The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lost about 200,000 people during the invasion - The NYT

According to journalists, the great losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation clearly demonstrate the failed tactics of command and make it clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin was mistaken when he ordered a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. According to Western experts, the Russian army has lost almost 200,000 people killed and wounded in 11 months. The exact amount of losses, as stated in NYT, is difficult to name, since Moscow purposefully reduces statistics.

Separately, the authors mentioned Bakhmut and Soledar fighting, in which the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation suffered particularly large losses. The Kremlin, in need of at least some victory, sent to the positions of the defense forces of Ukraine of recruited ZEKs and unprepared soldiers, which made the number of killed and wounded in the ranks of the Russian army significantly increased. "The death of a soldier is unlikely to be a restraining factor for Putin's military purposes.

He has no political opposition within the country, and he represents a war as a struggle with which the country collided during World War II, when more than 8 million Soviet soldiers were killed. thousand victims in Ukraine, although higher figures will reduce its political support within the country.

The number of losses in Ukraine is also difficult to establish, given the reluctance of Kyiv to disclose their own losses during the war, but in Bakhmut, according to officials, hundreds of Ukrainian servicemen were injured daily They died, "the material reads. Journalists say that in the 11 months of large -scale aggression, it has lost its soldiers in 11 months than the US army in Afghanistan for two decades.

The high -ranking interlocutor of the Pentagon, explaining the high losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, stated that the Kremlin clearly shows problems with logistics, military tactics and ammunition reserves. It should be noted that in January the British tabloid The Sun published material dedicated to the loss of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. According to British journalists, since February 24, Russia has lost 188,000 servicemen killed and wounded.