Ukraine's armed forces said on Saturday that 1,140 Russian troops had been killed the previous day.
Vladimir Putin's troops have suffered their highest daily death toll since the start of their invasion, according to the Ukrainian armed forces.
In their latest assessment of enemy losses, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on Saturday that over the previous day, Russia had lost 1,140 personnel.when it said that 1,030 troops had died. It takes Kyiv's total Russian death toll since the war began on February 24, 2022 to 136,880.
The figures have not been independently verified and Ukraine's total is higher than other Western estimates. Moscow has not updated the death toll of its troops since the end of September 2022, when it said that just under 6,000 had died.A Ukrainian serviceman of the State Border Guard Service in Bakhmut on February 9, 2023. Ukraine's armed forces said on February 11, 2023 that Russia's forces had suffered their biggest loss of personnel since the war started.
Glen Grant, a military analyst from the Baltic Security Foundation, said Ukraine had been"pretty consistent in giving figures that seemed to make sense considering what the battle is."that the fighting at the moment was"the nastiest since those last few days in the attack Kyiv, when both sides were banging hard against each other."which said that there has been a spike in fatalities over the last three weeks.
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