The head of the Nordic country’s army also estimates that “more than 100,000” Kiev troops have been killed or wounded
In nearly a year of fighting, the war in Ukraine has resulted in nearly “180,000 killed or wounded” in the ranks of the Russian army and “more than 100,000” on the Ukrainian side, not counting the 30,000 civilian deaths. The head of the Norwegian armed forces, Eirik Kristoffersen, said this in an interview with the TV2 network on Sunday, although he did not specify the origin of these figures.
The calculations presented this Sunday by Norway, a country bordering Russia and a member of NATO since its creation in 1949, were released two months after the head of the US military, Mark Milley, declared in November that Russian troops are losing members of over 100,000 killed or wounded, with a similar “probable” balance on the Ukrainian side. Moscow and Kiev, on the other hand, refuse to provide reliable accounts of their victims.
The government of Volodimir Zelensky these days has been urging the West about the need to send tanks as soon as possible, especially the German-made Leopard 2, as well as heavy artillery and ammunition, to win the war against Vladimir Putin. In this regard, the chairman of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Viacheslav Volodin, declared this Sunday through his Telegram channel that supplying offensive weapons to Kiev will lead to a “global catastrophe”.
“Given the technological superiority of Russian weapons, foreign politicians making such decisions should understand that this could end in a global catastrophe that would destroy their country,” Volodin warned. He also warned that if Washington and NATO countries provide weapons “which will be used to attack peaceful cities and try to seize our territories”, it will lead to “retaliation with more powerful weapons”.
Volodin’s message coincided with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s surprise visit to Ukraine. In particular, the conservative politician was photographed in the town of Borodianka, in the Kiev region, where he traveled after being invited by Zelensky himself, to whom he told this Sunday that it is a privilege to be there and his solidarity with the country to show. .
Source: La Verdad
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