The Russian Ministry of Defense said in its report today that long-range missiles “destroyed a large arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces” in the Dnipropetrovsk region of eastern Ukraine, which was the main target of the Russians at this stage of the war.
Today, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its 95th day. Ukraine stated that despite the attacks, it responded to the Russian attack. “The enemy group reinforces to make up for losses. [exército] It has old military weapons and equipment, mainly T-62 and BMP-1 tanks.” Last week, a convoy of tanks with nearly 50 years old was seen on Ukrainian soil.
In the Ukrainian region of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, the Russians reportedly ordered hospitals not to admit civilians to make beds for wounded soldiers. Information could not be verified with independent sources.
Unlimited
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a law ending the age limit to serve in the country’s Armed Forces. The authors of the project from the ruling United Russia party presented the measure as a way to recruit “highly qualified specialists”, usually aged 40 to 45 years.
Until the entry into force of the new law, the age limit for concluding the first contract with the Russian Armed Forces was between 18 and 40 for Russian citizens and between 18 and 30 for foreigners.
According to Russian deputies, there are experts who are interested in participating in the military campaign in Ukraine, but so far they have not been called because the previous border did not allow it.
Some Russian media reported that the new law will allow Russians to serve in the army until the age of 65. Doctors, engineers, and communications specialists can also be recruited this way.
Ukrainian and Western military experts say that Russia suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war. Kyiv says the Russians are around 30,000 dead, but British government military intelligence estimates 15,000 Russians have died since the start of the war on February 24. For comparison, the Soviet Union lost 15,000 soldiers in the nine-year war in Afghanistan before withdrawing from the country.
Russia, in its statement at the end of March, limited itself to reporting a total of 1,351 dead. Moscow refrained from publishing updated figures after this date.
The Russians sent troops to Ukraine after initially saying that they would not send the young people who were serving in the army to the field of operations. In March, however, the Russian Ministry of Defense acknowledged that some soldiers were involved in the conflict. Some were also taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces.
Russia’s armed forces currently have more than 400,000 professional soldiers, their total number more than 900,000.
The Ukrainian army, meanwhile, is smaller – it has around 200,000 active soldiers and 900,000 reserves, although these numbers have increased through mass mobilization since Russia launched its war of aggression against the country.
(with DW, EFE and AFP)
source: Noticias
