Ukraine claimed Friday to have «liquidated» about 130,000 Russian servicemen since the beginning of the invasion, unleashed on February 24, 2022 on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and noted that during the last day about 850 Russian soldiers have been killed in combat.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army has pointed out in a message published on its official account on the social network Facebook that since the outbreak of the war 129,870 Russian servicemen have been «liquidated», while 3,215 battle tanks, 2,215 artillery systems and 222 Russian anti-aircraft defense systems have been destroyed.
He also noted that 294 aircraft, 284 helicopters, 1,952 drones, 796 cruise missiles, 18 ships, 5,068 vehicles and fuel tanks and 202 pieces of «special equipment» have also been destroyed. «Data is being updated. Beat the occupier. Let’s win together. Our strength is in the truth,» he has stated.
Russia has not provided data on casualties in the conflict since September, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the deaths of 5,937 servicemen. The Russian news portal Mediazona puts the total death toll at 12,538, figures it considers «corroborated» by publicly available data.
On the other hand, the spokesman of the Ukrainian Army General Staff, Oleksandr Shtupun, has emphasized that Russia «does not abandon its intentions to destroy critical infrastructure» and has denounced that «it continues to attack civilian objects and homes of the civilian population». «The adversary, which suffers heavy losses, does not stop its offensive operations on the Liman, Bajmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlisk axes,» he specified.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
