The media analyzed the publication of 150,000 losses of the Armed Forces, to which Ilon Musk responded
This publication was commented by Ilon Musk with the words "tragic loss of lives", but Newsweek journalists conducted favors and concluded that it was extremely dubious data. In the post with reference to the unnamed Turkish newspaper, it was stated that, in addition to 157,000 Ukrainian soldiers, 234 NATO Instructors and 2458 Alliance servicemen were killed since the beginning of a large -scale Russian invasion.
More than 12 million users were read in the Twit, and, among other things, the owner of the microblogue network was also argued that the statement of Ms. President of the European Commission Ursula von Der Lyen was deleted. It is worth noting the doubt of this information. Twita authors referred to the Turkish site Hürseda Haber, who claimed that this data was collected by the Israeli intelligence "Mossad".
At the same time, the information was outlined without any additional context or references to sources. On no other resource, these data were published, and the fact that Mossad shares information with the site that the Russian Twitter account mentioned is very, very unlikely.
Any reports of fallen Ukrainians and Russians will be controversial because of their nature, even if it is given to known analysts or sources in intelligence, due to the lack of proven information at the current stage of the war. The fact that one resource cites the report data, and without a direct reference to it, the fact that no other proven sources are written about it should already be suspected. The doubt of the origin of this data is indicated by reconnaissance reports.
In January 2023, the head of the Norwegian intelligence service Eric Christoffersen in an interview with the Norwegian TV2 TV2 reported that about 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed or injured. He estimated the losses of Russia in Ukraine at 180 thousand. The Washington Post cites the words of the Chairman of the Joint Committee of US Chiefs of Staff that the Armed Forces losses are about 100,000 today. Hürseda Haber has not been available anywhere else.
The article also mentioned the deaths of 18480 Russian soldiers. But these figures are inaccurate even with the difficulties associated with the calculation of losses during the war. In July 2022, the head of the British intelligence service of the Mi-6 Richard Moore noted that "15,000 thousand Russians lost their lives, and this is probably the most conservative estimates. " Such data were confirmed by CIA Chairman Richard Burns.
In November 2022, General Millie stated that 100,000 Russian servicemen were killed, and in January 2023 The New York Times wrote about 200,000 Russians-killed or injured in Ukraine. General Eric Christoffersen evaluated the loss of Ukraine in the war with Russia at 180 thousand killed or wounded, clarifying that "no one can now provide accurate data, they may be smaller or even larger.
" In any case, even according to modest estimates, the losses of the Russian Federation are much exceeding the data published in the Hürseda Haber article. Information about NATO soldiers from the US and the UK is also not accurate. The US Defense Ministry's loss states that no American soldier was killed in Ukraine, in turn, the British Defense Ministry directly responded to Russian tweet. "This is an inaccurate report. No soldiers of the United Kingdom's armed forces were killed in Ukraine.
British instructors who were trained by Ukrainians within the OP Orbital program have gone in February 2022. Preparation of Ukrainian recruits is now being conducted in the United Kingdom," the post said. The statement that Ursula von Der Lyen allegedly declared 100,000 dead, also misleaded, explained the European Commission Prescribe, according to him, von Der Liaan had been prevented.
"Thank you to those who pointed to the inaccuracy of the data in the previous version of this video," said the representative of the press service, Dana Spinant. According to her, estimates of external sources of how many Russian soldiers were killed in Ukraine were used, and this should have shown Russian cruelty. I must say that the calculation of the number of dead servicemen during active clashes is very inaccurate.
The Government of Ukraine reports much less data on the losses of the Armed Forces when compared to the information of the international intelligence communities. Kyiv Post reported in December that, according to the adviser to the chairman of OP Mikhail Podolyak, the losses of the Ukrainian army in Ukraine are calculated "within 10-13 thousand people". Russia's losses in Ukraine are officially estimated at 5937 soldiers since the beginning of a large -scale war.
This was stated in September by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoig. Russia does not confirm the data published anywhere outside the Russian Federation. Earlier, Focus reported that the OP named the figure of irreversible losses of the Russian Federation in Ukraine: about 200 thousand servicemen. Recall that, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conceal their losses and burn the corpses of soldiers in the Zaporozhye region.