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NATO Estimates Number Of Casualties In Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

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Published 11:04 24 Mar 2022 GMT

NATO Estimates Number Of Casualties In Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

An official from NATO has revealed the latest estimate for the amount of Russian troops who have been captured, injured or killed.

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

An official from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has revealed the latest estimate for the amount of Russian troops who have been captured, injured or killed in Ukraine.

Since President Vladimir Putin first sent troops across the border on 24 February, marking the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has appeared reluctant to share statistics of the number of casualties and fatalities.

Figures have only been published twice by Russia. Once on 2 March, stating that 498 Russian soldiers had been killed, and a second time, briefly, on 21 March by pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, which reported that 9,861 of the Kremlin's armed forces have died so far.

Yesterday, 23 March, which marked nearly a month since the invasion first began, a senior NATO military official released the most up-to-date estimate.

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NATO releases an estimate as to how many Russian troops have been killed since the invasion of Ukraine first began.
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Based on information gathered from Ukrainian authorities, any information Russia itself has released and other intelligence, an anonymous NATO official revealed that the organisation estimates that between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the invasion first began, as per Business Insider.

This number aligns with the estimate given on 21 March by Komsomolskaya Pravda. The tabloid stated: "According to the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, during the special operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces lost 9,861 people killed, 16,153 people were injured."

The statistics were later taken down from the site, but the information was screenshotted and shared by multiple social media users.

Both the figures revealed by Komsomolskaya Pravda and the estimate by NATO also match the approximation given by American intelligence.

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The estimate, cited in The New York Times, stated that the death toll for Russian troops, as of last week, stood at 'more than 7,000'.

However, it also noted this was 'the conservative side of the estimate'.

NATO has released the latest estimation for how many Russian troops have been killed since the invasion of Ukraine first begun.
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From the very start of the invasion Putin was reported as having 'overestimated' the capabilities of the Russian military, according to military intelligence.

In what he first anticipated would be a landslide victory, the Kremlin leader has now been left with soldiers low in morale, crying over the loss of their friends, and even disobeying central command to bomb civilian areas.

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Putin may have praised his fighters as the 'real heroes' of the invasion, but captured Russian soldiers have claimed that they'll be 'dead' if they are sent back home regarded as failures.

If you would like to donate to the Red Cross Emergency Appeal, which will help provide food, medicines and basic medical supplies, shelter and water to those in Ukraine, click here for more information 

Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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