On the evening of the eighth day of the conflict, the losses continued to accumulate on both sides. Despite fragile talks on the opening of humanitarian corridors, Russia is mobilizing ever more men while Kiev strengthens its defenses.
This might have been the good news of the day. Russian and Ukrainian delegations once once more spoke in Belarus. But, announces the adviser to the Ukrainian presidential cabinet Mykhaïlo Podoliak, quoted by Oukraïnska Pravda, “following this second round of talks, Ukraine did not obtain the expected results”.
Nevertheless, “the two parties discussed in detail the humanitarian aspect of the war, and would have reached an ‘understanding’ on the establishment of humanitarian corridors to evacuate the civilian population, on possible ceasefires for the duration of these evacuations and on the delivery of food and medicine”.
Civilian casualties already number in the thousands
One thing is certain, it is a merciless war. Ukrainian cities, “outpost of Europe”, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, are systematically bombarded by Russian aircraft, artillery and ballistic missiles. Civilian casualties already number in the thousands.
While the Ukrainian authorities remain discreet regarding their own military losses, they claimed, “on the morning of the eighth day of war” that Russia would have already lost “nearly 9,000 men, 217 tanks, 900 armored vehicles, 90 artillery pieces, 30 planes, 31 helicopters”.
On the Russian side, we gradually agree to admit losses, which ulcerates the historian and Russian opponent Boris Sokolov, who writes for the Ukrainian daily The. “At the end of the seventh day, the Russian Defense Ministry released official figures of 498 dead and 1,597 injured. These figures are very far from reality, even if we take into account that they do not include the personnel of Rosgvardia [la garde nationale russe]. However, the latter is actively participating in the war once morest Ukraine and is suffering heavy
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