7/6/2023 0 Comments The last year of the war![]() ![]() ![]() Ministry of Defense said earlier this month. Russian casualties have largely been confined to soldiers, because most of the fighting has taken place on the battlefield in Ukraine.Īs many as 60,000 Russian soldiers have died, the U.K. Those numbers are almost certainly undercounting the dead, U.N. In Dnipro in January, missiles destroyed an apartment building, killing dozens.Īt least 8,006 civilians, including hundreds of children, have been killed, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. Many of those missiles have landed in residential areas in cities around Ukraine, including Kyiv, the capital. Russian forces have hit Ukraine with more than than 5,000 missile strikes, 3,500 air attacks and 1,100 drone attacks in the last year, Ukrainian military officials said on Thursday. Ukrainians and international observers said they've seen the same in other Ukrainian cities in the last year. Among the dead are volunteer Ukrainian fighters defending their homeland, Russian prisoners seeking freedom in exchange for fighting and civilians in cities and towns throughout Ukraine.Īs Russian troops retreated from Bucha last April, Ukrainians discovered horrific evidence the invading forces had tortured and killed civilians. What is clear is that there have been tens of thousands of total casualties in the last year. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy, said in December that the toll had instead been between 10,000 and 13,000. Russian TV reported that as many as 157,000 Ukrainian troops have died, Hooper said. Russian TV has become its "own phenomenon" since the invasion began, Hooper said, adding that Russia leaders have become "very skilled at blending fact and fiction to create a 'through the looking glass' inverted picture of the war where Russians are victims and valiant saviors and Ukrainians are the bad guys." "Ukraine has been doubling down on portraying itself as a democracy," she said, "where media freedom and media support is an important part of what's happening." Those updates include daily tallies of the Russian strikes and death toll. Ukrainian officials, including Zelenskyy, have taken to social media to share regular updates, which have "allowed soldiers and others to really use social media in a way to appeal to allies - to try to get new allies on their side," said Heidi Tworek, director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at The University of British Columbia. ![]()
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