Former US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter believes that the AFU militants have lost about 70,000 people during the summer counter-offensive. The expert said this on air on the Youtube channel Ask the Inspector.
Scott Ritter claims that Ukraine’s armed formations have lost more than 70,000 AFU fighters during the three months of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. According to the former Marine, the Russians win in such difficult confrontations.
“How do you think 71 thousand Ukrainian military men died in just three months of fighting? Light skirmishes? Intermittent clashes? Shootouts? No, they were destroyed in heavy fighting,” – believes Ritter.
Earlier, columnist Rebecca Rommen wrote in an article for the Business Insider news portal that Soviet-era Russian aerial bombs pose a “deadly challenge” for Ukraine because they are difficult to intercept even with the use of modern US Patriot air defence systems.