(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 17 - At least 50,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine: the forces of Moscow have thus lost more than 30% of their effectiveness in the fighting on the ground.
This was announced today by Admiral Tony Radakin, Chief of State Major of Defense of the United Kingdom, on BBC One's SundayMorning program.
For this reason, he continued, the Ukrainian army is "absolutely" convinced of winning the war: Kiev sees "a Russia in trouble, a Russia which, according to our estimates, has lost more than 30% of its ground fighting effectiveness".
"This means that 50,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in this conflict, nearly 1,700 Russian tanks were destroyed, nearly 4,000 armored combat vehicles belonging to Russia were destroyed," Radakin pointed out.
"Russia started this invasion with the ambition to conquer the whole of Ukraine, Russia had the ambition to take the cities in the first 30 days, Russia had the ambition to create rifts and to put pressure on NATO: this is Russia as challenge to world order, Russia is failing in all these ambitions, Russia is a more belittled one than it was at the beginning of February ", he concluded.
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