MADRID, 1 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have raised this Wednesday to about 150,000 the number of Russian soldiers “liquidated” since the start of the invasion, unleashed a little over a year ago by order of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, a figure much higher than the one confirmed to date by Moscow.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army has indicated in a message published on its official account on the Facebook social network that since the outbreak of the war 149,890 Russian soldiers have been “liquidated”, including 650 during the last day of fighting, centered in the east from the country.
Thus, it has pointed out that to date 3,395 battle tanks, 2,393 artillery systems, 247 anti-aircraft defense systems, 300 planes, 288 helicopters, 2,055 drones, 873 cruise missiles, 18 boats, 5,257 vehicles and fuel tanks have been destroyed. and 230 pieces of “special equipment”.
Russia has not provided data on casualties in the conflict since September, when Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the deaths of 5,937 soldiers. The Russian news portal Mediazona raises the total number of deaths to 15,136 -including 1,043 during the last 15 days-, figures that it considers “corroborated” through publicly available data, a work carried out together with the British television channel BBC.
On the other hand, it has reported that “on the night of February 28 to March 1, the enemy attacked Ukraine from the north with ‘Shahed’ type drones.” “The four kamikaze drones were destroyed by the air defense forces.” “To victory”, he has riveted.
Ukraine has repeatedly accused Iran of supplying drones to Russia to support the offensive, though Tehran has denied the claims, saying Kiev has not produced evidence to support these claims. Thus, the Iranian authorities have pointed to bilateral cooperation at the military level prior to the conflict to justify the presence of these devices in the hands of Russian forces.