2023-08-19 11:11:48
The New York Times of the United States quoted unnamed U.S. officials in a report today stating that,Russo-Ukrainian WarSince the outbreak last February,UkraineandRussiaThe total number of soldier casualties is nearly 500,000.
Officials cautioned that Moscow is believed to routinely underreport battlefield casualties and that Kiev has not released official figures, so the true total remains difficult to estimate, Archyde.com reported.
The New York Times (The New York Times) reported that the total number of casualties of the Russian army was regarding 300,000, of which as many as 120,000 were killed and 170,000 to 180,000 were injured; Up to 120,000 people were injured.
The New York Times, citing U.S. officials, said the number of casualties rose following Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive earlier this year.
president of ukraineZelenskyMykhailo Podolyak, a senior aide to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responded that only the General Staff might publish the figures.
“We have adopted a model where only the General Staff has the right to talk regarding the wounded, maimed, mutilated and missing in this war,” he said today in a live broadcast on the YouTube channel of journalist Yulia Latynina. the number of people, and of course the number of people who died in battle.”
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