"We were not ready": in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation recognized great losses due to poor medical care

"More than 30% of amputations (in the war zone) were made due to improper imposition of the harness, more than 50% of all deaths did not occur from vital wounds," Katulin said. He added that the main problems in the field of medical supply on the front are the level of preparation in the field of first aid and the opportunity for the quick departure of the wounded in the hospital. "There is a large number of nuances that we were not ready.

In fact, it is one huge fortifications, "Katulin explained. In the process of fighting in Ukraine, Russian servicemen receive mainly mine-explosive wounds. According to the head of the Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Dmitry Trishkin, almost 70% of the total number of them. And only about 10% of servicemen get to hospitals because of the disease, another 10% due to ball gunshot wounds and another 10% due to injuries.

Trishkin added that about 24% of the wounded are hospitalized in serious and extremely serious condition. Almost half of patients are delivered to doctors in a state of moderate severity, the rest - in the mild. Only according to open sources, the number of occupiers killed in Ukraine has already exceeded 20,000 people. According to the assessment of the FSB, which was given in one of the secret documents of the Pentagon, Russia lost almost 110,000 soldiers killed and wounded.

The official data of the Russian military department was last announced in September 2022. At that time, Defense Minister Sergei Shoiga stated that since the beginning of the war, 5937 Russian servicemen have been killed in Ukraine. We will remind, on April 19 it was reported that the group "Information resistance" continues to record the names of Russian soldiers who were publicly buried or in Russia itself was officially recognized as destroyed.