2023-10-22 09:02:48
According to Russian media close to power, this information was communicated last Tuesday by Alexei Vovchenko, the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection during a round table bringing together Russian senators. He detailed this figure: 20% would be upper limb amputations, 80% would be lower limb amputations.
“It’s a lot,” he reportedly admitted. This figure, which must be taken with caution, still does not provide more information on the precise number of Russian soldiers dead and wounded in Ukraine. But it gives an idea of the violence of the fighting.
Ukraine announces every day a few hundred Russian soldiers dead and wounded in combat, fueling a counter which exceeds 293,830 this Sunday, October 22. For its part, American intelligence reported last August that 120,000 Russian soldiers were dead and 180,000 wounded. Are there more than 90,000 amputees? This figure is impossible to verify because whatever their source, the human tolls of the war in Ukraine are often loaded with propaganda.
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