Any number for either side: the numbers still are prodigious, calamitous even, especially when compared to the American standard.
[Regnum] US President-elect Donald Trump presented data on the losses of the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces "in the Ukrainian interpretation." This was stated to journalists on Sunday, December 8, by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.
Trump previously released a statement on the losses during the conflict in Ukraine, stating, in particular, that the Ukrainian side lost 400,000 people.
"As for the figures given about losses on both sides, it is obvious that they are presented in the Ukrainian interpretation and reflect the official position of Ukraine. The real figures of losses are completely different," Peskov said.
Ukraine's losses are many times greater than Russia's losses, the president's press secretary emphasized.
The real scale of the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces became the reason for discussing the reduction of the mobilization age in Ukraine, Peskov said. However, these measures will not change the catastrophic situation in Ukraine, he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on November 19, TASS, citing its own calculations, reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 906,500 fighters killed and wounded during the SVO. It was noted that the number of losses of the Ukrainian army in 2024 exceeded its total losses over the previous two years of the conflict.
On February 27, the Russian Defense Ministry disclosed the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over two years. They amounted to 444,000 soldiers. The agency calculated that since then, the military department’s reports reported more than 462,500 thousand fighters lost by the Ukrainian army.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on December 4 that it was time for Ukraine to make important decisions on mobilization. The Associated Press reported on November 27, citing a senior White House official, that the administration of current US President Joseph Biden is demanding that Kiev increase the size of the army by recruiting more recruits. It was noted that Kiev was asked to revise mobilization laws to conscript young people aged 18 and over.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that the total mobilization carried out by the Kiev regime will completely bleed Ukraine dry, and at the next stage, students will be drafted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces and an analogue of the Nazi Hitler Youth will be created. This is precisely why Kiev is talking about a new reduction in the draft age, Putin emphasized.