Russia wages war of attrition in Ukraine, big losses for incremental gains
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The Ukrainian military chief has said that 150,000 of Vladimir Putin’s troops were killed in 2024, as the countries prepare for a new era of their conflict after Donald Trump re-enters the White House.
A record 434,000 casualties, which added to the wounded, suffered last year, bringing overall Russian casualties to 819,000, said Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Two years of the war combined “Mr. Syrskyi on the Ukrainian TV channel TSN.
Russia has gained ground in eastern Ukraine in the year beyond the year, but in charge of the heavy people when it launches waves of infantrymen on Ukraine’s defensive lines.
The Moscow Ministry of Defense affirmed on Monday that the Russian troops had taken from the Oriental Ukrainian villages of Shevchenko and Novorehorivka. Shevchenko, just south of the city of Pokrovsk, a strategic direction for Ukraine that Russian troops have advanced for months. Campos reports have not been verified independently at the time of writing.
A leading war monitor said on Monday that Russia is recruiting unskilled men and women to boost its manpower on the frontline – a crucial element of Russia’s war of attrition.
“Russian volunteer military detachments are making efforts to encourage the recruitment of women into the Russian Armed Forces,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said. The army groups are “recruitment specialists and unqualified men and women from all over Russia to participate in combat operations in Ukraine,” he added.
Meanwhile, Kyiv has issued a warning to the incoming Trump administration that forcing negotiations between Ukraine and Russia before the defending army has gained a territorial advantage would be a catastrophic mistake.
Mykhailo Podolyak, main advisor of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said: “The conclusion is that there are no quick and simple decisions to take. The initiative will have to control it. We will not have to give it to Russia. “
Donald Trump’s inauguration marks a new era in U. S. -Ukraine relations, with Kiev fearing that the president will revise to force a hasty solution to the war. Trump, who once said the war would end in 24 hours if he were president, now aims to end the war within a hundred days of his presidency.
As Ukraine’s floor troops fiercely on the front line, its air force has shot down 93 of the 141 Russian drones brought in overnight, it said Monday. Of the remaining drones, 47 were “lost,” referring to Ukraine’s use of electronic warfare to redirect drones.
Putin’s forces were also accused by Ukraine’s general staff of using chemical weapons 434 times in December. The use of chemical agents banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) added to a total of 5,389 documented cases since February 2023, the general staff said. The Kremlin says it has not broken international law with the weapons the Russian army uses.
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Ukrainian infantrymen from the 1st Da Vinci Attack Battalion take part in shooting training while carrying out activities in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian infantrymen from the 1st separate Da Vinci attack battalion take part in a shooting workout whilst they activity in the Dnipropetrovsk region
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