Avdiivka jumped: with the onset of the Donbass, the losses of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have increased greatly - BBC
At the same time, from August to September, an average of 360 soldiers died weekly. About it writes the Russian BBC service. Such a jump coincides with the beginning of active offensive actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and, in particular, with surgery on the assault of Avdiivka and other settlements of Donetsk region, journalists indicate that, according to them, from October 2023 to 5 April 2024 at least 1014 Russian soldiers were killed.
These figures do not include soldiers who have an unknown date of death. According to many experts, attempts to break through the Russian forces in Donetsk region have been stopped. However, the delay in information about the dead leads to continuous victims during the offensive, especially during the assault of Avdiivka. In general, the set figures of the fall and winter of 2023 are inferior only to losses during the storming of the carbon and Bakhmut in the winter and last year.
The growth rate of losses continues to exceed the average of the first year of the invasion one and a half to two times. According to experts, detachments of prisoners continue to play an important role on the front line and continue to suffer high losses. This is due to the use of Wagner's tactics, which includes attacks by small assault groups in different directions, which leads to large losses.
The Ministry of Defense uses several strategies to replenish the composition of the units, including the recruitment of convicts in the colonies. However, now they can only get to the front after the war. Another method is a set of volunteers who sign contracts with the Defense Ministry. In different regions of Russia there were efforts to recruit newly minted contractors.
"Last year, local authorities in different regions of Russia confessed that it was" launched "from a set and a business trip to the front of newly minted contractors. For example, the city of Krasnoyarsk last year was set to recruit 2000 people," BBC reports. From the beginning of the invasion, Russia has lost at least 3354 officers, including 1016 elite team experts, such as WIV officers, Marines, Special Forces, Special Purpose of Rosgvardy and Military Pilots.
The loss of such officers can be the most sensitive and difficult to the Russian army. The lack of coordination and inability to carry out more complex offensive maneuvers also led to the suspension of the Russian offensive in the Donbass, experts say. BBC with the media and a team of volunteers based on open sources established the names of more than 50,000 Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine since February 2022.
At least 43% of them were not directly related to the army at the time of invasion of Ukraine. However, it is likely that up to 70% of all combat losses of the Russian side are those who went to the front of the Civilian. We will remind, according to the project of Oryx as of the end of March 2023, since the beginning of a full -scale war, Russian troops lost 15 035 units of equipment, of which 10588 were destroyed.