Total number of Ukrainian and Russian military men who have died or been injured since the beginning of the alleged full-size army invasion Vladimir Putin To the neighbouring country, she reached another intellectual ceiling. This is about a million people – the journalists of the American paper The Wall Street diary have counted. In the course of military action, about 80 000 Ukrainian soldiers and 200 000 Russian soldiers were to be killed, and about 400 000 were wounded from each side. The authors of the publication referred to Ukrainian sources and information from Western intelligence services. Clarifying that the figures on Russian losses were based on even importantly different data from various sources in abroad specialities, and those on Ukrainians are classified government data in Kiev, to which they managed to reach.
However, in Kiev itself, the latest estimates announced by American journalists were referred to with a reserve. – I think that's definitely exaggerated data. This is peculiarly evident erstwhile examining confirmed death records. Given the last 2 years, we had about 19,000 soldiers killed a year – calculated in consequence Roman Kostenko, Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence. Preserving that "there is no specified precise data", he himself considers the smaller number of Ukrainian soldiers killed to be closer to the truth. about 50,000.
Indeed, only estimates and approximate data can be mentioned. The Russian website officially reported its losses recently... 2 years ago. In September 2022, the Moscow Ministry of Defence admitted to 5937 killed in a peculiar military operation, which independent analysts immediately considered to be understated data respective times. On the another hand, in Kiev, for the last time akin numbers were given in February of that year, erstwhile the president spoke of 31 1000 fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski. – These announced figures are within a logical range, although they may actually be even higher – spoke of estimates given by the “Wall Street Journal” Israeli military analyst David Gendelman. As he noted, “it is understandable for everyone” that the problem they illustrate is “more pressing” for Ukraine. due to the fact that it has at least 4 times little mobilization possible than Russia. The Israeli analyst agrees with the authors of the publication.
– These losses pose a problem for Russia due to the fact that it uses waves of ill-trained soldiers to effort to decision forward in the east of Ukraine, while at the same time trying to argue the fresh Ukrainian offensive in the Kurdish Oblast – reads the article. – However, they are more destructive for Ukraine, whose population is little than a 4th of the population of its giant neighbour.
"The Wall Street Journal" recalls that "a large war has led to a part of the civilian population being in occupied territories, any have gone to another countries, and there are many killed, whose exact number is inactive unknown". In addition, there is negative growth. In the first half of 2024, the number of deaths exceeded birth rates 3 times. And Ukraine, with about 40 million inhabitants on the eve of the war, can now have only about 26 million. Meanwhile, over 146 million Russia, despite severe human losses, is sending more and more troops to the front. As David Gendelman reminds, there are presently about 540 1000 soldiers there, or 3 times more than in September 2022 during the Ukrainian offensive in the Kharkiv Oblast. And on 16 September Vladimir Putin signed a decree to increase the number of armed forces by 180 1000 men. Already on 1 December, their individual condition would amount to 2 million 389 thousand, of which the military alone would be 1.5 million.
