beyond those previously claimed by Russia, with the Kremlin having only officially admitted to around 6,000 troop deaths.
The newly claimed losses—which could include deaths, major injuries or deployments away from the battlefield—were calculated in a post on the “Maps and Arrows” Telegram account of Russian military analyst Ian Matveev.
However, the figure does come close to the 315,000 claimed Russian troop casualties that were revealed in a leaked declassified U.S. intelligence document this week.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claimed in a Facebook post on Wednesday that Russia had lost 342,800 troops since first launching its invasion on February 24, 2022.
The Russian president previously offered what appeared to be an exaggerated estimate of Ukrainian equipment losses in September, boasting about the destruction of 18,000 armored vehicles and 543 tanks in a three-month period beginning in June.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense offered a somewhat more modest tally two days earlier, claiming that Ukraine has lost a total of 11,773 armored combat vehicles during the entire war, including tanks.
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