Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said the total number of Ukrainian military casualties was “lower than the number of those killed by the earthquake in Turkey“.
“We have victims, of course, because we are at war. But they are critically smaller than the Russian ones“, Reznikov told the Spanish newspaper La Razon, adding that Russia uses its soldiers as “cannon fodder“.
“It’s a butchery tactic. They don’t care. Russia loses 500 people daily in Bahmut alone. Dead and wounded“, he said.
The death toll of the two strong earthquakes that hit Turkey on February 6 has reached 50,500 dead.
Leaked US secret documents suggest that up to 354,000 Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since late February 2022, when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The leaked documents claim that between 15,500-17,500 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 109,000-113,500 were wounded in action, while Russia had 35,500-43,000 soldiers killed and 154,000-180,000 wounded, according to Reuters.
Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian army has provided clear information on the number of casualties on their side.
Russia has confirmed that only about 6,000 of its troops have been killed since February 2022, while according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia has lost 182,070 soldiers.
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