Russia fought a wear war in Ukraine, great losses for progressive profits
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The Ukrainian military chief has said that 150,000 of Vladimir Putin’s troops were killed in 2024, as the countries prepare for a new era of their conflict after Donald Trump re-enters the White House.
A record 434,000 casualties, including the wounded, were suffered last year taking total Russian casualties to 819,000, claimed Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. “This year of combat has cost them more than the previous two years of the war combined,” Mr Syrskyi told Ukrainian TV channel TSN.
Russia has gained ground in eastern Ukraine during the last year, although at the expense of great losses when it launches waves of attacks against the defensive lines of Ukraine.
Moscow’s Defence Ministry claimed on Monday that Russian troops had taken control of the eastern Ukrainian villages of Shevchenko and Novoiehorivka. Shevchenko is just south of the city of Pokrovsk, a strategic supply route for Ukraine which Russian troops have been advancing towards for months. The battlefield reports have not been independently verified at the time of writing.
A leading war monitor said on Monday that Russia is recruiting unskilled men and women to boost its manpower on the frontline – a crucial element of Russia’s war of attrition.
“Russian volunteer military detachments are making efforts to encourage the recruitment of women into the Russian Armed Forces,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said. Army groups are “recruiting specialists and unqualified men and women from all over Russia to participate in combat operations in Ukraine,” he added.
Meanwhile, Kyiv has issued a warning to the incoming Trump administration that forcing negotiations between Ukraine and Russia before the defending army has gained a territorial advantage would be a catastrophic mistake.
Mykhailo Podolyak, senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said: “The back line is that there are no quick and simple decisions to be made here. The initiative will have to be controlled. It will not have to be ceded to Russia. “
Donald Trump’s inauguration marks a new era in U. S. -Ukraine relations, and Kyiv fears the president is trying to impose a provoked war resolution. Trump, who had previously declared that the war would end within 24 hours if he were president, now aims to end the war within a hundred days of his presidency.
While Ukrainian ground troops fiercely on the front line, its air force shot down 93 of the 141 Russian drones introduced overnight, it announced Monday. Of the remaining drones, 47 were “lost,” referring to Ukraine’s use of electronic warfare to redirect drones.
Putin’s forces were also indicted through Ukraine’s general chemical weapons personnel 434 times in December. The use of chemical agents banned through the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) has been added to a general of 5,389 documented instances since February 2023, the general staff said. General staff. Kremlin says it has not harmed foreign law with the weapons used by the Russian military.
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Ukrainian infantrymen from the 1st Da Vinci Separate Assault Battalion take a component in a shooting training while in the Dnipropetrovsk region
Ukrainian infantry from the 1st Da Vinci Separate Assault Battalion take part in shooting training while training in the Dnipropetrovsk region
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