An official balance of casualties was given and they speak of almost two thousand in the army, although other reports indicate that there are more than three thousand.
A month and a day has passed since Russia launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine and the effects on energy supplies are being felt in Europe.
Amid economic sanctions against Moscow, the United States and the EU have announced a plan to reduce dependence on Russian fuel. This was confirmed by US President Joe Biden, who assured that the Kremlin uses energy to “coerce and manipulate its neighbors.”
On the Ukrainian terrain, clashes continue between the armies of the two countries. Ukrainian forces are reoccupying towns 35 km east of kyiv, according to British intelligence.
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense has assured this March 25 that the first phase of the “military operation” is “almost complete” and that the objective now is to completely “liberate” the Donbass region, in eastern Ukraine.
According to the authorities, Moscow has considered two options for advancing the offensive: the first, focused on the Donbass region, on the territories of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk; the second, limited to the entire Ukrainian territory.
Nor do they rule out the possibility of taking other Ukrainian cities that are currently under attack, and Russian Defense has stated that the country will react immediately if a no-fly zone is created, as the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelensky, has repeatedly requested before the NATO.
A step that the Atlantic Alliance continues to rule out.
Russian news agencies, citing Russian defense sources, reported that pro-Russian separatists control 93% of the Lugansk region and 54% of Donetsk, the two regions that make up the Donbass.
Moscow has also denounced the “wrong” decision that the NATO countries and the European Union (EU) are sending more weapons to Ukraine, because this means a prolongation of the conflict.
As for how long the offensive can be extended, the Russian authorities only reported that it would continue until all the Kremlin’s objectives were met.
combat casualties
Sergei Rudskói, head of the Directorate of Operations of the Russian General Staff, reported that the balance of casualties in the Russian ranks amounts to 1,351 dead and 3,825. The last report on combat casualties by that country was offered on March 2, when the authorities confirmed 498 casualties.
The data reported by Moscow differs from the estimate made by a NATO military high command, which calculated that Russian casualties would be in a range of 7,000 to 15,000.
The data reported by Pentagon sources, whose estimates would amount to a loss of between 3,000 to 10,000 Russian troops, would be in the same line.
On March 21, the pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda estimated that 9,861 Russian soldiers were killed during the first four weeks of the war in Ukraine and added that there were 16,153 wounded in the ranks of Putin’s army.
However, after a few minutes the information disappeared from the website and the media attributed the error to a computer hack.
France summons the Russian ambassador to the country
The French Foreign Ministry summoned this Friday, March 25, the Russian ambassador to the country, Alexeï Mechkov, for the publication of cartoons on the official Twitter account of the Russian embassy; caricatures considered “unacceptable” by French diplomacy.
“We strive to maintain a demanding dialogue path with Russia and these behaviors are totally inappropriate,” they affirmed from the European country’s Foreign Affairs.
In the cartoons that caused unrest in France, Europeans are seen on their knees licking Uncle Sam’s butt and, in another, a sick person, full of pricks, is seen, whom the European Union, the United States and the NATO injects “Russophobia”, “covid-19”, “neo-Nazism”, “NATO” or “cancel culture”.
The cartoons were deleted by the Russian institution within minutes of their publication on Twitter, although the screenshots continue on the networks.
“Extremely complicated” negotiation process
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, stated that the negotiation process with Russia is being “extremely complicated”. Ukraine is not willing to “give in its demands”, among which are the ceasefire, and guarantees of security and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
For his part, Vladimir Medinski, the Russian negotiator leading the talks with the Ukrainian delegation, expressed his pessimism about the lack of progress in the talks.
“The current state of things does not generate optimism. There is still no movement on the principled positions insisted on by the Russian side,” Medinski told the Russian Interfax news agency.
Russia accuses Ukraine of wasting time in peace negotiations without making an effort to bring positions closer together
At the negotiating table, Russia wants to start from the “security guarantees, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine”, but also the recognition of Crimea and the separatist regions of Donbass, in eastern Ukraine. “Without consideration of these aspects,” she stressed, “the conclusion of an agreement is unlikely.”
These requests go beyond the red lines of kyiv, which is not willing to negotiate the sovereignty of Donbass or Crimea. Russia accuses Ukraine of wasting time in the peace negotiations without making an effort to bring positions closer together.
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