According to sources, since its invasion of Ukraine in February, Russia has lost more than 900 top professionals.
According to statistics that is readily accessible, 337 marines, 144 elite paratroopers, 151 military intelligence soldiers, and 245 National Guard special forces and riot police personnel have all died.
Twenty members of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Guards Service (FSO) have perished, and about 67 combat pilots, whose training costs $14 million and takes 17 years, have also perished.
Russia has lost up to 80,000 soldiers since breaching the Ukrainian border on February 24, according to Britain’s defense secretary Ben Wallace last week.
Russia acknowledged 1,351 fatalities at the end of March, but has subsequently kept its mouth shut on mortality figures.
Russia has lost more than 900 elite specialists since the invasion of Ukraine in February, according to reports. Pictured: Russian special forces parade
According to data that is readily accessible, 337 marines, 245 members of the National Guard’s special operations and riot police units, 151 members of the military intelligence community, and 144 elite paratroopers have died.
It comes as UN inspectors will be “staying” at a nuclear station in southern Ukraine that is controlled by Russia, the organization’s leader said on Thursday after their first visit to the site after a perilous travel over the frontline despite early-morning bombardment of the region.
The 14-person crew entered Russian-controlled territory while wearing bright blue flak jackets and helmets. They arrived at the plant about 12 o’clock, with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency praising it as a successful first visit.
Rafael Grossi told reporters outside the factory, “We were able to obtain a lot of information today in these few hours.”
I was able to view the important items I needed to see, and their explanations were quite clear.
In a video made public by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Grossi was heard saying, “We have done something very significant today, and the key thing is the IAEA is staying here.”
The crew determined to continue with their perilous mission to access Europe’s largest nuclear station, which is situated on the front lines of the conflict, despite an early-morning shelling strike on the region that resulted in the forced shutdown of one of its six reactors.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Guards Service (FSO) have suffered 20 deaths and around 67 combat pilots, which take 17 years and $14 million to train, have also been killed
Russia has lost up to 80,000 soldiers since breaching the Ukrainian border on February 24, according to Britain’s defense secretary Ben Wallace last week. Soldiers engaged in mountain operations are seen.
It was “the second time in 10 days,” according to Energoatom, the nuclear agency of Ukraine, that Russian bombardment had caused a reactor to shut down.
It said that just before 2 a.m., “due to further (Russian) mortar bombardment,” the plant’s emergency protection system activated, shutting down reactor number five, and that the strike “damaged” a backup power supply.
Both sides have been repeatedly shelling the vicinity of the plant, which is located on the southern banks of the Dnipro River, and this has caused widespread worry about the possibility of a disaster.
Russian military fired “mortars and used automatic weapons and rockets” on the nearby town of Energodar before daybreak, according to its mayor, Dmytro Orlov.
‘Today we were able, in these few hours, to gather a lot of information,’ Rafael Grossi told reporters outside the plant
When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert delegation visited the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, a Russian all-terrain armored vehicle was parked outside.
However, Moscow charged Kiev of smuggling up to 60’saboteurs’ who arrived in the vicinity of the facility before daybreak and forced Russian forces to take’measures to kill the enemy.
Russia is said to have stationed hundreds of troops and kept armaments at the plant by Ukraine.
A perspective shared by other foreign authorities is that Moscow aims to reroute electricity from the plant to the neighbouring Crimean peninsula, which it seized in 2014. This suspicion is shared by Kyiv.
According to Boris Johnson, who will leave his position on September 6, “clearly the Russians’ goal is to unhook (the plant) from the Ukrainian grid and plug it into the Russian grid.”
In the meanwhile, Ukrainian forces continued their counteroffensive in the adjacent city of Kherson to recapture territory that had been taken by Russia at the beginning of the invasion.
In its morning statement, the president said that “massive explosions persisted for the previous 24 hours” across Kherson, while in the eastern Donetsk area, five persons were killed and 12 others were injured.