At a meeting with journalists on June 5, the Kremlin dictator said that the Ukrainian army loses allegedly about 50,000 soldiers a month. He noted that only half of this number is killed, that is, according to him, 25,000.
However, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) disagrees with him and says that there is no evidences of such high losses.
At the same time, Putin points out that the ratio of irrecoverable losses of Ukrainian to Russian troops, that is, the number of dead is 5 to 1. That is, if Putin admits the deaths of 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers, the number of Russians killed, according to Putin - 5,000 people.
According to statistics, the number of losses by wounded and incapacitated is considered three times the number of killed, which means that the so-called sanitary losses of the Russian army is 15,000. It comes out that the Russians lose 20,000 people per month. And this is only according to the minimum estimate, which is recognized by the Russian authorities. The real number may be many times higher.
Let's remind, only according to official data, for 10 years of terrible war in Afghanistan the number of wounded and killed Soviet soldiers amounted to about 80,000 people. Thus, Russia loses as many people in the war against Ukraine in 4 months as in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
Putin wanted to brag about how many Ukrainians he killed, but without even realizing it, he told how many Russians return from the front in black bags.
