Kremlin says Russia has suffered 'significant losses' in Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 08 Apr 2022

FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past a destroyed Russian tank, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in the village of Sloboda, outside Chernihiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

(Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia had sustained "significant losses" in Ukraine, which its troops entered on Feb. 24 in what it calls a "special military operation".

Russia's defence ministry said on March 25, its most recent update, that 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the campaign, and 3,825 had been wounded.

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