Thousands of military personnel have been killed as a result of the conflict in Ukraine and Russia.
The Russian Federation has been at war in Ukraine for more than four weeks. According to Vladimir Putin, he sent Russian soldiersย into Ukraine for a peacekeeping mission and a “denazification” of the country in March 2022.ย
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Vladimir Putin says he’s protecting his people and it’s the west that is pushing for a war. Neither side is backing down as weapons from Nato allies flood into Ukraine to counter the Russian threat. It’s this tension between Putin and Nato that’s driving this standoff.
The new NATO flag marks the determination of the western powers to defend their freedom. Nato is a military alliance between the US, Canada, and the democracies in Europe. It was set up at the beginning of the Cold War to prevent the Soviet Union from invading Europe.
NATO had 19 members when Putin took office in 1999; now it has 30, some of which were once part of the Soviet Union. For hundreds of years, Ukraine belonged to the Russian Empire, and for the majority of the twentieth century, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, 92 percent of Ukrainians voted for independence. For the next two decades, the country struggled with whether to align itself with Europe or Russia, and then, in 2013, it appeared that the balance of power had tipped in favor of Russia.
The government rejected the European Union’s call for closer ties with Russia. This decision was met with mass protests which spilled into violence and revolution as Ukraine’s pro-Russia leader was overthrown less than a week later. Russian forces seized Crimea, an area with a large Russian population. Then Putin sent more troops, this time into eastern Ukraine to support pro-Russian uprisings, sparking a conflict that has killed more than 14 000 people and still continues to this day.
All of this has led us here to this deadlock. On one hand, Putin is demanding a stop to NATO expansion, and the west is demanding that Russia withdraw its troops.
This is about Putin himself. Putin finds it difficult to de-escalate, and in many of these situations, he is very bright and obsessed with proving to all Russians that Russia is once again a great world power.
How Many Russian Soldiers Died In Ukraine 2022?
According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as of March 26, 2022, there were 7,015 and 1,000 Russian troops killed in the last four weeks of fighting, respectively, and another 4,000 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war.
According to Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, nearly 15,400 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine so far.
“The total losses of the enemy as of this morning are losses of personnel of about 15,400 people”
“509 armored combat vehicles, artillery systems, and 252 multiple rocket launchers. There are 80 air defense systems. 45 planes and 99 helicopters. 123 pieces of automotive equipment and over a thousand pieces of ship and boat equipment. three separate fuel tanks and more than 70 manned aerial vehicles. Electronic warfare and electronic suppression systems are examples of special equipment. “These are very important pieces of military equipment and weapons, which are very important pieces of military equipment and weapons,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said on Wednesday.
Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, stated Over 1,300 servicemen have been killed and nearly 4,000 have been injured in Russia-Ukraine war.
