{"id":254770,"date":"2022-06-12T05:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T05:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254770"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:07:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:07:47","slug":"kiev-adviser-concedes-huge-ukrainian-military-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254770","title":{"rendered":"Kiev Adviser Concedes Huge Ukrainian Military Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"

FNA \u2013 June 11, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Ukrainian Armed Forces can admit to having lost around 10,000 personnel since the beginning of the Russian military operation in late February, presidential aide Alexey Arestovich indicated, while claiming Moscow\u2019s losses are significantly higher.<\/p>\n

Russian sources believe that Kiev is significantly underestimating its casualties, RT reported.<\/p>\n

In an interview with activist and YouTuber Mark Feygin, Arestovich revealed that\u00a0\u201cat the beginning of the conflict, 100 people died per day on average”.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in the Russian Army, 1,000 per day died in the first 20-30 days. Now 200-300 die, no less,\u201d\u00a0he said, without proving any evidence to support his assertion.<\/p>\n

He claimed that Friday was an\u00a0\u201cunusual day\u201d\u00a0for the Ukrainian Army, as\u00a0\u201c600 people [died] in one day, no less”.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be like this: one to five, one to three, one to six, it will fluctuate like this,\u201d\u00a0Arestovich added.<\/p>\n

Feygin asked if it is possible, based on these calculations, to say that the Ukrainian Army had lost up to 10,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, something like that,\u201d\u00a0he replied.<\/p>\n

This is apparently the first time the Ukrainian side has announced the total number of its losses. The figures released by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the Ukrainian Army\u2019s losses are much higher \u2013 23,367, as of April 18.<\/p>\n

Regarding its own military casualties, Moscow has not yet revealed the total numbers. Earlier this month, the head of the Russian Duma\u2019s defense committee, Andrey Kartapolov, claimed that, due to changes in the military strategy, the Russian Army has\u00a0\u201cpractically ceased to lose people\u201d. That is why, he noted, the defense ministry has not updated information on the losses since March, when it reported 1,351 military personnel had been killed.<\/p>\n

In April, Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated Russia had suffered\u00a0\u201csignificant losses of troops\u201d\u00a0and it was\u00a0\u201ca huge tragedy”.<\/p>\n

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine\u2019s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow\u2019s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich admits the country\u2019s military has sustained substantial casualties. Claiming on Friday that as many as \u201c600 people [died] in one day\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254771,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254770\/revisions\/254771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}