The Proekt publication found many inconsistencies in the official briefings of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which relate to the amount of Ukrainian equipment destroyed, losses of personnel and occupied territories.. This is stated in the study "

The journalists scrupulously analyzed all 196 speeches of the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov. In particular, he reported on the destruction of 215 Ukrainian aircraft.. At the same time, according to the figures of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, before the war, Ukraine had 152 aircraft, and taking into account training aircraft, no more than 200.

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Bayraktar drones, according to Koneshenkov, were destroyed 84, while from open data it is known that Ukraine purchased 62 such devices before the war, only 25 of them were to be delivered in 2022. The Turkish manufacturer donated four more drones after the start of the war. This is two dozen less than the number destroyed, according to the Ministry of Defense..

If we add up all Konashenkov's reports of casualties in the Ukrainian army, it turns out that at the beginning of June, at least 40,596 people died in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As Proekt points out, according to the statistics of major military conflicts, the number of wounded is usually two to three times higher than the irretrievable losses - killed, captured and missing.. With this proportion, based on the data of the Ministry of Defense, the total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be up to 160 thousand people. By the beginning of the war, the regular strength of the Ukrainian army was about 200 thousand people, another 250 thousand people were in reserve.

In his briefings, Konashenko also regularly reports on strikes against " During the first hundred days of the war, the Ministry of Defense reported that it had destroyed 39,000 such districts in Ukraine, journalists calculated. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense reported on the total destruction of 9715 pieces of equipment and 40 thousand. human.

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And the " Most often, Russian forces " Konashenkov reported on his capture four times, three times it was reported about the " Another 21 settlements of the Ministry of Defense "