War in Ukraine: More than 15,000 dead Russian soldiers, says Kyiv

The numbers of losses of its armed forces Russia The Ukrainian authorities announced on Tuesday that the losses to soldiers exceed 15,000.

In a post by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Of Ukrainethe latest report – which, however, concerns preliminary data, as mentioned – speaks, inter alia, of:

• 15,300 dead among military personnel,
• shootings 99 aircraft,
• 123 helicopters
• and 24 drones,
• destruction 509 tanks
• and 1,556 military vehicles.

These figures refer to some of the figures related to the “losses of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine” announced by the country’s Foreign Minister, from the beginning of the war until today, Tuesday 22 March.

These estimates were posted on the official website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry around 14.00.

In each case, The number of Russian casualties in Ukraine remains a mystery.

On March 2, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that in Ukraine only 498 Russian soldiers had been killed. This was Moscow’s first official briefing on the subject.

Last week, New York Times article put the figures somewhere “in the middle”. The newspaper wrote on March 17 that more than 7,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and until then, citing estimates by US intelligence.

It is worth mentioning, after all, how Pentagon The US military estimates that the Ukrainian army is reclaiming territory previously occupied by Russian forces, as the latter are facing a number of problems.

The Ukrainian army “is now, in some cases, under attack,” he said a few hours earlier. John Kirby on CNN, noting that “he is chasing Russian soldiers and pushing them out of areas where the Russians used to be.”