Kiev's forces have suffered tens of thousands of deaths and injuries among their personnel in six months since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
In a press conference with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, at the US base of Ramstein in Germany, Milley added:
"Despite the Russians'
superiority in arming and numbering, the Ukrainians have shown superior tactical competence and superior will to fight for their country and freedom."
Milley claimed that Russia was "defeated" in its attack, which began in April
- Forgetting after its failures early in the invasion
- and said, "Their objectives for the strike were not met.
- They crossed only the Dnipro River in the south near Kherson."
The US Chief of Staff said it was premature to make a full assessment of the recent Ukrainian attack near Kherson
adding that
- Ukraine is using its weapons effectively
- and continued that the advance of Ukrainian forces near Kherson
- is proceeding according to the established plan."
For its part
the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Ukrainian army lost more than 1,200 personnel and dozens of armored vehicles when Russian forces tackled their counter-attack in Kherson on August 29 alone.
- In its August tally, the Russian Ministry of Defence stated that its forces had managed to destroy more than 4 thousand Ukrainian tanks and armoured vehicles
- about 400 aircraft, between fighters and helicopters, 1650 drones, hundreds of air defence systems
- more than 200 Hemars missiles, as well as 33 howitzers and 5 Harpon anti-missile launchers.
In turn, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed that figures published by Western media on Russian military casualties were fake, commenting on CNN's estimate that the Russian military's casualties amounted to about 75 thousand people.
Russian defense: Because of its significant losses, the Ukrainian army has not carried out new offensive operations in the south
The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukrainian forces had not carried out any offensive operations on the Nikolaev-Cryvoy Rouge axis in the south over the past day after their units there suffered significant losses.
Russian defence spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a news briefing that the Russian air force and artillery continued to strike precisely Ukrainian forces' units and reserves on the erasure, including several command posts and an ammunition depot, while a Russian fighter shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Nikolaev region.
Konashenkov added that as a result of the 59th Mechanized Infantry Brigade's heavy casualties in several Nicolaev areas
its personnel had refused to carry out combat missions and had begun to withdraw without permission to the rear areas.
In total, two tanks
- six combat infantry vehicles
- five other armoured vehicles
- seven vehicles with heavy machine guns
and more than 190 personnel were the enemy's casualties on the Nikolaev-Cryvoy Rogue axle within a day.
Within a day
- Russian incursions hit five Ukrainian forces' command posts
- as well as 51 artillery units, troops and military equipment in 167 areas.
- Five ammo and weapon stores for artillery and missiles
a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system launch pad and a radar station to detect and track air targets were destroyed.
- Russian air defences shot down 13 Ukrainian drones in scattered areas and a Tochka
- U ballistic missile in the Kherson area
- and intercepted 19 rocket-launchers
- including 16 from the Hemars and 3 from the Ulkha.
Total destruction since the start of
Ukraine's special military operation has reached 293 aircraft, 152 helicopters, 1910 drones, 374 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,863 tanks and other armoured personnel, 826 rocket raids, 3369 pieces of field artillery, mortars and 5,387 special military vehicles.
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