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By: EFE Updated 27 Feb 2022, 14: 55 pm EST
The Russian Ministry of Defense acknowledged today for the first time the existence of dead, wounded and prisoners during the “special military operation” ordered by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in Ukraine.
“Unfortunately we have comrades dead and wounded”, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashénkov, declared at a press conference, without specifying the number of casualties.
However, the Russian military nuanced that the Russian losses “are considerably less than the number of killed nationalists or losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine”.
This figure contrasts with the data offered by the Ukrainian side, which have claimed to have finished with between 2,800 and 3,000 Russian military, while encrypting in 198 their own casualties.
Konasenkov also acknowledged the existence of Russian prisoners of war detained by Ukrainian forces.
“We know how the Nazis treat Ukrainians to the few Russian soldiers who are taken prisoner.
And we see that the mistreatment and torture are the same used by the Nazi Germans and their collaborators during World War II”, he denounced.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Defense contrasted this attitude with the dignified treatment given by the Russian military to Ukrainian soldiers who lay down their arms.
“ We understand that they swore to the people of Ukraine. All those who laid down their arms and did not resist will be returned to their families”, he assured.
This Sunday the representative of the military entity reported that about 500 Ukrainian soldiers belonging to an anti-aircraft regiment of the city of Kharkov, in northeastern Ukraine, had laid down their arms, information denied in turn by the Ukrainian authorities.
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