The average level of losses of the Russian army at the front in Ukraine has risen to 1,271 soldiers, Western analysts note.
Russia suffered its worst front-line defeat in September since the start of the full-scale invasion. In particular, the average loss per day exceeded a thousand soldiers. This was reported by The Telegraph in relation to British intelligence.
The average loss rate of the Russian army rose to 1,271 soldiers killed or seriously wounded per day. Previously, the highest daily death toll among Russian soldiers was in May, when an average of 1,262 soldiers were killed or wounded.
September marked the fifth consecutive month in which Russian casualties exceeded 1,000 soldiers per day.
Analysts attributed the high number of casualties to Russia’s mass infantry tactics, which often involved “meat wave” attacks, in which large numbers of troops were sent to attack positions of Ukrainian defense.
Russia has lost nearly 650,000 soldiers since the February 2022 invasion. Its losses averaged between 172 and 559 per day in 2022, before climbing to 967 in 2023.
Earlier in February 2024, the UK Ministry of Defense reported that the losses of the Russian army in February reached a record since the beginning of a full-scale war against Ukraine. Then the invaders lost an average of 983 people killed and wounded per day.
Source: korrespondent
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