During the fighting in southern Ukraine, the Russian and Ukrainian sides will suffer significant losses, according to the daily erection of the British Ministry of Defense. The department devoted a new report to the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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The ministry notes that Russian casualties are likely at their highest level since March, when the battle for Bakhmut was at its most intense. At the same time, exact data on the losses of Russia and Ukraine are not given. We are talking only about the dead or wounded, not specified.
In the past few days, heavy fighting has continued. Intense clashes are taking place in the Zaporozhye region, in the west of the Donetsk region and in the vicinity of Bakhmut. In all these areas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to conduct offensive operations, during which they were able to achieve little success. In the south, Russian forces are conducting relatively successful defense operations, the report also says.
The UK Ministry of Defense believes that since May 2022, more than 60,000 Russians have been killed or injured in Bakhmut. According to the United States, from December 2022 to May 2023, about 10,000 Wagner mercenaries were killed in Bakhmut.
Russian sources (Mediazona and BBC Russian Service) believe that the confirmed losses of Russians in Bakhmut and Vuhledar in the Donetsk region in the first five weeks of 2023 exceeded the losses suffered by the Russian Federation in the first five weeks of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 year.
According to this estimate, 2,504 people died in Ukraine from January 5 to February 8, 2023, and 2,175 people died in the first weeks of the invasion, from February 24 to March 30, 2022. In total, since the beginning of the war, according to journalists’ calculations, the deaths of 25,528 Russians who participated in the invasion of Ukraine have been confirmed, but the real losses are much higher.
Source: Racurs
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