Russia may have just experienced its deadliest month of invasion to date, with casualties continuing to soar due to a combination of human wave tactics and Ukraine's counter-invasion of mainland Russia.
The UK Ministry of Defense announced that daily military casualties (casualties) reached a new high in September, averaging 1,271 per day throughout the month. According to the Information Digest, this new level of daily losses is not only the highest level in the conflict so far, but also the losses inflicted on Russia now even in the first 12 months of the bloody war it started. far exceeds.
Even at its peak, Russia's average daily casualties in 2022 were less than half of what they are now.
In its analysis, the Defense Ministry said this year's spike in casualties was “almost certainly” due to Ukraine's anti-Russian aggression in Kharkiv and Kursk and Russia's human wave tactics. London describes these huge pushes as “massive attacks to overwhelm defensive positions and achieve tactical gains.” The analysis says there is no end in sight, and the onset of winter has not seen a decrease in intensity over the past two years, and nothing is likely to change.
Digest said there were “likely” more than 648,000 casualties across Russia, citing Ukrainian government figures. Ukrainian state media itself claims that the country inflicted 38,130 casualties on Russian forces in September and also destroyed 6,283 vehicles of various types. This included 291 Russian tanks and 787 armored vehicles.
A litany of leaks and press conferences handed out by Western sources such as the British government and US intelligence agencies to a small number of Beltway-related newspapers tend to focus on Russian casualties, but not the Ukrainian numbers. They are difficult to understand out of context because they are much more difficult to grasp. Please come. As reported in May of this issue:
Because secrecy is normal in wartime, and the invasion of Ukraine is no exception, it is difficult to obtain a realistic assessment of losses on either side. As previously reported, the number of Russian bodies claimed by Ukraine is significantly higher than, for example, the numbers sometimes released by the UK Ministry of Defense. In March, Ukraine claimed 416,000 Russian casualties, while Britain officially put the number at 315,000.
It is difficult to estimate the number of Ukrainian casualties. Kiev does not normally release the number of dead and injured in the country, but President Zelenskiy made the remarks on the occasion of the second anniversary of the start of the conflict. He said the Kremlin's figure of 300,000 was a “deceptive” lie, although in February he claimed the real death toll was 31,000.
In April, a journalism project collating data from Russian cemetery burials, social media obituaries and newspaper obituaries reported that it had successfully “confirmed” 50,000 Russian deaths.
