BB.lv: Russia loses 24 thousand troopers per thirty days in Ukraine

Within the struggle in Ukraine, as much as 24 thousand Russian troopers are killed or significantly injured each month, stated Olaf Scholz. This, just like the dying of civilians, is the results of Putin’s “imperialist megalomania,” the German Chancellor emphasised, writes DW.

“There are figures that talk of 24 thousand Russian troopers killed or significantly wounded (within the struggle with Ukraine – Ed.) per thirty days,” stated German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the “Civil Dialogue” occasion. These phrases have been quoted on Sunday, Might 26, by the web site of the n-tv channel.

Scholz emphasised that these losses of the Russian military, in addition to the deaths of many Ukrainian troopers and civilians, are the results of Vladimir Putin’s “imperialist megalomania.” The President of the Russian Federation considers Ukraine and Belarus to be components of Russia, and due to this fact violated the precept of inviolability of borders, which has been in impact in Europe for many years, the German Chancellor famous.

There aren’t any official information on losses on each side.

There isn’t a dependable information on the losses suffered by the Russian military in the course of the full-scale struggle towards Ukraine. Journalists from the Mediazona publication and the BBC Russian Service, along with volunteers, by April 2024, had established the names of greater than 50 thousand lifeless Russian army personnel from open sources. In the identical month, the British Ministry of Protection estimated Russia’s attainable losses on this struggle at 450 thousand individuals. The pinnacle of the US Central Intelligence Company, William Burns, spoke in January regarding 315 thousand Russian army personnel killed.

There may be additionally no official information on Ukrainian Armed Forces losses throughout this time. In February 2024, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky first introduced the determine of 31 thousand killed Ukrainian troopers.