Military Expert Told About Shocking Losses Of Russians In Donbass
5- 21.08.2025, 10:43
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The numbers are staggering.
The Russian army's advance has slowed to a minimum over the summer: breakthroughs are blocked by the Ukrainian defense, and Russian losses are growing.
What is happening on the front now? About it Charter97.org talked with military expert, co-director of foreign policy and international security programs at the Razumkov Center in Kiev Alexei Melnyk:
- Strategically, the situation in the theater of military operations has not changed dramatically, and this has been recorded for at least the last three months. The intensity of fighting since the beginning of the spring-summer campaign remains very high - about 180 combat clashes every day. For understanding: in June there were on average 184, in July - 186, and in August - 178. That is, there is a slight decrease, but it is not radical. Rather, we can talk about stabilization. This is a sign that the resources of the Russian Federation are running out, and it is not possible to increase the pace of the offensive.
In the last two months, the Russians have occupied about 500 square kilometers every month. At first glance, that's a lot of territory. But if you stretch it along a front of a thousand kilometers, it comes out to be only 500 meters a month.
As for the losses of the Russian army, they remain colossal. On average - about 1,000 people a day. The Russians actively used the tactics of micro-attack groups: earlier they sent 5-10 people, now they send 2-5, hoping to stealthily infiltrate through the Ukrainian defense. But the level of losses remained enormous.
Recently, I personally communicated with soldiers of the 24th separate mechanized brigade, who have been holding the defense of Chasov Yar for more than a year. At a closed event, they told me that the ratio of losses on this section of the front is one to thirty: for every Ukrainian soldier killed, 30 Russians are killed. These are real figures, confirmed by the military, without the slightest sense to embellish them.
Factually, Russia is simply "throwing meat" on the positions of the AFU. Soldiers describe that groups come one after another, two or three people each, they are destroyed, and in half an hour new ones appear. This is a veritable conveyor belt of death - the price of Russia's "creeping offensive" tactics.
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