Moscow. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, claims that according to Russian Defense Ministry figures, 9,861 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine and 16,153 have been wounded. (The Ukrainians estimate Russian losses at double these estimates, which are close to those estimated by the Americans.) These are enormous losses in less than a month of fighting, greater than the American soldiers killed in twenty years of military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Russian losses of equipment in Ukraine are equally high (according to American estimates: personnel – 15,000, tanks – 498, APV – 1,535, artillery systems – 240, MRLS – 80, anti-aircraft warfare systems – 45, aircraft – 97, UAVs – 24, boats – 3, helicopters – 121). Finally, six Russian generals have been killed on the battlefield since the beginning of the fighting.
