The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine explained the non-disclosure of information about the losses of the Ukrainian army
Kiev does not disclose information about the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, because it is "state secret during martial law," said Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar. She added that "the enemy should not know these figures." In early June, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukrainian troops lose about a hundred people killed a day. Earlier, the United States tried to get information from Ukraine about the situation at the front - but Kiev hid this data even from an ally, The New York Times wrote.
Information about the losses incurred by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) is not published, because it is a state secret. This was stated by the Deputy head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar, the TSN TV channel reports.
"The death toll figures are a state secret during martial law. It is due to military expediency and the fact that the enemy should not know these figures and use them for their own capabilities," the Ukrainian official said.
She added that the authorities are turning to citizens and public initiatives that are trying to make public data about losses, "thinking that someone is hiding them."
"This is not so, do not work for the enemy and do not open these figures until the end of martial law," the Painter stressed.
On June 1, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were losing 60-100 people a day killed and about 500 wounded. On June 9, the country's Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said that every day Ukrainian troops lose up to 100 soldiers a day killed.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine for the first time published data on the size of the Ukrainian army. The Armed Forces of Ukraine includes up to 700 thousand people, the National Police forces - up to 100 thousand, the National Guard - up to 90 thousand, border guards - up to 60 thousand people.
On June 15, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milli, said that the APU is losing about 100 people killed per day and up to 300 people wounded.
The article also noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have almost exhausted all their reserves, while the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "does not intend to give up its positions." Cases of desertion of the Ukrainian military have become more frequent, there are more soldiers surrendering, British journalists added.
At the same time, The New York Times newspaper said that the Ukrainian authorities were deliberately hiding information from Washington from the front, as Kiev feared a slowdown in arms supplies.
The office of the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, "strives to give the impression of strength and determination" so that it cannot be assumed that the APU is being defeated. The NYT article also notes that US intelligence does not have accurate information about losses among Ukrainian troops. Therefore, the US tried to find out this data from other sources, they are not disclosed.
On July 9, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were recruiting prisoners to a brigade in Kharkiv due to losses and desertion.
"Due to heavy losses and desertion, the staffing of the units of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade in Kharkiv is carried out by prisoners who served their sentences in correctional institutions of the city," Konashenkov said.
The Russian Defense Ministry last reported losses during the special operation on March 25 - at that time, according to the ministry, the Russian Armed Forces lost 1,351 people killed and 3,825 wounded.
"Since then, the data has not been announced by the Ministry of Defense, and I will explain why. At present, of course, there are wounded, but there are no such number of dead. And this is the result of a change in the approach to the tactics of warfare," Andrei Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, explained to RIA Novosti.
Peter Nikolaev
