Nine weeks in Ukraine is like nine years in Afghanistan. They counted Russia’s losses. war in ukraine

“We estimate that about 15,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack,” British Minister of State for Defense Ben Wallace was quoted by the American newspaper Business Insider as saying. As evaluated it About a quarter of Russian tactical battalion groups were “ineffective in combat”.

B.I. compared these estimates to the scale of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which lasted from December 25, 1979, to February 15, 1989. At the time, as The Atletic magazine reported in 2014, 14.5 thousand Soviet soldiers died And 18 thousand. Supported by the regular Federation of Afghanistan.

Earlier, Ben Wallace of the Izgie Commune noted that “Moscow” is the second major asset for the Russian Federation to lose in the Black Sea, This significantly weakens its operational capabilities in this area. He also said that Russia “has not achieved almost any of its goals so far.” The quick campaign that ended with the installation of a puppet government in Kyiv is like this. These plans came with nothing.

As the British Minister of State for Defense estimated it More than 2,000 Russian armored vehicles have been destroyed or capturedIncluding “no less than 530 tanks, 530 armored personnel carriers and 560 infantry fighting vehicles”.

It is also estimated that the Kremlin’s forces also lost at least 60 helicopters and fighters. The information provided by Ukraine about Russia’s losses is higher. Those run by Putin’s regime – much less.