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British Ministry of Defense analysis… “40,000 to 60,000 dead following the outbreak of war in Ukraine”
“Soviet-style infantry push”… US “90% of mercenary deaths are prisoners”
The recent surge in history following the Great Offensive… 100,000 Ukrainian casualties
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Myung-hun = Western intelligence agencies have analyzed that up to 200,000 Russian soldiers were killed or injured in the war in Ukraine.
On the 17th (local time), a week before the first anniversary of the invasion (February 24), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DI) under the British Ministry of Defense estimated that the number of casualties incurred by the Russian regular army and the Wagner Group, a civilian mercenary group, following the invasion of Ukraine in February last year was between 175,000 and 175,000. It was estimated that 200,000 people
This is the sum of the number of wounded and dead, and DI estimated the number of dead to be between 40,000 and 60,000.
The DI said the ratio of dead to total casualties was “very high by modern standards”, adding that it was clear that the state of health care in the Russian armed forces was generally very poor.
Analysis in other Western countries is broadly similar.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), on the 4th of this month, the US military estimated the number of Russian casualties at 180,000, and Norway also presented the same figure as of the end of last month.
(Bahmut[우크라이나] AP = Yonhap News) Ukrainian forces fire a Pion self-propelled howitzer in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on December 15 last year (local time). While the Russian army, which withdrew from the occupied city of Kherson last month, recently intensified its offensive to occupy Bakhmut, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are also doing their best to defend Bahmut. 2022.12.16 alo95@yna.co.kr
The number of Russian casualties has increased even more steeply since Russia’s ‘partial mobilization order’ last September.
At the time, President Vladimir Putin conscripted regarding 300,000 reserve soldiers with a mobilization order, but Ukrainian and Western intelligence authorities believe that most of the conscripts are being sent to the front lines without sufficient training and proper equipment.
In particular, as Russia prepares for a ‘big offensive’ in eastern Ukraine, it is increasing the number of troops to break through the Ukrainian defense line, and the rate of casualties in the Russian army is accelerating.
WSJ reported that the Russian army is using an operation reminiscent of the ‘Red Army’ of the former Soviet Union. During World War II, the Red Army of the Soviet Army used a strategy of wasting infantry to occupy strategic positions without artillery or air support from the rear.
In fact, the Ukrainian army claimed to have eliminated 800 Russian soldiers in one day on the 17th, claiming that 141,260 Russian soldiers were eliminated following the invasion.
The daily “achievements” of the Ukrainian army are increasing in scale. On the 11th, it also revealed that it removed 1,140 people a day, breaking its own daily record (1,030).
Analysts say that the ‘prisoners’ of the Wagner Group, who were in charge of one axis of the great Russian offensive, are being scapegoats on the battlefield without knowing it.
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When the Russian government issued a mobilization order, the Wagner Group recruited tens of thousands of prisoners from Russian prisons. The condition was that if he served 6 months as a member of the mercenary group, the remaining sentence would be canceled.
But these convicts, too, are being driven virtually to death without proper equipment. British DI analyzed that half of the Wagner Group mercenaries put into the battlefield became casualties.
White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby criticized at a briefing that day, “The Wagner Group treats former convict recruits as expendable items. They literally throw them through a ‘meat grinder.'”
“Since mid-December, the number of Wagner Group casualties has reached 30,000, of which it is estimated that 9,000 have died,” Kirby said. added.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military is not releasing its casualty figures. Western authorities believe there were regarding 100,000 casualties in Ukraine, the WSJ reported. Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluznyi, announced in August last year that the death toll of his troops had reached regarding 9,000.
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