Ukraine talks about the killing of 111,760 Russian soldiers since the beginning of the war

The Kremlin: Handing over Western armored vehicles to Kyiv will prolong the suffering of the Ukrainians

Destroyed shops in a local market after a Russian missile attack on a village in the Kharkiv region.

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Yesterday, the Kremlin confirmed that the delivery of Western armored vehicles and other weapons announced last week to Ukraine will only “prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people” and “will not change” the balance of power, while Ukraine announced that its armed forces have killed about 24 people since the start of the war on February 24. 111 thousand and 760 Russian soldiers, including 590 soldiers, on Sunday.

In detail, the Kremlin said that the delivery of Western armored vehicles and other weapons to Ukraine, which was announced last week, will only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

“Fundamentally, deliveries (armor and weapons) cannot and will not change anything,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the press.

Extraditions will only prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people.”

Last week, the United States and Germany announced their intention to deliver armored vehicles, while France said, for its part, that it had sent light tanks to Kyiv.

In addition, Ukraine announced that its armed forces had killed, since the start of the war on February 24, about 111,760 Russian soldiers, including 590 soldiers, on Sunday.

This came in a statement issued by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on its page on the social networking site "Facebook" and was reported by the Ukrainian National News Agency "Ukrinform" yesterday.

The statement said: “During the period between February 24, 2022 and January 9, 2023, the enemy’s total combat losses also included 3,080 Russian tanks, 6,147 armored fighting vehicles, 2,069 artillery systems, 434 MLRS multiple launch rocket systems, and 217 missile systems.” Anti-aircraft.

The statement added that "285 warplanes, 275 helicopters, 16 gunboats, 1856 drones, and 183 units of special equipment were also destroyed, and a total of 723 enemy cruise missiles were shot down."

And in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists revealed yesterday their control of a town near the city of Bakhmut, where the fiercest battles have been taking place for months to seize it.

The pro-Russian fighters in this region, which Moscow announced its annexation of its lands, revealed that "the Russian armed forces liberated the town of Bakhmutsi in the Donetsk region."

The town of Bakhmutsi is located in the northeast of Bakhmut, which was famous for its vineyards and salt mines, and it had 70,000 people before the war began.

Today, it has become the hottest point on the battlefield.

For months, Russian forces, led by fighters from the "Wagner" group, have been seeking to control Bakhmut, but they are facing fierce resistance from the Ukrainians amid an exchange of artillery shelling that hit part of the city.

Bakhmutsi is located near the city of Solidar, which is also witnessing fierce battles.

In his Sunday speech, the Ukrainian president considered that the area between these two cities "is among the bloodiest on the front."

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