Russians Have Lost 450,000 Soldiers Killed or Wounded in Ukraine, British Ministry of Defense Estimates. “Tens of Thousands More Have Deserted Since the Conflict Began”

The questioning comes from John Healey, the Labor MP and shadow defense minister, who asked for data on the ministry’s assessments of Russian military losses in Ukraine. The answer was given by Leo Docherty, Secretary of State for the Armed Forces at the British Ministry of Defence.

“We estimate that around 450,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded, and tens of thousands more have already deserted since the beginning of the conflict. The number of personnel killed within Russian private military companies (for example Wagner mercenaries, ed.) is not clear,” said Docherty.

“We also estimate that more than 10,000 Russian armored vehicles, including nearly 3,000 main battle tanks, 109 fixed-wing aircraft, 136 helicopters, 346 unmanned aerial vehicles, 23 naval vessels of all classes, and more than 1,500 artillery systems of all types have been abandoned or captured by Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict,” the British official added.

At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022, Russia had deployed almost 200,000 soldiers to the borders of Ukraine, under the pretext of military exercises, writes Digi 24. This would mean that, in two years, Russia has lost more than twice as many men than he had prepared at the start of the war, which called for a three-day “special military operation”.

The British Ministry of Defense estimates are not far off from those of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which estimates that the Russian military has lost more than 465,000 soldiers in Ukraine.


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