KREMLIN SPOKESMAN PESKOV ADMITS ‘SIGNIFICANT’ RUSSIAN LOSSES

Fri 08 April 2022:

Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.

“This is a huge tragedy for us,” he told SkyNews TV in an interview.

Asked if the war was a humiliation for Russia given the number of troops lost, Dmitry Peskov said: “No, it’s a wrong understanding of what’s going on.”

But he admitted: “We have we have significant losses of troops. And it’s a huge tragedy.”https://t.co/tPMZZzumcP pic.twitter.com/pCkp292fsJ

— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 8, 2022

Peskov’s comments followed Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations Human Rights council on Wednesday.

Some 93 of the 193 members of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the diplomatic rebuke, which followed allegations of mass human rights abuses by Russian troops in the formerly occupied town of Bucha in northern Ukraine. Moscow announced its resignation from the council in response.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said 1,351 of its soldiers had been killed in combat. Ukraine puts the Russian deaths at almost 19,000.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine’s estimates of Russian losses can be independently verified – and analysts have cautioned that Russia may be downplaying its casualty rate, while Ukraine could be inflating it to boost morale. Western leaders believe that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.

Russia has pulled troops away from Kyiv and shifted most of the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine – but the fighting shows no signs of ending.

The Russia-Ukraine war, which started Feb. 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough financial sanctions on Moscow.

At least 1,611 civilians have been killed in Ukraine and 2,227 injured, according to UN estimates, with the true figure feared to be far higher.

More than 4.3 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries, with millions more internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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