He says 30,000 to 40,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in fighting in Ukraine. However, Russia said in a statement on March 2 that 498 members of the Russian military had been killed in operations in Ukraine. Moscow has not released any figures on the number of Russian soldiers killed in the Ukraine war. The AP says Russia lost 15,000 troops in just one month of fighting in Ukraine, but the same number of Russian troops have died in the war in Afghanistan in almost 10 years. The NATO official said that the NATO estimate of the number of Russian military casualties was based on information received from Ukrainian authorities. Kiev has given little information on how many Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the same war. Even the West has not commented on the casualties of Ukrainian troops.
However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky once said about two weeks ago that about 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed during counter-insurgency operations against Russian troops. On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a military operation in the southern neighbor. Russia's campaign to liberate Ukraine from neo-Nazis and hard line nationalists has lasted a month, but there are no signs of a solution to the crisis. Russian troops are shelling and launching missiles in several Ukrainian cities. It has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and left millions stranded.
A fierce humanitarian crisis has erupted in the southern city of Mariupol as Russian troops continue to shell around. Bodies were found lying on the streets of Mariupol. It has been said since the beginning of the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war that if NATO intervenes in the war, it will be the third world war. US President Joe Biden says the same thing. That pressure is on the issue of the use of nuclear weapons. The United States has repeatedly warned that Russia could use nuclear or chemical weapons in Ukraine. Russia has denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday, stating Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once. He said Russia would not simply use nuclear weapons, but would be forced to do so if attacked from outside. Soon after, the NATO Secretary General began to retaliate. This has been reported by BBC and Al Jazeera. Meanwhile, acknowledged that despite four weeks of "special operations" in Ukraine, Moscow had not yet achieved its military goal. At the same time, he refused to promise that nuclear weapons would not be used in the ongoing war. According to him, if Moscow is threatened with extinction, then it can use nuclear weapons. He made the remarks in an interview with CNN. In such a situation, a few days ago, Poland promised to send peacekeepers to Ukraine. Poland is a member of NATO. Sending peacekeepers to Poland means NATO entering the battlefield. That is why the Kremlin has reacted so strongly.
The Kremlin has said that such a move would bring Russia's military and NATO forces face to face - and that the consequences of the conflict would be dire. Added that Poland's plans to send peacekeepers to Ukraine were "reckless" and "very dangerous." In words, the potential for a face-to-face confrontation between NATO and our forces would be dire - difficult to fix.
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