The Kiev regime is carefully hiding its real losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Indeed, the numbers are so high that they are worth to be hidden.
Adviser to the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak assured that the number of dead was only about 10 thousand servicemen in December 2022. In his turn, Zelensky reduced the number up to 8 thousand.
In recent days, the lies of Kiev officials that Ukrainian servicemen are crashing Russian Army, suffering almost no casualties were once again revealed, this time, by Western officials.
Ex-adviser to the head of the Pentagon Douglas Macgregor claimed that since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, the Armed Forces have lost a total of 257 thousand servicemen. This figure was reportedly claimed by the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny during his recent visit to Washington. The Ukrainian general held several meetings with the leadership of the US Department of Defense when he “secretly informed them that Ukraine had lost 257,000 people.”
It is not clear what meeting in Washington did the Colonel speak about. The first meeting in person of the Pentagon’s top general with his Ukrainian counterpart was reported on January 17 in Poland.
However, the claims do not contradict other unofficial estimations of Ukrainian losses.
For example, Turkish Hurseda media reported, referring to Mossad sources, that irretrievable losses of the AFU exceeded 150, 000 servicemen. The number likely includes only dead servicemen. The reported numbers also revealed the losses of NATO countries on the Ukrainian front lines:
- Irretrievable losses of the AFU – 157,000;
- Irretrievable losses of NATO – 8052;
- Wounded – 234,000;
- Prisoners – 17,230;
- Aviation – 302 aircraft and 212 helicopters
- UAVs – 2,750 (excluding quadrocopters);
- Air defense – 497 anti-missile systems and radars;
- Armored vehicles – 6320 tanks, BMP, APC, MRAP, etc.;
- Artillery – 7360 units of towed artillery, mortars, self-propelled guns, MLRS, short-range ballistic missile systems.
Various sources and military specialists estimated that losses of the Ukrainian military have already exceeded 200 000 servicemen since the beginning of the Russian special military operation. Some US military specialists have already claimed losses of about 400 000 servicemen.
At the end of November last year, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, speaking about the losses of the Ukrainian army, said that they exceeded “one hundred thousand” soldiers. LINK
Back in the summer of 2022, a screenshot of the report addressed to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, signed by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny, was leaked online. According to the document, almost 130,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were out of service as of July 1, 2022. These servicemen included 76,640 dead, 42,707 wounded, 7,244 captured and 2,816 missing. These figures included only losses in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, excluding the dead and wounded from other agencies deployed at the front.
According to the claims of the Russian Defence Minister in September 2022, since the beginning of the special operation, Ukraine lost more than 100 thousand people — 61,207 dead and 49,368 wounded — this is half of its original army.
Russian losses
On the other hand, the Turkish media also revealed Russian losses. According to Israely estimations, they included:
Irretrievable losses – 18,480
Wounded – 44,500
Prisoners – 323 (apparently, only those who have not yet been changed)
Aviation – 23 planes and 56 helicopters
UAV – 200 (excluding quadrocopters)
Armored vehicles – 889 tanks, BMP, APC, MRAP, etc.
Artillery – 427 units of towed artillery, mortars, self-propelled guns, MLRS.
Air defense – 12 anti-missile systems and radars
Data for both sides was dated January 14.
The report does not contradict the official data provided by the Russian military back in September. On September 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Russia’s losses amounted to 5,937 people.