Russia admits it has lost significant number of troops in Ukraine

Russia has admitted it has suffered “significant losses of troops” in its ongoing war with Ukraine.

Dmitry Peskov, Russia’s presidential spokesman, said this on Thursday in an interview with Sky News.

“We’ve had significant losses of troops and it’s a huge tragedy for us,” he said.

His admission is significant because Russia’s ministry of defence had reportedly said 1,351 of its soldiers had been killed in the war while Ukraine had stated the number of Russian casualties as almost 19,000.

Peskov said the Russian military is doing its best to bring an end to war.“And we do hope that in coming days, in the foreseeable future, this operation will reach its goals or will finish it by the negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegation,” he added.

Speaking further, the spokesman denied suggestions that Russian troops were responsible for killings in the town of Bucha and said “we’re living in days of fakes and lies”, adding that images of civilians murdered in the town were staged.