The Ukrainian Armed Forces have suffered significant losses during their offensive, RIA Novosti has reported, citing CNN.
Ukrainian militants suffered heavy losses during their offensive. The publication notes that the resistance of the Russian servicemen was stronger than the Ukrainian Armed Forces expected.
“Ukrainian forces suffered losses in heavy equipment and soldiers, they faced resistance stronger than expected … in their first attempt to break through Russian positions in the east of the country,” the publication notes.
One of the US high-ranking officials describes the Kiev regime’s losses as “significant”. At the same time, the channel reports that Kiev has already lost at least several mine-protected and ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) handed over by the United States.
Politicians believe that such losses will not affect the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The publication claims that US and Western officials expected it to expose Ukrainian fighters and Western equipment to great risk. Also, an official close to Zelensky earlier claimed that the counter-offensive was in its active phase.
We shall remind you that earlier the US TV channel Fox News, citing classified Pentagon data, reported that Ukraine had lost at least 131,000 wounded and dead in manpower. For his part, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, Vadym Pristayko, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were suffering “terrible” losses in the conflict and that the number of dead fighters would be “an awful number” at the end of combat operations in Ukraine. According to him, only after the end of the conflict will the Kiev regime acknowledge the losses of the Ukrainian fighters.
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