Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2024 killed around 150,000 Russians, making it the deadliest year of the conflict to date, Kiev claims.
The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces claimed that in 2024 the Russian army suffered more combat deaths than in any previous year of the war.
General Oleksandr Shirsky told Ukrainian state television that according to Kiev estimates, the Russian Federation suffered 434,000 casualties in 2024. Of these, “approximately 150,000 people were killed in 2024,” he said, meaning that throughout the year Putin “lost more lives than in the previous two years of war.” said.
In fact, according to official statistics regularly released by Kiev, the total number of Russian military casualties has reached 1 million people, and from the first day until the beginning of this week 818,000 people, 9,800 tanks and 20,000 soldiers were killed. These APCs were “eliminated” by the Ukrainian military.
Ukraine says Russia's combat casualties will soar through 2024, reaching record numbers in the fall, and the country lost twice as many troops per day in October as it did in the first year of the war. It is said that the number has continued to increase since then. By Christmas, the number will reach 2,000 per day. According to Kiev, this was due to Moscow's human-wave tactics of overwhelming Ukrainian positions with overwhelming force.
The British Ministry of Defense announced that Russian casualties had risen for the sixth consecutive month through December, with more than 48,000 casualties, making it Russia's worst month of war in history.
As ever, there is no independent body to adjudicate combat casualties in the Ukraine war, denying either side of the conflict the national morale value of emphasizing the deaths of enemy combatants while minimizing their own losses. I can't. Western estimates tend to focus on Russia's losses, and Ukrainian casualties are rarely, if ever, discussed, but in 2023 President Zelensky predicted that estimates of Russia's own combat losses would be 10 times larger. He said it was a “deceptive” lie.
In addition to talking about Russian casualties, General Shirschiy boasted this week of the effectiveness of Ukraine's attacks on Russian arms dumps, saying its toll is being felt on the battlefield. He said the amount of ammunition used by the Russian military on the battlefield has been reduced, and the bombing of munitions stores has proven to have a real impact on logistics.
The general said: “In recent months, the Russian military's artillery ammunition expenditure rate has practically halved. Previously, this figure reached up to 40,000 rounds per day, but now it has decreased significantly.'' Masu.”
