Posted on 02/25/2022 6:24:05 PM PST by bitt
About 2,800 Russian soldiers have been killed in the first 36 hours of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claimed Friday.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said Friday that Russian troops also lost some 500 armored vehicles, 10 aircraft, and seven helicopters.
If confirmed, it would mean that Russia has suffered more losses in fewer than 48 hours than the United States soldiers suffered during the 20-year-long invasion of Afghanistan.
Russia has not released any casualty figures. The United Nations reported 25 civilians had been killed and 102 wounded, figures that were likely to be a “significant under-estimate.”
None of the death or injury tolls could be independently verified.
A senior Pentagon official who spoke on background with reporters Friday said the United States could not confirm the number of Russian soldiers killed.
“We cannot quantify what casualties either side has endured, other than to say that we certainly have seen reports of casualties in Ukraine, and we have no reason to dispute that. But in terms of quantifying them, I simply can’t do that. And I believe we’ll, we’ll be able to do that,” the senior defense official told reporters on Friday.
Earlier Friday, Ukraine’s leadership made several urgent pleas for help, although Ukraine is not a member of NATO.
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If that was true CNN would be giving Biden credit non stop
Yeah you cant really believe anything we are hearing..both sides tend to lie so who knows what the truth is
Wait until they start partisan type operations.
Why, its not Biden killing them, its Ukrainians
Propaganda has reached new levels with this war.
Take the Ukrainian numbers and halve them. Take the Russian numbers and double them. That should get close to the truth.
The number of Russians killed is a state secret Putin did this in 2015
Be careful. The Fog of War and all that.
I’m watching a live youtube feed (found here in FR) and the guy is very good- down the middle. He’s mentioning how there are all these reports about the Ukraine’s shooting down Russian transports yet there’s not a shred of evidence to back any of it up.
Saw on twitter a while ago that Ukraine is using video game footage and claiming its them killing Russians..I mean honestly both sides are liars cant believe any of the BS..its like when Gaza makes claims, its almost always BS
The media will have the Ukrainians at the gates of Moscow by Sunday if this keeps up. Trust none of these one sided accounts. We’ll know the reality soon enough.
They should kill Putin.
I am surprised it is this few, I saw Russia held back their weak troops and just sent in their best. If I was a Ukrainian and knew this, I would have hid till I could slaughter these weakly trained troops after I could sneak around from the rear.
Ukrainians know how to fight dirty, I bet they are going to bleed these guys. Ultimately they will take over the country, but it isn’t going to be pretty.
All reports are nearly completely unreliable at this point.
Give it another few weeks. Especially after the Kiev street fighting has ended. Russia is about to enter the meat grinder.
This all has to be contained within Ukraine. All of it.
We killed the North Vietnamese army how many times over again according to official body counts?
Is that supposed to make everyone feel better about the 20 years we spent in blood and treasure unsuccessfully subduing the natives in "The Graveyard of Empires?" Right now it's reminding me how of how Europe is stupidly accelerating its own demograhic decline.
I don’t know about the exact number but when one considers the many battles and engagements that have been fought just so far, and considering the hundreds and hundreds of people posting aspects of these engagements on their phones, this number is believable.
But at the same time the Ukrainian losses are no doubt higher than Ukraine claims.
Nah, gotta be 300,000.
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