Ukraine's General Staff said Russia's military lost 3,180 soldiers in the past seven days.
Russia lost 3,180 troops in Ukraine in the past week, according to a Monday update from the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces. The new data comes as Kyiv continues to report multiple advances in its ongoing counteroffensive.
The General Staff said that Russia's military has lost 272,940 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of the war in February 2022. That number includes 620 casualties suffered over the past day. Russia passed thehas not been able to independently verify Ukraine's figures, and other estimates tend to be more conservative than Kyiv's. The Kremlin does not frequently comment on its own estimates of troop casualties, and when it does, experts have said its numbers are not accurate.
Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank on September 11, 2023, in Eastern Ukraine. Kyiv on Monday said its most recent tally shows Russia has lost over 3,000 troops in one week.On Sunday, the Institute for the Study of War think tank wrote about the"unwarranted criticism" Kyiv has received for continuing to apply so much military effort into liberating these sites.
"Ukraine's defensive and counteroffensive operations in the Bakhmut area since summer 2022 are an operationally sound undertaking that has fixed a large amount of Russian combat power that would otherwise have been available to reinforce Russian defenses in southern Ukraine," the ISW wrote. The think tank's assessment also said Russia has been using divisions of its elite Airborne Force in the region, and Ukraine's fighting there"has helped prevent Russia from creating a large mobile VDV operational reserve that could have been used to stop the main Ukrainian counteroffensive effort in Zaporizhia Oblast."
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