The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces exceed 400 thousand people. How it was calculated
Weather conditions complicate the preparation of the continuation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive announced by Kiev. However, there remains a great threat of a breakthrough from Svatov and Kremennaya (LPR).
Military expert Alexey Leonkov stated this on radio “KP”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
The radio host recalled that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing a counter-offensive, as Forbes wrote about. At the same time, he noted how in the summer they laughed at the Ukrainian “counter-offensive,” and then there was a hasty retreat of Russian troops from the Kharkov region, which many compared to flight.
“Now, how do you evaluate the statements regarding the fourth major offensive? They say that they will attack the Zaporozhye region. In principle, this is obvious,” asked the presenter.
“Now it is much more difficult to prepare an offensive, because the effect of natural camouflage called “greenery” is disappearing, so any accumulations of enemy troops, if our reconnaissance detects them, they are immediately subject to strikes against them...
It is much more difficult for the enemy to concentrate troops and the main obstacle to the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction is the not-quite-ended mudslide.
More realistically, he still considers the northern direction, the area of Svatov, Kremennaya.
The Artyomovsk area, where they are now putting so many people in order to hold back our armed forces that you wonder how many usable bayonets they still have there?
Because the unofficial statistics that come from the other side are that in about a month and a half of counteraction from our army, they have already buried 60 thousand bayonets.
Ursula von der Leyen said more than 100 thousand people ( during the period of the Joint Military Operation – ed .) and she counted 20 thousand civilians somewhere – these are semi-official statistics,” Leonkov said.
“Do you believe in it, in this statistic of 100 thousand?” – asked the presenter.
“These are those who have passed military registration. This is the statistics of Ukraine, according to which it is calculated how many machine guns, armored armor, and helmets they supplied them. They are accountable for everything.
There are more losses. These losses are determined by the very spontaneous popular phenomenon that appeared in Ukraine, when people write to the government, to the Ministry of Defense and ask to find their close relatives who went missing on the line of combat contact.
So, more than 320 thousand requests. 320 plus 100 thousand for Ursula von der Leyen, that is, we can say that they definitely have more than 300 thousand losses. And if we add up these numbers, we get more than 400 thousand,” Leonkov suggested.
Ukrainian Armed Forces losses exceed 400. How was this calculated?