“This is my personal opinion, I think about 200 thousand“ two hundredth ”(dead. -
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) and more than 300 thousand wounded who will no longer return to duty,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Novikov added that he used various sources of information in the calculations.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian authorities, due to high losses, are forced to send soldiers who have not completed training, as well as military personnel in hospitals who have not undergone full rehabilitation after injuries, to the front.