Data fight: The US CIA said that 15,000 Russian troops were killed in Urpical, and the Ministry of Urban Defense said that it was close to 40,000

According to Reuters on the 20th, William Bernus, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said on Wednesday that the United States estimates that as of now, there are about 15,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, and the number of injuries may be 45,000. Has suffered major casualties.

Russian soldiers in the Russian and Ukraine conflict. Source: Visual China

It is reported that since Russia has adopted military operations on Ukraine on February 24, the Russian -Ukraine conflict has lasted for nearly five months. The Russian army is currently slowly advancing in the Donbass region and has controlled about one -fifth of Ukraine territory. Bernus said at the Aspert Safety Forum held at the United States in the United States that the Russian army paid a huge price in order to obtain these results. He said: "The latest assessment of the American intelligence community is about 15,000 (Russian army) killed, and the number of injuries may be three times the number of deaths. Therefore, (the Russian army) losses are quite considerable."

Bernus also said: "Ukraine has also suffered pain, which may be a little less than this (referring to the loss of the Russian army). However, you know that (Ukraine also) has heavy casualties."

Reuters said that even during a peaceful period, Russia also listed military death as national secrets, and no casualties were updated during the Russian -Ukraine conflict. Russian military officials announced a casualties on March 25, saying that 1,351 Russian soldiers were killed and 3825 were injured.

Ukrainian artillery artillery to fight the Russian position. Picture source "Visual China"

Like Russia, Ukraine also listed the Data of the Ukraine in Russia and Ukraine as national secrets. According to Tas Society, on July 14, Maryle, deputy minister of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that the number of Ukrainian soldiers in the Russian -Ukraine conflict was national secret. As long as the martial law was still effective, it could not be made public. At that time, she pointed out that the reason for this was because of military interests and could not let the enemy know the data and used it. However, many Ukrainian officials stated in June that 100 to 200 Ukrainian soldiers were killed every day.

In addition, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense updates its version of its version of the Russian army every day. As of July 20, the number of Russian army called Ukraine had reached 3,8750, which was much higher than the evaluation given by the Director of the CIA.

The Russian army launched a cruise missile to attack the Ukrainian army. Source: Visual China

Also on July 20, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that compared with the situation after the rupture of the Russian and Ukraine talks in the spring, "the geographical environment is now different", so the geographical goals of Russia's special military operations are no longer limited to Donine Twita and Lugusk also include Hermuson and Zapolo and other areas. He also warned that if Western countries continue to provide remote weapons to Ukraine, the geographical goals of Russia's special military operations will be further away from the current front. Reuters said that this is the most clear recognition of Russia so far, and its military operations have expanded.

Bernus, director of the CIA, believes that at least for the present, the Russian army has concentrated on Donbas that the Russian side has learned a painful lesson from the failure of the conflict at the beginning of the conflict. He said: "In a sense, the Russian army's approach is to return to a more comfortable way of war, use its own advantages and remote firepower, resist and effectively destroy the Ukrainian goals, and make up for the weakness of the number of manpower. They are still very experienced. "

(Edit: LC)

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