EXCLUSIVE TRANSLATION: More than 60,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the war so far, while more than 2,300 tanks have been destroyed, Ukrainian authorities announced in their updated casualty estimate this morning, with President Volodymyr Zelensky declaring the restored city of Lyman ‘completely free of Putin’s troops’. “.
Of the 60,110 Russian soldiers who died in action, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 500 have been missing in the past 24 hours, mostly in the Kramatorsk and Bakhmut regions. It added that 2,377 tanks were destroyed in general. According to the “Daily Mail”.
Meanwhile, today Zelensky also announced that the main city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, located in one of the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia, had been completely cleared of Moscow’s forces.
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine progressed, it recently faced major setbacks as Ukrainian forces reclaimed swathes of territory in a counterattack that began in September that humiliated and angered Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has come under fire for Russia’s forced withdrawal of its forces from the strategically important Lyman on Saturday, which it has been using as a transportation and logistics hub, after Ukrainian forces cordoned off the city in a counterattack that humiliated the Kremlin.