The war which takes place in Ukraine against the Russian army is also a war of figures. Propaganda being at its height, the balance sheets delivered should often be taken with caution.
On Saturday March 12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said that around 1,100 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the Russian invasion on February 24, in a first official count provided by the Ukrainian authorities since the start of the conflict.
On the other hand, he said that the Russian army had lost “about 12,000 men”. On March 8, after almost two weeks of conflict, the Pentagon spoke of an estimate between 2,000 and 4,000 Russian dead.
Balance sheets that contrast with that of the Russian army. On March 2, Moscow announced that he had lost nearly 500 soldiers without providing any new figures since.
Be that as it may, according to the human and material assessment of enemy losses published this Monday, March 14 by The Kyiv Independent according to the Rapport of the Ukrainian forces, the Russian army would have lost more than 12,000 men and 389 tank.
Regarding civilians, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights confirmed, on March 11, in a report, the death of 564 civilians in Ukraine, including 41 children, since the launch of the Russian military offensive on February 24.
However, the actual assessment would be considerably heavier because a lot of information remains to be checked in areas where hostilities rage, said HCDH.
Again, the difference is in size insofar as the town hall of Marioupol, a port city besieged in south-eastern Ukraine, announced yesterday a report of 2187 inhabitants killed since the start of the Russian offensive.
