“They are more difficult to disperse due to their lack of small unit leadership, and they will do worse than trained soldiers in the cold,” he tweeted. But keeping them with ammunition is “just a failure of leadership”, he said.
Ukraine initially said hundreds of Russians were killed in Makiivka, and that a similar attack on a different base in southern Kherson province the same night also killed a large number of Russian soldiers, which Moscow has not confirmed.
human toll
Andrey Chernyak, an official in the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence section, said in comments to the RBC-Ukraine media outlet that Kyiv had not given up on Russia’s offensive this year despite the heavy human toll.
Chernyak said, “According to the estimates of Ukrainian military intelligence, the Russian army may lose 70,000 people in the next four-five months. And the leadership of the occupied country (Russia) is ready for such losses.”
