NATO believes that the Russian army lost – accounting killed, injured, prisoners and disappeared – between 30,000 and 40,000 men in combat in four weeks of war in Ukraine.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
This is only an estimate. Twenty-eighth day of the war in Ukraine, the Russian armies make surcharge but, above all, they seem to record very important losses. NATO estimated, Wednesday, March 23, which between 30,000 and 40,000 Russian soldiers are no longer in a state of combat, with killed, injured, prisoners and missing, in four weeks of war in Ukraine. From 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers would be dead.
By way of comparison, about 15,000 Russian soldiers died in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989. This is the first public estimate by NATO in the number of Russian victims since the beginning of the war, February 24th.
A NATO military personnel said the Alliance estimate was based on information from Ukrainian leaders, on what Russia has published – intentionally or not – and information gathered from sources. open. This manager spoke under cover of anonymity, in accordance with the rules set by NATO. He added that this estimate of 30,000 to 40,000 Russian victims is derived from what he has called a standard calculation that, in times of war, an army has three wounded soldiers for each soldier killed.
498 dead according to Moscow
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has confined itself to announcement on March 2 its sole record of 498 soldiers killed, while Ukraine asserts that the Russian army, has lost “about 15,600 men” and that portraits of Russian soldiers killed or captured are broadcast on Ukrainian social networks.
🇺🇦 загальні бойові Втрати противника з 24.02 По 23.03 Орієнтовно склали / 🇬🇧 The Total Fight Losses of the Enemy … https://t.co/plausfpkb4 “/p>- generalstaffua (@ генеральний штаб зсу)
For its part, the Pentagon has provided an estimate of 2,000 to 4,000 Russian dead in two weeks, but sources of American intelligence, cited by the New York Times , advanced, on March 16, a Assessment of 7,000 soldiers killed in three weeks. At a press conference, Wednesday, John Kirby, the spokesman for the Department of Defense , raised that the morale of Russian units was low, affecting their cohesion and ability to fight.