“Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (VSU) and foreign mercenaries on April 16 amounted to about 23.3 thousand people.” This was announced by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, reports TASS.
So, he called Lies a recent statement by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky that the losses of the Ukrainian soldiers during the operation range from 2.5 to 3 thousand people.
“The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has reliable data on the true losses of the Ukrainian army, the National Guard and arriving foreign mercenaries, which Zelensky is afraid to speak to the people of Ukraine,” said Konashenkov.
He added that soon the Ministry of Defense would publish separate data from Ukrainian documents on their losses, which contain information about the place of death and burial dead.