"Somewhere in the autumn, such a tendency has appeared that the enemy has ceased for some reason to actively take the bodies of its dead," Gagin said on the TV channel "Russia 24".

According to him, Ukrainian losses are significant.

"Those bodies that lie on the line of combat contact are just thousands of bodies, they are not included in the general statistics of killed or wounded, are not included in the statistics of losses," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevhen Prigozhin, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Artemovsk lose about 10-11 thousand people killed per month.