The Ministry of Defense cannot currently provide an exact number of casualties, because it cannot collect the number of casualties in some regions, especially Mariupol.
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Malyara said Ukrainians’ losses are significantly lower than Russia’s.
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“It’s not hundreds of thousands. Thank God, it’s not hundreds of thousands. A few weeks ago the figure was about 9,000. Sure, we have Mariupol, whose death toll we don’t know. There are thousands, but certainly not hundreds of thousands. “said Maliara.
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He stressed that these are only casualties among military personnel, as another institution deals with the accounting of dead civilians.
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The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine reached 56,060 troops by Friday morning, the Ukrainian army general staff said.
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