Lukashenko: Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost 45,000 soldiers since the beginning of the counteroffensive

Ukrainian troops have already lost 45,000 people killed and seriously wounded since the start of the counteroffensive, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in interview Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko.

“And you go … as the Germans show in the movies, to the barricades, but you don’t even reach, we see this, even to the minefields. You are simply destroyed by the thousands, 45,000 of you died during the counteroffensive and left there crippled,” he said.

According to Lukashenka, Ukraine loses 1,500 troops per day during the intensification of hostilities.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been conducting offensive operations for more than two months, since the beginning of June. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated about the lack of success of the Ukrainian army and pointed to the heavy losses of the enemy. At the same time, Russian troops are conducting an offensive in the Kupyansk direction.

At the end of July, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian counter-offensive had failed. On July 21, Putin said that Kyiv could not achieve any results with a counteroffensive, neither Western-supplied equipment nor thousands of foreign mercenaries helped him in this. According to him, “during suicidal attacks” Ukraine lost tens of thousands of soldiers.

Later, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informedthat Ukraine in July lost 20,824 servicemen and 2,227 pieces of military equipment. According to him, among the weapons lost by Kiev: 10 Leopard tanks, 11 American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 40 American M777 artillery systems and 50 self-propelled artillery mounts from Western countries. On August 15, the minister announced the almost complete exhaustion of Ukraine’s military resource.