30% increase in wounded Ukrainian soldiers
| The head of a major hospital in Ukraine said Tuesday that the facility has seen a 30 percent increase in wounded soldiers in recent weeks, many of whom are left with life-long disabilities. |
Fars News Agency International Group; “Every day between 40 and 100 Ukrainian soldiers are hospitalized here with severe injuries, and between 50 and 100 surgeries are performed every 24 hours, most of these surgeries are amputations,” said Dr. Sergey Rizhenko, head of the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnieper, one of the It is the oldest and largest surgery center in Ukraine.
Rizhenko said in an interview with ABC on Tuesday that the doctors of the hospital, which is located a few hours away from the battlefield, since the beginning of the conflict with Russia in February 2022, on about 3000 soldiers of the Ukrainian army have performed amputations.
Ukraine government official statistics of the total number of troops that have been (The start of the war) did not publish the number of killed or wounded; However, in a recent interview with the country’s media, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko said that the authorities should honestly admit that they have lost 500,000 troops (the equivalent of 25 full divisions) since the start of the conflict, and that the monthly casualty rate is about 30,000.
In its report, ABC, citing unnamed Ukrainian soldiers, attributed the increase in the number of casualties to advantages enjoyed by Russian forces, including “superiority in the number and types of lethal drones, as well as better countermeasures technology. with Ukrainian drones and large stockpiles of ammunition”. The country’s artillery, which is the most important ammunition in the war, has not much left.
The former commander of the United States Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, believes about the course of the war in 2024. Russia lacks the ability to overrun Ukraine and will do everything it can to hold on to what it currently holds (18% of Ukraine’s territory) and use the time to build up its defenses while hoping to cut off Western support. It’s from Kiev.
Barbara Zancheta from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, however, sees the outlook for the end of the war as dark for the Ukrainian side and Putin compared to last year. Politically, he knows stronger. He said that “with uncertainty on the Western front that strengthens Russia and in the absence of a coup or a complication that leads to Putin’s death, the only foreseeable outcome will be the end of the war through negotiations”.
Although Russian officials say they are ready for negotiations with the aim of ending the conflict, they emphasize that any negotiations should be aimed at achieving the goals of this country’s special military operations.
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