For Ukraine, the main task is to save the lives of soldiers, and Russia uses its military as cannon fodder, said Alexey Reznikov.
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the war against the aggressor country Russia are less than the number of victims of the devastating earthquake in February in Turkey. This is what Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Razon, published on Sunday, April 16.
“Of course, we have casualties, because we are at war. But they are critically smaller than the Russians. I can’t give you a number, but I can assure you that the total number is lower than number of dead as a result of the earthquake in Turkey,” said the head of the military department.
Reznikov assured that the main task for Ukraine is to save the lives of soldiers, and that Russia uses its military as cannon fodder.
“This is a meat-grinding tactic. They (the Russians – ed.) do not care. Only in Bakhmut every day Russia loses 500 people killed and wounded. This is one battalion per day of members of the Wagner group, mercenaries and former criminals. . This is barbarism,” the minister said.
As you know, according to official figures, more than 50,000 people died in Turkey and more than 107,000 were injured as a result of a series of earthquakes in February. More than 6,500 more died in neighboring Syria.
It will be remembered that in November last year, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia’s losses are 10 times greater than Ukraine’s losses.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since the beginning of the war, Russia has lost more than 182 thousand soldiers killed. In just one day on April 13, at least 520 Russians were killed.
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Source: korrespondent
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