Ukraine has losses in the war among the military, but they are less than the number of deaths in Turkey as a result of the earthquake, Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said in an interview with the Spanish edition of La Razon. He stressed that the Ukrainian command, unlike the Russians, is trying to save as many military lives as possible..

" But they are critically smaller than Russian. I can't give you a number, but I can assure you that the total is less than the death toll from the earthquake in Turkey. This is that our main goal is to save the lives of our soldiers, and Russia uses them as cannon fodder.. It's a meat grinder tactic. They don't care,"

According to official figures, the number of victims of a natural disaster in Turkey slightly exceeds 50 thousand people..

According to Reznikov, Russia in Bakhmut alone loses 500 soldiers every day in killed and wounded.. He explained with an example that this is minus one Wagner battalion every 24 hours..

“A year ago, 60 thousand artillery shells were used per day, today - 20 thousand. They also have supply issues and that is why they are using Iranian drones against us.. This is a weapon of terrorists against the civilian population,” Reznikov said..

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Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, our defenders have eliminated more than 182 thousand Russian invaders. Over the past day alone, there are 520 fewer Russians in Ukraine.