The figure, which includes wounded and dead, was reported by Tony Radakin, the UK Army's Chief of Defence Staff. It brings the total number of Russian Army casualties since the start of the war to 700.000.
Russia suffered last October its worst month in terms of casualties since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with a daily average of 1.500 dead and wounded, according to the head of the UK Army's Defence personnel revealed on Sunday, Tony Radakin.
In an interview with the television network with the BBC, Radakin said that Russian forces recorded an average of about 1.500 deaths and injuries in combat “every day” that month, raising its death toll to 700.000 since the start of the invasion.
Although Russia does not release the number of its dead at the front, defense officials in Western countries have said that the figure reached in October was the highest so far.
According to what Radakin said on Sunday, with the BBC, Russians are “paying an extraordinary price” for Putin’s invasion.
“Russia is close to having 700.000 dead or wounded, the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation has to endure because of Putin's ambition”, the British admiral noted.
According to the UK Armed Forces' Chief of the Defence Staff, “there is no doubt that Russia is making tactical and territorial gains that are putting pressure on Ukraine.”
On the other hand, the official noted that Russia is spending more than 40% of its public spending on defence and security, which represents "an enormous burden" for that country.
While the allies of the US president-elect, Donald Trump, have indicated that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will have to cede territory to end the conflict, Radakin insisted to the aforementioned channel that Western allies will support Ukraine "as long as it takes."
“That is the message that President Putin needs to absorb and the assurance for President Zelensky,” he said.
Trump has repeatedly said that his priority will be to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine because it represents a drain on US resources in the form of financial support and military aid to Ukraine, although he has not yet specified how he plans to do so.
Meanwhile, amid the Russian advance into Ukrainian territory, Putin's troops captured another town in Donetsk, south of the city of Girnik - the highest point in the area - in their efforts to surround the city of Kurajove, the Russian Defense Ministry reported in its daily war report on Saturday.
“Units of the Tsentr (Center) military group liberated the village of Volchenka in the Donetsk People's Republic,” the military report published in Telegram.
According to the source, The Southern military group continues to open a breach in the Ukrainian army's defense, while the East and West groupings improved their positions on the front line.
Volchenka, a small town with just 250 inhabitants before the war, had already been declared taken by Russian forces by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on November 6, based on geolocated images, but the Russian Ministry of Defense only confirmed its control over it today.
Progress in this sector is part of Russian efforts to surround the city of Kurakhov, one of the priority objectives of the Russian forces.
The Ukrainian army has acknowledged the advances made by Russian troops in recent weeks, but says they are achieving this at a very high price in terms of casualties and losses of war material.
(With information from EFE)
Source: INFOBAE
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