As of April 16, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries amounted to 23,367 people, the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, told journalists on Saturday.
According to him, the recent statements by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed to the Western media that the irreversible losses of the Ukrainian army amount to 2,500-3,000 during the operation, are a lie. “The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reliable data on the real losses of the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and the foreign mercenaries who arrived, about which Zelensky is afraid to tell the people of Ukraine. Today, the irretrievable losses amount to 23,367 people, ”said Konashenkov.
The Russian Defense Ministry will soon publish separate data from Ukrainian documents on casualties. «Some data from the Ukrainian documents about our losses, revealing the place of death, the places where the dead are buried, will be published soon,» Konashenkov said.
The official representative of the Ministry of National Defense also informed that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had destroyed the concentration of equipment and fortresses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He stated that during the day 15 enemy targets were hit by precision missiles fired from the air. «Among them, in the areas of Barvenkovo, Rubizhne, Popasna, Novozvanovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Selidovo, Novobakhmutovka, six concentration sites for Ukrainian military equipment and seven strongholds of Ukrainian troops were destroyed,» Konashenkov said.
According to the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 320 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and injured as a result of the strikes, 23 armored vehicles and seven various vehicles were destroyed. «A total of 134 planes, 460 unmanned aerial vehicles, 246 anti-aircraft missile sets, 2,269 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 252 multi-arm rocket launchers, 987 field artillery and mortars, and 2,158 units of special military vehicles, since the commencement of the special military operation,» he said.
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