More than a hundred Russian soldiers are said to have been killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on a military training area in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast.
Friday May 3, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Video taken by a drone flying high above the training ground shows multiple explosions and clouds of smoke. In addition to the training ground, at least two other locations were affected. According to various media, this was an attack with American long-range missiles of the ATACMS type.
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More than a hundred soldiers were on the training ground. — © X
Previous aerial images of the same location, about 78 kilometers behind the front line, show a group of more than a hundred soldiers. The American think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that 116 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack. It would be one of the largest recent losses for Russia in a single attack.
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Ukraine first used American ATACMS missiles against Russia in October 2023, but recently dispatched missiles have a longer range, up to three hundred kilometers.
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ATACMS-raket. — © Getty Images
“150,000 Russian soldiers killed”
About 150,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Russia invaded its neighbor Ukraine in February 2022. French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said this on Friday in an interview with the European edition of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
“Russia’s military defeat is already here. We estimate Russian military losses at 500,000, including 150,000 dead,” Minister Séjourné said. That estimate is lower than that of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said in February that 180,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in two years of war.
In April, the United Kingdom estimated that around 450,000 Russian soldiers had been wounded or killed. Moscow, on the other hand, does not provide information about the number of wounded and dead among its ranks.
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