Russian forces have begun 2025 with another day of high losses, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
Newsweek contacted the Russian Defense Ministry for comments by email.
Moscow continues to deal with a significant number of victims amid the large -scale invasion of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Ukraine updates, especially in the eastern component of the front where Russia is obtaining incremental profits.
The Kremlin insists that its forces are rebuilt, however, such major losses may be difficult for Russia to sustain due to its military and economic effects, making it an imaginable lever for talks to end the war.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday that over the previous day, Russia had 1,370 casualties, which consisted of both dead and injured personnel.
The Ministry announced the losses in X, previously Twitter, and cited the science fiction editor Arthur C. Clarke in the publication: “The limits of the imaginable can only be explained in the imimaginable. “
The estimation of Ukraine of the low general Russians since the large -scale invasion began on February 24, 2022 is now 792,170.
It is difficult to discover the precise count of the victims of war, because kyiv estimates are higher than those of other sources, and none sometimes shows their losses.
Russia has not updated its count since September 2022, when she said that just under 6,000 infantry soldiers had died. In a rare entrance, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said in December that 43,000 infantry soldiers fighting for kyiv had been killed and that they had informed 370,000 injuries, this included the injured more than once.
Ukraine’s New Year’s Day tally said Russia had lost 430,790 troops in 2024, a significant rise from its estimate of 253,290 for the previous year.
Evaluation of an annual decrease in the countdown through 420,000 Russian losses, the War Study Institute estimated that for 4,168 square kilometers (1,609 square miles) of the Ukrainian territory that had seized, Moscow made approximately 102 victims.
Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, wrote on Telegram on December 30: “The enemy continues to make assaults non-stop, suffering record losses. Therefore, last week, the invaders lost around 1,700 people killed and wounded. And every day, and in general this year, this figure is already 427,000.
While the giant, full-scale invasion is nearing its third anniversary, the anticipation is whether a peace deal or an end to hostilities is in sight.
In his New Year’s address, Zelensky said the U. S. would stand with Kyiv and that new U. S. President Donald Trump would be “capable of peace and ending Putin’s aggression. “
However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently rejected proposals Peace in Ukraine.
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